SARAH BETH

Operated by RME PETROLEUM COMPANY (P-5 714229) 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 18069District 03Field 34733500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$37 k
Jan 1993 – Nov 2001
Value, last 12 filed months
$4 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
107
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
OilDisposition1,547 bbl$27,590
Casinghead gasProduction14,114 Mcf$9,649
Total$37,239

11,229 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 46 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 30.2734, -96.5764. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.27336, -96.57645 · 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
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
11,100 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
00.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
00.0%
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 11,100 ft.

Completions filed
May 2001
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-47730565111,100 ftMay 2001Yes

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 (107)

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

107 months

Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 2001118024.545.38$2,896
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 2000010326.889.12$940
Nov 2000012732.215.66$719
Oct 2000010531.235.15$540
Sep 200009931.875.19$513
Aug 2000014329.644.54$649
Jul 200009028.534.09$368
Jun 2000011029.304.40$484
May 2000012827.263.68$471
Apr 2000010524.513.12$327
Mar 2000012428.422.86$355
Feb 2000013627.622.73$371
Jan 200016315125.272.48$4,494
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998109.201.77$9
Nov 19981010.892.19$11
Oct 19983012.421.97$37
Sep 199811012.592.08$138
Aug 199815011.301.91$170
Jul 19986011.742.24$70
Jun 19985011.242.24$56
May 1998198012.622.21$2,499
Apr 19987013.042.51$91
Mar 199819012.802.31$243
Feb 19989013.952.30$126
Jan 19988014.702.15$118
Dec 19978016.322.41$131
Nov 19976018.193.09$109
Oct 199714019.253.15$270
Sep 19978017.742.95$142
Aug 19979017.862.55$161
Jul 19971324817.582.25$786
Jun 19971324617.242.26$779
May 19971012518.972.31$478
Apr 19971316917.882.08$584
Mar 19971016018.951.94$500
Feb 1997826420.492.21$746
Jan 19971025223.483.54$1,127
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 1996037523.31$0
Sep 1996029922.22$0
Aug 19963939620.26$790
Jul 19961831519.55$352
Jun 19961828818.73$337
May 199619942719.43$3,867
Apr 19961023921.51$215
Mar 1996716719.38$136
Feb 19961117116.98$187
Jan 19961425417.07$239
Dec 19951326217.19$223
Nov 1995031716.00$0
Oct 1995524115.43$77
Sep 1995833516.18$129
Aug 1995923815.92$143
Jul 1995721115.24$107
Jun 1995921116.41$148
May 19951014317.56$176
Apr 19951330517.73$230
Mar 19951322616.44$214
Feb 1995424316.58$66
Jan 1995421315.92$64
Dec 1994621915.03$90
Nov 199418320715.90$2,910
Oct 1994622015.58$93
Sep 1994614515.29$92
Aug 1994529716.13$81
Jul 1994550317.56$88
Jun 1994358917.09$51
May 1994652115.88$95
Apr 1994617914.14$85
Mar 1994522012.46$62
Feb 1994618812.50$75
Jan 1994514812.66$63
Dec 199358912.33$62
Nov 19933314.49$43
Oct 1993316015.85$48
Sep 1993418815.03$60
Aug 199318710615.66$2,928
Jul 1993011615.46$0
Jun 1993114516.79$17
May 1993324217.68$53
Apr 1993039418.05$0
Mar 1993119818.14$18
Feb 1993113817.90$18
Jan 1993013816.93$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.

Mar 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  118 bbl  × $ 24.54 =     $2,896
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  5.38 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,896

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/18069 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.