COLVIN

Operated by ADAMS RESOURCES EXPL. CORP. (P-5 3996) in the GIDDINGS (AUSTIN CHALK-3) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 17223District 03Field 34733500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$47 k
Jan 1993 – Nov 1998
Value, last 12 filed months
$7 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
71
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead gas

The Railroad Commission's own record for the field this lease produces from, including the spacing rule that governs how close together its wells may be drilled.

These are facts about the field, not about this lease. The field holds 5,900 leases and 6,985 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1960-10-29
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
0 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 2025-09-30.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: DKT OG-25-00028011: UFT FIELD, ALLOCATION FORMULA SUSPENDED

Severance-tax incentive filings

Applications the operator filed to have this lease's gas taxed at a reduced state rate. A filing is an application, and this page never calls one a reduction that was granted.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
NGPA1none

This says nothing about a royalty. A severance tax is charged to the operator. Whether a reduced rate reaches a royalty owner depends on the wording of the lease instrument, which is a private contract this site does not hold.

What this lease produced, and what it was worth

Oil and condensate are valued on the volume the state records as disposed of; gas and casinghead gas on the volume produced. They are different columns of different files, and the difference is not cosmetic.

StreamBasisVolumeValue
OilDisposition2,560 bbl$41,278
Casinghead gasProduction15,096 Mcf$6,040
Total$47,318

12,548 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 months, carries no value here. No free Texas wellhead gas price exists before 1997, so those months are left out of the total rather than valued at zero. The total above is therefore a floor, not an estimate.

Wells on this lease (1)

Every wellbore the Railroad Commission records against this lease key, with the depth, the last completion and the plug date exactly as filed. A well with no plug date is not stated to be producing — the state files no such flag.

These wells centre on 30.2896, -96.6385. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.28962, -96.63853 · centre of the wells drawn, derived

What these wells add up to

Every figure below is counted over all of this lease's wells, not over the rows listed above. The Railroad Commission files two facts about a well's state — a plug date and a proration-schedule flag — and a well can carry both, so they are published as separate counts and never merged into a status.

On the schedule
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
10,219 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
15.0 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
1100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1100.0%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
00.0%

A plug date is the date the Commission recorded the wellbore as sealed with cement and abandoned. It is the only end-of-life fact Texas files. There is no "active" flag on a well, so this page does not print one — a well with no plug date is not stated to be producing.

How deep they were drilled

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 10,219 ft.

Completions filed
Sep 1983
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 1998
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 15.0 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 15.0 years and 15.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-47730513110,219 ftSep 1983Sep 1998Yes

The API number is the state's, prefixed 42 for Texas. A well is matched to this lease by the lease key the Commission files on the wellbore record, so a well that has moved between leases appears under each one it was filed against.

Every month this lease reported (71)

Volume × price = value, one row per cycle. The price columns are the same series published on the prices page — nothing here is modelled.

71 months

Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 199854512.592.08$690
Aug 199824022711.301.91$3,145
Jul 1998610811.742.24$312
Jun 1998514411.242.24$378
May 1998410912.622.21$291
Apr 199879613.042.51$332
Mar 19982016512.802.31$637
Feb 199899413.952.30$342
Jan 199888914.702.15$309
Dec 1997811916.322.41$417
Nov 199769218.193.09$393
Oct 19971413219.253.15$685
Sep 199789417.742.95$420
Aug 1997911117.862.55$444
Jul 19971314417.582.25$552
Jun 19971313217.242.26$522
May 19971010718.972.31$437
Apr 19971316417.882.08$574
Mar 19971016318.951.94$506
Feb 1997815520.492.21$506
Jan 1997579823.483.54$1,685
Dec 1996125723.32$280
Nov 1996712921.97$154
Oct 1996812623.31$186
Sep 199682622.22$178
Aug 19965715320.26$1,155
Jul 19961845019.55$352
Jun 19961810418.73$337
May 1996212619.43$408
Apr 1996102721.51$215
Mar 199676119.38$136
Feb 19961377916.98$2,326
Jan 19961418617.07$239
Dec 19951317417.19$223
Nov 19951815616.00$288
Oct 1995514915.43$77
Sep 1995715416.18$113
Aug 1995916915.92$143
Jul 1995720715.24$107
Jun 1995911616.41$148
May 19951025017.56$176
Apr 19951777017.73$3,138
Mar 1995132016.44$214
Feb 199543016.58$66
Jan 199544915.92$64
Dec 199465315.03$90
Nov 1994125115.90$191
Oct 199467815.58$93
Sep 199464615.29$92
Aug 199457916.13$81
Jul 199459917.56$88
Jun 199417120317.09$2,922
May 1994638815.88$95
Apr 1994627114.14$85
Mar 1994526012.46$62
Feb 1994625812.50$75
Jan 199415849712.66$2,000
Dec 1993559012.33$62
Nov 199316751414.49$2,420
Oct 1993372315.85$48
Sep 199317766015.03$2,660
Aug 1993369415.66$47
Jul 199317630315.46$2,721
Jun 199316621016.79$2,787
May 1993288017.68$35
Apr 199317385318.05$3,123
Mar 1993159818.14$18
Feb 199318063217.90$3,222
Jan 1993064016.93$0

How to read this page

The arithmetic is one multiplication per stream per month. Here it is, worked, on a real row from the table above.

Sep 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   54 bbl  × $ 12.59 =       $680
Casinghead gas         5 Mcf  × $  2.08 =        $10

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Month total                                     $690

The volumes are the state's, unchanged

Every barrel and every Mcf on this page is a number the Railroad Commission of Texas published in its monthly production query. Nothing is modelled, estimated or filled in.

The dollars are a multiplication, not a valuation

Volume × a published monthly price. It is not what the operator was paid: it takes no account of a contract, a differential, a transportation deduction, or the share any one owner holds.

Oil and gas are priced differently

Oil is a Texas realisation — the crude oil first purchase price. Gas is a benchmark, because no free Texas wellhead gas series exists at any date. The prices page publishes the difference rather than correcting it away.

A lease is not a well

The state reports oil on lease and gas on well, and this page is the lease grain. 03/O/17223 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.