NELSON, C. C.

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

Operated by ATLAS OIL & GAS EXPLORATION, LLC (P-5 36581) in the SUGARLAND field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 4063District 03Field 86980001Hydrogen sulphide fieldNGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$4.8 M

Jan 1993 – Apr 2002

Value, last 12 filed months

$142 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

112

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The SUGARLAND 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 13 leases and 118 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1928-12-31

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

0 ft

minimum

From a lease line

0 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 0 acres.

The register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “THIS IS A PIERCEMENT TYPE SALT DOME.”

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	8	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	251,182 bbl	$4,465,465
Casinghead gas	Production	465,926 Mcf	$354,496
Total			$4,819,962

332,527 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 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 (27)

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 29.6013, -95.6008. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 99.4 miles, so treat it as the lease's centre and not as its location. 1 well has no surveyed location and is left out of it.

30.26193, -95.85740 · centre of 26 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

96.3%

26 of 27 wells

With a plug date

88.9%

24 of 27 wells

Median depth

3,689 ft

26 wells filed one

Completion to plug

13.6 years

median over 19 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

2696.3%

A plug date is filed

2488.9%

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

2488.9%

NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.

13.7%

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, 26 of 27 wells. Median 3,689 ft, with the middle half between 3,624 and 3,780 ft; the shallowest is 3,330 ft and the deepest 8,319 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, 21 of 27 wells, Feb 1980 – Sep 2013. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed

Feb 1980 – Sep 2013

21 of 27 wells; 6 filed none

Plug dates filed

Jul 1982 – Dec 2001

24 of 27 wells; 3 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 13.6 years across the 19 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 11.7 years and 15.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

27 wells


42-15700768	2	3,672 ft	—	Feb 2000	Yes
42-15700776	10	3,650 ft	—	Dec 1991	Yes
42-15700778	12	3,690 ft	—	Jul 1982	Yes
42-15702949	16AD	3,330 ft	—	Nov 2001	Yes
42-15730062	18	3,615 ft	—	Oct 2001	Yes
42-15780368	6I	—	—	—	Yes
42-31331014	1H	8,319 ft	Sep 2013	—	—
42-15730296	21	3,688 ft	Aug 1992	May 2001	Yes
42-15731794	32	3,600 ft	Jun 1991	Dec 2001	Yes
42-15730036	17	3,827 ft	Oct 1989	Oct 2001	Yes
42-15731784	31	3,700 ft	Nov 1988	Nov 2001	Yes
42-15700780	14	3,655 ft	Jul 1988	Jul 2001	Yes
42-15700770	4	3,761 ft	Apr 1988	Feb 2000	Yes
42-15730331	23	3,712 ft	Apr 1988	Nov 2001	Yes
42-15731012	24	3,743 ft	Feb 1987	Sep 2000	Yes
42-15730171	20	3,786 ft	Jun 1986	Sep 2000	Yes
42-15700777	11	3,556 ft	Mar 1986	Jul 2001	Yes
42-15731585	29	3,675 ft	Nov 1985	Nov 2001	Yes
42-15700771	5	3,830 ft	Oct 1985	Aug 2000	Yes
42-15730080	19	3,788 ft	May 1985	Aug 2000	Yes
42-15731458	28	3,577 ft	Apr 1985	Aug 2001	Yes
42-15700769	3	3,679 ft	Jan 1985	Feb 2000	Yes
42-15731215	26	3,561 ft	Dec 1984	Oct 1991	Yes
42-15700772	6	3,852 ft	May 1982	Aug 1987	Yes
42-15731216	27	3,600 ft	Dec 1981	Nov 2001	Yes
42-15700779	13	3,710 ft	Nov 1981	—	Yes
42-15731013	25	3,820 ft	Feb 1980	Aug 1991	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 (112)

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

112 months


Apr 2002	0	0	23.65	3.51	$0
Mar 2002	0	0	22.00	3.10	$0
Feb 2002	0	0	18.22	2.38	$0
Jan 2002	0	0	17.17	2.38	$0
Dec 2001	62	0	16.93	2.36	$1,050
Nov 2001	179	19	18.07	2.41	$3,280
Oct 2001	852	105	19.78	2.53	$17,118
Sep 2001	758	91	24.26	2.25	$18,594
Aug 2001	977	120	24.87	3.05	$24,664
Jul 2001	1,215	134	23.93	3.20	$29,503
Jun 2001	837	108	24.56	3.82	$20,970
May 2001	1,038	110	25.52	4.31	$26,964
Apr 2001	1,313	302	24.68	5.34	$34,016
Mar 2001	1,252	1,629	24.54	5.38	$39,482
Feb 2001	599	66	27.75	5.77	$17,003
Jan 2001	712	2,577	27.47	8.40	$41,202
Dec 2000	1,501	0	26.88	9.12	$40,347
Nov 2000	1,918	0	32.21	5.66	$61,779
Oct 2000	1,767	0	31.23	5.15	$55,183
Sep 2000	1,558	330	31.87	5.19	$51,365
Aug 2000	1,036	523	29.64	4.54	$33,082
Jul 2000	1,091	630	28.53	4.09	$33,703
Jun 2000	1,389	560	29.30	4.40	$43,160
May 2000	1,352	582	27.26	3.68	$38,997
Apr 2000	993	118	24.51	3.12	$24,706
Mar 2000	1,213	655	28.42	2.86	$36,347
Feb 2000	807	65	27.62	2.73	$22,467
Jan 2000	2,377	62	25.27	2.48	$60,221
Dec 1999	2,689	56	24.28	2.42	$65,425
Nov 1999	1,226	509	23.19	2.43	$29,670
Oct 1999	1,921	376	20.98	2.80	$41,357
Sep 1999	1,396	98	21.75	2.62	$30,620
Aug 1999	159	562	19.26	2.88	$4,678
Jul 1999	125	11	17.89	2.37	$2,262
Jun 1999	214	1,569	15.94	2.36	$7,117
May 1999	241	1,731	15.79	2.32	$7,823
Apr 1999	434	1,601	15.10	2.21	$10,088
Mar 1999	700	1,397	12.47	1.84	$11,297
Feb 1999	1,496	1,393	9.98	1.82	$17,462
Jan 1999	1,659	1,539	10.38	1.90	$20,144
Dec 1998	1,190	990	9.20	1.77	$12,704
Nov 1998	994	1,296	10.89	2.19	$13,657
Oct 1998	940	1,519	12.42	1.97	$14,666
Sep 1998	908	1,526	12.59	2.08	$14,610
Aug 1998	780	1,409	11.30	1.91	$11,501
Jul 1998	594	1,418	11.74	2.24	$10,146
Jun 1998	114	0	11.24	2.24	$1,281
May 1998	821	1,214	12.62	2.21	$13,040
Apr 1998	601	894	13.04	2.51	$10,077
Mar 1998	1,081	5,508	12.80	2.31	$26,557
Feb 1998	796	4,070	13.95	2.30	$20,462
Jan 1998	1,010	5,282	14.70	2.15	$26,229
Dec 1997	989	6,499	16.32	2.41	$31,810
Nov 1997	1,316	5,858	18.19	3.09	$42,029
Oct 1997	1,264	6,159	19.25	3.15	$43,732
Sep 1997	1,591	4,014	17.74	2.95	$40,085
Aug 1997	1,765	4,928	17.86	2.55	$44,113
Jul 1997	1,543	7,441	17.58	2.25	$43,845
Jun 1997	1,984	6,835	17.24	2.26	$49,632
May 1997	2,228	8,078	18.97	2.31	$60,913
Apr 1997	2,205	8,652	17.88	2.08	$57,446
Mar 1997	2,381	9,071	18.95	1.94	$62,710
Feb 1997	1,916	8,457	20.49	2.21	$57,914
Jan 1997	2,775	12,653	23.48	3.54	$109,945
Dec 1996	3,051	11,741	23.32	—	$71,149
Nov 1996	2,899	7,558	21.97	—	$63,691
Oct 1996	2,530	5,538	23.31	—	$58,974
Sep 1996	2,722	4,904	22.22	—	$60,483
Aug 1996	2,952	4,637	20.26	—	$59,808
Jul 1996	2,256	4,003	19.55	—	$44,105
Jun 1996	2,505	4,061	18.73	—	$46,919
May 1996	2,502	2,360	19.43	—	$48,614
Apr 1996	2,067	2,027	21.51	—	$44,461
Mar 1996	1,528	3,813	19.38	—	$29,613
Feb 1996	2,279	6,899	16.98	—	$38,697
Jan 1996	2,668	4,861	17.07	—	$45,543
Dec 1995	2,137	3,826	17.19	—	$36,735
Nov 1995	2,945	4,223	16.00	—	$47,120
Oct 1995	3,312	3,896	15.43	—	$51,104
Sep 1995	3,250	2,406	16.18	—	$52,585
Aug 1995	4,901	7,427	15.92	—	$78,024
Jul 1995	4,454	6,864	15.24	—	$67,879
Jun 1995	5,000	5,051	16.41	—	$82,050
May 1995	4,940	5,082	17.56	—	$86,746
Apr 1995	4,429	4,151	17.73	—	$78,526
Mar 1995	4,793	10,396	16.44	—	$78,797
Feb 1995	3,732	7,225	16.58	—	$61,877
Jan 1995	5,207	7,288	15.92	—	$82,895
Dec 1994	6,223	4,125	15.03	—	$93,532
Nov 1994	4,320	6,186	15.90	—	$68,688
Oct 1994	2,303	10,313	15.58	—	$35,881
Sep 1994	3,114	10,298	15.29	—	$47,613
Aug 1994	4,428	12,256	16.13	—	$71,424
Jul 1994	4,195	12,533	17.56	—	$73,664
Jun 1994	3,562	10,982	17.09	—	$60,875
May 1994	2,023	4,393	15.88	—	$32,125
Apr 1994	5,966	8,608	14.14	—	$84,359
Mar 1994	5,497	8,524	12.46	—	$68,493
Feb 1994	2,755	4,710	12.50	—	$34,438
Jan 1994	4,559	6,937	12.66	—	$57,717
Dec 1993	3,054	5,326	12.33	—	$37,656
Nov 1993	5,932	4,832	14.49	—	$85,955
Oct 1993	5,833	6,957	15.85	—	$92,453
Sep 1993	5,993	8,145	15.03	—	$90,075
Aug 1993	6,062	8,386	15.66	—	$94,931
Jul 1993	6,455	8,444	15.46	—	$99,794
Jun 1993	4,937	12,897	16.79	—	$82,892
May 1993	2,397	18,012	17.68	—	$42,379
Apr 1993	2,492	8,751	18.05	—	$44,981
Mar 1993	2,869	9,336	18.14	—	$52,044
Feb 1993	2,565	4,614	17.90	—	$45,914
Jan 1993	3,747	6,725	16.93	—	$63,437

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 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   62 bbl  × $ 16.93 =     $1,050
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.36 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,050

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/4063 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.