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Operated by U. S. OPERATING, INC. (P-5 875431) 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 23862District 03Field 34733500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$3.7 M
May 2000 – Jul 2009
Value, last 12 filed months
$8 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
111
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
OilDisposition19,508 bbl$752,590
Casinghead gasProduction554,013 Mcf$2,904,794
Total$3,657,384

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 29.9465, -96.8615. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.94652, -96.86151 · 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
11,115 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
3.9 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 11,115 ft.

Completions filed
Jun 2005
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
May 2009
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 3.9 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 3.9 years and 3.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-149319411RE11,115 ftJun 2005May 2009Yes

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 (111)

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

111 months

Jul 20090061.133.46$0
Jun 20090066.163.90$0
May 200914054.743.93$766
Apr 200907846.773.59$280
Mar 200903542.144.06$142
Feb 200904632.814.63$213
Jan 200909035.865.37$483
Dec 2008010137.105.98$604
Nov 2008014655.496.86$1,002
Oct 2008015775.246.92$1,087
Sep 20080164101.767.88$1,292
Aug 20080204114.228.48$1,731
Jul 20080197131.0811.39$2,244
Jun 20080219131.3313.03$2,854
May 20080230123.1711.57$2,662
Apr 20080238110.3110.45$2,488
Mar 20080279101.909.66$2,696
Feb 200811930592.538.77$13,686
Jan 2008025890.388.21$2,117
Dec 2007134588.337.30$2,608
Nov 200718333791.677.29$19,233
Oct 2007033482.856.92$2,312
Sep 2007039975.846.24$2,491
Aug 2007029769.066.39$1,897
Jul 2007153470.906.39$3,482
Jun 200717862862.007.55$15,776
May 2007275858.747.85$6,065
Apr 200731,08359.617.81$8,632
Mar 200718993456.927.30$17,578
Feb 2007314555.108.22$1,357
Jan 2007064150.306.73$4,312
Dec 20061851,58256.656.92$21,425
Nov 20061871,54654.207.62$21,912
Oct 2006224254.906.01$1,565
Sep 2006030360.085.04$1,526
Aug 2006049168.717.34$3,604
Jul 200617951569.376.34$15,684
Jun 2006057466.286.38$3,664
May 2006060866.016.42$3,906
Apr 200618172864.397.36$17,013
Mar 2006095656.707.08$6,771
Feb 20061841,04057.597.75$18,658
Jan 200621,64860.598.93$14,843
Dec 20051872,39354.9413.42$42,377
Nov 20051812,00054.6910.59$31,076
Oct 20053642,53858.3413.80$56,249
Sep 20053723,83961.4512.08$69,231
Aug 20059155,75961.519.80$112,702
Jul 200541,04655.697.84$8,427
Jun 20053,23310,60452.337.38$247,451
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 2005771,01649.207.36$11,267
Mar 20051742,07250.377.15$23,589
Feb 200511,92245.226.31$12,177
Jan 200501,22443.166.32$7,738
Dec 200401,12639.866.75$7,602
Nov 200401,97745.286.33$12,515
Oct 20041842,59649.706.52$26,058
Sep 200411,94443.245.28$10,315
Aug 200401,46842.375.55$8,148
Jul 20041852,00738.286.08$19,293
Jun 200411,97836.106.43$12,761
May 200402,71237.486.49$17,613
Apr 20041812,91134.475.86$23,293
Mar 20041843,06834.365.53$23,289
Feb 200412,66932.455.51$14,738
Jan 20041712,99632.036.30$24,351
Dec 20031813,70230.266.30$28,806
Nov 20031813,94428.804.60$23,336
Oct 200304,05928.174.76$19,319
Sep 20031884,00026.314.75$23,944
Aug 200314,18029.765.13$21,472
Jul 20031844,32429.415.17$27,770
Jun 200314,10128.565.98$24,565
May 20031875,01626.595.97$34,931
Apr 20031964,47726.675.41$29,436
Mar 200362,10631.146.10$13,025
Feb 20031932,25533.487.93$24,335
Jan 200334,11430.315.58$23,055
Dec 20021914,53826.914.85$27,166
Nov 200225,20924.664.14$21,599
Oct 20023838,36326.464.23$45,502
Sep 20021986,83527.443.64$30,280
Aug 20021923,14525.963.16$14,936
Jul 200214,89724.583.06$15,018
Jun 20021905,54823.733.34$23,029
May 200215,68424.663.58$20,396
Apr 20021946,06023.653.51$25,873
Mar 20021956,61122.003.10$24,802
Feb 20021866,14718.222.38$17,992
Jan 20021927,52917.172.38$21,183
Dec 20011878,09216.932.36$22,299
Nov 20011957,72218.072.41$22,099
Oct 20011938,81019.782.53$26,097
Sep 20011929,08424.262.25$25,109
Aug 20011849,99124.873.05$35,080
Jul 200119011,35423.933.20$40,846
Jun 200137511,42924.563.82$52,916
May 200119313,63725.524.31$63,664
Apr 200138714,48624.685.34$86,839
Mar 200137616,56624.545.38$98,293
Feb 200139217,49727.755.77$111,785
Jan 200157723,59127.478.40$213,985
Dec 200056928,48926.889.12$275,186
Nov 20002013,48832.215.66$26,209
Oct 200038114,94131.235.15$88,778
Sep 200055628,00431.875.19$162,962
Aug 200075332,59429.644.54$170,320
Jul 200090039,17628.534.09$185,897
Jun 20001,43256,93829.304.40$292,328
May 20000027.263.68$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.

May 2009 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   14 bbl  × $ 54.74 =       $766
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.93 =         $0

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Month total                                     $766

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/23862 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.