OPPERMANN, EMIL

Operated by AKG OPERATING COMPANY (P-5 9566) 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 23175District 03Field 34733500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$272 k
Jan 1997 – May 2001
Value, last 12 filed months
$2 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
53
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
OilDisposition10,845 bbl$196,498
Casinghead gasProduction32,749 Mcf$75,308
Total$271,805

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 30.4108, -96.6543. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.41082, -96.65434 · 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
11,418 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
2.7 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 11,418 ft.

Completions filed
Jan 1997
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 1999
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 2.7 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 2.7 years and 2.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-051330911 H11,418 ftJan 1997Sep 1999Yes

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 (53)

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

53 months

May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 200178024.545.38$1,914
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 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 1999366015.102.21$5,527
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 199912259.981.82$419
Jan 1999131010.381.90$599
Dec 199804019.201.77$711
Nov 1998023110.892.19$505
Oct 1998046912.421.97$924
Sep 19981771,70912.592.08$5,788
Aug 19983271,59011.301.91$6,728
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19981782,00311.242.24$6,482
May 1998018812.622.21$415
Apr 19981761,27813.042.51$5,497
Mar 19981821,09112.802.31$4,849
Feb 19983321,95713.952.30$9,131
Jan 19981831,45614.702.15$5,827
Dec 199752840516.322.41$9,593
Nov 1997145618.193.09$1,426
Oct 19972771,18219.253.15$9,055
Sep 19973441,77017.742.95$11,333
Aug 19975381,52017.862.55$13,492
Jul 19975491,52617.582.25$13,080
Jun 19975171,45217.242.26$12,191
May 19975191,74418.972.31$13,871
Apr 19971,0962,49417.882.08$24,791
Mar 19978502,62018.951.94$21,188
Feb 19973,2584,08020.492.21$75,756
Jan 199736759223.483.54$10,713

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.

Mar 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   78 bbl  × $ 24.54 =     $1,914
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  5.38 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,914

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/23175 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.