HALL, JOHN W.

Operated by HILCORP ENERGY COMPANY (P-5 386310) in the BEAUMONT, WEST field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 299District 03Field 06532001NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.2 M
Jan 1993 – Mar 2004
Value, last 12 filed months
$64 k
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 15 leases and 79 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1936-12-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 0 acres. The field rule took effect on 2001-10-23.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: CONSOLIDATED INTO BEAUMONT, WEST (CONSOLIDATED)

Severance-tax incentive filings

Applications the operator filed to have this lease's gas taxed at a reduced state rate. A filing is an application, and this page never calls one a reduction that was granted.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
NGPA1none

This says nothing about a royalty. A severance tax is charged to the operator. Whether a reduced rate reaches a royalty owner depends on the wording of the lease instrument, which is a private contract this site does not hold.

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
OilDisposition53,678 bbl$1,026,083
Casinghead gasProduction91,278 Mcf$148,709
Total$1,174,791

30,162 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 34 months, carries no value here. No free Texas wellhead gas price exists before 1997, so those months are left out of the total rather than valued at zero. The total above is therefore a floor, not an estimate.

Wells on this lease (3)

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 30.0903, -94.1839. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.1 miles.

30.09013, -94.18406 · 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%
3 of 3 wells
With a plug date
66.7%
2 of 3 wells
Median depth
5,726 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
6.1 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
3100.0%
A plug date is filed
266.7%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
266.7%
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 5,381 and 6,070 ft, median 5,726 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jan 2011
1 of 3 wells; 2 filed none
Plug dates filed
Sep 1993 – Feb 2017
2 of 3 wells; 1 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 6.1 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 6.1 years and 6.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells

42-245002972Yes
42-2450030055,381 ftSep 1993Yes
42-2453171176,070 ftJan 2011Feb 2017Yes

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

Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 200334030.266.30$1,029
Nov 2003144028.804.60$4,147
Oct 2003316028.174.76$8,902
Sep 2003311026.314.75$8,182
Aug 2003270029.765.13$8,035
Jul 2003333029.415.17$9,794
Jun 2003337028.565.98$9,625
May 2003269026.595.97$7,153
Apr 2003263026.675.41$7,014
Mar 2003305031.146.10$9,498
Feb 2003257033.487.93$8,604
Jan 2003300030.315.58$9,093
Dec 2002280026.914.85$7,535
Nov 2002298024.664.14$7,349
Oct 2002277026.464.23$7,329
Sep 2002273027.443.64$7,491
Aug 2002293025.963.16$7,606
Jul 2002275024.583.06$6,760
Jun 2002360023.733.34$8,543
May 2002279024.663.58$6,880
Apr 2002311023.653.51$7,355
Mar 2002344022.003.10$7,568
Feb 2002291018.222.38$5,302
Jan 2002315017.172.38$5,409
Dec 2001372016.932.36$6,298
Nov 2001316018.072.41$5,710
Oct 2001266019.782.53$5,261
Sep 2001229024.262.25$5,556
Aug 2001303024.873.05$7,536
Jul 2001371023.933.20$8,878
Jun 2001383024.563.82$9,406
May 2001342025.524.31$8,728
Apr 2001336024.685.34$8,292
Mar 2001405024.545.38$9,939
Feb 2001353027.755.77$9,796
Jan 2001404027.478.40$11,098
Dec 2000401026.889.12$10,779
Nov 2000329032.215.66$10,597
Oct 2000391031.235.15$12,211
Sep 2000386031.875.19$12,302
Aug 20003062,69129.644.54$21,289
Jul 200032270328.534.09$12,062
Jun 200033054629.304.40$12,070
May 200032616527.263.68$9,494
Apr 20003201,99524.513.12$14,060
Mar 20003141,76628.422.86$13,974
Feb 20002911,69227.622.73$12,651
Jan 200033688625.272.48$10,688
Dec 19992681,37724.282.42$9,845
Nov 19992771,36423.192.43$9,744
Oct 19993251,67220.982.80$11,506
Sep 19993871,93321.752.62$13,479
Aug 19994501,90919.262.88$14,157
Jul 19994721,88617.892.37$12,918
Jun 19994021,84715.942.36$10,771
May 19995481,34415.792.32$11,772
Apr 19994461,60315.102.21$10,274
Mar 19994652,10412.471.84$9,666
Feb 19994505,9149.981.82$15,241
Jan 1999607010.381.90$6,301
Dec 199844309.201.77$4,076
Nov 19984151,50710.892.19$7,813
Oct 19985338,42712.421.97$23,214
Sep 1998764012.592.08$9,619
Aug 1998600011.301.91$6,780
Jul 1998571011.742.24$6,704
Jun 19984908,98111.242.24$25,601
May 19985153,13212.622.21$13,410
Apr 1998605013.042.51$7,889
Mar 199859330012.802.31$8,283
Feb 199851725213.952.30$7,792
Jan 199850331014.702.15$8,062
Dec 19973705016.322.41$6,159
Nov 199747610018.193.09$8,967
Oct 199744030019.253.15$9,415
Sep 199745830017.742.95$9,011
Aug 199750430017.862.55$9,768
Jul 199747231017.582.25$8,994
Jun 199767147317.242.26$12,636
May 1997511018.972.31$9,694
Apr 1997502017.882.08$8,976
Mar 199747283918.951.94$10,571
Feb 19974781,72520.492.21$13,599
Jan 199752241323.483.54$13,718
Dec 19966112523.32$14,249
Nov 19964371721.97$9,601
Oct 19964241823.31$9,883
Sep 1996304022.22$6,755
Aug 1996386020.26$7,820
Jul 1996474019.55$9,267
Jun 1996496018.73$9,290
May 1996437019.43$8,491
Apr 1996455021.51$9,787
Mar 1996415019.38$8,043
Feb 199644533016.98$7,556
Jan 199649245017.07$8,398
Dec 1995441017.19$7,581
Nov 1995536016.00$8,576
Oct 1995587015.43$9,057
Sep 1995587016.18$9,498
Aug 1995512015.92$8,151
Jul 1995546015.24$8,321
Jun 1995363016.41$5,957
May 19954931017.56$8,657
Apr 199550527517.73$8,954
Mar 199543523316.44$7,151
Feb 199546927616.58$7,776
Jan 199544630715.92$7,100
Dec 199442129015.03$6,328
Nov 199439029415.90$6,201
Oct 199442030115.58$6,544
Sep 199441429515.29$6,330
Aug 199440728716.13$6,565
Jul 199439924117.56$7,006
Jun 199451224117.09$8,750
May 199441862015.88$6,638
Apr 199438259014.14$5,401
Mar 199439761512.46$4,947
Feb 199436653112.50$4,575
Jan 199439463412.66$4,988
Dec 199331759412.33$3,909
Nov 19933812,44714.49$5,521
Oct 199349559715.85$7,846
Sep 19932201,77915.03$3,307
Aug 199337464515.66$5,857
Jul 199343141615.46$6,663
Jun 199341427016.79$6,951
May 199354118617.68$9,565
Apr 19934666,73418.05$8,411
Mar 19934622,88518.14$8,381
Feb 19934462,87017.90$7,983
Jan 19935263,85916.93$8,905

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.

Dec 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   34 bbl  × $ 30.26 =     $1,029
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  6.30 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,029

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/299 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.