FOSSIL WILDMAN-HILLTOP

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

Operated by FOSSIL OPERATING, INC. (P-5 278846) in the HILLTOP RESORT (AUSTIN CHALK) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 3437District 05Field 41515100OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$2.4 M

Jan 1993 – Jun 2015

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

270

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The HILLTOP RESORT (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 24 leases and 25 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1982-09-01

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

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 1993-01-11.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “STATEWIDE RULES APPLY TO ALL VERTICAL WELLS”

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	107,085 bbl	$2,370,442
Casinghead gas	Production	1,222 Mcf	$59
Total			$2,370,501

1,197 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 31.0807, -96.2030. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.08071, -96.20303 · 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

6,311 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

3.3 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 6,311 ft.

Completions filed

Dec 2011

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Mar 2015

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 3.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 3.3 years and 3.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-28931173	1	6,311 ft	Dec 2011	Mar 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 (270)

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

270 months


Jun 2015	0	0	56.15	2.88	$0
May 2015	0	0	55.21	2.96	$0
Apr 2015	0	0	49.82	2.71	$0
Mar 2015	0	0	42.89	2.93	$0
Feb 2015	0	0	44.66	2.98	$0
Jan 2015	0	0	43.43	3.10	$0
Dec 2014	0	0	54.69	3.59	$0
Nov 2014	0	0	70.46	4.25	$0
Oct 2014	0	0	78.30	3.90	$0
Sep 2014	0	0	86.16	4.05	$0
Aug 2014	0	0	89.39	4.04	$0
Jul 2014	0	0	96.56	4.18	$0
Jun 2014	0	0	98.16	4.74	$0
May 2014	0	0	94.73	4.73	$0
Apr 2014	0	0	95.94	4.81	$0
Mar 2014	0	0	95.89	5.06	$0
Feb 2014	0	0	97.40	6.19	$0
Jan 2014	0	0	90.40	4.86	$0
Dec 2013	0	0	91.82	4.35	$0
Nov 2013	0	0	88.85	3.74	$0
Oct 2013	0	0	97.42	3.78	$0
Sep 2013	0	0	104.11	3.72	$0
Aug 2013	0	0	104.25	3.52	$0
Jul 2013	0	0	102.52	3.72	$0
Jun 2013	0	0	94.40	3.93	$0
May 2013	0	0	94.83	4.15	$0
Apr 2013	0	0	93.96	4.28	$0
Mar 2013	0	0	93.62	3.91	$0
Feb 2013	0	0	91.23	3.42	$0
Jan 2013	0	0	91.60	3.42	$0
Dec 2012	0	0	86.77	3.42	$0
Nov 2012	0	0	86.95	3.62	$0
Oct 2012	0	0	89.38	3.40	$0
Sep 2012	0	0	94.67	2.92	$0
Aug 2012	0	0	92.66	2.91	$0
Jul 2012	0	0	85.13	3.02	$0
Jun 2012	0	0	79.82	2.52	$0
May 2012	0	0	91.61	2.49	$0
Apr 2012	0	0	101.65	2.00	$0
Mar 2012	0	0	105.05	2.22	$0
Feb 2012	0	0	101.10	2.57	$0
Jan 2012	0	0	98.09	2.73	$0
Dec 2011	0	0	96.87	3.24	$0
Nov 2011	0	0	95.72	3.31	$0
Oct 2011	30	0	84.98	3.65	$2,549
Sep 2011	0	0	83.62	3.99	$0
Aug 2011	0	0	83.40	4.15	$0
Jul 2011	131	0	94.14	4.52	$12,332
Jun 2011	0	0	92.90	4.64	$0
May 2011	0	0	98.13	4.40	$0
Apr 2011	0	0	105.96	4.33	$0
Mar 2011	0	0	96.36	4.06	$0
Feb 2011	0	0	85.64	4.18	$0
Jan 2011	0	0	86.50	4.59	$0
Dec 2010	0	0	85.73	4.35	$0
Nov 2010	0	0	80.84	3.80	$0
Oct 2010	0	0	78.10	3.51	$0
Sep 2010	0	0	72.63	3.98	$0
Aug 2010	0	0	73.68	4.42	$0
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	0	0	78.39	4.39	$0
Feb 2010	4	0	73.58	5.44	$294
Jan 2010	0	0	74.36	5.96	$0
Dec 2009	0	0	71.44	5.48	$0
Nov 2009	0	0	74.59	3.75	$0
Oct 2009	115	0	72.54	4.11	$8,342
Sep 2009	0	0	65.54	3.06	$0
Aug 2009	0	0	67.42	3.22	$0
Jul 2009	0	0	61.13	3.46	$0
Jun 2009	171	0	66.16	3.90	$11,313
May 2009	170	0	54.74	3.93	$9,306
Apr 2009	148	0	46.77	3.59	$6,922
Mar 2009	366	0	42.14	4.06	$15,423
Feb 2009	0	0	32.81	4.63	$0
Jan 2009	373	0	35.86	5.37	$13,376
Dec 2008	0	0	37.10	5.98	$0
Nov 2008	2	0	55.49	6.86	$111
Oct 2008	4	0	75.24	6.92	$301
Sep 2008	184	0	101.76	7.88	$18,724
Aug 2008	197	0	114.22	8.48	$22,501
Jul 2008	179	0	131.08	11.39	$23,463
Jun 2008	0	0	131.33	13.03	$0
May 2008	178	0	123.17	11.57	$21,924
Apr 2008	182	0	110.31	10.45	$20,076
Mar 2008	0	0	101.90	9.66	$0
Feb 2008	0	0	92.53	8.77	$0
Jan 2008	0	0	90.38	8.21	$0
Dec 2007	349	0	88.33	7.30	$30,827
Nov 2007	180	0	91.67	7.29	$16,501
Oct 2007	2	0	82.85	6.92	$166
Sep 2007	0	0	75.84	6.24	$0
Aug 2007	0	0	69.06	6.39	$0
Jul 2007	153	0	70.90	6.39	$10,848
Jun 2007	0	0	62.00	7.55	$0
May 2007	171	0	58.74	7.85	$10,045
Apr 2007	170	0	59.61	7.81	$10,134
Mar 2007	169	0	56.92	7.30	$9,619
Feb 2007	179	0	55.10	8.22	$9,863
Jan 2007	10	0	50.30	6.73	$503
Dec 2006	331	0	56.65	6.92	$18,751
Nov 2006	0	0	54.20	7.62	$0
Oct 2006	160	0	54.90	6.01	$8,784
Sep 2006	190	0	60.08	5.04	$11,415
Aug 2006	364	0	68.71	7.34	$25,010
Jul 2006	0	0	69.37	6.34	$0
Jun 2006	178	0	66.28	6.38	$11,798
May 2006	196	0	66.01	6.42	$12,938
Apr 2006	356	0	64.39	7.36	$22,923
Mar 2006	0	0	56.70	7.08	$0
Feb 2006	7	0	57.59	7.75	$403
Jan 2006	158	0	60.59	8.93	$9,573
Dec 2005	362	0	54.94	13.42	$19,888
Nov 2005	351	0	54.69	10.59	$19,196
Oct 2005	469	0	58.34	13.80	$27,361
Sep 2005	541	0	61.45	12.08	$33,244
Aug 2005	539	0	61.51	9.80	$33,154
Jul 2005	522	0	55.69	7.84	$29,070
Jun 2005	499	0	52.33	7.38	$26,113
May 2005	330	0	45.22	6.65	$14,923
Apr 2005	727	0	49.20	7.36	$35,768
Mar 2005	711	0	50.37	7.15	$35,813
Feb 2005	340	0	45.22	6.31	$15,375
Jan 2005	177	0	43.16	6.32	$7,639
Dec 2004	180	0	39.86	6.75	$7,175
Nov 2004	180	0	45.28	6.33	$8,150
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	137	0	38.28	6.08	$5,244
Jun 2004	0	0	36.10	6.43	$0
May 2004	176	0	37.48	6.49	$6,596
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	347	0	31.14	6.10	$10,806
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	1	0	24.66	3.58	$25
Apr 2002	1	0	23.65	3.51	$24
Mar 2002	0	0	22.00	3.10	$0
Feb 2002	1	0	18.22	2.38	$18
Jan 2002	178	0	17.17	2.38	$3,056
Dec 2001	4	0	16.93	2.36	$68
Nov 2001	177	0	18.07	2.41	$3,198
Oct 2001	2	0	19.78	2.53	$40
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	5	0	24.56	3.82	$123
May 2001	5	0	25.52	4.31	$128
Apr 2001	179	0	24.68	5.34	$4,418
Mar 2001	339	0	24.54	5.38	$8,319
Feb 2001	175	0	27.75	5.77	$4,856
Jan 2001	388	0	27.47	8.40	$10,658
Dec 2000	13	0	26.88	9.12	$349
Nov 2000	561	0	32.21	5.66	$18,070
Oct 2000	367	0	31.23	5.15	$11,461
Sep 2000	363	0	31.87	5.19	$11,569
Aug 2000	179	0	29.64	4.54	$5,306
Jul 2000	176	0	28.53	4.09	$5,021
Jun 2000	183	0	29.30	4.40	$5,362
May 2000	0	0	27.26	3.68	$0
Apr 2000	521	0	24.51	3.12	$12,770
Mar 2000	184	0	28.42	2.86	$5,229
Feb 2000	366	0	27.62	2.73	$10,109
Jan 2000	389	0	25.27	2.48	$9,830
Dec 1999	0	0	24.28	2.42	$0
Nov 1999	368	0	23.19	2.43	$8,534
Oct 1999	172	0	20.98	2.80	$3,609
Sep 1999	341	0	21.75	2.62	$7,417
Aug 1999	516	0	19.26	2.88	$9,938
Jul 1999	185	0	17.89	2.37	$3,310
Jun 1999	204	0	15.94	2.36	$3,252
May 1999	563	0	15.79	2.32	$8,890
Apr 1999	546	0	15.10	2.21	$8,245
Mar 1999	209	0	12.47	1.84	$2,606
Feb 1999	0	0	9.98	1.82	$0
Jan 1999	288	1	10.38	1.90	$2,991
Dec 1998	0	1	9.20	1.77	$2
Nov 1998	338	1	10.89	2.19	$3,683
Oct 1998	162	1	12.42	1.97	$2,014
Sep 1998	336	1	12.59	2.08	$4,232
Aug 1998	266	1	11.30	1.91	$3,008
Jul 1998	363	1	11.74	2.24	$4,264
Jun 1998	338	1	11.24	2.24	$3,801
May 1998	534	1	12.62	2.21	$6,741
Apr 1998	162	1	13.04	2.51	$2,115
Mar 1998	477	1	12.80	2.31	$6,108
Feb 1998	171	1	13.95	2.30	$2,388
Jan 1998	502	1	14.70	2.15	$7,382
Dec 1997	184	1	16.32	2.41	$3,005
Nov 1997	498	1	18.19	3.09	$9,062
Oct 1997	342	1	19.25	3.15	$6,587
Sep 1997	327	1	17.74	2.95	$5,804
Aug 1997	331	1	17.86	2.55	$5,914
Jul 1997	524	1	17.58	2.25	$9,214
Jun 1997	541	1	17.24	2.26	$9,329
May 1997	340	1	18.97	2.31	$6,452
Apr 1997	685	1	17.88	2.08	$12,250
Mar 1997	500	1	18.95	1.94	$9,477
Feb 1997	382	1	20.49	2.21	$7,829
Jan 1997	563	1	23.48	3.54	$13,223
Dec 1996	718	1	23.32	—	$16,744
Nov 1996	405	1	21.97	—	$8,898
Oct 1996	514	521	23.31	—	$11,981
Sep 1996	543	630	22.22	—	$12,065
Aug 1996	877	1	20.26	—	$17,768
Jul 1996	676	1	19.55	—	$13,216
Jun 1996	841	1	18.73	—	$15,752
May 1996	724	1	19.43	—	$14,067
Apr 1996	909	1	21.51	—	$19,553
Mar 1996	709	1	19.38	—	$13,740
Feb 1996	749	1	16.98	—	$12,718
Jan 1996	563	1	17.07	—	$9,610
Dec 1995	1,100	1	17.19	—	$18,909
Nov 1995	518	1	16.00	—	$8,288
Oct 1995	881	1	15.43	—	$13,594
Sep 1995	1,110	1	16.18	—	$17,960
Aug 1995	1,453	1	15.92	—	$23,132
Jul 1995	1,281	1	15.24	—	$19,522
Jun 1995	896	1	16.41	—	$14,703
May 1995	1,253	1	17.56	—	$22,003
Apr 1995	1,050	1	17.73	—	$18,617
Mar 1995	901	1	16.44	—	$14,812
Feb 1995	1,255	1	16.58	—	$20,808
Jan 1995	1,897	1	15.92	—	$30,200
Dec 1994	1,067	1	15.03	—	$16,037
Nov 1994	1,576	1	15.90	—	$25,058
Oct 1994	1,948	1	15.58	—	$30,350
Sep 1994	1,033	1	15.29	—	$15,795
Aug 1994	707	1	16.13	—	$11,404
Jul 1994	1,075	1	17.56	—	$18,877
Jun 1994	1,571	1	17.09	—	$26,848
May 1994	1,270	1	15.88	—	$20,168
Apr 1994	1,060	1	14.14	—	$14,988
Mar 1994	1,572	1	12.46	—	$19,587
Feb 1994	1,232	1	12.50	—	$15,400
Jan 1994	352	1	12.66	—	$4,456
Dec 1993	1,406	1	12.33	—	$17,336
Nov 1993	2,706	1	14.49	—	$39,210
Oct 1993	1,947	1	15.85	—	$30,860
Sep 1993	2,654	1	15.03	—	$39,890
Aug 1993	2,308	1	15.66	—	$36,143
Jul 1993	4,624	1	15.46	—	$71,487
Jun 1993	2,303	1	16.79	—	$38,667
May 1993	2,400	1	17.68	—	$42,432
Apr 1993	2,614	1	18.05	—	$47,183
Mar 1993	4,857	1	18.14	—	$88,106
Feb 1993	5,890	1	17.90	—	$105,431
Jan 1993	7,730	1	16.93	—	$130,869

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.

Oct 2011 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   30 bbl  × $ 84.98 =     $2,549
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.65 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $2,549

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/3437 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.