HUGHES, DAN A.

Name: HUGHES, DAN A. lease production and value, Mar 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by LAMAR OIL & GAS, INC. (P-5 483925) in the POTRERO LOPENA, SW. (7390) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 12171District 04Field 72670500OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$3.0 M

Mar 1993 – Aug 2003

Value, last 12 filed months

$25 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

126

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The POTRERO LOPENA, SW. (7390) 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 6 leases and 6 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1977-09-20

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

2,640 ft

minimum

From a lease line

933 ft

minimum

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

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “ONE WELL FIELD EFF. 1-1-87”

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	169,728 bbl	$2,873,613
Casinghead gas	Production	216,478 Mcf	$143,315
Total			$3,016,928

162,870 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 46 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 26.9089, -97.4976. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

26.90889, -97.49764 · 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

8,700 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

38.6 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 8,700 ft.

Completions filed

Mar 1977

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Oct 2015

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 38.6 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 38.6 years and 38.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-26130224	1	8,700 ft	Mar 1977	Oct 2015	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 (126)

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

126 months


Aug 2003	0	0	29.76	5.13	$0
Jul 2003	0	0	29.41	5.17	$0
Jun 2003	561	0	28.56	5.98	$16,022
May 2003	0	0	26.59	5.97	$0
Apr 2003	0	0	26.67	5.41	$0
Mar 2003	0	409	31.14	6.10	$2,493
Feb 2003	0	298	33.48	7.93	$2,362
Jan 2003	0	156	30.31	5.58	$871
Dec 2002	0	336	26.91	4.85	$1,631
Nov 2002	0	134	24.66	4.14	$554
Oct 2002	0	121	26.46	4.23	$512
Sep 2002	0	82	27.44	3.64	$298
Aug 2002	0	121	25.96	3.16	$383
Jul 2002	0	119	24.58	3.06	$364
Jun 2002	0	115	23.73	3.34	$384
May 2002	0	117	24.66	3.58	$419
Apr 2002	0	123	23.65	3.51	$432
Mar 2002	0	125	22.00	3.10	$388
Feb 2002	0	121	18.22	2.38	$287
Jan 2002	0	112	17.17	2.38	$266
Dec 2001	0	147	16.93	2.36	$348
Nov 2001	0	153	18.07	2.41	$368
Oct 2001	0	133	19.78	2.53	$336
Sep 2001	0	124	24.26	2.25	$279
Aug 2001	0	132	24.87	3.05	$403
Jul 2001	0	121	23.93	3.20	$387
Jun 2001	0	126	24.56	3.82	$482
May 2001	0	138	25.52	4.31	$594
Apr 2001	0	142	24.68	5.34	$758
Mar 2001	0	112	24.54	5.38	$602
Feb 2001	0	83	27.75	5.77	$479
Jan 2001	0	117	27.47	8.40	$983
Dec 2000	0	114	26.88	9.12	$1,040
Nov 2000	0	119	32.21	5.66	$673
Oct 2000	0	106	31.23	5.15	$545
Sep 2000	0	382	31.87	5.19	$1,981
Aug 2000	1,241	561	29.64	4.54	$39,331
Jul 2000	0	869	28.53	4.09	$3,554
Jun 2000	0	385	29.30	4.40	$1,693
May 2000	0	729	27.26	3.68	$2,683
Apr 2000	0	669	24.51	3.12	$2,085
Mar 2000	0	572	28.42	2.86	$1,636
Feb 2000	0	194	27.62	2.73	$529
Jan 2000	0	453	25.27	2.48	$1,124
Dec 1999	0	938	24.28	2.42	$2,273
Nov 1999	0	942	23.19	2.43	$2,293
Oct 1999	0	190	20.98	2.80	$533
Sep 1999	0	1,022	21.75	2.62	$2,676
Aug 1999	0	937	19.26	2.88	$2,694
Jul 1999	1,840	883	17.89	2.37	$35,012
Jun 1999	0	1,015	15.94	2.36	$2,398
May 1999	1,783	1,399	15.79	2.32	$31,401
Apr 1999	0	235	15.10	2.21	$519
Mar 1999	0	1,615	12.47	1.84	$2,969
Feb 1999	0	311	9.98	1.82	$565
Jan 1999	0	221	10.38	1.90	$420
Dec 1998	0	117	9.20	1.77	$207
Nov 1998	0	86	10.89	2.19	$188
Oct 1998	0	138	12.42	1.97	$272
Sep 1998	1,434	1,083	12.59	2.08	$20,310
Aug 1998	0	639	11.30	1.91	$1,219
Jul 1998	2,210	820	11.74	2.24	$27,780
Jun 1998	2,874	1,036	11.24	2.24	$34,622
May 1998	1,349	1,491	12.62	2.21	$20,314
Apr 1998	2,400	1,990	13.04	2.51	$36,282
Mar 1998	2,356	2,323	12.80	2.31	$35,522
Feb 1998	2,243	1,805	13.95	2.30	$35,440
Jan 1998	3,924	1,941	14.70	2.15	$61,865
Dec 1997	1,348	1,963	16.32	2.41	$26,732
Nov 1997	2,540	1,823	18.19	3.09	$51,833
Oct 1997	2,418	1,550	19.25	3.15	$51,429
Sep 1997	3,619	1,045	17.74	2.95	$67,289
Aug 1997	2,618	1,787	17.86	2.55	$51,323
Jul 1997	2,726	1,920	17.58	2.25	$52,237
Jun 1997	2,668	1,583	17.24	2.26	$49,569
May 1997	2,197	2,331	18.97	2.31	$47,058
Apr 1997	1,844	1,987	17.88	2.08	$37,109
Mar 1997	3,572	2,395	18.95	1.94	$72,334
Feb 1997	1,565	1,889	20.49	2.21	$36,234
Jan 1997	3,103	988	23.48	3.54	$76,356
Dec 1996	1,395	2,464	23.32	—	$32,531
Nov 1996	2,594	3,340	21.97	—	$56,990
Oct 1996	2,697	4,181	23.31	—	$62,867
Sep 1996	3,117	3,904	22.22	—	$69,260
Aug 1996	3,191	4,153	20.26	—	$64,650
Jul 1996	3,328	3,663	19.55	—	$65,062
Jun 1996	1,749	3,393	18.73	—	$32,759
May 1996	3,016	3,133	19.43	—	$58,601
Apr 1996	3,011	2,834	21.51	—	$64,767
Mar 1996	3,223	2,484	19.38	—	$62,462
Feb 1996	1,668	3,057	16.98	—	$28,323
Jan 1996	3,485	3,320	17.07	—	$59,489
Dec 1995	3,427	3,834	17.19	—	$58,910
Nov 1995	1,778	1,052	16.00	—	$28,448
Oct 1995	1,741	846	15.43	—	$26,864
Sep 1995	1,739	940	16.18	—	$28,137
Aug 1995	1,627	1,144	15.92	—	$25,902
Jul 1995	3,392	839	15.24	—	$51,694
Jun 1995	1,443	798	16.41	—	$23,680
May 1995	1,820	2,698	17.56	—	$31,959
Apr 1995	3,055	2,678	17.73	—	$54,165
Mar 1995	1,637	2,592	16.44	—	$26,912
Feb 1995	1,671	1,307	16.58	—	$27,705
Jan 1995	3,565	2,367	15.92	—	$56,755
Dec 1994	1,653	2,530	15.03	—	$24,845
Nov 1994	3,438	4,291	15.90	—	$54,664
Oct 1994	1,445	4,997	15.58	—	$22,513
Sep 1994	3,339	4,493	15.29	—	$51,053
Aug 1994	1,781	4,918	16.13	—	$28,728
Jul 1994	2,531	3,357	17.56	—	$44,444
Jun 1994	2,420	5,944	17.09	—	$41,358
May 1994	3,094	3,718	15.88	—	$49,133
Apr 1994	2,701	5,447	14.14	—	$38,192
Mar 1994	3,473	6,517	12.46	—	$43,274
Feb 1994	1,635	3,396	12.50	—	$20,438
Jan 1994	3,168	6,050	12.66	—	$40,107
Dec 1993	3,060	6,414	12.33	—	$37,730
Nov 1993	3,363	6,123	14.49	—	$48,730
Oct 1993	3,534	6,502	15.85	—	$56,014
Sep 1993	3,437	5,990	15.03	—	$51,658
Aug 1993	2,380	5,429	15.66	—	$37,271
Jul 1993	3,068	4,430	15.46	—	$47,431
Jun 1993	1,482	3,162	16.79	—	$24,883
May 1993	3,215	2,662	17.68	—	$56,841
Apr 1993	1,149	3,506	18.05	—	$20,739
Mar 1993	560	1,973	18.14	—	$10,158

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 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  561 bbl  × $ 28.56 =    $16,022
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  5.98 =         $0

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Month total                                  $16,022

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/12171 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.