ROCKY CREEK PARK, N.

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 18017District 03Field 34733500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$56 k
Jan 1993 – Oct 1998
Value, last 12 filed months
$5 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
70
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
NGPA2none

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
OilDisposition3,322 bbl$53,098
Casinghead gasProduction27,137 Mcf$2,971
Total$56,069

25,911 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 (2)

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 30.3059, -96.5583. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

30.30590, -96.55832 · 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%
2 of 2 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
2 of 2 wells
Median depth
11,158 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
13.2 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
2100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
2100.0%
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

Between 10,980 and 11,335 ft, median 11,158 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Sep 1984 – Feb 1986
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Jul 1998 – Aug 1998
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 13.2 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 12.8 years and 13.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-47730634211,335 ftFeb 1986Aug 1998Yes
42-47730553110,980 ftSep 1984Jul 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 (70)

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

70 months

Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 1998213011.301.91$2,407
Jul 19981013511.742.24$419
Jun 199851811.242.24$96
May 19980212.622.21$4
Apr 19987613.042.51$106
Mar 1998384412.802.31$588
Feb 1998183813.952.30$338
Jan 1998169114.702.15$431
Dec 19978816.322.41$150
Nov 1997121118.193.09$252
Oct 199728219.253.15$545
Sep 19971611117.742.95$612
Aug 1997319517.862.55$796
Jul 1997133717.582.25$312
Jun 19972615417.242.26$796
May 1997209618.972.31$601
Apr 1997266917.882.08$609
Mar 19972011118.951.94$594
Feb 1997168920.492.21$524
Jan 19972010923.483.54$855
Dec 1996246523.32$560
Nov 1996149121.97$308
Oct 199681923.31$186
Sep 199681022.22$178
Aug 199612620.26$243
Jul 19963619819.55$704
Jun 199620525018.73$3,840
May 19964361319.43$835
Apr 1996207121.51$430
Mar 199679919.38$136
Feb 1996115916.98$187
Jan 1996287817.07$478
Dec 1995133717.19$223
Nov 199517911916.00$2,864
Oct 1995548715.43$77
Sep 199517940416.18$2,896
Aug 19951040615.92$159
Jul 1995835215.24$122
Jun 1995932716.41$148
May 19951129417.56$193
Apr 19952733017.73$479
Mar 19952550716.44$411
Feb 199516058516.58$2,653
Jan 1995764215.92$111
Dec 1994660815.03$90
Nov 19942365815.90$366
Oct 199418472815.58$2,867
Sep 19941371115.29$199
Aug 19941379116.13$210
Jul 19941271717.56$211
Jun 199417586617.09$2,991
May 19941387115.88$206
Apr 199418365614.14$2,588
Mar 19941071712.46$125
Feb 19941281812.50$150
Jan 19941193812.66$139
Dec 199334093912.33$4,192
Nov 1993690814.49$87
Oct 199318185815.85$2,869
Sep 19931173615.03$165
Aug 199318172315.66$2,834
Jul 1993375115.46$46
Jun 1993569616.79$84
May 199317080117.68$3,006
Apr 1993095418.05$0
Mar 199321,00818.14$36
Feb 19931751,17817.90$3,133
Jan 199311,23116.93$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.

Aug 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  213 bbl  × $ 11.30 =     $2,407
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  1.91 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,407

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/18017 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.