B.L.M.

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 18773District 03Field 34733500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$37 k
Jan 1993 – Jan 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$4 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
73
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
OilDisposition2,150 bbl$34,703
Casinghead gasProduction15,930 Mcf$2,268
Total$36,971

14,965 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 30.2966, -96.5499. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.2 miles.

30.29664, -96.54987 · 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
11,303 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
13.4 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 11,289 and 11,317 ft, median 11,303 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jul 1985
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Nov 1998 – Dec 1998
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 13.4 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 13.3 years and 13.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-47730597111,317 ftJul 1985Nov 1998Yes
42-47730614211,289 ftJul 1985Dec 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 (73)

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

73 months

Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 1998220010.892.19$2,396
Oct 199833412.421.97$104
Sep 1998113412.592.08$209
Aug 1998152411.301.91$215
Jul 199862811.742.24$133
Jun 1998102911.242.24$177
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 19987713.042.51$109
Mar 1998192412.802.31$299
Feb 199892613.952.30$185
Jan 199882714.702.15$176
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 199763418.193.09$214
Oct 1997142519.253.15$348
Sep 199782317.742.95$210
Aug 199795717.862.55$306
Jul 19971317717.582.25$626
Jun 1997132617.242.26$283
May 1997106318.972.31$335
Apr 1997137017.882.08$378
Mar 19971010218.951.94$387
Feb 199789420.492.21$371
Jan 1997106123.483.54$451
Dec 1996128523.32$280
Nov 1996717221.97$154
Oct 199689323.31$186
Sep 199684222.22$178
Aug 1996123820.26$243
Jul 1996184219.55$352
Jun 1996182118.73$337
May 1996217519.43$408
Apr 19961477821.51$3,162
Mar 199674719.38$136
Feb 19961111016.98$187
Jan 1996159917.07$256
Dec 1995137317.19$223
Nov 1995184016.00$288
Oct 19955115.43$77
Sep 1995146916.18$227
Aug 1995185315.92$287
Jul 1995142415.24$213
Jun 1995182416.41$295
May 1995193517.56$334
Apr 19952712317.73$479
Mar 1995256616.44$411
Feb 199584716.58$133
Jan 199575315.92$111
Dec 1994128015.03$180
Nov 19942311915.90$366
Oct 19941120215.58$171
Sep 19941222215.29$183
Aug 19941110116.13$177
Jul 19946823517.56$1,194
Jun 199413937717.09$2,376
May 199418043015.88$2,858
Apr 19941238114.14$170
Mar 19941154612.46$137
Feb 19941234912.50$150
Jan 199418248212.66$2,304
Dec 1993977312.33$111
Nov 1993576514.49$72
Oct 199318076415.85$2,853
Sep 1993943215.03$135
Aug 1993777515.66$110
Jul 1993388115.46$46
Jun 19931761,07116.79$2,955
May 199371,11917.68$124
Apr 1993078018.05$0
Mar 199318896718.14$3,410
Feb 1993075117.90$0
Jan 1993185316.93$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.

Nov 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  220 bbl  × $ 10.89 =     $2,396
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.19 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,396

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/18773 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.