DIME BOX UNIT

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

Operated by WCS OIL & GAS CORPORATION (P-5 902624) 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 22321District 03Field 34733500OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$1.4 M

Dec 1993 – May 2019

Value, last 12 filed months

$5 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

306

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	61,727 bbl	$1,297,971
Casinghead gas	Production	39,134 Mcf	$113,971
Total			$1,411,941

20,794 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 16 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 30.3305, -96.8342. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.33052, -96.83419 · 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

7,910 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

25.1 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 7,910 ft.

Completions filed

Dec 1993

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Jan 2019

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 25.1 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 25.1 years and 25.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-28731287	1	7,910 ft	Dec 1993	Jan 2019	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 (306)

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

306 months


May 2019	0	0	58.48	2.74	$0
Apr 2019	0	0	62.63	2.75	$0
Mar 2019	0	0	56.80	3.06	$0
Feb 2019	0	0	50.85	2.79	$0
Jan 2019	0	0	46.03	3.23	$0
Dec 2018	0	0	46.59	4.19	$0
Nov 2018	87	0	52.93	4.24	$4,605
Oct 2018	0	0	61.44	3.40	$0
Sep 2018	0	0	59.54	3.11	$0
Aug 2018	0	0	59.40	3.07	$0
Jul 2018	0	0	65.14	2.93	$0
Jun 2018	0	0	60.18	3.08	$0
May 2018	0	0	65.38	2.90	$0
Apr 2018	0	0	63.84	2.90	$0
Mar 2018	172	0	61.22	2.79	$10,530
Feb 2018	0	0	61.78	2.77	$0
Jan 2018	0	0	62.87	4.01	$0
Dec 2017	0	0	57.27	2.92	$0
Nov 2017	1	0	55.42	3.12	$55
Oct 2017	0	0	49.29	2.98	$0
Sep 2017	0	0	47.52	3.09	$0
Aug 2017	0	0	45.37	3.00	$0
Jul 2017	0	0	43.87	3.09	$0
Jun 2017	167	0	42.49	3.09	$7,096
May 2017	0	0	45.37	3.26	$0
Apr 2017	1	0	47.93	3.21	$48
Mar 2017	0	0	46.77	2.98	$0
Feb 2017	0	0	50.45	2.95	$0
Jan 2017	0	0	49.41	3.42	$0
Dec 2016	0	0	48.76	3.72	$0
Nov 2016	0	0	42.49	2.64	$0
Oct 2016	0	0	46.19	3.09	$0
Sep 2016	180	0	41.55	3.10	$7,479
Aug 2016	0	0	41.44	2.92	$0
Jul 2016	0	0	41.62	2.92	$0
Jun 2016	0	0	45.35	2.69	$0
May 2016	0	0	42.52	1.99	$0
Apr 2016	0	0	36.56	1.99	$0
Mar 2016	177	0	33.01	1.79	$5,843
Feb 2016	0	0	26.47	2.06	$0
Jan 2016	0	0	27.35	2.36	$0
Dec 2015	0	0	32.36	2.00	$0
Nov 2015	0	0	38.79	2.17	$0
Oct 2015	0	0	43.55	2.43	$0
Sep 2015	0	0	42.99	2.76	$0
Aug 2015	175	0	40.16	2.87	$7,028
Jul 2015	0	0	48.15	2.95	$0
Jun 2015	0	0	56.15	2.88	$0
May 2015	0	0	55.21	2.96	$0
Apr 2015	0	0	49.82	2.71	$0
Mar 2015	0	0	42.89	2.93	$0
Feb 2015	185	0	44.66	2.98	$8,262
Jan 2015	0	0	43.43	3.10	$0
Dec 2014	0	0	54.69	3.59	$0
Nov 2014	0	0	70.46	4.25	$0
Oct 2014	0	0	78.30	3.90	$0
Sep 2014	0	0	86.16	4.05	$0
Aug 2014	167	0	89.39	4.04	$14,928
Jul 2014	0	0	96.56	4.18	$0
Jun 2014	0	0	98.16	4.74	$0
May 2014	0	0	94.73	4.73	$0
Apr 2014	0	0	95.94	4.81	$0
Mar 2014	1	0	95.89	5.06	$96
Feb 2014	172	0	97.40	6.19	$16,753
Jan 2014	0	0	90.40	4.86	$0
Dec 2013	0	0	91.82	4.35	$0
Nov 2013	11	0	88.85	3.74	$977
Oct 2013	0	0	97.42	3.78	$0
Sep 2013	180	0	104.11	3.72	$18,740
Aug 2013	0	0	104.25	3.52	$0
Jul 2013	0	0	102.52	3.72	$0
Jun 2013	0	0	94.40	3.93	$0
May 2013	171	0	94.83	4.15	$16,216
Apr 2013	0	0	93.96	4.28	$0
Mar 2013	0	0	93.62	3.91	$0
Feb 2013	171	0	91.23	3.42	$15,600
Jan 2013	0	0	91.60	3.42	$0
Dec 2012	1	0	86.77	3.42	$87
Nov 2012	0	0	86.95	3.62	$0
Oct 2012	83	0	89.38	3.40	$7,419
Sep 2012	3	0	94.67	2.92	$284
Aug 2012	2	0	92.66	2.91	$185
Jul 2012	0	0	85.13	3.02	$0
Jun 2012	171	0	79.82	2.52	$13,649
May 2012	0	0	91.61	2.49	$0
Apr 2012	0	0	101.65	2.00	$0
Mar 2012	0	0	105.05	2.22	$0
Feb 2012	167	0	101.10	2.57	$16,884
Jan 2012	0	0	98.09	2.73	$0
Dec 2011	0	0	96.87	3.24	$0
Nov 2011	0	0	95.72	3.31	$0
Oct 2011	0	0	84.98	3.65	$0
Sep 2011	173	0	83.62	3.99	$14,466
Aug 2011	0	0	83.40	4.15	$0
Jul 2011	0	0	94.14	4.52	$0
Jun 2011	1	0	92.90	4.64	$93
May 2011	176	0	98.13	4.40	$17,271
Apr 2011	0	0	105.96	4.33	$0
Mar 2011	171	0	96.36	4.06	$16,478
Feb 2011	0	0	85.64	4.18	$0
Jan 2011	0	0	86.50	4.59	$0
Dec 2010	1	0	85.73	4.35	$86
Nov 2010	170	0	80.84	3.80	$13,743
Oct 2010	0	0	78.10	3.51	$0
Sep 2010	0	0	72.63	3.98	$0
Aug 2010	1	0	73.68	4.42	$74
Jul 2010	172	0	72.55	4.74	$12,479
Jun 2010	0	0	70.36	4.91	$0
May 2010	0	0	71.12	4.24	$0
Apr 2010	171	0	81.69	4.12	$13,969
Mar 2010	1	0	78.39	4.39	$78
Feb 2010	171	0	73.58	5.44	$12,582
Jan 2010	0	0	74.36	5.96	$0
Dec 2009	0	0	71.44	5.48	$0
Nov 2009	0	0	74.59	3.75	$0
Oct 2009	0	0	72.54	4.11	$0
Sep 2009	172	0	65.54	3.06	$11,273
Aug 2009	0	0	67.42	3.22	$0
Jul 2009	1	0	61.13	3.46	$61
Jun 2009	0	0	66.16	3.90	$0
May 2009	0	0	54.74	3.93	$0
Apr 2009	0	0	46.77	3.59	$0
Mar 2009	0	0	42.14	4.06	$0
Feb 2009	173	0	32.81	4.63	$5,676
Jan 2009	0	0	35.86	5.37	$0
Dec 2008	0	0	37.10	5.98	$0
Nov 2008	0	0	55.49	6.86	$0
Oct 2008	0	0	75.24	6.92	$0
Sep 2008	0	0	101.76	7.88	$0
Aug 2008	179	0	114.22	8.48	$20,445
Jul 2008	0	0	131.08	11.39	$0
Jun 2008	0	0	131.33	13.03	$0
May 2008	0	0	123.17	11.57	$0
Apr 2008	0	0	110.31	10.45	$0
Mar 2008	0	0	101.90	9.66	$0
Feb 2008	178	0	92.53	8.77	$16,470
Jan 2008	0	0	90.38	8.21	$0
Dec 2007	0	0	88.33	7.30	$0
Nov 2007	177	0	91.67	7.29	$16,226
Oct 2007	0	0	82.85	6.92	$0
Sep 2007	168	0	75.84	6.24	$12,741
Aug 2007	0	0	69.06	6.39	$0
Jul 2007	0	0	70.90	6.39	$0
Jun 2007	0	0	62.00	7.55	$0
May 2007	1	0	58.74	7.85	$59
Apr 2007	181	0	59.61	7.81	$10,789
Mar 2007	177	0	56.92	7.30	$10,075
Feb 2007	0	0	55.10	8.22	$0
Jan 2007	0	0	50.30	6.73	$0
Dec 2006	0	0	56.65	6.92	$0
Nov 2006	1	0	54.20	7.62	$54
Oct 2006	0	0	54.90	6.01	$0
Sep 2006	0	0	60.08	5.04	$0
Aug 2006	0	0	68.71	7.34	$0
Jul 2006	0	0	69.37	6.34	$0
Jun 2006	173	0	66.28	6.38	$11,466
May 2006	0	0	66.01	6.42	$0
Apr 2006	0	0	64.39	7.36	$0
Mar 2006	1	0	56.70	7.08	$57
Feb 2006	0	0	57.59	7.75	$0
Jan 2006	0	0	60.59	8.93	$0
Dec 2005	1	0	54.94	13.42	$55
Nov 2005	165	0	54.69	10.59	$9,024
Oct 2005	171	0	58.34	13.80	$9,976
Sep 2005	0	0	61.45	12.08	$0
Aug 2005	0	0	61.51	9.80	$0
Jul 2005	0	0	55.69	7.84	$0
Jun 2005	177	0	52.33	7.38	$9,262
May 2005	0	0	45.22	6.65	$0
Apr 2005	0	0	49.20	7.36	$0
Mar 2005	1	0	50.37	7.15	$50
Feb 2005	172	0	45.22	6.31	$7,778
Jan 2005	0	0	43.16	6.32	$0
Dec 2004	0	0	39.86	6.75	$0
Nov 2004	0	0	45.28	6.33	$0
Oct 2004	0	0	49.70	6.52	$0
Sep 2004	0	0	43.24	5.28	$0
Aug 2004	0	0	42.37	5.55	$0
Jul 2004	173	0	38.28	6.08	$6,622
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	171	0	34.36	5.53	$5,876
Feb 2004	172	0	32.45	5.51	$5,581
Jan 2004	0	0	32.03	6.30	$0
Dec 2003	0	0	30.26	6.30	$0
Nov 2003	172	1	28.80	4.60	$4,958
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	182	1	29.41	5.17	$5,358
Jun 2003	0	237	28.56	5.98	$1,418
May 2003	180	63	26.59	5.97	$5,162
Apr 2003	0	0	26.67	5.41	$0
Mar 2003	0	0	31.14	6.10	$0
Feb 2003	0	0	33.48	7.93	$0
Jan 2003	189	0	30.31	5.58	$5,729
Dec 2002	0	3	26.91	4.85	$15
Nov 2002	183	479	24.66	4.14	$6,494
Oct 2002	365	92	26.46	4.23	$10,047
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	0	247	24.66	3.58	$885
Apr 2002	184	55	23.65	3.51	$4,545
Mar 2002	0	0	22.00	3.10	$0
Feb 2002	0	0	18.22	2.38	$0
Jan 2002	183	57	17.17	2.38	$3,278
Dec 2001	0	0	16.93	2.36	$0
Nov 2001	184	21	18.07	2.41	$3,375
Oct 2001	0	143	19.78	2.53	$362
Sep 2001	184	200	24.26	2.25	$4,914
Aug 2001	0	17	24.87	3.05	$52
Jul 2001	186	1	23.93	3.20	$4,454
Jun 2001	0	0	24.56	3.82	$0
May 2001	0	0	25.52	4.31	$0
Apr 2001	192	0	24.68	5.34	$4,739
Mar 2001	0	1,532	24.54	5.38	$8,237
Feb 2001	174	4,042	27.75	5.77	$28,139
Jan 2001	0	3,126	27.47	8.40	$26,255
Dec 2000	1	2,295	26.88	9.12	$20,963
Nov 2000	185	1,813	32.21	5.66	$16,217
Oct 2000	0	1,736	31.23	5.15	$8,933
Sep 2000	179	620	31.87	5.19	$8,920
Aug 2000	0	279	29.64	4.54	$1,267
Jul 2000	0	302	28.53	4.09	$1,235
Jun 2000	171	611	29.30	4.40	$7,697
May 2000	188	336	27.26	3.68	$6,361
Apr 2000	0	3	24.51	3.12	$9
Mar 2000	181	0	28.42	2.86	$5,144
Feb 2000	0	0	27.62	2.73	$0
Jan 2000	177	0	25.27	2.48	$4,473
Dec 1999	189	0	24.28	2.42	$4,589
Nov 1999	1	0	23.19	2.43	$23
Oct 1999	186	0	20.98	2.80	$3,902
Sep 1999	0	0	21.75	2.62	$0
Aug 1999	166	14	19.26	2.88	$3,237
Jul 1999	189	7	17.89	2.37	$3,398
Jun 1999	0	0	15.94	2.36	$0
May 1999	185	0	15.79	2.32	$2,921
Apr 1999	187	0	15.10	2.21	$2,824
Mar 1999	184	1	12.47	1.84	$2,296
Feb 1999	0	0	9.98	1.82	$0
Jan 1999	183	0	10.38	1.90	$1,900
Dec 1998	0	0	9.20	1.77	$0
Nov 1998	332	0	10.89	2.19	$3,615
Oct 1998	0	1	12.42	1.97	$2
Sep 1998	0	0	12.59	2.08	$0
Aug 1998	190	1	11.30	1.91	$2,149
Jul 1998	0	1	11.74	2.24	$2
Jun 1998	0	0	11.24	2.24	$0
May 1998	186	0	12.62	2.21	$2,347
Apr 1998	0	0	13.04	2.51	$0
Mar 1998	192	1	12.80	2.31	$2,460
Feb 1998	0	1	13.95	2.30	$2
Jan 1998	319	1	14.70	2.15	$4,691
Dec 1997	180	0	16.32	2.41	$2,938
Nov 1997	1	0	18.19	3.09	$18
Oct 1997	183	0	19.25	3.15	$3,523
Sep 1997	182	0	17.74	2.95	$3,229
Aug 1997	183	0	17.86	2.55	$3,268
Jul 1997	184	0	17.58	2.25	$3,235
Jun 1997	182	0	17.24	2.26	$3,138
May 1997	182	0	18.97	2.31	$3,453
Apr 1997	185	0	17.88	2.08	$3,308
Mar 1997	182	0	18.95	1.94	$3,449
Feb 1997	193	0	20.49	2.21	$3,955
Jan 1997	379	0	23.48	3.54	$8,899
Dec 1996	187	0	23.32	—	$4,361
Nov 1996	380	0	21.97	—	$8,349
Oct 1996	183	0	23.31	—	$4,266
Sep 1996	362	0	22.22	—	$8,044
Aug 1996	179	0	20.26	—	$3,627
Jul 1996	362	0	19.55	—	$7,077
Jun 1996	354	0	18.73	—	$6,630
May 1996	174	0	19.43	—	$3,381
Apr 1996	355	0	21.51	—	$7,636
Mar 1996	361	0	19.38	—	$6,996
Feb 1996	359	0	16.98	—	$6,096
Jan 1996	348	0	17.07	—	$5,940
Dec 1995	357	0	17.19	—	$6,137
Nov 1995	348	0	16.00	—	$5,568
Oct 1995	527	0	15.43	—	$8,132
Sep 1995	359	0	16.18	—	$5,809
Aug 1995	533	0	15.92	—	$8,485
Jul 1995	344	0	15.24	—	$5,243
Jun 1995	525	0	16.41	—	$8,615
May 1995	377	0	17.56	—	$6,620
Apr 1995	550	0	17.73	—	$9,752
Mar 1995	912	586	16.44	—	$14,993
Feb 1995	932	187	16.58	—	$15,453
Jan 1995	360	251	15.92	—	$5,731
Dec 1994	717	1,149	15.03	—	$10,777
Nov 1994	1,112	1,407	15.90	—	$17,681
Oct 1994	1,116	2,135	15.58	—	$17,387
Sep 1994	1,453	1,671	15.29	—	$22,216
Aug 1994	1,287	521	16.13	—	$20,759
Jul 1994	2,150	716	17.56	—	$37,754
Jun 1994	1,421	186	17.09	—	$24,285
May 1994	341	1	15.88	—	$5,415
Apr 1994	2,598	1,644	14.14	—	$36,736
Mar 1994	9,698	4,783	12.46	—	$120,837
Feb 1994	2,641	1	12.50	—	$33,013
Jan 1994	6,473	3,346	12.66	—	$81,948
Dec 1993	6,009	2,210	12.33	—	$74,091

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 2018 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   87 bbl  × $ 52.93 =     $4,605
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  4.24 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $4,605

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/22321 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.