HOWELL, R. A. 44

Name: HOWELL, R. A. 44 lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

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 3294District 05Field 93042166NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$1.1 M

Jan 1993 – Jul 2010

Value, last 12 filed months

$5 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

211

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The VAN (AUSTIN CHALK) 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 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.

Programme	Filings	With an approval date	Dated	Docket
NGPA	3	none	—	—

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Oil	Disposition	31,419 bbl	$637,198
Casinghead gas	Production	152,185 Mcf	$439,362
Total			$1,076,559

50,122 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 (4)

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 32.5268, -95.6528. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.1 miles.

32.52664, -95.65289 · 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%

4 of 4 wells

With a plug date

100.0%

4 of 4 wells

Median depth

2,732 ft

4 wells filed one

Completion to plug

20.3 years

median over 4 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

4100.0%

A plug date is filed

4100.0%

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

4100.0%

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

Between 2,500 and 3,392 ft, median 2,732 ft, over the 4 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Jan 1989 – Nov 1990

4 of 4 wells

Plug dates filed

May 2010 – Jun 2010

4 of 4 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 20.3 years across the 4 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 19.6 years and 21.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

4 wells


42-46730804	10	3,392 ft	Nov 1990	May 2010	Yes
42-46730803	9	2,505 ft	Oct 1990	May 2010	Yes
42-46730740	8	2,500 ft	Jun 1989	Jun 2010	Yes
42-46700968	4	2,959 ft	Jan 1989	Jun 2010	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 (211)

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

211 months


Jul 2010	0	0	72.55	4.74	$0
Jun 2010	0	0	70.36	4.91	$0
May 2010	0	0	71.12	4.24	$0
Apr 2010	0	0	81.69	4.12	$0
Mar 2010	6	69	78.39	4.39	$773
Feb 2010	6	77	73.58	5.44	$861
Jan 2010	1	112	74.36	5.96	$742
Dec 2009	4	107	71.44	5.48	$873
Nov 2009	3	116	74.59	3.75	$659
Oct 2009	3	102	72.54	4.11	$637
Sep 2009	2	111	65.54	3.06	$471
Aug 2009	1	89	67.42	3.22	$354
Jul 2009	9	99	61.13	3.46	$893
Jun 2009	2	90	66.16	3.90	$483
May 2009	10	115	54.74	3.93	$999
Apr 2009	33	110	46.77	3.59	$1,938
Mar 2009	10	120	42.14	4.06	$908
Feb 2009	11	88	32.81	4.63	$769
Jan 2009	11	0	35.86	5.37	$394
Dec 2008	13	0	37.10	5.98	$482
Nov 2008	17	85	55.49	6.86	$1,526
Oct 2008	18	87	75.24	6.92	$1,957
Sep 2008	17	84	101.76	7.88	$2,392
Aug 2008	14	90	114.22	8.48	$2,363
Jul 2008	15	120	131.08	11.39	$3,333
Jun 2008	16	103	131.33	13.03	$3,444
May 2008	28	282	123.17	11.57	$6,713
Apr 2008	23	269	110.31	10.45	$5,349
Mar 2008	21	224	101.90	9.66	$4,305
Feb 2008	25	214	92.53	8.77	$4,190
Jan 2008	29	308	90.38	8.21	$5,148
Dec 2007	10	376	88.33	7.30	$3,629
Nov 2007	18	409	91.67	7.29	$4,632
Oct 2007	14	337	82.85	6.92	$3,493
Sep 2007	4	312	75.84	6.24	$2,252
Aug 2007	7	380	69.06	6.39	$2,911
Jul 2007	5	340	70.90	6.39	$2,526
Jun 2007	2	345	62.00	7.55	$2,728
May 2007	11	429	58.74	7.85	$4,012
Apr 2007	5	385	59.61	7.81	$3,303
Mar 2007	10	385	56.92	7.30	$3,380
Feb 2007	12	414	55.10	8.22	$4,063
Jan 2007	2	416	50.30	6.73	$2,899
Dec 2006	2	41	56.65	6.92	$397
Nov 2006	2	568	54.20	7.62	$4,435
Oct 2006	2	185	54.90	6.01	$1,222
Sep 2006	4	0	60.08	5.04	$240
Aug 2006	4	415	68.71	7.34	$3,321
Jul 2006	2	377	69.37	6.34	$2,530
Jun 2006	1	383	66.28	6.38	$2,511
May 2006	4	485	66.01	6.42	$3,380
Apr 2006	6	442	64.39	7.36	$3,640
Mar 2006	15	575	56.70	7.08	$4,923
Feb 2006	13	510	57.59	7.75	$4,702
Jan 2006	27	613	60.59	8.93	$7,112
Dec 2005	52	601	54.94	13.42	$10,920
Nov 2005	40	630	54.69	10.59	$8,858
Oct 2005	42	562	58.34	13.80	$10,204
Sep 2005	43	603	61.45	12.08	$9,926
Aug 2005	34	608	61.51	9.80	$8,048
Jul 2005	19	640	55.69	7.84	$6,078
Jun 2005	11	558	52.33	7.38	$4,694
May 2005	11	617	45.22	6.65	$4,601
Apr 2005	75	594	49.20	7.36	$8,062
Mar 2005	60	521	50.37	7.15	$6,750
Feb 2005	80	527	45.22	6.31	$6,944
Jan 2005	76	583	43.16	6.32	$6,966
Dec 2004	51	560	39.86	6.75	$5,813
Nov 2004	76	514	45.28	6.33	$6,695
Oct 2004	81	651	49.70	6.52	$8,267
Sep 2004	71	634	43.24	5.28	$6,420
Aug 2004	73	660	42.37	5.55	$6,756
Jul 2004	73	760	38.28	6.08	$7,418
Jun 2004	70	656	36.10	6.43	$6,747
May 2004	72	658	37.48	6.49	$6,972
Apr 2004	72	630	34.47	5.86	$6,173
Mar 2004	81	679	34.36	5.53	$6,538
Feb 2004	77	590	32.45	5.51	$5,749
Jan 2004	73	550	32.03	6.30	$5,803
Dec 2003	89	695	30.26	6.30	$7,073
Nov 2003	71	739	28.80	4.60	$5,441
Oct 2003	56	748	28.17	4.76	$5,138
Sep 2003	68	675	26.31	4.75	$4,995
Aug 2003	89	684	29.76	5.13	$6,157
Jul 2003	78	656	29.41	5.17	$5,686
Jun 2003	46	667	28.56	5.98	$5,304
May 2003	47	640	26.59	5.97	$5,072
Apr 2003	25	460	26.67	5.41	$3,154
Mar 2003	36	649	31.14	6.10	$5,077
Feb 2003	30	534	33.48	7.93	$5,237
Jan 2003	45	569	30.31	5.58	$4,540
Dec 2002	63	548	26.91	4.85	$4,355
Nov 2002	28	549	24.66	4.14	$2,962
Oct 2002	43	761	26.46	4.23	$4,356
Sep 2002	30	488	27.44	3.64	$2,597
Aug 2002	36	640	25.96	3.16	$2,960
Jul 2002	84	655	24.58	3.06	$4,070
Jun 2002	74	633	23.73	3.34	$3,869
May 2002	77	644	24.66	3.58	$4,207
Apr 2002	94	733	23.65	3.51	$4,798
Mar 2002	100	681	22.00	3.10	$4,313
Feb 2002	34	608	18.22	2.38	$2,064
Jan 2002	32	680	17.17	2.38	$2,165
Dec 2001	27	647	16.93	2.36	$1,987
Nov 2001	49	639	18.07	2.41	$2,423
Oct 2001	30	752	19.78	2.53	$2,495
Sep 2001	58	687	24.26	2.25	$2,954
Aug 2001	81	737	24.87	3.05	$4,265
Jul 2001	85	820	23.93	3.20	$4,656
Jun 2001	93	707	24.56	3.82	$4,988
May 2001	82	829	25.52	4.31	$5,663
Apr 2001	88	668	24.68	5.34	$5,736
Mar 2001	115	663	24.54	5.38	$6,387
Feb 2001	85	581	27.75	5.77	$5,709
Jan 2001	86	611	27.47	8.40	$7,494
Dec 2000	80	591	26.88	9.12	$7,542
Nov 2000	72	594	32.21	5.66	$5,680
Oct 2000	60	633	31.23	5.15	$5,131
Sep 2000	62	633	31.87	5.19	$5,259
Aug 2000	84	771	29.64	4.54	$5,991
Jul 2000	103	826	28.53	4.09	$6,317
Jun 2000	119	784	29.30	4.40	$6,934
May 2000	90	766	27.26	3.68	$5,272
Apr 2000	83	737	24.51	3.12	$4,331
Mar 2000	101	750	28.42	2.86	$5,015
Feb 2000	96	675	27.62	2.73	$4,492
Jan 2000	96	769	25.27	2.48	$4,333
Dec 1999	100	783	24.28	2.42	$4,326
Nov 1999	129	759	23.19	2.43	$4,839
Oct 1999	128	810	20.98	2.80	$4,956
Sep 1999	107	747	21.75	2.62	$4,284
Aug 1999	155	828	19.26	2.88	$5,366
Jul 1999	144	827	17.89	2.37	$4,538
Jun 1999	129	997	15.94	2.36	$4,411
May 1999	148	988	15.79	2.32	$4,630
Apr 1999	136	878	15.10	2.21	$3,992
Mar 1999	127	1,099	12.47	1.84	$3,604
Feb 1999	129	960	9.98	1.82	$3,033
Jan 1999	147	1,244	10.38	1.90	$3,889
Dec 1998	181	1,198	9.20	1.77	$3,790
Nov 1998	210	1,075	10.89	2.19	$4,637
Oct 1998	138	1,195	12.42	1.97	$4,067
Sep 1998	155	1,153	12.59	2.08	$4,353
Aug 1998	157	1,141	11.30	1.91	$3,950
Jul 1998	219	1,021	11.74	2.24	$4,855
Jun 1998	204	1,139	11.24	2.24	$4,841
May 1998	311	1,461	12.62	2.21	$7,148
Apr 1998	321	1,434	13.04	2.51	$7,778
Mar 1998	307	1,441	12.80	2.31	$7,258
Feb 1998	219	1,239	13.95	2.30	$5,904
Jan 1998	275	1,335	14.70	2.15	$6,919
Dec 1997	307	1,400	16.32	2.41	$8,386
Nov 1997	332	1,285	18.19	3.09	$10,007
Oct 1997	418	1,392	19.25	3.15	$12,431
Sep 1997	488	1,220	17.74	2.95	$12,262
Aug 1997	538	1,370	17.86	2.55	$13,109
Jul 1997	398	1,607	17.58	2.25	$10,608
Jun 1997	487	1,734	17.24	2.26	$12,310
May 1997	692	1,875	18.97	2.31	$17,456
Apr 1997	535	1,148	17.88	2.08	$11,957
Mar 1997	502	1,442	18.95	1.94	$12,309
Feb 1997	447	1,310	20.49	2.21	$12,049
Jan 1997	513	1,343	23.48	3.54	$16,799
Dec 1996	559	1,357	23.32	—	$13,036
Nov 1996	496	1,124	21.97	—	$10,897
Oct 1996	565	1,558	23.31	—	$13,170
Sep 1996	631	1,620	22.22	—	$14,021
Aug 1996	735	1,393	20.26	—	$14,891
Jul 1996	581	490	19.55	—	$11,359
Jun 1996	109	735	18.73	—	$2,042
May 1996	120	993	19.43	—	$2,332
Apr 1996	168	696	21.51	—	$3,614
Mar 1996	152	990	19.38	—	$2,946
Feb 1996	176	712	16.98	—	$2,988
Jan 1996	153	654	17.07	—	$2,612
Dec 1995	189	818	17.19	—	$3,249
Nov 1995	91	750	16.00	—	$1,456
Oct 1995	160	763	15.43	—	$2,469
Sep 1995	303	836	16.18	—	$4,903
Aug 1995	205	971	15.92	—	$3,264
Jul 1995	202	830	15.24	—	$3,078
Jun 1995	310	1,015	16.41	—	$5,087
May 1995	442	1,052	17.56	—	$7,762
Apr 1995	352	927	17.73	—	$6,241
Mar 1995	586	340	16.44	—	$9,634
Feb 1995	229	675	16.58	—	$3,797
Jan 1995	233	837	15.92	—	$3,709
Dec 1994	210	887	15.03	—	$3,156
Nov 1994	233	936	15.90	—	$3,705
Oct 1994	282	1,087	15.58	—	$4,394
Sep 1994	253	1,069	15.29	—	$3,868
Aug 1994	313	1,090	16.13	—	$5,049
Jul 1994	277	1,103	17.56	—	$4,864
Jun 1994	258	1,099	17.09	—	$4,409
May 1994	344	1,020	15.88	—	$5,463
Apr 1994	465	1,054	14.14	—	$6,575
Mar 1994	386	1,168	12.46	—	$4,810
Feb 1994	378	1,117	12.50	—	$4,725
Jan 1994	436	1,175	12.66	—	$5,520
Dec 1993	416	1,208	12.33	—	$5,129
Nov 1993	409	1,107	14.49	—	$5,926
Oct 1993	332	1,224	15.85	—	$5,262
Sep 1993	352	1,231	15.03	—	$5,291
Aug 1993	410	1,333	15.66	—	$6,421
Jul 1993	443	1,306	15.46	—	$6,849
Jun 1993	456	1,171	16.79	—	$7,656
May 1993	220	1,288	17.68	—	$3,890
Apr 1993	368	1,228	18.05	—	$6,642
Mar 1993	456	1,335	18.14	—	$8,272
Feb 1993	319	1,222	17.90	—	$5,710
Jan 1993	480	1,528	16.93	—	$8,126

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.

Mar 2010 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                    6 bbl  × $ 78.39 =       $470
Casinghead gas        69 Mcf  × $  4.39 =       $303

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Month total                                     $773

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/3294 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.