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 280545District 04Field 79609375CondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$6.6 M
May 2016 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
121
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 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.

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
CondensateDisposition35,651 bbl$1,841,893
GasProduction1,580,827 Mcf$4,741,123
Total$6,583,015

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 28.2755, -96.8902. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.27551, -96.89020 · 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
11,066 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 11,066 ft.

Completions filed
Jul 2020
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-0073092510911,066 ftJul 2020

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 (121)

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

121 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 202502,77262.363.54$9,822
Mar 2025010,65167.704.27$45,462
Feb 202541,45970.884.34$6,617
Jan 2025111674.324.28$571
Dec 20240068.993.12$0
Nov 20240069.052.20$0
Oct 20240071.372.28$0
Sep 20240069.612.36$0
Aug 20240075.632.06$0
Jul 20240079.932.15$0
Jun 20240078.082.63$0
May 20240078.812.20$0
Apr 20240084.451.66$0
Mar 20240080.301.55$0
Feb 20240076.091.78$0
Jan 20240073.023.30$0
Dec 20230071.262.61$0
Nov 20230077.892.81$0
Oct 20230085.443.09$0
Sep 20230089.042.74$0
Aug 20230080.522.67$0
Jul 20230074.852.64$0
Jun 20230068.962.26$0
May 20230070.622.23$0
Apr 20230078.122.24$0
Mar 20230072.852.39$0
Feb 20230075.112.47$0
Jan 20230076.533.39$0
Dec 20220076.415.73$0
Nov 20220085.005.65$0
Oct 20220087.185.86$0
Sep 20220084.888.16$0
Aug 20220094.529.13$0
Jul 202200101.587.54$0
Jun 202200115.097.98$0
May 202200109.378.43$0
Apr 202200104.226.84$0
Mar 202200108.885.08$0
Feb 20220091.054.86$0
Jan 20220081.844.54$0
Dec 20210071.323.90$0
Nov 20210077.435.24$0
Oct 20210079.795.71$0
Sep 20210069.865.35$0
Aug 20210066.024.22$0
Jul 20210070.783.98$0
Jun 20210069.493.38$0
May 20212063.483.02$127
Apr 202181960.362.76$535
Mar 2021105661.302.72$765
Feb 202163957.805.55$563
Jan 20213295050.412.81$4,283
Dec 2020636,68144.642.68$20,687
Nov 202020614,73138.772.71$47,857
Oct 202058934,77136.972.48$107,953
Sep 202086149,91937.091.99$131,325
Aug 202074968,01839.982.39$192,175
Jul 202015330,57938.371.83$61,681
Jun 20200534.901.69$8
May 20200016.921.81$0
Apr 20200014.751.80$0
Mar 20200030.341.86$0
Feb 20200049.881.98$0
Jan 20200057.252.09$0
Dec 20190059.012.30$0
Nov 201951055.302.75$2,820
Oct 201911512453.472.42$6,449
Sep 20192044,95355.052.66$24,392
Aug 20191331,54253.112.30$10,617
Jul 201952010,55656.272.46$55,229
Jun 201954113,17252.782.49$61,368
May 201987217,28458.482.74$98,358
Apr 20191,17326,06062.632.75$145,148
Mar 201928411,63456.803.06$51,756
Feb 20192057,18050.852.79$30,472
Jan 20194049,42046.033.23$49,006
Dec 201866424,72346.594.19$134,412
Nov 20182,67251,97452.934.24$361,655
Oct 20185,72957,96961.443.40$548,973
Sep 20182,98628,44659.543.11$266,197
Aug 201819016,94759.403.07$63,255
Jul 201817417,54265.142.93$62,765
Jun 201818418,96360.183.08$69,421
May 201815019,18165.382.90$65,447
Apr 201823319,31163.842.90$70,892
Mar 201848120,68361.222.79$87,087
Feb 201828019,56061.782.77$71,404
Jan 201833622,54562.874.01$111,514
Dec 201742624,07157.272.92$94,721
Nov 201755924,78155.423.12$108,256
Oct 201758326,20749.292.98$106,929
Sep 201732031,81447.523.09$113,425
Aug 201723720,39945.373.00$72,039
Jul 201726231,54643.873.09$108,885
Jun 201720724,43942.493.09$84,245
May 201733733,21145.373.26$123,670
Apr 201739135,04647.933.21$131,294
Mar 201741638,40346.772.98$134,039
Feb 201762537,05250.452.95$140,931
Jan 20171,06145,22449.413.42$207,036
Dec 201692051,73848.763.72$237,471
Nov 20161,11758,24642.492.64$201,484
Oct 20161,05871,12746.193.09$268,670
Sep 20161,14891,82941.553.10$332,427
Aug 20162,368144,43741.442.92$520,513
Jul 20161,47590,52241.622.92$326,107
Jun 201652847,78645.352.69$152,290
May 201634812,41442.521.99$39,514

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                2,772 Mcf  × $  3.54 =     $9,822

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Month total                                   $9,822

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/280545 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.