FORREST D STATE UNIT

Operated by EMPIRE TEXAS OPERATING LLC (P-5 100365) in the FORT TRINIDAD, EAST (BUDA) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 26978District 03Field 32157071OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$5.6 M
Mar 2015 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
135
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 310 leases and 403 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1965-04-27
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
933 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 2016-02-23.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: DUE TO COMPUTER RESTRAINTS THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE TOP IS 3499

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
OilDisposition94,628 bbl$4,560,780
Casinghead gasProduction386,803 Mcf$1,080,938
Total$5,641,718

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 31.0345, -95.6637. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

31.03446, -95.66371 · 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
0.0%
0 of 2 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 2 wells
Median depth
9,703 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
00.0%
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.
2100.0%

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 9,665 and 9,740 ft, median 9,703 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Mar 2015 – Jan 2017
2 of 2 wells

2 wells

42-313312358029,740 ftJan 2017
42-313312287019,665 ftMar 2015

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 (135)

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

135 months

May 202600106.413.05$0
Apr 20260098.932.87$0
Mar 20260089.753.15$0
Feb 20260063.503.75$0
Jan 20260059.138.00$0
Dec 20250056.664.41$0
Nov 20250058.593.93$0
Oct 20250059.383.30$0
Sep 20250062.743.08$0
Aug 20250063.933.01$0
Jul 20250066.743.32$0
Jun 20250066.483.13$0
May 2025195060.553.23$11,807
Apr 202536350362.363.54$24,419
Mar 2025310067.704.27$20,987
Feb 2025015470.884.34$668
Jan 20250074.324.28$0
Dec 20240068.993.12$0
Nov 20240069.052.20$0
Oct 20240071.372.28$0
Sep 20240069.612.36$0
Aug 20240075.632.06$0
Jul 20240079.932.15$0
Jun 20240078.082.63$0
May 20240078.812.20$0
Apr 20240084.451.66$0
Mar 20240080.301.55$0
Feb 20240076.091.78$0
Jan 20240073.023.30$0
Dec 20230071.262.61$0
Nov 20230077.892.81$0
Oct 2023167085.443.09$14,268
Sep 2023177089.042.74$15,760
Aug 2023187080.522.67$15,057
Jul 2023195074.852.64$14,596
Jun 2023186068.962.26$12,827
May 20230070.622.23$0
Apr 2023185078.122.24$14,452
Mar 20230072.852.39$0
Feb 20230075.112.47$0
Jan 20230076.533.39$0
Dec 20220076.415.73$0
Nov 20220085.005.65$0
Oct 20220087.185.86$0
Sep 20220084.888.16$0
Aug 20220094.529.13$0
Jul 202200101.587.54$0
Jun 202200115.097.98$0
May 202200109.378.43$0
Apr 202200104.226.84$0
Mar 202200108.885.08$0
Feb 20220091.054.86$0
Jan 20220081.844.54$0
Dec 2021173071.323.90$12,338
Nov 20210077.435.24$0
Oct 20210179.795.71$6
Sep 20210369.865.35$16
Aug 202134811566.024.22$23,460
Jul 202106270.783.98$247
Jun 20211886769.493.38$13,291
May 20210263.483.02$6
Apr 20211852960.362.76$11,247
Mar 20210061.302.72$0
Feb 202102157.805.55$117
Jan 20213373550.412.81$17,087
Dec 20201806244.642.68$8,201
Nov 20201737738.772.71$6,916
Oct 20203328536.972.48$12,485
Sep 202018010437.091.99$6,883
Aug 20203476339.982.39$14,023
Jul 20203605238.371.83$13,908
Jun 202036510734.901.69$12,919
May 202036027716.921.81$6,594
Apr 20205119714.751.80$7,712
Mar 202054120830.341.86$16,800
Feb 20205015949.881.98$25,107
Jan 202035028557.252.09$20,635
Dec 201969861759.012.30$42,611
Nov 201962774055.302.75$36,709
Oct 201998177253.472.42$54,321
Sep 201992698055.052.66$53,580
Aug 20191,2571,66353.112.30$70,591
Jul 20197181,03156.272.46$42,938
Jun 201972680952.782.49$40,334
May 201918164358.482.74$12,347
Apr 20195231,06162.632.75$35,674
Mar 20197231,58256.803.06$45,911
Feb 20197162,34550.852.79$42,956
Jan 20197222,46746.033.23$41,198
Dec 20187272,70746.594.19$45,201
Nov 20181,0494,41152.934.24$74,214
Oct 20183753,65661.443.40$35,463
Sep 20188846,14959.543.11$71,744
Aug 20189516,63159.403.07$76,824
Jul 20183584,54165.142.93$36,634
Jun 20183255,26160.183.08$35,746
May 20187006,48365.382.90$64,572
Apr 20183634,06063.842.90$34,951
Mar 20181631,64961.222.79$14,574
Feb 20180061.782.77$0
Jan 2018132062.874.01$8,299
Dec 20170057.272.92$0
Nov 2017503055.423.12$27,876
Oct 201718039349.292.98$10,045
Sep 20175233,13847.523.09$34,541
Aug 20175072,32145.373.00$29,976
Jul 20175153,07743.873.09$32,093
Jun 20176803,48942.493.09$39,665
May 20178727,49145.373.26$64,009
Apr 20171,0338,74447.933.21$77,594
Mar 20171,7655,56046.772.98$99,138
Feb 20172,2736,69450.452.95$134,438
Jan 20174,44813,94149.413.42$267,437
Dec 201607,49748.763.72$27,910
Nov 2016030142.492.64$796
Oct 201617565446.193.09$10,104
Sep 20161701,97041.553.10$13,172
Aug 201601,36341.442.92$3,986
Jul 20165162,75541.622.92$29,532
Jun 20161,39114,65045.352.69$102,429
May 20161,89417,85442.521.99$116,081
Apr 20161,7609,09036.561.99$82,444
Mar 20161,3737,49733.011.79$58,772
Feb 20162,4909,08426.472.06$84,656
Jan 20161,3864,07627.352.36$47,544
Dec 20153291,86232.362.00$14,373
Nov 20151,9629,22538.792.17$96,100
Oct 20152,62619,67043.552.43$162,093
Sep 20153,24423,10842.992.76$203,201
Aug 20155,72122,81840.162.87$295,300
Jul 20157,87628,21748.152.95$462,331
Jun 20152,2957,94756.152.88$151,774
May 201510,61027,21055.212.96$666,196
Apr 201513,29052,38149.822.71$803,881
Mar 20150042.892.93$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 2025 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  195 bbl  × $ 60.55 =    $11,807
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.23 =         $0

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Month total                                  $11,807

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/26978 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.