SECTION 15 - HUMBLE FEE

Name: SECTION 15 - HUMBLE FEE lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by QUAIL CREEK OIL CORPORATION (P-5 684517) in the DRAKES BRANCH (COCKFIELD 3) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 8268District 03Field 26058500OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$1.7 M

Jan 1993 – Mar 2008

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

183

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The DRAKES BRANCH (COCKFIELD 3) 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 2 leases and 14 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1966-06-25

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

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 40 acres.

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	53,329 bbl	$1,382,638
Casinghead gas	Production	82,576 Mcf	$301,358
Total			$1,683,996

35,726 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 38 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 (9)

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 30.6398, -94.2453. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.5 miles.

30.64025, -94.24626 · 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%

9 of 9 wells

With a plug date

22.2%

2 of 9 wells

Median depth

6,275 ft

8 wells filed one

Completion to plug

15.8 years

median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

9100.0%

A plug date is filed

222.2%

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

222.2%

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, 8 of 9 wells. Median 6,275 ft, with the middle half between 5,988 and 6,492 ft; the shallowest is 5,510 ft and the deepest 6,525 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, 6 of 9 wells, Sep 1966 – Mar 2008. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed

Sep 1966 – Mar 2008

6 of 9 wells; 3 filed none

Plug dates filed

Jul 1983 – Jun 1988

2 of 9 wells; 7 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 15.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 15.8 years and 15.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

9 wells


42-45700429	3 L	6,234 ft	—	—	Yes
42-45700458	7 T	—	—	—	Yes
42-45720008	1 C	6,525 ft	—	Jun 1988	Yes
42-45700449	6 L	6,100 ft	Mar 2008	—	Yes
42-45730346	9	5,652 ft	Sep 1986	—	Yes
42-45700455	8 L	5,510 ft	Mar 1974	—	Yes
42-45700425	4 L	6,315 ft	Sep 1969	—	Yes
42-45700442	5 L	6,511 ft	Sep 1967	Jul 1983	Yes
42-45700421	2 T	6,486 ft	Sep 1966	—	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 (183)

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

183 months


Mar 2008	0	0	101.90	9.66	$0
Feb 2008	0	0	92.53	8.77	$0
Jan 2008	0	0	90.38	8.21	$0
Dec 2007	0	0	88.33	7.30	$0
Nov 2007	0	0	91.67	7.29	$0
Oct 2007	0	0	82.85	6.92	$0
Sep 2007	0	0	75.84	6.24	$0
Aug 2007	0	0	69.06	6.39	$0
Jul 2007	0	0	70.90	6.39	$0
Jun 2007	0	0	62.00	7.55	$0
May 2007	0	0	58.74	7.85	$0
Apr 2007	0	0	59.61	7.81	$0
Mar 2007	0	0	56.92	7.30	$0
Feb 2007	0	0	55.10	8.22	$0
Jan 2007	0	0	50.30	6.73	$0
Dec 2006	0	0	56.65	6.92	$0
Nov 2006	0	0	54.20	7.62	$0
Oct 2006	0	0	54.90	6.01	$0
Sep 2006	0	0	60.08	5.04	$0
Aug 2006	0	0	68.71	7.34	$0
Jul 2006	0	0	69.37	6.34	$0
Jun 2006	0	0	66.28	6.38	$0
May 2006	0	0	66.01	6.42	$0
Apr 2006	0	0	64.39	7.36	$0
Mar 2006	0	0	56.70	7.08	$0
Feb 2006	0	0	57.59	7.75	$0
Jan 2006	0	0	60.59	8.93	$0
Dec 2005	0	0	54.94	13.42	$0
Nov 2005	0	0	54.69	10.59	$0
Oct 2005	0	0	58.34	13.80	$0
Sep 2005	1	0	61.45	12.08	$61
Aug 2005	410	2,073	61.51	9.80	$45,528
Jul 2005	411	2,053	55.69	7.84	$38,992
Jun 2005	498	2,151	52.33	7.38	$41,937
May 2005	410	2,494	45.22	6.65	$35,128
Apr 2005	405	1,896	49.20	7.36	$33,881
Mar 2005	494	2,048	50.37	7.15	$39,536
Feb 2005	308	1,940	45.22	6.31	$26,173
Jan 2005	527	2,372	43.16	6.32	$37,742
Dec 2004	393	2,214	39.86	6.75	$30,612
Nov 2004	534	2,279	45.28	6.33	$38,607
Oct 2004	483	2,244	49.70	6.52	$38,625
Sep 2004	415	2,186	43.24	5.28	$29,495
Aug 2004	562	2,768	42.37	5.55	$39,176
Jul 2004	790	3,033	38.28	6.08	$48,695
Jun 2004	356	2,494	36.10	6.43	$28,896
May 2004	421	2,062	37.48	6.49	$29,171
Apr 2004	569	2,577	34.47	5.86	$34,711
Mar 2004	468	2,523	34.36	5.53	$30,033
Feb 2004	463	1,100	32.45	5.51	$21,085
Jan 2004	565	2,989	32.03	6.30	$36,927
Dec 2003	509	0	30.26	6.30	$15,402
Nov 2003	593	0	28.80	4.60	$17,078
Oct 2003	405	0	28.17	4.76	$11,409
Sep 2003	262	0	26.31	4.75	$6,893
Aug 2003	669	0	29.76	5.13	$19,909
Jul 2003	701	0	29.41	5.17	$20,616
Jun 2003	631	0	28.56	5.98	$18,021
May 2003	647	0	26.59	5.97	$17,204
Apr 2003	563	0	26.67	5.41	$15,015
Mar 2003	600	0	31.14	6.10	$18,684
Feb 2003	485	0	33.48	7.93	$16,238
Jan 2003	702	0	30.31	5.58	$21,278
Dec 2002	510	0	26.91	4.85	$13,724
Nov 2002	560	0	24.66	4.14	$13,810
Oct 2002	764	0	26.46	4.23	$20,215
Sep 2002	613	0	27.44	3.64	$16,821
Aug 2002	680	0	25.96	3.16	$17,653
Jul 2002	613	0	24.58	3.06	$15,068
Jun 2002	619	0	23.73	3.34	$14,689
May 2002	694	0	24.66	3.58	$17,114
Apr 2002	632	26	23.65	3.51	$15,038
Mar 2002	657	243	22.00	3.10	$15,208
Feb 2002	427	126	18.22	2.38	$8,079
Jan 2002	588	153	17.17	2.38	$10,459
Dec 2001	690	189	16.93	2.36	$12,129
Nov 2001	721	0	18.07	2.41	$13,028
Oct 2001	620	262	19.78	2.53	$12,926
Sep 2001	707	140	24.26	2.25	$17,467
Aug 2001	638	134	24.87	3.05	$16,276
Jul 2001	561	0	23.93	3.20	$13,425
Jun 2001	616	0	24.56	3.82	$15,129
May 2001	512	0	25.52	4.31	$13,066
Apr 2001	466	0	24.68	5.34	$11,501
Mar 2001	427	31	24.54	5.38	$10,645
Feb 2001	201	13	27.75	5.77	$5,653
Jan 2001	509	37	27.47	8.40	$14,293
Dec 2000	312	0	26.88	9.12	$8,387
Nov 2000	487	0	32.21	5.66	$15,686
Oct 2000	320	0	31.23	5.15	$9,994
Sep 2000	402	0	31.87	5.19	$12,812
Aug 2000	792	0	29.64	4.54	$23,475
Jul 2000	523	0	28.53	4.09	$14,921
Jun 2000	644	0	29.30	4.40	$18,869
May 2000	701	0	27.26	3.68	$19,109
Apr 2000	447	0	24.51	3.12	$10,956
Mar 2000	253	0	28.42	2.86	$7,190
Feb 2000	0	0	27.62	2.73	$0
Jan 2000	0	0	25.27	2.48	$0
Dec 1999	0	0	24.28	2.42	$0
Nov 1999	0	0	23.19	2.43	$0
Oct 1999	0	0	20.98	2.80	$0
Sep 1999	0	0	21.75	2.62	$0
Aug 1999	0	0	19.26	2.88	$0
Jul 1999	185	0	17.89	2.37	$3,310
Jun 1999	267	0	15.94	2.36	$4,256
May 1999	0	0	15.79	2.32	$0
Apr 1999	0	0	15.10	2.21	$0
Mar 1999	0	0	12.47	1.84	$0
Feb 1999	0	0	9.98	1.82	$0
Jan 1999	0	0	10.38	1.90	$0
Dec 1998	0	0	9.20	1.77	$0
Nov 1998	0	0	10.89	2.19	$0
Oct 1998	0	0	12.42	1.97	$0
Sep 1998	0	0	12.59	2.08	$0
Aug 1998	0	0	11.30	1.91	$0
Jul 1998	0	0	11.74	2.24	$0
Jun 1998	0	0	11.24	2.24	$0
May 1998	0	0	12.62	2.21	$0
Apr 1998	0	0	13.04	2.51	$0
Mar 1998	0	0	12.80	2.31	$0
Feb 1998	0	0	13.95	2.30	$0
Jan 1998	0	0	14.70	2.15	$0
Dec 1997	0	0	16.32	2.41	$0
Nov 1997	0	0	18.19	3.09	$0
Oct 1997	0	0	19.25	3.15	$0
Sep 1997	0	0	17.74	2.95	$0
Aug 1997	378	0	17.86	2.55	$6,751
Jul 1997	0	0	17.58	2.25	$0
Jun 1997	0	0	17.24	2.26	$0
May 1997	186	0	18.97	2.31	$3,528
Apr 1997	375	0	17.88	2.08	$6,705
Mar 1997	375	0	18.95	1.94	$7,106
Feb 1997	379	0	20.49	2.21	$7,766
Jan 1997	554	0	23.48	3.54	$13,008
Dec 1996	375	0	23.32	—	$8,745
Nov 1996	183	0	21.97	—	$4,021
Oct 1996	92	0	23.31	—	$2,145
Sep 1996	0	0	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	0	0	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	0	0	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	0	0	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	313	0	19.43	—	$6,082
Apr 1996	209	0	21.51	—	$4,496
Mar 1996	267	0	19.38	—	$5,174
Feb 1996	264	553	16.98	—	$4,483
Jan 1996	314	553	17.07	—	$5,360
Dec 1995	207	532	17.19	—	$3,558
Nov 1995	312	535	16.00	—	$4,992
Oct 1995	206	758	15.43	—	$3,179
Sep 1995	209	378	16.18	—	$3,382
Aug 1995	308	393	15.92	—	$4,903
Jul 1995	312	450	15.24	—	$4,755
Jun 1995	336	586	16.41	—	$5,514
May 1995	273	660	17.56	—	$4,794
Apr 1995	312	505	17.73	—	$5,532
Mar 1995	314	369	16.44	—	$5,162
Feb 1995	121	286	16.58	—	$2,006
Jan 1995	411	597	15.92	—	$6,543
Dec 1994	314	541	15.03	—	$4,719
Nov 1994	313	846	15.90	—	$4,977
Oct 1994	425	899	15.58	—	$6,622
Sep 1994	311	997	15.29	—	$4,755
Aug 1994	466	594	16.13	—	$7,517
Jul 1994	155	1,144	17.56	—	$2,722
Jun 1994	423	1,265	17.09	—	$7,229
May 1994	449	1,044	15.88	—	$7,130
Apr 1994	311	716	14.14	—	$4,398
Mar 1994	619	744	12.46	—	$7,713
Feb 1994	295	640	12.50	—	$3,688
Jan 1994	435	706	12.66	—	$5,507
Dec 1993	406	806	12.33	—	$5,006
Nov 1993	313	771	14.49	—	$4,535
Oct 1993	293	1,239	15.85	—	$4,644
Sep 1993	439	760	15.03	—	$6,598
Aug 1993	399	1,655	15.66	—	$6,248
Jul 1993	555	2,307	15.46	—	$8,580
Jun 1993	300	711	16.79	—	$5,037
May 1993	479	2,029	17.68	—	$8,469
Apr 1993	474	2,066	18.05	—	$8,556
Mar 1993	682	2,403	18.14	—	$12,371
Feb 1993	494	2,672	17.90	—	$8,843
Jan 1993	786	1,016	16.93	—	$13,307

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.

Sep 2005 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                    1 bbl  × $ 61.45 =        $61
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $ 12.08 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                      $61

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/8268 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.