RAINBOW

Operated by MORRIS, W. DALE INC. (P-5 588595) 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 21116District 03Field 34733500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$677 k
Jan 1993 – Sep 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$10 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
57
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

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
OilDisposition42,194 bbl$671,380
Casinghead gasProduction295,439 Mcf$5,608
Total$676,988

292,852 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 24 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 30.3858, -96.5444. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.38581, -96.54439 · 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
12,730 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
5.8 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 12,730 ft.

Completions filed
Oct 1991
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Aug 1997
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 5.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 5.8 years and 5.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-05133193112,730 ftOct 1991Aug 1997Yes

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 (57)

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

57 months

Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19971237617.582.25$2,333
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 1997091818.972.31$2,119
Apr 199721,59317.882.08$3,354
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 199674023.32$1,726
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 1995136015.92$2,165
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 19956017.73$106
Mar 19950016.44$0
Feb 199516016.58$265
Jan 19953996,75515.92$6,352
Dec 19947576,64515.03$11,378
Nov 19941,17515,04515.90$18,683
Oct 19941,14911,21615.58$17,901
Sep 19941,00514,46815.29$15,366
Aug 19941,14314,25516.13$18,437
Jul 19941,31318,14917.56$23,056
Jun 19941,48221,19317.09$25,327
May 19941,89318,98315.88$30,061
Apr 19941,65418,82514.14$23,388
Mar 19942,17320,16212.46$27,076
Feb 19942,14717,76812.50$26,838
Jan 19942,68116,82312.66$33,941
Dec 19930012.33$0
Nov 19937673,26414.49$11,114
Oct 19933,08119,18915.85$48,834
Sep 19931,2739,51815.03$19,133
Aug 19931,6608,53915.66$25,996
Jul 19939093,04115.46$14,053
Jun 19937923,59716.79$13,298
May 19932,83313,36917.68$50,087
Apr 19933,05514,27318.05$55,143
Mar 19932,2768,55518.14$41,287
Feb 19932,9565,40817.90$52,912
Jan 19933,2643,81216.93$55,260

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 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  123 bbl  × $ 17.58 =     $2,162
Casinghead gas        76 Mcf  × $  2.25 =       $171

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Month total                                   $2,333

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/21116 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.