RUTH UNIT

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

Operated by WCS OIL & GAS CORPORATION (P-5 902624) 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 19341District 03Field 34733500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$2.1 M

Jan 1993 – Jun 2007

Value, last 12 filed months

$25 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

174

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	83,947 bbl	$1,382,810
Casinghead gas	Production	892,125 Mcf	$691,304
Total			$2,074,114

726,783 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 29.9261, -96.8786. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.92612, -96.87855 · 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

11,320 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

13.8 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 11,320 ft.

Completions filed

Jul 1993

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Apr 2007

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 13.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 13.8 years and 13.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-14932177	1	11,320 ft	Jul 1993	Apr 2007	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 (174)

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

174 months


Jun 2007	0	0	62.00	7.55	$0
May 2007	0	0	58.74	7.85	$0
Apr 2007	0	0	59.61	7.81	$0
Mar 2007	0	0	56.92	7.30	$0
Feb 2007	0	0	55.10	8.22	$0
Jan 2007	0	0	50.30	6.73	$0
Dec 2006	0	0	56.65	6.92	$0
Nov 2006	35	0	54.20	7.62	$1,897
Oct 2006	0	192	54.90	6.01	$1,155
Sep 2006	182	505	60.08	5.04	$13,478
Aug 2006	1	596	68.71	7.34	$4,443
Jul 2006	0	630	69.37	6.34	$3,996
Jun 2006	0	639	66.28	6.38	$4,079
May 2006	0	646	66.01	6.42	$4,151
Apr 2006	0	662	64.39	7.36	$4,873
Mar 2006	0	703	56.70	7.08	$4,979
Feb 2006	184	707	57.59	7.75	$16,077
Jan 2006	0	783	60.59	8.93	$6,995
Dec 2005	0	892	54.94	13.42	$11,967
Nov 2005	1	974	54.69	10.59	$10,368
Oct 2005	185	634	58.34	13.80	$19,539
Sep 2005	0	722	61.45	12.08	$8,721
Aug 2005	1	782	61.51	9.80	$7,723
Jul 2005	0	832	55.69	7.84	$6,526
Jun 2005	0	869	52.33	7.38	$6,414
May 2005	0	881	45.22	6.65	$5,860
Apr 2005	180	993	49.20	7.36	$16,165
Mar 2005	0	1,243	50.37	7.15	$8,894
Feb 2005	0	354	45.22	6.31	$2,234
Jan 2005	0	1,191	43.16	6.32	$7,530
Dec 2004	187	1,519	39.86	6.75	$17,709
Nov 2004	0	290	45.28	6.33	$1,836
Oct 2004	0	780	49.70	6.52	$5,082
Sep 2004	0	1,054	43.24	5.28	$5,569
Aug 2004	0	1,267	42.37	5.55	$7,033
Jul 2004	187	1,576	38.28	6.08	$16,747
Jun 2004	1	1,537	36.10	6.43	$9,924
May 2004	0	1,577	37.48	6.49	$10,242
Apr 2004	191	1,727	34.47	5.86	$16,701
Mar 2004	0	1,899	34.36	5.53	$10,502
Feb 2004	193	1,997	32.45	5.51	$17,266
Jan 2004	185	2,734	32.03	6.30	$23,149
Dec 2003	370	4,100	30.26	6.30	$37,033
Nov 2003	185	2,617	28.80	4.60	$17,354
Oct 2003	0	1,892	28.17	4.76	$9,005
Sep 2003	0	622	26.31	4.75	$2,954
Aug 2003	1	1,337	29.76	5.13	$6,888
Jul 2003	0	67	29.41	5.17	$346
Jun 2003	0	0	28.56	5.98	$0
May 2003	0	17	26.59	5.97	$102
Apr 2003	2	34	26.67	5.41	$237
Mar 2003	0	776	31.14	6.10	$4,731
Feb 2003	196	1,109	33.48	7.93	$15,352
Jan 2003	0	1,653	30.31	5.58	$9,227
Dec 2002	1	758	26.91	4.85	$3,706
Nov 2002	0	1,155	24.66	4.14	$4,778
Oct 2002	194	2,197	26.46	4.23	$14,425
Sep 2002	189	2,495	27.44	3.64	$14,256
Aug 2002	194	3,497	25.96	3.16	$16,101
Jul 2002	1	1,620	24.58	3.06	$4,985
Jun 2002	0	108	23.73	3.34	$361
May 2002	0	175	24.66	3.58	$627
Apr 2002	184	551	23.65	3.51	$6,287
Mar 2002	0	623	22.00	3.10	$1,933
Feb 2002	0	974	18.22	2.38	$2,314
Jan 2002	193	1,410	17.17	2.38	$6,664
Dec 2001	0	723	16.93	2.36	$1,709
Nov 2001	0	841	18.07	2.41	$2,023
Oct 2001	186	1,034	19.78	2.53	$6,294
Sep 2001	1	754	24.26	2.25	$1,722
Aug 2001	0	1,098	24.87	3.05	$3,352
Jul 2001	191	1,432	23.93	3.20	$9,149
Jun 2001	0	1,546	24.56	3.82	$5,912
May 2001	1	1,131	25.52	4.31	$4,897
Apr 2001	186	1,407	24.68	5.34	$12,097
Mar 2001	0	1,613	24.54	5.38	$8,672
Feb 2001	199	1,967	27.75	5.77	$16,866
Jan 2001	0	1,265	27.47	8.40	$10,624
Dec 2000	0	757	26.88	9.12	$6,906
Nov 2000	0	1,481	32.21	5.66	$8,380
Oct 2000	0	1,013	31.23	5.15	$5,212
Sep 2000	0	4,057	31.87	5.19	$21,042
Aug 2000	0	2,142	29.64	4.54	$9,726
Jul 2000	187	2,174	28.53	4.09	$14,226
Jun 2000	0	2,381	29.30	4.40	$10,470
May 2000	186	2,411	27.26	3.68	$13,942
Apr 2000	0	1,993	24.51	3.12	$6,210
Mar 2000	184	2,287	28.42	2.86	$11,770
Feb 2000	0	1,312	27.62	2.73	$3,577
Jan 2000	182	1,721	25.27	2.48	$8,868
Dec 1999	190	1,605	24.28	2.42	$8,503
Nov 1999	0	2,141	23.19	2.43	$5,211
Oct 1999	0	2,014	20.98	2.80	$5,647
Sep 1999	187	1,883	21.75	2.62	$8,999
Aug 1999	187	2,536	19.26	2.88	$10,894
Jul 1999	0	2,092	17.89	2.37	$4,963
Jun 1999	185	2,565	15.94	2.36	$9,008
May 1999	0	1,997	15.79	2.32	$4,635
Apr 1999	183	1,807	15.10	2.21	$6,753
Mar 1999	188	2,525	12.47	1.84	$6,986
Feb 1999	0	2,443	9.98	1.82	$4,441
Jan 1999	0	759	10.38	1.90	$1,442
Dec 1998	194	869	9.20	1.77	$3,326
Nov 1998	0	949	10.89	2.19	$2,074
Oct 1998	190	1,010	12.42	1.97	$4,349
Sep 1998	0	921	12.59	2.08	$1,918
Aug 1998	0	1,195	11.30	1.91	$2,279
Jul 1998	181	1,478	11.74	2.24	$5,432
Jun 1998	0	1,500	11.24	2.24	$3,356
May 1998	169	1,212	12.62	2.21	$4,807
Apr 1998	184	1,483	13.04	2.51	$6,115
Mar 1998	0	1,570	12.80	2.31	$3,626
Feb 1998	183	982	13.95	2.30	$4,811
Jan 1998	0	1,207	14.70	2.15	$2,601
Dec 1997	179	1,294	16.32	2.41	$6,041
Nov 1997	189	1,537	18.19	3.09	$8,185
Oct 1997	192	1,809	19.25	3.15	$9,394
Sep 1997	0	1,600	17.74	2.95	$4,728
Aug 1997	178	1,643	17.86	2.55	$7,377
Jul 1997	193	2,215	17.58	2.25	$8,370
Jun 1997	367	3,253	17.24	2.26	$13,670
May 1997	0	2,614	18.97	2.31	$6,034
Apr 1997	0	1,195	17.88	2.08	$2,489
Mar 1997	186	1,785	18.95	1.94	$6,986
Feb 1997	175	2,264	20.49	2.21	$8,580
Jan 1997	364	2,676	23.48	3.54	$18,019
Dec 1996	200	2,458	23.32	—	$4,664
Nov 1996	380	3,135	21.97	—	$8,349
Oct 1996	188	2,470	23.31	—	$4,382
Sep 1996	188	2,851	22.22	—	$4,177
Aug 1996	194	2,812	20.26	—	$3,930
Jul 1996	356	3,548	19.55	—	$6,960
Jun 1996	355	4,209	18.73	—	$6,649
May 1996	188	3,858	19.43	—	$3,653
Apr 1996	369	4,894	21.51	—	$7,937
Mar 1996	375	5,399	19.38	—	$7,268
Feb 1996	357	5,523	16.98	—	$6,062
Jan 1996	545	5,861	17.07	—	$9,303
Dec 1995	182	4,752	17.19	—	$3,129
Nov 1995	535	4,280	16.00	—	$8,560
Oct 1995	375	4,294	15.43	—	$5,786
Sep 1995	560	4,798	16.18	—	$9,061
Aug 1995	753	5,726	15.92	—	$11,988
Jul 1995	568	6,742	15.24	—	$8,656
Jun 1995	570	7,943	16.41	—	$9,354
May 1995	739	9,510	17.56	—	$12,977
Apr 1995	574	9,778	17.73	—	$10,177
Mar 1995	747	10,844	16.44	—	$12,281
Feb 1995	761	10,066	16.58	—	$12,617
Jan 1995	769	11,595	15.92	—	$12,242
Dec 1994	957	11,807	15.03	—	$14,384
Nov 1994	565	11,859	15.90	—	$8,984
Oct 1994	1,132	9,818	15.58	—	$17,637
Sep 1994	1,134	11,232	15.29	—	$17,339
Aug 1994	1,291	14,164	16.13	—	$20,824
Jul 1994	1,323	17,721	17.56	—	$23,232
Jun 1994	1,555	16,622	17.09	—	$26,575
May 1994	1,846	20,191	15.88	—	$29,314
Apr 1994	2,082	23,927	14.14	—	$29,439
Mar 1994	2,552	27,589	12.46	—	$31,798
Feb 1994	2,541	29,880	12.50	—	$31,763
Jan 1994	3,845	38,751	12.66	—	$48,678
Dec 1993	3,793	39,343	12.33	—	$46,768
Nov 1993	4,585	43,952	14.49	—	$66,437
Oct 1993	5,550	55,396	15.85	—	$87,968
Sep 1993	7,512	70,601	15.03	—	$112,905
Aug 1993	9,767	71,429	15.66	—	$152,951
Jul 1993	8,593	56,138	15.46	—	$132,848
Jun 1993	162	927	16.79	—	$2,720
May 1993	564	4,061	17.68	—	$9,972
Apr 1993	727	3,855	18.05	—	$13,122
Mar 1993	557	3,833	18.14	—	$10,104
Feb 1993	756	3,724	17.90	—	$13,532
Jan 1993	560	2,617	16.93	—	$9,481

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 2006 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   35 bbl  × $ 54.20 =     $1,897
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  7.62 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $1,897

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/19341 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.