THOMPSON 49

Operated by UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA (P-5 876520) in the VAN (AUSTIN CHALK) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 3256District 05Field 93042166NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$6.4 M
Jan 1993 – Sep 2020
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
333
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead 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 66 leases and 277 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1969-11-22
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
125 ft
minimum
From a lease line
100 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 2 acres. The field rule took effect on 1997-12-05.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: AOF-1 AND AOF-2 EFFECTIVE 09/01/2004.

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
OilDisposition222,288 bbl$5,035,805
Casinghead gasProduction432,423 Mcf$1,319,228
Total$6,355,033

110,860 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 (9)

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 32.5300, -95.6398. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.2 miles.

32.53382, -95.64007 · 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%
9 of 9 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
9 of 9 wells
Median depth
2,552 ft
9 wells filed one
Completion to plug
22.3 years
median over 9 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
9100.0%
A plug date is filed
9100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
9100.0%
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

Total depth in feet, 9 of 9 wells. Median 2,552 ft, with the middle half between 2,481 and 2,984 ft; the shallowest is 2,420 ft and the deepest 2,994 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

Last completion by decade, 9 of 9 wells, Jun 1988 – Jun 2000. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Jun 1988 – Jun 2000
9 of 9 wells
Plug dates filed
Feb 2012 – Nov 2019
9 of 9 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 22.3 years across the 9 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 16.8 years and 22.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

9 wells

42-46730812142,474 ftJun 2000Sep 2013Yes
42-46730978172,500 ftJul 1997Nov 2019Yes
42-4670084562,984 ftApr 1997Oct 2013Yes
42-46730936162,552 ftJul 1995Sep 2013Yes
42-4670083132,994 ftJun 1995Nov 2019Yes
42-46730934152,420 ftApr 1995Feb 2012Yes
42-4670083342,943 ftApr 1991Sep 2013Yes
42-4670082812,994 ftSep 1990Aug 2013Yes
42-46730692122,481 ftJun 1988Aug 2013Yes

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 (333)

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

333 months

Sep 20200037.091.99$0
Aug 20200039.982.39$0
Jul 20200038.371.83$0
Jun 20200034.901.69$0
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 20190055.302.75$0
Oct 20190053.472.42$0
Sep 20190055.052.66$0
Aug 20190053.112.30$0
Jul 20190056.272.46$0
Jun 20190052.782.49$0
May 20190058.482.74$0
Apr 20190062.632.75$0
Mar 20190056.803.06$0
Feb 20190050.852.79$0
Jan 20190046.033.23$0
Dec 20180046.594.19$0
Nov 20180052.934.24$0
Oct 20180061.443.40$0
Sep 20180059.543.11$0
Aug 20180059.403.07$0
Jul 20180065.142.93$0
Jun 20180060.183.08$0
May 20180065.382.90$0
Apr 20180063.842.90$0
Mar 20180061.222.79$0
Feb 20180061.782.77$0
Jan 20180062.874.01$0
Dec 20170057.272.92$0
Nov 20170055.423.12$0
Oct 20170049.292.98$0
Sep 201718347.523.09$304
Aug 20171129945.373.00$1,397
Jul 20172617943.873.09$1,693
Jun 20172818542.493.09$1,761
May 20173619245.373.26$2,260
Apr 20173219047.933.21$2,144
Mar 20172819946.772.98$1,903
Feb 20171515450.452.95$1,211
Jan 20173819349.413.42$2,537
Dec 20162217348.763.72$1,717
Nov 20161812242.492.64$1,087
Oct 20162713446.193.09$1,661
Sep 2016327741.553.10$1,568
Aug 20162612641.442.92$1,446
Jul 20161615941.622.92$1,131
Jun 20163014745.352.69$1,755
May 20163114142.521.99$1,599
Apr 20163410236.561.99$1,446
Mar 20163512033.011.79$1,371
Feb 20163112126.472.06$1,070
Jan 20163711127.352.36$1,274
Dec 20153519632.362.00$1,525
Nov 20153112938.792.17$1,482
Oct 20153316443.552.43$1,835
Sep 20154012442.992.76$2,062
Aug 20154715940.162.87$2,344
Jul 20154122548.152.95$2,637
Jun 20151910356.152.88$1,364
May 2015311855.212.96$514
Apr 20152210349.822.71$1,375
Mar 2015511442.892.93$549
Feb 2015310444.662.98$444
Jan 20152814543.433.10$1,666
Dec 20142626454.693.59$2,370
Nov 20142723070.464.25$2,880
Oct 20143112478.303.90$2,911
Sep 20142521086.164.05$3,004
Aug 20142118089.394.04$2,604
Jul 20142114296.564.18$2,621
Jun 2014178098.164.74$2,048
May 20141814094.734.73$2,367
Apr 20142414895.944.81$3,014
Mar 20142217895.895.06$3,010
Feb 20142215097.406.19$3,072
Jan 20142416890.404.86$2,986
Dec 20132615091.824.35$3,040
Nov 20132213988.853.74$2,474
Oct 2013115497.423.78$1,276
Sep 20131350104.113.72$1,539
Aug 20132856104.253.52$3,116
Jul 20132549102.523.72$2,745
Jun 2013245494.403.93$2,478
May 2013235294.834.15$2,397
Apr 2013194893.964.28$1,991
Mar 2013265293.623.91$2,638
Feb 2013214791.233.42$2,077
Jan 2013219891.603.42$2,259
Dec 2012910086.773.42$1,123
Nov 2012169686.953.62$1,739
Oct 20121259389.383.40$11,489
Sep 20129179294.672.92$87,081
Aug 2012012492.662.91$361
Jul 2012313485.133.02$660
Jun 20123819279.822.52$3,517
May 20126734391.612.49$6,991
Apr 201264300101.652.00$7,105
Mar 201258307105.052.22$6,775
Feb 201264383101.102.57$7,455
Jan 20128242498.092.73$9,203
Dec 201119246396.873.24$20,099
Nov 20116548295.723.31$7,818
Oct 20116543284.983.65$7,100
Sep 20116534683.623.99$6,814
Aug 201110034883.404.15$9,784
Jul 201115638394.144.52$16,416
Jun 20119237292.904.64$10,273
May 201112537898.134.40$13,931
Apr 2011116347105.964.33$13,795
Mar 201111236696.364.06$12,277
Feb 20119837285.644.18$9,948
Jan 201111340286.504.59$11,619
Dec 201012236385.734.35$12,037
Nov 201011635980.843.80$10,740
Oct 201011537878.103.51$10,308
Sep 201012737272.633.98$10,704
Aug 201016036773.684.42$13,411
Jul 201013133472.554.74$11,086
Jun 201013538370.364.91$11,379
May 201012738671.124.24$10,667
Apr 201014150081.694.12$13,580
Mar 201012347378.394.39$11,718
Feb 201014055973.585.44$13,343
Jan 201014770974.365.96$15,159
Dec 200920669371.445.48$18,517
Nov 200920467974.593.75$17,764
Oct 200916363272.544.11$14,422
Sep 200911959765.543.06$9,629
Aug 200913082967.423.22$11,433
Jul 200912080161.133.46$10,111
Jun 200913961866.163.90$11,603
May 200914962254.743.93$10,598
Apr 20097462846.773.59$5,714
Mar 20091471,16242.144.06$10,911
Feb 20091411,09432.814.63$9,695
Jan 20091821,19135.865.37$12,923
Dec 20082661,23437.105.98$17,244
Nov 200818698155.496.86$17,051
Oct 20081821,25675.246.92$22,388
Sep 20082251,298101.767.88$33,120
Aug 20081761,330114.228.48$31,385
Jul 20081991,370131.0811.39$41,688
Jun 20081521,252131.3313.03$36,279
May 2008153878123.1711.57$29,007
Apr 2008179849110.3110.45$28,622
Mar 2008110852101.909.66$19,443
Feb 200814489592.538.77$21,174
Jan 20081531,07090.388.21$22,608
Dec 200711091788.337.30$16,412
Nov 20071921,05591.677.29$25,293
Oct 200720493282.856.92$23,353
Sep 20072131,04075.846.24$22,648
Aug 20072301,20569.066.39$23,581
Jul 20072181,09070.906.39$22,419
Jun 20071731,04562.007.55$18,614
May 20071811,15458.747.85$19,687
Apr 20072231,14259.617.81$22,207
Mar 20071911,35156.927.30$20,737
Feb 200717680655.108.22$16,320
Jan 20072061,41450.306.73$19,874
Dec 20063111,48156.656.92$27,864
Nov 20062011,59654.207.62$23,052
Oct 20067267254.906.01$7,994
Sep 2006186060.085.04$11,175
Aug 200619368068.717.34$18,252
Jul 200620362669.376.34$18,053
Jun 200619869166.286.38$17,535
May 200622371366.016.42$19,301
Apr 200625283264.397.36$22,350
Mar 200624580456.707.08$19,586
Feb 200619275457.597.75$16,902
Jan 200624599660.598.93$23,742
Dec 200524498354.9413.42$26,593
Nov 20052921,12554.6910.59$27,881
Oct 20052801,14358.3413.80$32,104
Sep 20052991,17461.4512.08$32,554
Aug 20053051,21761.519.80$30,683
Jul 20052961,24955.697.84$26,281
Jun 20053031,22652.337.38$24,905
May 20052841,18545.226.65$20,724
Apr 20053081,18849.207.36$23,898
Mar 20052841,13750.377.15$22,440
Feb 20052561,15045.226.31$18,835
Jan 20053321,28843.166.32$22,472
Dec 20043231,26339.866.75$21,401
Nov 20042991,29045.286.33$21,705
Oct 20043201,34149.706.52$24,641
Sep 20043451,37343.245.28$22,173
Aug 20043631,45142.375.55$23,434
Jul 20043851,48538.286.08$23,773
Jun 20042941,43236.106.43$19,825
May 20043781,46537.486.49$23,682
Apr 20043381,37334.475.86$19,695
Mar 20043411,35934.365.53$19,232
Feb 20043431,31432.455.51$18,370
Jan 20043471,29432.036.30$19,266
Dec 20032501,31530.266.30$15,852
Nov 20032991,50828.804.60$15,541
Oct 20033411,47128.174.76$16,607
Sep 20033001,42226.314.75$14,647
Aug 20033421,47129.765.13$17,724
Jul 20034141,52929.415.17$20,082
Jun 20033571,54828.565.98$19,458
May 20033891,58426.595.97$19,804
Apr 20034001,46126.675.41$18,568
Mar 20035151,67931.146.10$26,272
Feb 20033591,41533.487.93$23,234
Jan 20035151,61630.315.58$24,630
Dec 20025021,58126.914.85$21,183
Nov 20024301,52624.664.14$16,917
Oct 20024841,73226.464.23$20,131
Sep 20023691,46427.443.64$15,447
Aug 20024581,71725.963.16$17,323
Jul 20024401,78624.583.06$16,284
Jun 20025231,76623.733.34$18,306
May 20025531,87024.663.58$20,339
Apr 20024611,89723.653.51$17,566
Mar 20025681,86422.003.10$18,279
Feb 20025001,73518.222.38$13,232
Jan 20026002,06617.172.38$15,210
Dec 20015862,09216.932.36$14,867
Nov 20015451,94418.072.41$14,524
Oct 20014952,11119.782.53$15,130
Sep 20015932,23224.262.25$19,411
Aug 20017202,42524.873.05$25,310
Jul 20015802,53123.933.20$21,971
Jun 20017342,33324.563.82$26,949
May 20018962,22825.524.31$32,463
Apr 20017982,27024.685.34$31,806
Mar 20018712,25224.545.38$33,482
Feb 20015281,56727.755.77$23,689
Jan 20014881,57827.478.40$26,659
Dec 20007351,65326.889.12$34,836
Nov 20009371,75532.215.66$40,111
Oct 20007501,68331.235.15$32,082
Sep 20007021,92431.875.19$32,352
Aug 20008542,01829.644.54$34,476
Jul 20007822,14428.534.09$31,079
Jun 20009042,26229.304.40$36,434
May 20001,1232,29427.263.68$39,054
Apr 20001,0132,04624.513.12$31,204
Mar 20001,0021,30328.422.86$32,203
Feb 20001,0071,19427.622.73$31,069
Jan 20001,0731,21325.272.48$30,124
Dec 19991,0561,08524.282.42$28,269
Nov 19991,0031,15723.192.43$26,076
Oct 19991,0252,49120.982.80$28,489
Sep 19991,0732,48721.752.62$29,851
Aug 19991,1642,78419.262.88$30,424
Jul 19991,2202,84417.892.37$28,573
Jun 19991,4492,81415.942.36$29,744
May 19991,5962,86615.792.32$31,853
Apr 19991,3047,90715.102.21$37,149
Mar 19991,2612,65112.471.84$20,598
Feb 19991,2992,6829.981.82$17,839
Jan 19991,4633,34510.381.90$21,541
Dec 19981,5743,4669.201.77$20,627
Nov 19981,5763,47110.892.19$24,749
Oct 19981,7184,19612.421.97$29,600
Sep 19981,8454,64912.592.08$32,911
Aug 19981,8934,20611.301.91$29,413
Jul 19982,1225,80111.742.24$37,891
Jun 19982,2666,49011.242.24$39,990
May 19982,5555,15212.622.21$43,611
Apr 19982,7055,90413.042.51$50,065
Mar 19982,8455,28612.802.31$48,624
Feb 19982,6074,70613.952.30$47,187
Jan 19983,2805,71614.702.15$60,533
Dec 19973,3655,65116.322.41$68,542
Nov 19973,3593,71518.193.09$72,573
Oct 19972,5074,70319.253.15$63,073
Sep 19972,8524,34017.742.95$63,419
Aug 19973,5473,91817.862.55$73,359
Jul 19972,8694,02917.582.25$59,490
Jun 19972,5963,84817.242.26$53,441
May 19973,0534,12618.972.31$67,440
Apr 19971,7122,21317.882.08$35,220
Mar 19979313,76618.951.94$24,945
Feb 19971,7202,59920.492.21$40,976
Jan 19972,2321,89623.483.54$59,119
Dec 19962,4801,60023.32$57,834
Nov 19962,1852,91921.97$48,004
Oct 19961,7762,91623.31$41,399
Sep 19961,9073,25622.22$42,374
Aug 19962,0062,94920.26$40,642
Jul 19962,1243,23519.55$41,524
Jun 19962,2253,45418.73$41,674
May 19962,8353,79919.43$55,084
Apr 19962,4723,49521.51$53,173
Mar 19962,6173,39019.38$50,717
Feb 19962,9903,09716.98$50,770
Jan 19963,5483,52917.07$60,564
Dec 19953,8583,80217.19$66,319
Nov 19953,5593,82516.00$56,944
Oct 19953,8994,86615.43$60,162
Sep 19954,4764,99916.18$72,422
Aug 19955,6187,32315.92$89,439
Jul 19958,3208,80215.24$126,797
Jun 19954,2733,58416.41$70,120
May 19954,7593,23017.56$83,568
Apr 19953,17465217.73$56,275
Mar 19958181,05016.44$13,448
Feb 199578085616.58$12,932
Jan 199592788315.92$14,758
Dec 199492889715.03$13,948
Nov 199483996115.90$13,340
Oct 199484298015.58$13,118
Sep 19948131,31215.29$12,431
Aug 19948141,00116.13$13,130
Jul 19949201,07117.56$16,155
Jun 19941,03646917.09$17,705
May 19949311,28215.88$14,784
Apr 19941,0831,43314.14$15,314
Mar 19941,1621,35012.46$14,479
Feb 199486995312.50$10,863
Jan 19949461,04412.66$11,976
Dec 19931,0181,09612.33$12,552
Nov 19931,0241,03914.49$14,838
Oct 19931,0101,13315.85$16,009
Sep 19931,0011,31315.03$15,045
Aug 19931,0741,48615.66$16,819
Jul 19931,0961,44715.46$16,944
Jun 19931,1521,44616.79$19,342
May 19931,2261,56417.68$21,676
Apr 19931,2771,65818.05$23,050
Mar 19931,3661,75118.14$24,779
Feb 19931,1851,33117.90$21,212
Jan 19931,3031,33216.93$22,060

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.

Sep 2017 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    1 bbl  × $ 47.52 =        $48
Casinghead gas        83 Mcf  × $  3.09 =       $256

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Month total                                     $304

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. 05/O/3256 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.