HOUSTON OIL UNIT

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

Operated by BP AMERICA PRODUCTION COMPANY (P-5 40798) in the DONNA (20-C) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 11982District 04Field 25318910OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$1.7 M

Jan 1993 – Feb 2005

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

146

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The DONNA (20-C) 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 5 leases and 5 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1984-11-28

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

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	97,880 bbl	$1,687,328
Casinghead gas	Production	51,164 Mcf	$55,892
Total			$1,743,219

31,535 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 26.1279, -98.1358. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

26.12792, -98.13575 · 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%

1 of 1 wells

With a plug date

100.0%

1 of 1 wells

Median depth

7,300 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

4.3 years

median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

1100.0%

A plug date is filed

1100.0%

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

1100.0%

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 7,300 ft.

Completions filed

Sep 2000

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Jan 2005

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 4.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 4.3 years and 4.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-21531819	5	7,300 ft	Sep 2000	Jan 2005	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 (146)

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

146 months


Feb 2005	0	0	45.22	6.31	$0
Jan 2005	0	0	43.16	6.32	$0
Dec 2004	0	0	39.86	6.75	$0
Nov 2004	0	0	45.28	6.33	$0
Oct 2004	0	0	49.70	6.52	$0
Sep 2004	0	0	43.24	5.28	$0
Aug 2004	0	0	42.37	5.55	$0
Jul 2004	0	0	38.28	6.08	$0
Jun 2004	0	0	36.10	6.43	$0
May 2004	0	0	37.48	6.49	$0
Apr 2004	0	0	34.47	5.86	$0
Mar 2004	0	0	34.36	5.53	$0
Feb 2004	0	0	32.45	5.51	$0
Jan 2004	0	0	32.03	6.30	$0
Dec 2003	0	0	30.26	6.30	$0
Nov 2003	0	0	28.80	4.60	$0
Oct 2003	0	0	28.17	4.76	$0
Sep 2003	0	0	26.31	4.75	$0
Aug 2003	0	0	29.76	5.13	$0
Jul 2003	0	0	29.41	5.17	$0
Jun 2003	0	0	28.56	5.98	$0
May 2003	0	0	26.59	5.97	$0
Apr 2003	0	0	26.67	5.41	$0
Mar 2003	0	0	31.14	6.10	$0
Feb 2003	0	0	33.48	7.93	$0
Jan 2003	0	0	30.31	5.58	$0
Dec 2002	0	0	26.91	4.85	$0
Nov 2002	0	0	24.66	4.14	$0
Oct 2002	0	0	26.46	4.23	$0
Sep 2002	0	0	27.44	3.64	$0
Aug 2002	0	0	25.96	3.16	$0
Jul 2002	0	0	24.58	3.06	$0
Jun 2002	0	0	23.73	3.34	$0
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	0	0	24.87	3.05	$0
Jul 2001	0	0	23.93	3.20	$0
Jun 2001	273	0	24.56	3.82	$6,705
May 2001	948	0	25.52	4.31	$24,193
Apr 2001	1,163	0	24.68	5.34	$28,703
Mar 2001	716	0	24.54	5.38	$17,571
Feb 2001	291	350	27.75	5.77	$10,094
Jan 2001	355	276	27.47	8.40	$12,070
Dec 2000	347	147	26.88	9.12	$10,668
Nov 2000	118	409	32.21	5.66	$6,115
Oct 2000	6	0	31.23	5.15	$187
Sep 2000	24	525	31.87	5.19	$3,488
Aug 2000	69	319	29.64	4.54	$3,494
Jul 2000	282	402	28.53	4.09	$9,690
Jun 2000	265	324	29.30	4.40	$9,189
May 2000	299	413	27.26	3.68	$9,670
Apr 2000	351	430	24.51	3.12	$9,943
Mar 2000	420	529	28.42	2.86	$13,449
Feb 2000	438	433	27.62	2.73	$13,278
Jan 2000	560	560	25.27	2.48	$15,540
Dec 1999	588	684	24.28	2.42	$15,934
Nov 1999	447	660	23.19	2.43	$11,972
Oct 1999	606	655	20.98	2.80	$14,550
Sep 1999	10	30	21.75	2.62	$296
Aug 1999	134	486	19.26	2.88	$3,978
Jul 1999	258	662	17.89	2.37	$6,186
Jun 1999	62	0	15.94	2.36	$988
May 1999	278	275	15.79	2.32	$5,028
Apr 1999	530	431	15.10	2.21	$8,955
Mar 1999	680	604	12.47	1.84	$9,590
Feb 1999	502	379	9.98	1.82	$5,699
Jan 1999	532	392	10.38	1.90	$6,267
Dec 1998	675	397	9.20	1.77	$6,914
Nov 1998	601	435	10.89	2.19	$7,496
Oct 1998	649	500	12.42	1.97	$9,045
Sep 1998	541	513	12.59	2.08	$7,880
Aug 1998	754	222	11.30	1.91	$8,944
Jul 1998	797	222	11.74	2.24	$9,853
Jun 1998	805	219	11.24	2.24	$9,538
May 1998	883	285	12.62	2.21	$11,772
Apr 1998	814	280	13.04	2.51	$11,316
Mar 1998	297	230	12.80	2.31	$4,333
Feb 1998	28	0	13.95	2.30	$391
Jan 1998	259	268	14.70	2.15	$4,385
Dec 1997	1,173	286	16.32	2.41	$19,833
Nov 1997	777	318	18.19	3.09	$15,116
Oct 1997	1,023	332	19.25	3.15	$20,738
Sep 1997	718	340	17.74	2.95	$13,742
Aug 1997	760	497	17.86	2.55	$14,843
Jul 1997	663	531	17.58	2.25	$12,849
Jun 1997	348	716	17.24	2.26	$7,616
May 1997	757	571	18.97	2.31	$15,678
Apr 1997	521	904	17.88	2.08	$11,198
Mar 1997	434	537	18.95	1.94	$9,266
Feb 1997	604	351	20.49	2.21	$13,150
Jan 1997	1,044	300	23.48	3.54	$25,575
Dec 1996	1,125	364	23.32	—	$26,235
Nov 1996	758	437	21.97	—	$16,653
Oct 1996	1,005	626	23.31	—	$23,427
Sep 1996	1,143	531	22.22	—	$25,397
Aug 1996	1,134	426	20.26	—	$22,975
Jul 1996	1,075	453	19.55	—	$21,016
Jun 1996	937	603	18.73	—	$17,550
May 1996	1,090	663	19.43	—	$21,179
Apr 1996	1,313	787	21.51	—	$28,243
Mar 1996	1,542	661	19.38	—	$29,884
Feb 1996	1,603	686	16.98	—	$27,219
Jan 1996	1,655	779	17.07	—	$28,251
Dec 1995	1,404	888	17.19	—	$24,135
Nov 1995	1,734	866	16.00	—	$27,744
Oct 1995	1,454	672	15.43	—	$22,435
Sep 1995	1,361	606	16.18	—	$22,021
Aug 1995	1,640	673	15.92	—	$26,109
Jul 1995	1,218	670	15.24	—	$18,562
Jun 1995	1,001	308	16.41	—	$16,426
May 1995	1,302	233	17.56	—	$22,863
Apr 1995	1,053	305	17.73	—	$18,670
Mar 1995	1,228	343	16.44	—	$20,188
Feb 1995	1,517	315	16.58	—	$25,152
Jan 1995	1,816	411	15.92	—	$28,911
Dec 1994	1,331	432	15.03	—	$20,005
Nov 1994	1,566	398	15.90	—	$24,899
Oct 1994	1,458	449	15.58	—	$22,716
Sep 1994	1,601	496	15.29	—	$24,479
Aug 1994	1,300	863	16.13	—	$20,969
Jul 1994	1,789	895	17.56	—	$31,415
Jun 1994	2,072	829	17.09	—	$35,410
May 1994	1,758	942	15.88	—	$27,917
Apr 1994	1,912	933	14.14	—	$27,036
Mar 1994	1,494	888	12.46	—	$18,615
Feb 1994	1,622	718	12.50	—	$20,275
Jan 1994	1,288	895	12.66	—	$16,306
Dec 1993	1,546	889	12.33	—	$19,062
Nov 1993	1,548	811	14.49	—	$22,431
Oct 1993	1,668	816	15.85	—	$26,438
Sep 1993	1,608	810	15.03	—	$24,168
Aug 1993	1,928	892	15.66	—	$30,192
Jul 1993	1,206	748	15.46	—	$18,645
Jun 1993	1,549	866	16.79	—	$26,008
May 1993	1,638	832	17.68	—	$28,960
Apr 1993	1,413	616	18.05	—	$25,505
Mar 1993	1,740	739	18.14	—	$31,564
Feb 1993	1,935	697	17.90	—	$34,637
Jan 1993	2,325	775	16.93	—	$39,362

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.

Jun 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  273 bbl  × $ 24.56 =     $6,705
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.82 =         $0

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Month total                                   $6,705

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/O/11982 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.