DILLON, DON ET AL

Operated by APACHE CORPORATION (P-5 27200) 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 23642District 03Field 34733600OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$885 k
Jan 1999 – May 2008
Value, last 12 filed months
$393 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
113
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
OilDisposition13,394 bbl$603,412
Casinghead gasProduction59,183 Mcf$281,337
Total$884,748

Wells on this lease (2)

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 30.6059, -96.5564. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.2 miles.

30.60585, -96.55639 · 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%
2 of 2 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
2 of 2 wells
Median depth
8,128 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
7.1 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
2100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
2100.0%
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

Between 8,055 and 8,200 ft, median 8,128 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Feb 2008
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Mar 2015
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 7.1 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 7.1 years and 7.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-0513143118,200 ftFeb 2008Mar 2015Yes
42-0513177828,055 ftFeb 2008Mar 2015Yes

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 (113)

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

113 months

May 200800123.1711.57$0
Apr 200800110.3110.45$0
Mar 2008480101.909.66$4,891
Feb 200831011392.538.77$29,675
Jan 20085291,30090.388.21$58,478
Dec 20075471,30488.337.30$57,838
Nov 20071881,50691.677.29$28,215
Oct 20073921,15482.856.92$40,465
Sep 20073861,22775.846.24$36,936
Aug 20073961,94769.066.39$39,785
Jul 20076431,59870.906.39$55,797
Jun 20074461,81262.007.55$41,330
May 20076221,27358.747.85$46,525
Apr 20076281,71159.617.81$50,790
Mar 20077501,90356.927.30$56,586
Feb 200735885155.108.22$26,718
Jan 200702350.306.73$155
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 20045042.375.55$212
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 200303430.266.30$214
Nov 200303528.804.60$161
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20031111826.314.75$850
Aug 20032212229.765.13$1,281
Jul 2003013329.415.17$688
Jun 2003010028.565.98$598
May 2003013526.595.97$806
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 20020125.963.16$3
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20025022.003.10$110
Feb 20021412818.222.38$559
Jan 20023342417.172.38$1,574
Dec 20013350116.932.36$1,743
Nov 20012640018.072.41$1,432
Oct 20013566119.782.53$2,364
Sep 20013028724.262.25$1,374
Aug 20012856424.873.05$2,418
Jul 20012558823.933.20$2,478
Jun 2001650924.563.82$2,094
May 20011510025.524.31$814
Apr 20013518524.685.34$1,851
Mar 200112773624.545.38$7,074
Feb 20011551,18327.755.77$11,124
Jan 200120297627.478.40$13,746
Dec 20001051,22326.889.12$13,979
Nov 20001591,42732.215.66$13,195
Oct 20001671,69731.235.15$13,947
Sep 20002181,63331.875.19$15,417
Aug 20002221,93429.644.54$15,362
Jul 2000561,23128.534.09$6,632
Jun 20001141,41729.304.40$9,571
May 20002171,76427.263.68$12,407
Apr 20003281,67524.513.12$13,259
Mar 20001031,76928.422.86$7,986
Feb 20002101,65127.622.73$10,302
Jan 20002361,87725.272.48$10,620
Dec 19993801,57624.282.42$13,046
Nov 19992301,45923.192.43$8,885
Oct 19994461,58720.982.80$13,807
Sep 19994501,45621.752.62$13,601
Aug 19993761,52819.262.88$11,636
Jul 19994461,57917.892.37$11,725
Jun 19994461,18215.942.36$9,901
May 19994771,71815.792.32$11,519
Apr 19996741,39515.102.21$13,258
Mar 199928476312.471.84$4,944
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0

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 2008 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   48 bbl  × $101.90 =     $4,891
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  9.66 =         $0

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Month total                                   $4,891

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/23642 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.