OSAGE UNIT

Operated by MCDANIEL COMPANY, INC., THE (P-5 545300) 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 19856District 03Field 34733500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$583 k
Jan 1993 – Feb 2000
Value, last 12 filed months
$22 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
86
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
OilDisposition31,288 bbl$506,054
Casinghead gasProduction148,422 Mcf$76,484
Total$582,538

116,672 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 47 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 30.2724, -96.8238. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.27241, -96.82384 · 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
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
7,759 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
12.3 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 7,759 ft.

Completions filed
Oct 1987
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jan 2000
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 12.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 12.3 years and 12.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-2873209417,759 ftOct 1987Jan 2000Yes

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 (86)

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

86 months

Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 199914612624.282.42$3,850
Nov 1999025623.192.43$623
Oct 1999029820.982.80$836
Sep 1999037521.752.62$982
Aug 1999043419.262.88$1,248
Jul 199931095817.892.37$7,819
Jun 199901,03815.942.36$2,452
May 199901,08815.792.32$2,525
Apr 1999142615.102.21$956
Mar 1999049612.471.84$912
Feb 199905209.981.82$945
Jan 1999053610.381.90$1,018
Dec 19983585189.201.77$4,212
Nov 1998052810.892.19$1,154
Oct 1998056812.421.97$1,119
Sep 1998055912.592.08$1,164
Aug 1998059811.301.91$1,141
Jul 199835765511.742.24$5,657
Jun 1998058511.242.24$1,309
May 1998075712.622.21$1,670
Apr 1998075213.042.51$1,884
Mar 1998093412.802.31$2,157
Feb 199834991413.952.30$6,970
Jan 1998093014.702.15$2,004
Dec 1997097116.322.41$2,341
Nov 199701,12618.193.09$3,477
Oct 19973571,27919.253.15$10,901
Sep 199701,20617.742.95$3,564
Aug 199701,40817.862.55$3,597
Jul 19973501,27217.582.25$9,011
Jun 199701,23717.242.26$2,792
May 199701,40918.972.31$3,253
Apr 199701,63317.882.08$3,401
Mar 19973571,57018.951.94$9,810
Feb 199701,82520.492.21$4,026
Jan 199701,96523.483.54$6,956
Dec 199602,67623.32$0
Nov 19963493,17321.97$7,668
Oct 199611,54823.31$23
Sep 199601,97322.22$0
Aug 19963562,43820.26$7,213
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19961782,72018.73$3,334
May 19961772,87719.43$3,439
Apr 19961802,78121.51$3,872
Mar 19963243,15219.38$6,279
Feb 199603,39316.98$0
Jan 19961883,28017.07$3,209
Dec 19956823,35617.19$11,724
Nov 19953483,17916.00$5,568
Oct 199513,49415.43$15
Sep 19953493,41716.18$5,647
Aug 19953633,58515.92$5,779
Jul 19957243,63515.24$11,034
Jun 19957393,24416.41$12,127
May 19959143,07117.56$16,050
Apr 19958852,32017.73$15,691
Mar 19959052,64616.44$14,878
Feb 19959072,44516.58$15,038
Jan 19951,0792,95415.92$17,178
Dec 19941,0822,76615.03$16,262
Nov 19941,0821,47515.90$17,204
Oct 19943661,69215.58$5,702
Sep 19949022,69215.29$13,792
Aug 19943501,99716.13$5,646
Jul 19945342,35217.56$9,377
Jun 19947042,43117.09$12,031
May 19948962,32515.88$14,228
Apr 19943462,18114.14$4,892
Mar 19949042,24412.46$11,264
Feb 19945571,96712.50$6,963
Jan 19949192,06112.66$11,635
Dec 19937032,13612.33$8,668
Nov 19936992,24314.49$10,129
Oct 19939192,47415.85$14,566
Sep 19938722,12715.03$13,106
Aug 19938951,63215.66$14,016
Jul 19937071,78115.46$10,930
Jun 19938871,77916.79$14,893
May 19931,0771,65517.68$19,041
Apr 19937231,69718.05$13,050
Mar 19931,1011,99418.14$19,972
Feb 19937291,74917.90$13,049
Jan 19931,1001,86516.93$18,623

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.

Dec 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  146 bbl  × $ 24.28 =     $3,545
Casinghead gas       126 Mcf  × $  2.42 =       $305

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Month total                                   $3,850

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/19856 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.