OEDING

Operated by MW PETROLEUM CORPORATION (P-5 597371) 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 20317District 03Field 34733500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$179 k
Jan 1993 – Jun 1996
Value, last 12 filed months
$16 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
42
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
OilDisposition11,153 bbl$178,978
Casinghead gasProduction105,000 Mcf$0
Total$178,978

105,000 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 40 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 29.9127, -97.0525. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.91275, -97.05247 · 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
10,340 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
1 well filed both, dated out of order

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 10,340 ft.

Completions filed
Jul 2005
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
May 1996
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: no median is published. 1 well on this lease filed both dates, and on that one the last completion is dated after the plug date, so there is no interval to take a median of. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-14932296110,340 ftJul 2005May 1996Yes

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 (42)

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

42 months

Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 199615232321.51$3,270
Mar 1996733019.38$136
Feb 19961133916.98$187
Jan 19961435017.07$239
Dec 19951325517.19$223
Nov 1995182316.00$288
Oct 199518116815.43$2,793
Sep 199517231216.18$2,783
Aug 199518642615.92$2,961
Jul 199518652815.24$2,835
Jun 199518040816.41$2,954
May 199517951117.56$3,143
Apr 19951422017.73$248
Mar 199520255916.44$3,321
Feb 19953401,00516.58$5,637
Jan 19953381,13815.92$5,381
Dec 1994078915.03$0
Nov 199432895715.90$5,215
Oct 1994683415.58$93
Sep 19945361,45715.29$8,195
Aug 199411,24216.13$16
Jul 19945181,19317.56$9,096
Jun 19943372,10317.09$5,759
May 19941941,40215.88$3,081
Apr 1994622514.14$85
Mar 19943602,67112.46$4,486
Feb 19943683,38212.50$4,600
Jan 19943621,92312.66$4,583
Dec 19933603,66412.33$4,439
Nov 19933423,63114.49$4,956
Oct 199303,58215.85$0
Sep 19937116,08415.03$10,686
Aug 19935365,29815.66$8,394
Jul 19933446,97315.46$5,318
Jun 19933588,17216.79$6,011
May 19937206,79317.68$12,730
Apr 19933255,55018.05$5,866
Mar 199333810,25018.14$6,131
Feb 199351910,02517.90$9,290
Jan 19931,3919,90516.93$23,550

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.

Apr 1996 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  152 bbl  × $ 21.51 =     $3,270
Casinghead gas       323 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $3,270

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/20317 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.