COLUMBUS FIELD UNIT

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

Operated by DEVON ENERGY OPERATING CO., L.P. (P-5 216730) in the COLUMBUS field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 784District 03Field 19837001NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$12.5 M

Jan 1993 – May 2002

Value, last 12 filed months

$435 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

113

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The COLUMBUS 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 11 leases and 45 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1944-03-18

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

—

no field rule filed

From a lease line

—

no field rule filed

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “INTO THE COLUMBUS (CONSOLIDATED) FIELD.”

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	2	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	570,791 bbl	$10,498,203
Casinghead gas	Production	833,769 Mcf	$2,025,704
Total			$12,523,907

194,286 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 44 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 (33)

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 29.7533, -96.5697. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.9 miles.

29.75213, -96.56766 · 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%

33 of 33 wells

With a plug date

21.2%

7 of 33 wells

Median depth

10,087 ft

33 wells filed one

Completion to plug

5.6 years

median over 6 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

33100.0%

A plug date is filed

721.2%

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

721.2%

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, 33 of 33 wells. Median 10,087 ft, with the middle half between 9,750 and 10,315 ft; the shallowest is 4,230 ft and the deepest 10,754 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, 32 of 33 wells, Jan 1988 – May 2022. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed

Jan 1988 – May 2022

32 of 33 wells; 1 filed none

Plug dates filed

Oct 1991 – Apr 2014

7 of 33 wells; 26 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 5.6 years across the 6 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 17 months and 11.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

33 wells


42-08900028	42	10,087 ft	—	Aug 2000	Yes
42-08900310	1703 U	9,814 ft	May 2022	—	Yes
42-08931789	1019	9,772 ft	Oct 2021	—	Yes
42-08900060	504	9,767 ft	Sep 2021	—	Yes
42-08900035	1704	10,288 ft	Jan 2020	—	Yes
42-08900037	109 U	9,750 ft	Nov 2019	—	Yes
42-08900056	63 U	10,217 ft	Dec 2018	—	Yes
42-08900055	62 U	10,205 ft	Nov 2018	—	Yes
42-08932042	1023 D	4,230 ft	Nov 2012	—	Yes
42-08900304	108 U	10,267 ft	Jan 2005	—	Yes
42-08900041	104	10,510 ft	Jul 2003	—	Yes
42-08900825	1013 D	10,315 ft	Jul 2003	—	Yes
42-08900810	605 D	9,562 ft	Jun 2003	—	Yes
42-08900805	1014	8,950 ft	Oct 2002	—	Yes
42-08900300	1012 D	10,450 ft	Sep 2001	Apr 2014	Yes
42-08900027	51 U	10,754 ft	Jul 2001	—	Yes
42-08900302	106D	8,330 ft	Nov 1999	Dec 2006	Yes
42-08900063	11 U	9,800 ft	Sep 1999	—	Yes
42-08931810	1021	9,910 ft	Aug 1997	—	Yes
42-08900309	1705	10,286 ft	Aug 1997	—	Yes
42-08900038	105	10,503 ft	Jun 1997	—	Yes
42-08931811	1022	10,400 ft	May 1997	—	Yes
42-08900044	61	9,366 ft	Oct 1996	Sep 2013	Yes
42-08900824	1015 D	10,424 ft	Aug 1996	—	Yes
42-08900073	1102	8,600 ft	May 1996	—	Yes
42-08900039	1002	9,498 ft	Jul 1995	—	Yes
42-08900040	1010 U	10,504 ft	Jul 1993	—	Yes
42-08900036	6	10,500 ft	Sep 1992	—	Yes
42-08900029	41	8,507 ft	Nov 1991	Jan 1992	Yes
42-08900034	1707 L	9,760 ft	Sep 1991	—	Yes
42-08900314	1103 U	10,231 ft	Apr 1991	Oct 1991	Yes
42-08900306	103	9,800 ft	Nov 1989	—	Yes
42-08900303	107 U	10,252 ft	Jan 1988	Jan 1992	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 (113)

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

113 months


May 2002	0	0	24.66	3.58	$0
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	0	0	16.93	2.36	$0
Nov 2001	0	0	18.07	2.41	$0
Oct 2001	0	0	19.78	2.53	$0
Sep 2001	0	0	24.26	2.25	$0
Aug 2001	3,671	13,704	24.87	3.05	$133,138
Jul 2001	3,411	16,835	23.93	3.20	$135,448
Jun 2001	3,728	19,553	24.56	3.82	$166,333
May 2001	3,233	11,446	25.52	4.31	$131,808
Apr 2001	3,188	6,188	24.68	5.34	$111,695
Mar 2001	3,983	8,580	24.54	5.38	$143,873
Feb 2001	3,176	11,310	27.75	5.77	$153,360
Jan 2001	3,514	5,611	27.47	8.40	$143,655
Dec 2000	3,229	8,995	26.88	9.12	$168,852
Nov 2000	3,786	14,302	32.21	5.66	$202,868
Oct 2000	3,848	16,570	31.23	5.15	$205,434
Sep 2000	3,833	15,929	31.87	5.19	$204,773
Aug 2000	3,518	13,842	29.64	4.54	$167,127
Jul 2000	4,380	7,973	28.53	4.09	$157,569
Jun 2000	4,637	12,578	29.30	4.40	$191,173
May 2000	4,988	18,382	27.26	3.68	$203,614
Apr 2000	5,500	15,727	24.51	3.12	$183,810
Mar 2000	5,444	10,821	28.42	2.86	$185,664
Feb 2000	5,125	9,559	27.62	2.73	$167,615
Jan 2000	3,688	19,772	25.27	2.48	$142,240
Dec 1999	2,475	14,832	24.28	2.42	$96,042
Nov 1999	3,087	10,481	23.19	2.43	$97,098
Oct 1999	3,259	10,355	20.98	2.80	$97,406
Sep 1999	3,285	12,482	21.75	2.62	$104,137
Aug 1999	3,875	14,539	19.26	2.88	$116,441
Jul 1999	3,932	14,108	17.89	2.37	$103,813
Jun 1999	3,440	14,013	15.94	2.36	$87,934
May 1999	3,917	12,606	15.79	2.32	$91,108
Apr 1999	2,729	19,121	15.10	2.21	$83,428
Mar 1999	3,700	19,597	12.47	1.84	$82,165
Feb 1999	1,491	3,407	9.98	1.82	$21,073
Jan 1999	4,936	4,867	10.38	1.90	$60,483
Dec 1998	5,030	5,997	9.20	1.77	$56,911
Nov 1998	5,602	9,457	10.89	2.19	$81,676
Oct 1998	7,938	7,429	12.42	1.97	$113,219
Sep 1998	6,760	7,006	12.59	2.08	$99,699
Aug 1998	7,184	10,423	11.30	1.91	$101,060
Jul 1998	6,329	9,177	11.74	2.24	$94,834
Jun 1998	6,243	10,950	11.24	2.24	$94,669
May 1998	6,813	4,202	12.62	2.21	$95,251
Apr 1998	7,163	7,460	13.04	2.51	$112,095
Mar 1998	7,515	13,864	12.80	2.31	$128,210
Feb 1998	7,221	1,626	13.95	2.30	$104,471
Jan 1998	8,961	9,574	14.70	2.15	$152,357
Dec 1997	9,464	12,678	16.32	2.41	$185,020
Nov 1997	9,693	14,708	18.19	3.09	$221,738
Oct 1997	11,096	16,783	19.25	3.15	$266,461
Sep 1997	10,951	12,780	17.74	2.95	$232,034
Aug 1997	7,092	11,256	17.86	2.55	$155,419
Jul 1997	7,016	10,116	17.58	2.25	$146,071
Jun 1997	7,458	6,447	17.24	2.26	$143,128
May 1997	9,147	13,158	18.97	2.31	$203,894
Apr 1997	6,823	12,737	17.88	2.08	$148,524
Mar 1997	7,308	12,225	18.95	1.94	$162,193
Feb 1997	6,061	5,669	20.49	2.21	$136,695
Jan 1997	6,570	5,676	23.48	3.54	$174,355
Dec 1996	7,290	3,713	23.32	—	$170,003
Nov 1996	7,355	5,977	21.97	—	$161,589
Oct 1996	8,596	6,705	23.31	—	$200,373
Sep 1996	9,460	4,982	22.22	—	$210,201
Aug 1996	9,375	6,229	20.26	—	$189,938
Jul 1996	10,851	6,502	19.55	—	$212,137
Jun 1996	10,609	6,569	18.73	—	$198,707
May 1996	12,721	2,256	19.43	—	$247,169
Apr 1996	10,097	4,241	21.51	—	$217,186
Mar 1996	9,138	0	19.38	—	$177,094
Feb 1996	7,768	3,267	16.98	—	$131,901
Jan 1996	8,609	824	17.07	—	$146,956
Dec 1995	8,111	1,368	17.19	—	$139,428
Nov 1995	8,228	1,941	16.00	—	$131,648
Oct 1995	9,170	0	15.43	—	$141,493
Sep 1995	8,843	164	16.18	—	$143,080
Aug 1995	8,376	0	15.92	—	$133,346
Jul 1995	6,566	310	15.24	—	$100,066
Jun 1995	4,623	0	16.41	—	$75,863
May 1995	4,830	5,147	17.56	—	$84,815
Apr 1995	4,030	7,366	17.73	—	$71,452
Mar 1995	4,357	7,649	16.44	—	$71,629
Feb 1995	3,903	6,113	16.58	—	$64,712
Jan 1995	2,434	4,595	15.92	—	$38,749
Dec 1994	2,799	4,779	15.03	—	$42,069
Nov 1994	3,434	6,528	15.90	—	$54,601
Oct 1994	3,890	8,172	15.58	—	$60,606
Sep 1994	4,041	5,881	15.29	—	$61,787
Aug 1994	4,429	3,070	16.13	—	$71,440
Jul 1994	3,951	2,682	17.56	—	$69,380
Jun 1994	3,837	1,131	17.09	—	$65,574
May 1994	2,859	2,733	15.88	—	$45,401
Apr 1994	2,885	135	14.14	—	$40,794
Mar 1994	2,518	1,338	12.46	—	$31,374
Feb 1994	1,924	1,634	12.50	—	$24,050
Jan 1994	3,038	899	12.66	—	$38,461
Dec 1993	3,725	1,353	12.33	—	$45,929
Nov 1993	4,365	3,242	14.49	—	$63,249
Oct 1993	4,502	5,985	15.85	—	$71,357
Sep 1993	4,836	6,028	15.03	—	$72,685
Aug 1993	5,292	7,883	15.66	—	$82,873
Jul 1993	4,416	7,457	15.46	—	$68,271
Jun 1993	3,750	7,045	16.79	—	$62,963
May 1993	4,597	8,616	17.68	—	$81,275
Apr 1993	2,954	6,032	18.05	—	$53,320
Mar 1993	2,318	6,332	18.14	—	$42,049
Feb 1993	2,021	5,452	17.90	—	$36,176
Jan 1993	1,626	3,961	16.93	—	$27,528

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.

Aug 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                3,671 bbl  × $ 24.87 =    $91,298
Casinghead gas    13,704 Mcf  × $  3.05 =    $41,841

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Month total                                 $133,138

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/784 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.