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ST. CHARLES CO.

Operated by HILCORP ENERGY COMPANY (P-5 386310) in the ST. CHARLES (FRIO CONS., LOWER) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 277603District 04Field 79609375ST-1 filingCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$19.0 M
Jun 2015 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
132
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, gas

The ST. CHARLES (FRIO CONS., LOWER) 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 17 leases and 17 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1997-05-23
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 1997-04-29.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “NO P-15 & PLAT REQUIRED.”

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
ST-11none—232030

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
CondensateDisposition68,036 bbl$2,868,675
GasProduction6,042,927 Mcf$16,101,909
Total$18,970,584

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 28.2819, -96.8353. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.28195, -96.83533 · 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
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
12,579 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
00.0%
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.
1100.0%

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 12,579 ft.

Completions filed
Aug 2021
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-0073092210412,579 ftAug 2021——

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 (132)

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

132 months

May 202600106.413.05$0
Apr 20260098.932.87$0
Mar 20260089.753.15$0
Feb 20260063.503.75$0
Jan 20260059.138.00$0
Dec 20250056.664.41$0
Nov 20250058.593.93$0
Oct 20250059.383.30$0
Sep 20250062.743.08$0
Aug 20250063.933.01$0
Jul 20250066.743.32$0
Jun 20250066.483.13$0
May 20250060.553.23$0
Apr 202509762.363.54$344
Mar 202501,95867.704.27$8,357
Feb 2025015,28670.884.34$66,354
Jan 202516627,52174.324.28$130,091
Dec 202438447,44368.993.12$174,579
Nov 2024130,68969.052.20$67,537
Oct 202417,16371.372.28$16,413
Sep 20240069.612.36$0
Aug 20240075.632.06$0
Jul 20240079.932.15$0
Jun 202401678.082.63$42
May 202402,47878.812.20$5,448
Apr 202403,85284.451.66$6,391
Mar 202405,12480.301.55$7,917
Feb 202405,54676.091.78$9,892
Jan 202406,45973.023.30$21,300
Dec 2023187,00671.262.61$19,573
Nov 2023517,67977.892.81$25,532
Oct 2023579,50685.443.09$34,218
Sep 2023439,82289.042.74$30,692
Aug 20233212,48480.522.67$35,945
Jul 2023025,65074.852.64$67,762
Jun 2023010,17468.962.26$22,978
May 202302,87470.622.23$6,402
Apr 202303,27378.122.24$7,324
Mar 202302,78272.852.39$6,658
Feb 202302,81675.112.47$6,943
Jan 202303,09076.533.39$10,468
Dec 202203,14076.415.73$17,989
Nov 202202,41585.005.65$13,636
Oct 202205187.185.86$299
Sep 202204084.888.16$327
Aug 202206794.529.13$612
Jul 202201,495101.587.54$11,275
Jun 202202,215115.097.98$17,670
May 202202,289109.378.43$19,303
Apr 202202,271104.226.84$15,528
Mar 202202,733108.885.08$13,874
Feb 202202,54491.054.86$12,361
Jan 202202,55981.844.54$11,612
Dec 202102,50571.323.90$9,767
Nov 202101,99577.435.24$10,448
Oct 202112,24279.795.71$12,890
Sep 2021171,53169.865.35$9,380
Aug 2021404,09866.024.22$19,937
Jul 2021494,22770.783.98$20,300
Jun 2021232,75069.493.38$10,895
May 2021221,28863.483.02$5,283
Apr 2021623,05060.362.76$12,156
Mar 20211198,66161.302.72$30,826
Feb 2021666,30157.805.55$38,772
Jan 20211428,40650.412.81$30,781
Dec 20201798,59744.642.68$30,991
Nov 20201818,68138.772.71$30,513
Oct 20201359,08736.972.48$27,512
Sep 20201208,65537.091.99$21,683
Aug 2020279,03639.982.39$22,631
Jul 2020789,80638.371.83$20,890
Jun 20201109,92934.901.69$20,622
May 2020010,70716.921.81$19,431
Apr 20206910,59914.751.80$20,142
Mar 202011611,21230.341.86$24,331
Feb 202012210,72849.881.98$27,334
Jan 202012710,80657.252.09$29,907
Dec 201910711,98359.012.30$33,927
Nov 201911311,79855.302.75$38,702
Oct 201910312,35953.472.42$35,398
Sep 201912113,01455.052.66$41,243
Aug 201910214,03053.112.30$37,747
Jul 201911215,11656.272.46$43,489
Jun 201919015,41652.782.49$48,433
May 201919016,07458.482.74$55,159
Apr 201921316,52862.632.75$58,804
Mar 201921317,82956.803.06$66,693
Feb 201926219,10350.852.79$66,662
Jan 201925420,36546.033.23$77,434
Dec 201824921,46146.594.19$101,425
Nov 201827021,99852.934.24$107,502
Oct 201825524,49461.443.40$98,900
Sep 201820326,19359.543.11$93,494
Aug 201825629,03959.403.07$104,256
Jul 201827731,45065.142.93$110,251
Jun 201829235,04560.183.08$125,403
May 201821136,16765.382.90$118,708
Apr 201824036,02363.842.90$119,817
Mar 201832941,29761.222.79$135,230
Feb 201823939,66361.782.77$124,478
Jan 201835846,82262.874.01$210,232
Dec 201741351,14457.272.92$173,071
Nov 201743654,00355.423.12$192,564
Oct 201746060,86749.292.98$204,281
Sep 201737866,57447.523.09$223,495
Aug 201737553,41645.373.00$177,497
Jul 201751276,94843.873.09$260,021
Jun 201750376,30342.493.09$256,941
May 201772372,67345.373.26$269,964
Apr 201764761,56447.933.21$228,730
Mar 201778981,54046.772.98$280,191
Feb 201773677,28750.452.95$265,329
Jan 201774090,35249.413.42$345,459
Dec 201691993,92448.763.72$394,474
Nov 20161,08794,59842.492.64$296,337
Oct 20161,298103,82146.193.09$380,789
Sep 20161,248107,56141.553.10$385,361
Aug 20161,254118,76241.442.92$399,266
Jul 20161,165136,53341.622.92$447,756
Jun 20161,384154,66845.352.69$478,176
May 20161,621175,67042.521.99$418,691
Apr 20161,750182,44136.561.99$427,227
Mar 20162,186209,56333.011.79$448,118
Feb 20162,466236,48426.472.06$553,291
Jan 20163,877307,45027.352.36$832,958
Dec 20154,896348,19932.362.00$855,324
Nov 20155,272375,80138.792.17$1,018,986
Oct 20156,031426,64743.552.43$1,297,943
Sep 20156,688436,43242.992.76$1,491,380
Aug 20156,816451,74540.162.87$1,571,364
Jul 20153,292228,59448.152.95$831,737
Jun 201535720,59256.152.88$79,409

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 2025 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 62.36 =         $0
Gas                   97 Mcf  × $  3.54 =       $344

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Month total                                     $344

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/277603 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.