HESTER, ELAINE

Operated by ANADARKO E&P COMPANY LP (P-5 20542) in the GIDDINGS (BUDA) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 21962District 03Field 34733600OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$488 k
Jan 1993 – Sep 2008
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
189
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 598 leases and 630 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1977-03-26
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 1997-05-16.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: DESIGNATED AS UFT FIELD PER DOCKET 01-0299858.

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
OilDisposition27,976 bbl$474,832
Casinghead gasProduction89,017 Mcf$13,469
Total$488,301

83,391 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 45 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 30.7678, -96.4107. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.76781, -96.41066 · 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
10,141 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
15.4 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 10,141 ft.

Completions filed
Jan 1993
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jun 2008
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 15.4 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 15.4 years and 15.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-04131458110,141 ftJan 1993Jun 2008Yes

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 (189)

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

189 months

Sep 200800101.767.88$0
Aug 200800114.228.48$0
Jul 200800131.0811.39$0
Jun 200800131.3313.03$0
May 200800123.1711.57$0
Apr 200800110.3110.45$0
Mar 200800101.909.66$0
Feb 20080092.538.77$0
Jan 20080090.388.21$0
Dec 20070088.337.30$0
Nov 20070091.677.29$0
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 20070075.846.24$0
Aug 20070069.066.39$0
Jul 20070070.906.39$0
Jun 20070062.007.55$0
May 20070058.747.85$0
Apr 20070059.617.81$0
Mar 20070056.927.30$0
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060056.656.92$0
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 20060069.376.34$0
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 1999199019.262.88$3,833
Jul 19991317.892.37$25
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999149.981.82$17
Jan 199911510.381.90$39
Dec 19981199.201.77$43
Nov 199811910.892.19$52
Oct 199814512.421.97$101
Sep 199812112.592.08$56
Aug 199812411.301.91$57
Jul 19981211.742.24$16
Jun 19981711.242.24$27
May 199803412.622.21$75
Apr 19981815413.042.51$2,496
Mar 19980212.802.31$5
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19988014.702.15$118
Dec 19971853216.322.41$3,096
Nov 1997520918.193.09$736
Oct 1997022219.253.15$699
Sep 199719333617.742.95$4,417
Aug 19973761,15117.862.55$9,656
Jul 199718988217.582.25$5,304
Jun 1997047317.242.26$1,068
May 199731239118.972.31$6,821
Apr 199716554817.882.08$4,092
Mar 199722374418.951.94$5,669
Feb 199719124820.492.21$4,461
Jan 19971514123.483.54$851
Dec 199619118523.32$4,454
Nov 1996010621.97$0
Oct 1996514923.31$117
Sep 19961952422.22$4,333
Aug 1996015020.26$0
Jul 199630828019.55$6,021
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 1996194019.43$3,769
Apr 199619827921.51$4,259
Mar 199619844619.38$3,837
Feb 199618783416.98$3,175
Jan 19967431,11017.07$12,683
Dec 19959112,40717.19$15,660
Nov 199503316.00$0
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19953551,07916.18$5,744
Aug 199535489515.92$5,636
Jul 19951911,51015.24$2,911
Jun 19955451,68916.41$8,943
May 19951,0862,95017.56$19,070
Apr 19956316817.73$1,117
Mar 19955541,34016.44$9,108
Feb 19957381,88016.58$12,236
Jan 19955471,81415.92$8,708
Dec 199436527715.03$5,486
Nov 1994027415.90$0
Oct 19943601,01415.58$5,609
Sep 1994026115.29$0
Aug 1994130316.13$16
Jul 199433551217.56$5,883
Jun 19943421,15717.09$5,845
May 19943411,29115.88$5,415
Apr 19945171,79614.14$7,310
Mar 1994047712.46$0
Feb 19943431,10512.50$4,288
Jan 19943431,33112.66$4,342
Dec 19933511,61112.33$4,328
Nov 19933482,19314.49$5,043
Oct 19933503,11415.85$5,548
Sep 19937124,29815.03$10,701
Aug 19938875,11415.66$13,890
Jul 19931,3565,99015.46$20,964
Jun 19931,0295,05316.79$17,277
May 19931,3396,40517.68$23,674
Apr 19931,5566,08118.05$28,086
Mar 19932,6486,58818.14$48,035
Feb 19932,5054,96717.90$44,840
Jan 19932,1332,85116.93$36,112

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.

Aug 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  199 bbl  × $ 19.26 =     $3,833
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.88 =         $0

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Month total                                   $3,833

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/21962 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.