SMITH-KNOLLE UNIT

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

Operated by APACHE CORPORATION (P-5 27200) 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 21029District 03Field 34733500OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$532 k

Jan 1993 – Jul 2004

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

139

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	16,984 bbl	$291,428
Casinghead gas	Production	368,634 Mcf	$241,066
Total			$532,493

282,916 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 30.4793, -96.5050. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.1 miles.

30.47935, -96.50500 · 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%

2 of 2 wells

With a plug date

100.0%

2 of 2 wells

Median depth

11,332 ft

2 wells filed one

Completion to plug

14.5 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 8,960 and 13,703 ft, median 11,332 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Aug 1980 – May 1991

2 of 2 wells

Plug dates filed

Jul 1996 – Jun 2004

2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 14.5 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 13.8 years and 15.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells


42-05133225	2	13,703 ft	May 1991	Jun 2004	Yes
42-05130810	1	8,960 ft	Aug 1980	Jul 1996	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 (139)

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

139 months


Jul 2004	0	0	38.28	6.08	$0
Jun 2004	0	0	36.10	6.43	$0
May 2004	0	0	37.48	6.49	$0
Apr 2004	0	0	34.47	5.86	$0
Mar 2004	0	0	34.36	5.53	$0
Feb 2004	0	0	32.45	5.51	$0
Jan 2004	0	0	32.03	6.30	$0
Dec 2003	0	0	30.26	6.30	$0
Nov 2003	0	0	28.80	4.60	$0
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	48	0	29.41	5.17	$1,412
Jun 2003	75	570	28.56	5.98	$5,552
May 2003	2	799	26.59	5.97	$4,825
Apr 2003	2	310	26.67	5.41	$1,730
Mar 2003	177	1,296	31.14	6.10	$13,412
Feb 2003	4	747	33.48	7.93	$6,055
Jan 2003	4	0	30.31	5.58	$121
Dec 2002	3	0	26.91	4.85	$81
Nov 2002	157	0	24.66	4.14	$3,872
Oct 2002	1	157	26.46	4.23	$690
Sep 2002	2	0	27.44	3.64	$55
Aug 2002	2	85	25.96	3.16	$321
Jul 2002	4	0	24.58	3.06	$98
Jun 2002	133	0	23.73	3.34	$3,156
May 2002	6	0	24.66	3.58	$148
Apr 2002	0	29	23.65	3.51	$102
Mar 2002	0	53	22.00	3.10	$164
Feb 2002	0	49	18.22	2.38	$116
Jan 2002	0	70	17.17	2.38	$166
Dec 2001	0	58	16.93	2.36	$137
Nov 2001	0	64	18.07	2.41	$154
Oct 2001	0	92	19.78	2.53	$233
Sep 2001	0	75	24.26	2.25	$169
Aug 2001	0	61	24.87	3.05	$186
Jul 2001	191	80	23.93	3.20	$4,826
Jun 2001	0	229	24.56	3.82	$876
May 2001	0	622	25.52	4.31	$2,679
Apr 2001	0	0	24.68	5.34	$0
Mar 2001	0	0	24.54	5.38	$0
Feb 2001	0	0	27.75	5.77	$0
Jan 2001	0	0	27.47	8.40	$0
Dec 2000	0	0	26.88	9.12	$0
Nov 2000	1	863	32.21	5.66	$4,915
Oct 2000	2	1,561	31.23	5.15	$8,095
Sep 2000	87	1,435	31.87	5.19	$10,215
Aug 2000	5	1,893	29.64	4.54	$8,744
Jul 2000	175	1,331	28.53	4.09	$10,436
Jun 2000	1	2,043	29.30	4.40	$9,013
May 2000	0	0	27.26	3.68	$0
Apr 2000	0	352	24.51	3.12	$1,097
Mar 2000	139	2,495	28.42	2.86	$11,085
Feb 2000	0	236	27.62	2.73	$643
Jan 2000	0	814	25.27	2.48	$2,019
Dec 1999	0	889	24.28	2.42	$2,155
Nov 1999	148	1,121	23.19	2.43	$6,161
Oct 1999	0	1,399	20.98	2.80	$3,922
Sep 1999	0	1,463	21.75	2.62	$3,831
Aug 1999	0	1,637	19.26	2.88	$4,707
Jul 1999	171	1,808	17.89	2.37	$7,348
Jun 1999	1	1,650	15.94	2.36	$3,913
May 1999	174	1,752	15.79	2.32	$6,814
Apr 1999	0	1,876	15.10	2.21	$4,142
Mar 1999	181	2,265	12.47	1.84	$6,421
Feb 1999	0	75	9.98	1.82	$136
Jan 1999	0	2,026	10.38	1.90	$3,849
Dec 1998	165	0	9.20	1.77	$1,518
Nov 1998	182	2,160	10.89	2.19	$6,703
Oct 1998	180	2,159	12.42	1.97	$6,487
Sep 1998	0	2,158	12.59	2.08	$4,494
Aug 1998	0	1,546	11.30	1.91	$2,949
Jul 1998	180	2,127	11.74	2.24	$6,872
Jun 1998	0	2,081	11.24	2.24	$4,656
May 1998	183	2,013	12.62	2.21	$6,751
Apr 1998	1	2,144	13.04	2.51	$5,384
Mar 1998	184	2,068	12.80	2.31	$7,131
Feb 1998	0	1,939	13.95	2.30	$4,458
Jan 1998	177	2,281	14.70	2.15	$7,517
Dec 1997	161	2,026	16.32	2.41	$7,512
Nov 1997	0	2,402	18.19	3.09	$7,418
Oct 1997	170	2,766	19.25	3.15	$11,985
Sep 1997	0	1,596	17.74	2.95	$4,716
Aug 1997	171	2,144	17.86	2.55	$8,531
Jul 1997	1	1,944	17.58	2.25	$4,386
Jun 1997	184	2,364	17.24	2.26	$8,508
May 1997	169	2,491	18.97	2.31	$8,956
Apr 1997	184	2,474	17.88	2.08	$8,443
Mar 1997	181	2,573	18.95	1.94	$8,419
Feb 1997	191	3,832	20.49	2.21	$12,367
Jan 1997	0	0	23.48	3.54	$0
Dec 1996	2	2,732	23.32	—	$47
Nov 1996	175	3,107	21.97	—	$3,845
Oct 1996	167	2,739	23.31	—	$3,893
Sep 1996	0	3,094	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	187	3,264	20.26	—	$3,789
Jul 1996	0	3,528	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	357	3,492	18.73	—	$6,687
May 1996	0	4,156	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	187	4,490	21.51	—	$4,022
Mar 1996	188	3,582	19.38	—	$3,643
Feb 1996	180	1,879	16.98	—	$3,056
Jan 1996	187	4,307	17.07	—	$3,192
Dec 1995	179	5,045	17.19	—	$3,077
Nov 1995	178	5,222	16.00	—	$2,848
Oct 1995	181	4,281	15.43	—	$2,793
Sep 1995	190	3,764	16.18	—	$3,074
Aug 1995	344	5,229	15.92	—	$5,476
Jul 1995	188	4,708	15.24	—	$2,865
Jun 1995	187	3,913	16.41	—	$3,069
May 1995	371	4,979	17.56	—	$6,515
Apr 1995	170	5,210	17.73	—	$3,014
Mar 1995	360	5,038	16.44	—	$5,918
Feb 1995	350	4,118	16.58	—	$5,803
Jan 1995	183	3,715	15.92	—	$2,913
Dec 1994	183	3,492	15.03	—	$2,750
Nov 1994	371	5,775	15.90	—	$5,899
Oct 1994	364	6,440	15.58	—	$5,671
Sep 1994	184	6,467	15.29	—	$2,813
Aug 1994	349	6,527	16.13	—	$5,629
Jul 1994	0	2,799	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	176	3,554	17.09	—	$3,008
May 1994	181	3,814	15.88	—	$2,874
Apr 1994	187	4,858	14.14	—	$2,644
Mar 1994	366	6,937	12.46	—	$4,560
Feb 1994	181	18,357	12.50	—	$2,263
Jan 1994	364	19,663	12.66	—	$4,608
Dec 1993	367	11,855	12.33	—	$4,525
Nov 1993	369	6,912	14.49	—	$5,347
Oct 1993	359	7,893	15.85	—	$5,690
Sep 1993	366	12,605	15.03	—	$5,501
Aug 1993	0	1,144	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	348	3,182	15.46	—	$5,380
Jun 1993	364	8,434	16.79	—	$6,112
May 1993	535	10,354	17.68	—	$9,459
Apr 1993	530	8,745	18.05	—	$9,567
Mar 1993	710	8,983	18.14	—	$12,879
Feb 1993	703	8,748	17.90	—	$12,584
Jan 1993	356	9,786	16.93	—	$6,027

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.

Jul 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   48 bbl  × $ 29.41 =     $1,412
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  5.17 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,412

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/21029 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.