COLT UNIT

Operated by RME PETROLEUM COMPANY (P-5 714229) 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 23516District 03Field 34733600OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$2.4 M
May 1998 – Oct 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$76 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
54
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
OilDisposition131,691 bbl$2,142,336
Casinghead gasProduction110,235 Mcf$278,571
Total$2,420,907

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 30.7057, -96.6912. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.70574, -96.69120 · 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
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
12,963 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
00.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
00.0%
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 12,963 ft.

Completions filed
May 1999
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-05133572112,963 ftMay 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 (54)

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

54 months

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 2002200024.663.58$4,932
Apr 200218122723.653.51$5,078
Mar 200254346822.003.10$13,398
Feb 200273137918.222.38$14,219
Jan 200254630917.172.38$10,109
Dec 200154326716.932.36$9,824
Nov 200191063318.072.41$17,966
Oct 200118619219.782.53$4,165
Sep 200154231524.262.25$13,858
Aug 200172744724.873.05$19,445
Jul 200154543423.933.20$14,429
Jun 200172459424.563.82$20,053
May 200188665325.524.31$25,423
Apr 200172557924.685.34$20,982
Mar 200191065124.545.38$25,831
Feb 200191267527.755.77$29,201
Jan 200172237627.478.40$22,991
Dec 200090371126.889.12$30,759
Nov 20001,07592032.215.66$39,831
Oct 20001,44882831.235.15$49,482
Sep 20001,80973331.875.19$61,455
Aug 200036220129.644.54$11,642
Jul 20001,25438428.534.09$37,347
Jun 20001,4421,65929.304.40$49,546
May 20002,1451,26127.263.68$63,113
Apr 200071839924.513.12$18,841
Mar 20001,26183328.422.86$38,220
Feb 20001,9631,62727.622.73$58,654
Jan 20001,9621,27425.272.48$52,740
Dec 19993,4031,63824.282.42$86,595
Nov 19991,8021,44123.192.43$45,296
Oct 19992,1353,82820.982.80$55,525
Sep 19992,8233,63021.752.62$70,907
Aug 19993,7944,34719.262.88$85,573
Jul 19995,7902,62517.892.37$109,811
Jun 19992,8265,22115.942.36$57,379
May 19994,0553,37915.792.32$71,871
Apr 19991,0702,10515.102.21$20,805
Mar 19991,4241,82512.471.84$21,112
Feb 19996861,5499.981.82$9,662
Jan 19991,0691,93010.381.90$14,763
Dec 19981,2452,0049.201.77$15,008
Nov 19981,2592,11810.892.19$18,340
Oct 19983,8556,68912.421.97$61,051
Sep 199810,10514,76312.592.08$157,968
Aug 19988,6238,54611.301.91$113,740
Jul 199818,45012,90911.742.24$245,484
Jun 199824,11011,57311.242.24$296,888
May 19986,2928612.622.21$79,595

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.

May 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  200 bbl  × $ 24.66 =     $4,932
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.58 =         $0

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Month total                                   $4,932

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/23516 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.