CURTIS

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

Operated by ANADARKO E&P COMPANY LP (P-5 20542) 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 20732District 03Field 34733500OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$379 k

Jan 1993 – Jan 2004

Value, last 12 filed months

$2 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

133

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”

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	17,875 bbl	$317,152
Casinghead gas	Production	50,263 Mcf	$61,597
Total			$378,749

28,792 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 30.6295, -96.5222. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.62948, -96.52224 · 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

8,106 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

13.5 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 8,106 ft.

Completions filed

Jun 1990

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Dec 2003

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 13.5 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 13.5 years and 13.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-04131370	1	8,106 ft	Jun 1990	Dec 2003	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 (133)

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

133 months


Jan 2004	0	0	32.03	6.30	$0
Dec 2003	0	0	30.26	6.30	$0
Nov 2003	49	0	28.80	4.60	$1,411
Oct 2003	0	0	28.17	4.76	$0
Sep 2003	0	0	26.31	4.75	$0
Aug 2003	0	0	29.76	5.13	$0
Jul 2003	0	0	29.41	5.17	$0
Jun 2003	0	0	28.56	5.98	$0
May 2003	0	0	26.59	5.97	$0
Apr 2003	0	0	26.67	5.41	$0
Mar 2003	3	0	31.14	6.10	$93
Feb 2003	0	0	33.48	7.93	$0
Jan 2003	0	0	30.31	5.58	$0
Dec 2002	0	0	26.91	4.85	$0
Nov 2002	0	0	24.66	4.14	$0
Oct 2002	0	0	26.46	4.23	$0
Sep 2002	0	0	27.44	3.64	$0
Aug 2002	0	0	25.96	3.16	$0
Jul 2002	0	0	24.58	3.06	$0
Jun 2002	0	0	23.73	3.34	$0
May 2002	118	0	24.66	3.58	$2,910
Apr 2002	0	0	23.65	3.51	$0
Mar 2002	0	4	22.00	3.10	$12
Feb 2002	0	107	18.22	2.38	$254
Jan 2002	0	255	17.17	2.38	$606
Dec 2001	0	290	16.93	2.36	$686
Nov 2001	185	310	18.07	2.41	$4,089
Oct 2001	0	283	19.78	2.53	$716
Sep 2001	173	280	24.26	2.25	$4,827
Aug 2001	0	221	24.87	3.05	$675
Jul 2001	176	342	23.93	3.20	$5,305
Jun 2001	0	188	24.56	3.82	$719
May 2001	167	296	25.52	4.31	$5,537
Apr 2001	0	278	24.68	5.34	$1,483
Mar 2001	169	298	24.54	5.38	$5,749
Feb 2001	1	235	27.75	5.77	$1,383
Jan 2001	180	142	27.47	8.40	$6,137
Dec 2000	176	255	26.88	9.12	$7,057
Nov 2000	0	296	32.21	5.66	$1,675
Oct 2000	176	239	31.23	5.15	$6,726
Sep 2000	0	221	31.87	5.19	$1,146
Aug 2000	176	236	29.64	4.54	$6,288
Jul 2000	0	289	28.53	4.09	$1,182
Jun 2000	179	222	29.30	4.40	$6,221
May 2000	0	280	27.26	3.68	$1,030
Apr 2000	185	324	24.51	3.12	$5,544
Mar 2000	0	326	28.42	2.86	$932
Feb 2000	177	235	27.62	2.73	$5,529
Jan 2000	184	170	25.27	2.48	$5,071
Dec 1999	0	345	24.28	2.42	$836
Nov 1999	181	331	23.19	2.43	$5,003
Oct 1999	0	396	20.98	2.80	$1,110
Sep 1999	170	401	21.75	2.62	$4,748
Aug 1999	171	390	19.26	2.88	$4,415
Jul 1999	0	431	17.89	2.37	$1,022
Jun 1999	176	404	15.94	2.36	$3,760
May 1999	178	421	15.79	2.32	$3,788
Apr 1999	0	413	15.10	2.21	$912
Mar 1999	175	427	12.47	1.84	$2,967
Feb 1999	181	409	9.98	1.82	$2,550
Jan 1999	0	397	10.38	1.90	$754
Dec 1998	177	375	9.20	1.77	$2,293
Nov 1998	177	373	10.89	2.19	$2,743
Oct 1998	0	430	12.42	1.97	$847
Sep 1998	177	425	12.59	2.08	$3,114
Aug 1998	185	408	11.30	1.91	$2,869
Jul 1998	0	370	11.74	2.24	$828
Jun 1998	172	412	11.24	2.24	$2,855
May 1998	173	437	12.62	2.21	$3,147
Apr 1998	177	431	13.04	2.51	$3,388
Mar 1998	161	444	12.80	2.31	$3,086
Feb 1998	0	420	13.95	2.30	$966
Jan 1998	181	419	14.70	2.15	$3,564
Dec 1997	176	391	16.32	2.41	$3,815
Nov 1997	171	387	18.19	3.09	$4,306
Oct 1997	174	425	19.25	3.15	$4,688
Sep 1997	0	405	17.74	2.95	$1,197
Aug 1997	173	428	17.86	2.55	$4,183
Jul 1997	0	442	17.58	2.25	$993
Jun 1997	361	468	17.24	2.26	$7,280
May 1997	182	467	18.97	2.31	$4,531
Apr 1997	1	455	17.88	2.08	$966
Mar 1997	179	427	18.95	1.94	$4,220
Feb 1997	1	375	20.49	2.21	$848
Jan 1997	188	470	23.48	3.54	$6,078
Dec 1996	181	459	23.32	—	$4,221
Nov 1996	180	438	21.97	—	$3,955
Oct 1996	173	488	23.31	—	$4,033
Sep 1996	176	473	22.22	—	$3,911
Aug 1996	171	457	20.26	—	$3,464
Jul 1996	0	501	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	168	543	18.73	—	$3,147
May 1996	165	560	19.43	—	$3,206
Apr 1996	173	530	21.51	—	$3,721
Mar 1996	161	535	19.38	—	$3,120
Feb 1996	179	492	16.98	—	$3,039
Jan 1996	192	528	17.07	—	$3,277
Dec 1995	178	585	17.19	—	$3,060
Nov 1995	174	575	16.00	—	$2,784
Oct 1995	172	644	15.43	—	$2,654
Sep 1995	183	627	16.18	—	$2,961
Aug 1995	344	670	15.92	—	$5,476
Jul 1995	0	212	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	11	437	16.41	—	$181
May 1995	172	571	17.56	—	$3,020
Apr 1995	175	565	17.73	—	$3,103
Mar 1995	352	580	16.44	—	$5,787
Feb 1995	172	535	16.58	—	$2,852
Jan 1995	186	542	15.92	—	$2,961
Dec 1994	174	475	15.03	—	$2,615
Nov 1994	172	498	15.90	—	$2,735
Oct 1994	359	613	15.58	—	$5,593
Sep 1994	179	609	15.29	—	$2,737
Aug 1994	353	782	16.13	—	$5,694
Jul 1994	0	0	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	179	581	17.09	—	$3,059
May 1994	361	736	15.88	—	$5,733
Apr 1994	155	791	14.14	—	$2,192
Mar 1994	345	668	12.46	—	$4,299
Feb 1994	170	600	12.50	—	$2,125
Jan 1994	521	770	12.66	—	$6,596
Dec 1993	185	464	12.33	—	$2,281
Nov 1993	179	249	14.49	—	$2,594
Oct 1993	724	262	15.85	—	$11,475
Sep 1993	345	484	15.03	—	$5,185
Aug 1993	0	499	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	347	751	15.46	—	$5,365
Jun 1993	184	1,019	16.79	—	$3,089
May 1993	360	1,090	17.68	—	$6,365
Apr 1993	387	1,090	18.05	—	$6,985
Mar 1993	549	1,204	18.14	—	$9,959
Feb 1993	349	971	17.90	—	$6,247
Jan 1993	368	1,039	16.93	—	$6,230

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 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   49 bbl  × $ 28.80 =     $1,411
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  4.60 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,411

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/20732 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.