KEITH & DOWLEN

Name: KEITH & DOWLEN lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

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 303District 03Field 06532001NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$5.8 M

Jan 1993 – May 2004

Value, last 12 filed months

$283 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

137

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The BEAUMONT, WEST field

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.

Programme	Filings	With an approval date	Dated	Docket
NGPA	7	none	—	—

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Oil	Disposition	278,857 bbl	$5,413,562
Casinghead gas	Production	464,473 Mcf	$346,636
Total			$5,760,198

343,753 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 45 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 (30)

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 30.0992, -94.1742. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.7 miles.

30.09857, -94.17444 · centre of the wells drawn, derived⌘ or Ctrl + scroll to zoom

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%

30 of 30 wells

With a plug date

90.0%

27 of 30 wells

Median depth

6,130 ft

28 wells filed one

Completion to plug

7.0 years

median over 21 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

30100.0%

A plug date is filed

2790.0%

BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.

2790.0%

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

Total depth in feet, 28 of 30 wells. Median 6,130 ft, with the middle half between 5,828 and 7,591 ft; the shallowest is 5,373 ft and the deepest 8,903 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

Last completion by decade, 22 of 30 wells, Apr 1961 – Feb 2015. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed

Apr 1961 – Feb 2015

22 of 30 wells; 8 filed none

Plug dates filed

Feb 1980 – Mar 2017

27 of 30 wells; 3 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 7.0 years across the 21 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 3.8 years and 12.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

30 wells


42-24500263	8	5,925 ft	—	Feb 1980	Yes
42-24500265	10	—	—	—	Yes
42-24500267	12	—	—	—	Yes
42-24500268	13	5,381 ft	—	Aug 1989	Yes
42-24500270	15	5,392 ft	—	Aug 1989	Yes
42-24500271	16	6,000 ft	—	Nov 1993	Yes
42-24500272	17	7,700 ft	—	Mar 2017	Yes
42-24500274	19	5,977 ft	—	Aug 1989	Yes
42-24500276	21	6,130 ft	Feb 2015	Feb 2017	Yes
42-24531930	35	7,650 ft	Feb 2015	Mar 2017	Yes
42-24531231	28	6,200 ft	Jan 2010	Jan 2017	Yes
42-24531226	27	6,200 ft	Sep 2009	Feb 2017	Yes
42-24532156	39	8,136 ft	Jul 2009	Feb 2017	Yes
42-24532133	38	7,571 ft	Jun 2009	Feb 2017	Yes
42-24503366	24	8,610 ft	Mar 2009	Feb 2017	Yes
42-24531832	33	6,110 ft	Aug 2004	Feb 2017	Yes
42-24500258	3	5,382 ft	Mar 2001	Feb 2017	Yes
42-24532121	37	7,823 ft	Mar 2001	Feb 2017	Yes
42-24531646	31	5,500 ft	Jul 1998	Dec 2003	Yes
42-24531617	30	5,535 ft	Jul 1998	Feb 2017	Yes
42-24530339	26	7,804 ft	Feb 1998	Feb 2000	Yes
42-24531929	34	6,161 ft	Aug 1997	Feb 2017	Yes
42-24500275	20	6,130 ft	Jun 1995	Feb 2000	Yes
42-24530012	25	6,130 ft	Dec 1993	Nov 1995	Yes
42-24503026	23	6,130 ft	Oct 1988	Nov 1993	Yes
42-24503025	22 L	6,112 ft	May 1987	Nov 1993	Yes
42-24581484	5	5,373 ft	Mar 1986	Sep 1989	Yes
42-24500266	11	5,415 ft	Feb 1980	Dec 1983	Yes
42-24500269	14 T	8,903 ft	Mar 1964	—	Yes
42-24500273	18	5,950 ft	Apr 1961	Oct 1995	Yes

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 (137)

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

137 months


May 2004	0	0	37.48	6.49	$0
Apr 2004	0	0	34.47	5.86	$0
Mar 2004	0	0	34.36	5.53	$0
Feb 2004	0	0	32.45	5.51	$0
Jan 2004	1,338	0	32.03	6.30	$42,856
Dec 2003	1,258	0	30.26	6.30	$38,067
Nov 2003	1,033	0	28.80	4.60	$29,750
Oct 2003	1,218	0	28.17	4.76	$34,311
Sep 2003	1,206	0	26.31	4.75	$31,730
Aug 2003	1,038	0	29.76	5.13	$30,891
Jul 2003	1,300	0	29.41	5.17	$38,233
Jun 2003	1,317	0	28.56	5.98	$37,614
May 2003	1,106	0	26.59	5.97	$29,409
Apr 2003	1,259	0	26.67	5.41	$33,578
Mar 2003	1,448	0	31.14	6.10	$45,091
Feb 2003	1,246	0	33.48	7.93	$41,716
Jan 2003	1,444	0	30.31	5.58	$43,768
Dec 2002	1,337	0	26.91	4.85	$35,979
Nov 2002	1,448	0	24.66	4.14	$35,708
Oct 2002	1,351	0	26.46	4.23	$35,747
Sep 2002	1,322	0	27.44	3.64	$36,276
Aug 2002	1,407	0	25.96	3.16	$36,526
Jul 2002	1,346	7	24.58	3.06	$33,106
Jun 2002	1,726	0	23.73	3.34	$40,958
May 2002	1,346	0	24.66	3.58	$33,192
Apr 2002	1,562	0	23.65	3.51	$36,941
Mar 2002	1,710	0	22.00	3.10	$37,620
Feb 2002	1,455	0	18.22	2.38	$26,510
Jan 2002	1,548	17	17.17	2.38	$26,620
Dec 2001	1,912	0	16.93	2.36	$32,370
Nov 2001	1,608	0	18.07	2.41	$29,057
Oct 2001	1,504	0	19.78	2.53	$29,749
Sep 2001	1,288	0	24.26	2.25	$31,247
Aug 2001	1,665	0	24.87	3.05	$41,409
Jul 2001	1,906	0	23.93	3.20	$45,611
Jun 2001	1,965	0	24.56	3.82	$48,260
May 2001	1,860	0	25.52	4.31	$47,467
Apr 2001	1,824	0	24.68	5.34	$45,016
Mar 2001	2,409	0	24.54	5.38	$59,117
Feb 2001	1,827	0	27.75	5.77	$50,699
Jan 2001	1,982	0	27.47	8.40	$54,446
Dec 2000	1,998	0	26.88	9.12	$53,706
Nov 2000	1,523	0	32.21	5.66	$49,056
Oct 2000	1,775	0	31.23	5.15	$55,433
Sep 2000	1,511	0	31.87	5.19	$48,156
Aug 2000	1,047	7,472	29.64	4.54	$64,962
Jul 2000	1,826	4,807	28.53	4.09	$71,755
Jun 2000	1,909	1,513	29.30	4.40	$62,587
May 2000	2,293	689	27.26	3.68	$65,043
Apr 2000	2,086	2,966	24.51	3.12	$60,370
Mar 2000	2,671	2,236	28.42	2.86	$82,304
Feb 2000	1,733	2,409	27.62	2.73	$54,434
Jan 2000	2,122	1,547	25.27	2.48	$57,460
Dec 1999	1,913	2,708	24.28	2.42	$53,011
Nov 1999	1,976	2,919	23.19	2.43	$52,928
Oct 1999	2,171	3,563	20.98	2.80	$55,537
Sep 1999	1,942	4,499	21.75	2.62	$54,021
Aug 1999	2,179	3,418	19.26	2.88	$51,796
Jul 1999	1,699	4,202	17.89	2.37	$40,364
Jun 1999	1,456	3,712	15.94	2.36	$31,977
May 1999	1,975	1,836	15.79	2.32	$35,447
Apr 1999	1,438	2,002	15.10	2.21	$26,134
Mar 1999	1,731	0	12.47	1.84	$21,586
Feb 1999	1,779	0	9.98	1.82	$17,754
Jan 1999	2,506	0	10.38	1.90	$26,012
Dec 1998	2,545	0	9.20	1.77	$23,414
Nov 1998	2,384	0	10.89	2.19	$25,962
Oct 1998	2,667	0	12.42	1.97	$33,124
Sep 1998	1,359	3,047	12.59	2.08	$23,456
Aug 1998	1,200	0	11.30	1.91	$13,560
Jul 1998	1,143	0	11.74	2.24	$13,419
Jun 1998	1,019	17,502	11.24	2.24	$50,610
May 1998	1,299	6,110	12.62	2.21	$29,874
Apr 1998	1,528	12,788	13.04	2.51	$51,963
Mar 1998	1,496	0	12.80	2.31	$19,149
Feb 1998	1,352	0	13.95	2.30	$18,860
Jan 1998	1,772	3,398	14.70	2.15	$33,370
Dec 1997	1,304	0	16.32	2.41	$21,281
Nov 1997	1,669	0	18.19	3.09	$30,359
Oct 1997	1,372	1,095	19.25	3.15	$29,860
Sep 1997	1,429	1,011	17.74	2.95	$28,338
Aug 1997	1,572	1,050	17.86	2.55	$30,758
Jul 1997	1,473	746	17.58	2.25	$27,572
Jun 1997	2,998	0	17.24	2.26	$51,686
May 1997	3,096	0	18.97	2.31	$58,731
Apr 1997	3,044	0	17.88	2.08	$54,427
Mar 1997	2,857	0	18.95	1.94	$54,140
Feb 1997	2,897	0	20.49	2.21	$59,360
Jan 1997	3,163	21,451	23.48	3.54	$150,197
Dec 1996	3,201	15,200	23.32	—	$74,647
Nov 1996	2,648	12,009	21.97	—	$58,177
Oct 1996	2,572	7,540	23.31	—	$59,953
Sep 1996	1,839	16,639	22.22	—	$40,863
Aug 1996	2,340	21,637	20.26	—	$47,408
Jul 1996	2,864	11,221	19.55	—	$55,991
Jun 1996	3,003	7,555	18.73	—	$56,246
May 1996	3,378	5,195	19.43	—	$65,635
Apr 1996	3,530	4,817	21.51	—	$75,930
Mar 1996	3,217	0	19.38	—	$62,345
Feb 1996	3,422	9,320	16.98	—	$58,106
Jan 1996	3,289	18,342	17.07	—	$56,143
Dec 1995	3,112	13,274	17.19	—	$53,495
Nov 1995	3,908	13,509	16.00	—	$62,528
Oct 1995	3,857	7,245	15.43	—	$59,514
Sep 1995	4,287	7,106	16.18	—	$69,364
Aug 1995	3,749	10,605	15.92	—	$59,684
Jul 1995	3,742	3,702	15.24	—	$57,028
Jun 1995	2,448	0	16.41	—	$40,172
May 1995	2,685	0	17.56	—	$47,149
Apr 1995	2,269	1,884	17.73	—	$40,229
Mar 1995	2,101	8,578	16.44	—	$34,540
Feb 1995	2,300	5,615	16.58	—	$38,134
Jan 1995	2,450	6,667	15.92	—	$39,004
Dec 1994	2,838	8,344	15.03	—	$42,655
Nov 1994	2,711	7,011	15.90	—	$43,105
Oct 1994	3,179	1,366	15.58	—	$49,529
Sep 1994	3,007	109	15.29	—	$45,977
Aug 1994	2,123	6,923	16.13	—	$34,244
Jul 1994	1,925	8,975	17.56	—	$33,803
Jun 1994	2,409	6,463	17.09	—	$41,170
May 1994	2,070	3,594	15.88	—	$32,872
Apr 1994	1,860	10,118	14.14	—	$26,300
Mar 1994	2,100	9,623	12.46	—	$26,166
Feb 1994	2,171	6,279	12.50	—	$27,138
Jan 1994	2,931	6,232	12.66	—	$37,106
Dec 1993	2,926	1,760	12.33	—	$36,078
Nov 1993	1,965	1	14.49	—	$28,473
Oct 1993	2,931	1,227	15.85	—	$46,456
Sep 1993	5,659	1,995	15.03	—	$85,055
Aug 1993	1,927	2,427	15.66	—	$30,177
Jul 1993	2,229	6,042	15.46	—	$34,460
Jun 1993	2,305	8,567	16.79	—	$38,701
May 1993	2,932	11,124	17.68	—	$51,838
Apr 1993	1,729	11,180	18.05	—	$31,208
Mar 1993	1,713	5,648	18.14	—	$31,074
Feb 1993	1,654	4,968	17.90	—	$29,607
Jan 1993	1,936	6,117	16.93	—	$32,776

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.

Jan 2004 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                1,338 bbl  × $ 32.03 =    $42,856
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  6.30 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                  $42,856

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/303 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.