EXXON - LICHTENBERGER FEE

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

Gas lease lease 109327District 04Field 82381075NGPA filingCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$5.1 M
Jan 1993 – Apr 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$85 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
124
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, 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 9 leases and 9 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1981-05-13
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
2,000 ft
minimum
From a lease line
1,000 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 320 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: AOF-1 AND AOF-2 EFFECTIVE 05/01/98.

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
CondensateDisposition1 bbl$25
GasProduction3,907,049 Mcf$5,074,702
Total$5,074,726

2,065,117 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 (1)

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 28.0084, -98.4865. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.00838, -98.48655 · 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%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
16,097 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
00.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
00.0%
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

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 16,097 ft.

Completions filed
Oct 2011
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-131363371016,097 ftOct 2011Yes

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 (124)

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

124 months

Apr 2003014,89126.675.41$80,520
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 2002014126.914.85$684
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 2002054626.464.23$2,309
Sep 2002017227.443.64$625
Aug 2002019325.963.16$611
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 2002019424.663.58$695
Apr 200201,41523.653.51$4,970
Mar 2002019,16622.003.10$59,467
Feb 2002016,54618.222.38$39,308
Jan 2002019,06817.172.38$45,299
Dec 2001020,21116.932.36$47,787
Nov 2001018,00718.072.41$43,316
Oct 200102,43319.782.53$6,153
Sep 2001020,13624.262.25$45,333
Aug 2001017,92124.873.05$54,716
Jul 2001019,28723.933.20$61,662
Jun 2001016,93924.563.82$64,777
May 2001011,49225.524.31$49,500
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 200116,15424.545.38$33,111
Feb 2001017,89427.755.77$103,196
Jan 2001014,80827.478.40$124,369
Dec 2000024,08126.889.12$219,679
Nov 200006,92032.215.66$39,153
Oct 2000010,74331.235.15$55,278
Sep 200005,05131.875.19$26,197
Aug 2000022,61229.644.54$102,675
Jul 2000031,43528.534.09$128,561
Jun 2000021,72529.304.40$95,530
May 2000021,03727.263.68$77,411
Apr 2000027,77324.513.12$86,541
Mar 2000036,31328.422.86$103,846
Feb 2000036,74727.622.73$100,191
Jan 2000038,90325.272.48$96,499
Dec 1999035,01524.282.42$84,867
Nov 1999033,34423.192.43$81,159
Oct 1999035,91620.982.80$100,698
Sep 1999032,32121.752.62$84,644
Aug 1999034,64419.262.88$99,622
Jul 1999032,44717.892.37$76,976
Jun 1999038,99315.942.36$92,105
May 1999036,19215.792.32$84,002
Apr 1999038,48715.102.21$84,981
Mar 1999037,87912.471.84$69,634
Feb 1999032,1269.981.82$58,398
Jan 1999033,04210.381.90$62,778
Dec 1998029,6739.201.77$52,620
Nov 1998040,67610.892.19$88,906
Oct 1998045,47812.421.97$89,556
Sep 1998026,64912.592.08$55,500
Aug 1998035,78011.301.91$68,245
Jul 1998039,55911.742.24$88,504
Jun 1998034,60311.242.24$77,416
May 1998042,47012.622.21$93,703
Apr 1998041,27013.042.51$103,395
Mar 1998047,32112.802.31$109,285
Feb 1998033,68313.952.30$77,442
Jan 1998035,71114.702.15$76,950
Dec 1997038,95416.322.41$93,922
Nov 1997038,38518.193.09$118,543
Oct 1997038,08719.253.15$119,967
Sep 1997042,66917.742.95$126,082
Aug 1997043,82917.862.55$111,972
Jul 1997041,25817.582.25$92,704
Jun 1997042,46517.242.26$95,852
May 1997034,73418.972.31$80,183
Apr 1997037,15717.882.08$77,390
Mar 1997061,71118.951.94$119,666
Feb 1997017,70620.492.21$39,058
Jan 1997010,74423.483.54$38,031
Dec 1996027,92023.32$0
Nov 1996033,56621.97$0
Oct 1996030,59423.31$0
Sep 1996030,89022.22$0
Aug 1996041,97520.26$0
Jul 1996045,23119.55$0
Jun 1996045,49518.73$0
May 1996042,75119.43$0
Apr 1996040,27521.51$0
Mar 1996034,46719.38$0
Feb 1996036,10016.98$0
Jan 1996035,09217.07$0
Dec 1995042,11417.19$0
Nov 1995042,09716.00$0
Oct 1995053,84915.43$0
Sep 1995037,39116.18$0
Aug 1995039,25715.92$0
Jul 1995042,61015.24$0
Jun 1995043,49316.41$0
May 1995040,31217.56$0
Apr 1995041,38217.73$0
Mar 1995051,79416.44$0
Feb 1995045,86916.58$0
Jan 1995049,71115.92$0
Dec 1994046,22415.03$0
Nov 1994037,33315.90$0
Oct 1994056,85715.58$0
Sep 1994044,40315.29$0
Aug 1994051,99516.13$0
Jul 1994044,81017.56$0
Jun 1994045,58517.09$0
May 1994046,99515.88$0
Apr 1994035,65414.14$0
Mar 1994040,17812.46$0
Feb 1994047,18512.50$0
Jan 1994057,06912.66$0
Dec 1993049,02612.33$0
Nov 1993037,09014.49$0
Oct 1993053,11515.85$0
Sep 1993039,88015.03$0
Aug 1993043,32715.66$0
Jul 1993023,15615.46$0
Jun 1993051,15616.79$0
May 1993050,57717.68$0
Apr 1993035,39118.05$0
Mar 1993053,17718.14$0
Feb 1993053,98417.90$0
Jan 1993046,71516.93$0

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.

Apr 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 26.67 =         $0
Gas               14,891 Mcf  × $  5.41 =    $80,520

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Month total                                  $80,520

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. 04/G/109327 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.