BLM UNIT

Name: BLM UNIT lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by PATTON EXPLORATION, INC. (P-5 643730) 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 17331District 03Field 34733500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$28 k

Jan 1993 – Aug 2003

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

128

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The GIDDINGS (AUSTIN CHALK-3) field

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.

Programme	Filings	With an approval date	Dated	Docket
NGPA	1	none	—	—

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Oil	Disposition	1,307 bbl	$23,322
Casinghead gas	Production	29,072 Mcf	$5,152
Total			$28,474

27,055 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 30.3276, -96.5947. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.32758, -96.59465 · centre of the wells drawn, derived⌘ or Ctrl + scroll to zoom

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

10,030 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

16.6 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 10,030 ft.

Completions filed

Feb 1984

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Sep 2000

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 16.6 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 16.6 years and 16.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-05132439	1	10,030 ft	Feb 1984	Sep 2000	Yes

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 (128)

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

128 months


Aug 2003	0	0	29.76	5.13	$0
Jul 2003	0	0	29.41	5.17	$0
Jun 2003	0	0	28.56	5.98	$0
May 2003	0	0	26.59	5.97	$0
Apr 2003	0	0	26.67	5.41	$0
Mar 2003	0	0	31.14	6.10	$0
Feb 2003	0	0	33.48	7.93	$0
Jan 2003	0	0	30.31	5.58	$0
Dec 2002	0	0	26.91	4.85	$0
Nov 2002	0	0	24.66	4.14	$0
Oct 2002	0	0	26.46	4.23	$0
Sep 2002	0	0	27.44	3.64	$0
Aug 2002	0	0	25.96	3.16	$0
Jul 2002	0	0	24.58	3.06	$0
Jun 2002	0	0	23.73	3.34	$0
May 2002	0	0	24.66	3.58	$0
Apr 2002	0	0	23.65	3.51	$0
Mar 2002	0	0	22.00	3.10	$0
Feb 2002	0	0	18.22	2.38	$0
Jan 2002	0	0	17.17	2.38	$0
Dec 2001	0	0	16.93	2.36	$0
Nov 2001	0	0	18.07	2.41	$0
Oct 2001	0	0	19.78	2.53	$0
Sep 2001	0	0	24.26	2.25	$0
Aug 2001	0	0	24.87	3.05	$0
Jul 2001	0	0	23.93	3.20	$0
Jun 2001	0	0	24.56	3.82	$0
May 2001	0	0	25.52	4.31	$0
Apr 2001	0	0	24.68	5.34	$0
Mar 2001	0	0	24.54	5.38	$0
Feb 2001	0	0	27.75	5.77	$0
Jan 2001	0	0	27.47	8.40	$0
Dec 2000	0	0	26.88	9.12	$0
Nov 2000	0	0	32.21	5.66	$0
Oct 2000	0	0	31.23	5.15	$0
Sep 2000	59	0	31.87	5.19	$1,880
Aug 2000	0	0	29.64	4.54	$0
Jul 2000	0	0	28.53	4.09	$0
Jun 2000	0	0	29.30	4.40	$0
May 2000	0	0	27.26	3.68	$0
Apr 2000	0	0	24.51	3.12	$0
Mar 2000	0	0	28.42	2.86	$0
Feb 2000	0	0	27.62	2.73	$0
Jan 2000	0	0	25.27	2.48	$0
Dec 1999	0	0	24.28	2.42	$0
Nov 1999	0	0	23.19	2.43	$0
Oct 1999	0	17	20.98	2.80	$48
Sep 1999	0	10	21.75	2.62	$26
Aug 1999	0	27	19.26	2.88	$78
Jul 1999	0	16	17.89	2.37	$38
Jun 1999	0	3	15.94	2.36	$7
May 1999	0	1	15.79	2.32	$2
Apr 1999	0	20	15.10	2.21	$44
Mar 1999	0	6	12.47	1.84	$11
Feb 1999	0	17	9.98	1.82	$31
Jan 1999	1	56	10.38	1.90	$117
Dec 1998	1	105	9.20	1.77	$195
Nov 1998	2	25	10.89	2.19	$76
Oct 1998	0	3	12.42	1.97	$6
Sep 1998	11	3	12.59	2.08	$145
Aug 1998	15	15	11.30	1.91	$198
Jul 1998	0	3	11.74	2.24	$7
Jun 1998	5	19	11.24	2.24	$99
May 1998	4	24	12.62	2.21	$103
Apr 1998	7	28	13.04	2.51	$161
Mar 1998	19	23	12.80	2.31	$296
Feb 1998	9	4	13.95	2.30	$135
Jan 1998	8	65	14.70	2.15	$258
Dec 1997	8	21	16.32	2.41	$181
Nov 1997	6	78	18.19	3.09	$350
Oct 1997	14	124	19.25	3.15	$660
Sep 1997	8	135	17.74	2.95	$541
Aug 1997	9	190	17.86	2.55	$646
Jul 1997	13	111	17.58	2.25	$478
Jun 1997	13	31	17.24	2.26	$294
May 1997	10	61	18.97	2.31	$331
Apr 1997	13	91	17.88	2.08	$422
Mar 1997	10	160	18.95	1.94	$500
Feb 1997	8	210	20.49	2.21	$627
Jan 1997	10	315	23.48	3.54	$1,350
Dec 1996	12	345	23.32	—	$280
Nov 1996	7	488	21.97	—	$154
Oct 1996	145	610	23.31	—	$3,380
Sep 1996	8	435	22.22	—	$178
Aug 1996	12	359	20.26	—	$243
Jul 1996	18	263	19.55	—	$352
Jun 1996	18	423	18.73	—	$337
May 1996	21	619	19.43	—	$408
Apr 1996	10	396	21.51	—	$215
Mar 1996	7	518	19.38	—	$136
Feb 1996	11	426	16.98	—	$187
Jan 1996	14	175	17.07	—	$239
Dec 1995	13	488	17.19	—	$223
Nov 1995	18	450	16.00	—	$288
Oct 1995	5	292	15.43	—	$77
Sep 1995	7	105	16.18	—	$113
Aug 1995	9	55	15.92	—	$143
Jul 1995	7	126	15.24	—	$107
Jun 1995	9	60	16.41	—	$148
May 1995	10	8	17.56	—	$176
Apr 1995	14	60	17.73	—	$248
Mar 1995	13	62	16.44	—	$214
Feb 1995	4	15	16.58	—	$66
Jan 1995	4	32	15.92	—	$64
Dec 1994	6	75	15.03	—	$90
Nov 1994	12	632	15.90	—	$191
Oct 1994	6	1,069	15.58	—	$93
Sep 1994	6	897	15.29	—	$92
Aug 1994	5	982	16.13	—	$81
Jul 1994	5	1,031	17.56	—	$88
Jun 1994	3	798	17.09	—	$51
May 1994	6	372	15.88	—	$95
Apr 1994	186	370	14.14	—	$2,630
Mar 1994	5	1,084	12.46	—	$62
Feb 1994	6	360	12.50	—	$75
Jan 1994	5	569	12.66	—	$63
Dec 1993	5	846	12.33	—	$62
Nov 1993	3	832	14.49	—	$43
Oct 1993	3	888	15.85	—	$48
Sep 1993	181	1,010	15.03	—	$2,720
Aug 1993	3	909	15.66	—	$47
Jul 1993	6	1,087	15.46	—	$93
Jun 1993	2	1,075	16.79	—	$34
May 1993	3	1,074	17.68	—	$53
Apr 1993	189	1,024	18.05	—	$3,411
Mar 1993	1	1,152	18.14	—	$18
Feb 1993	0	1,056	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	1	1,053	16.93	—	$17

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 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   59 bbl  × $ 31.87 =     $1,880
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  5.19 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,880

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/17331 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.