FOSSIL DACUS

Name: FOSSIL DACUS lease production and value, Sep 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 3457District 05Field 41515100OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$1.1 M

Sep 1993 – Jun 2015

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

262

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	61,263 bbl	$1,067,291
Casinghead gas	Production	146 Mcf	$453
Total			$1,067,743

40 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 40 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 31.0938, -96.2290. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.09385, -96.22901 · 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

10,228 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

21.5 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 10,228 ft.

Completions filed

Sep 1993

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Mar 2015

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 21.5 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 21.5 years and 21.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-28931191	1	10,228 ft	Sep 1993	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 (262)

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

262 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	45	0	84.98	3.65	$3,824
Sep 2011	0	0	83.62	3.99	$0
Aug 2011	0	0	83.40	4.15	$0
Jul 2011	0	0	94.14	4.52	$0
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	0	0	73.58	5.44	$0
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	0	0	72.54	4.11	$0
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	0	0	66.16	3.90	$0
May 2009	0	0	54.74	3.93	$0
Apr 2009	0	0	46.77	3.59	$0
Mar 2009	0	0	42.14	4.06	$0
Feb 2009	0	0	32.81	4.63	$0
Jan 2009	0	0	35.86	5.37	$0
Dec 2008	0	0	37.10	5.98	$0
Nov 2008	0	0	55.49	6.86	$0
Oct 2008	0	0	75.24	6.92	$0
Sep 2008	0	0	101.76	7.88	$0
Aug 2008	0	0	114.22	8.48	$0
Jul 2008	0	0	131.08	11.39	$0
Jun 2008	0	0	131.33	13.03	$0
May 2008	0	0	123.17	11.57	$0
Apr 2008	0	0	110.31	10.45	$0
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	0	0	88.33	7.30	$0
Nov 2007	0	0	91.67	7.29	$0
Oct 2007	0	0	82.85	6.92	$0
Sep 2007	0	0	75.84	6.24	$0
Aug 2007	0	0	69.06	6.39	$0
Jul 2007	0	0	70.90	6.39	$0
Jun 2007	0	0	62.00	7.55	$0
May 2007	0	0	58.74	7.85	$0
Apr 2007	0	0	59.61	7.81	$0
Mar 2007	0	0	56.92	7.30	$0
Feb 2007	0	0	55.10	8.22	$0
Jan 2007	0	0	50.30	6.73	$0
Dec 2006	0	0	56.65	6.92	$0
Nov 2006	0	0	54.20	7.62	$0
Oct 2006	0	0	54.90	6.01	$0
Sep 2006	122	0	60.08	5.04	$7,330
Aug 2006	0	0	68.71	7.34	$0
Jul 2006	0	0	69.37	6.34	$0
Jun 2006	4	0	66.28	6.38	$265
May 2006	0	0	66.01	6.42	$0
Apr 2006	0	0	64.39	7.36	$0
Mar 2006	0	0	56.70	7.08	$0
Feb 2006	0	0	57.59	7.75	$0
Jan 2006	0	0	60.59	8.93	$0
Dec 2005	0	0	54.94	13.42	$0
Nov 2005	380	0	54.69	10.59	$20,782
Oct 2005	0	1	58.34	13.80	$14
Sep 2005	0	1	61.45	12.08	$12
Aug 2005	0	1	61.51	9.80	$10
Jul 2005	0	1	55.69	7.84	$8
Jun 2005	0	1	52.33	7.38	$7
May 2005	0	1	45.22	6.65	$7
Apr 2005	0	1	49.20	7.36	$7
Mar 2005	0	1	50.37	7.15	$7
Feb 2005	0	1	45.22	6.31	$6
Jan 2005	0	1	43.16	6.32	$6
Dec 2004	0	1	39.86	6.75	$7
Nov 2004	0	1	45.28	6.33	$6
Oct 2004	0	1	49.70	6.52	$7
Sep 2004	0	1	43.24	5.28	$5
Aug 2004	0	1	42.37	5.55	$6
Jul 2004	0	1	38.28	6.08	$6
Jun 2004	6	1	36.10	6.43	$223
May 2004	0	1	37.48	6.49	$6
Apr 2004	0	1	34.47	5.86	$6
Mar 2004	0	1	34.36	5.53	$6
Feb 2004	0	1	32.45	5.51	$6
Jan 2004	164	1	32.03	6.30	$5,259
Dec 2003	0	1	30.26	6.30	$6
Nov 2003	0	1	28.80	4.60	$5
Oct 2003	0	1	28.17	4.76	$5
Sep 2003	0	1	26.31	4.75	$5
Aug 2003	0	1	29.76	5.13	$5
Jul 2003	0	1	29.41	5.17	$5
Jun 2003	180	1	28.56	5.98	$5,147
May 2003	0	1	26.59	5.97	$6
Apr 2003	0	1	26.67	5.41	$5
Mar 2003	0	1	31.14	6.10	$6
Feb 2003	0	1	33.48	7.93	$8
Jan 2003	0	1	30.31	5.58	$6
Dec 2002	0	1	26.91	4.85	$5
Nov 2002	168	1	24.66	4.14	$4,147
Oct 2002	0	1	26.46	4.23	$4
Sep 2002	0	1	27.44	3.64	$4
Aug 2002	0	1	25.96	3.16	$3
Jul 2002	164	1	24.58	3.06	$4,034
Jun 2002	166	1	23.73	3.34	$3,943
May 2002	0	1	24.66	3.58	$4
Apr 2002	0	1	23.65	3.51	$4
Mar 2002	0	1	22.00	3.10	$3
Feb 2002	0	1	18.22	2.38	$2
Jan 2002	0	1	17.17	2.38	$2
Dec 2001	0	1	16.93	2.36	$2
Nov 2001	0	1	18.07	2.41	$2
Oct 2001	0	1	19.78	2.53	$3
Sep 2001	169	1	24.26	2.25	$4,102
Aug 2001	0	1	24.87	3.05	$3
Jul 2001	167	1	23.93	3.20	$4,000
Jun 2001	165	1	24.56	3.82	$4,056
May 2001	338	1	25.52	4.31	$8,630
Apr 2001	172	1	24.68	5.34	$4,250
Mar 2001	168	1	24.54	5.38	$4,128
Feb 2001	175	1	27.75	5.77	$4,862
Jan 2001	0	1	27.47	8.40	$8
Dec 2000	0	1	26.88	9.12	$9
Nov 2000	350	1	32.21	5.66	$11,279
Oct 2000	0	1	31.23	5.15	$5
Sep 2000	328	1	31.87	5.19	$10,459
Aug 2000	183	1	29.64	4.54	$5,429
Jul 2000	181	1	28.53	4.09	$5,168
Jun 2000	354	1	29.30	4.40	$10,377
May 2000	355	1	27.26	3.68	$9,681
Apr 2000	173	1	24.51	3.12	$4,243
Mar 2000	165	1	28.42	2.86	$4,692
Feb 2000	328	1	27.62	2.73	$9,062
Jan 2000	359	1	25.27	2.48	$9,074
Dec 1999	344	1	24.28	2.42	$8,355
Nov 1999	0	1	23.19	2.43	$2
Oct 1999	521	1	20.98	2.80	$10,933
Sep 1999	0	1	21.75	2.62	$3
Aug 1999	171	1	19.26	2.88	$3,296
Jul 1999	369	1	17.89	2.37	$6,604
Jun 1999	176	1	15.94	2.36	$2,808
May 1999	175	1	15.79	2.32	$2,766
Apr 1999	658	1	15.10	2.21	$9,938
Mar 1999	172	1	12.47	1.84	$2,147
Feb 1999	161	1	9.98	1.82	$1,609
Jan 1999	172	1	10.38	1.90	$1,787
Dec 1998	170	1	9.20	1.77	$1,566
Nov 1998	352	1	10.89	2.19	$3,835
Oct 1998	163	1	12.42	1.97	$2,026
Sep 1998	358	1	12.59	2.08	$4,509
Aug 1998	184	1	11.30	1.91	$2,081
Jul 1998	359	1	11.74	2.24	$4,217
Jun 1998	161	1	11.24	2.24	$1,812
May 1998	336	1	12.62	2.21	$4,243
Apr 1998	324	1	13.04	2.51	$4,227
Mar 1998	330	1	12.80	2.31	$4,226
Feb 1998	304	1	13.95	2.30	$4,243
Jan 1998	211	1	14.70	2.15	$3,104
Dec 1997	211	1	16.32	2.41	$3,446
Nov 1997	510	1	18.19	3.09	$9,280
Oct 1997	335	1	19.25	3.15	$6,452
Sep 1997	654	1	17.74	2.95	$11,605
Aug 1997	0	1	17.86	2.55	$3
Jul 1997	362	1	17.58	2.25	$6,366
Jun 1997	352	1	17.24	2.26	$6,071
May 1997	393	1	18.97	2.31	$7,458
Apr 1997	342	1	17.88	2.08	$6,117
Mar 1997	516	1	18.95	1.94	$9,780
Feb 1997	502	1	20.49	2.21	$10,288
Jan 1997	361	1	23.48	3.54	$8,480
Dec 1996	520	1	23.32	—	$12,126
Nov 1996	333	1	21.97	—	$7,316
Oct 1996	527	1	23.31	—	$12,284
Sep 1996	486	1	22.22	—	$10,799
Aug 1996	497	1	20.26	—	$10,069
Jul 1996	513	1	19.55	—	$10,029
Jun 1996	348	1	18.73	—	$6,518
May 1996	583	1	19.43	—	$11,328
Apr 1996	341	1	21.51	—	$7,335
Mar 1996	509	1	19.38	—	$9,864
Feb 1996	507	1	16.98	—	$8,609
Jan 1996	545	1	17.07	—	$9,303
Dec 1995	517	1	17.19	—	$8,887
Nov 1995	715	1	16.00	—	$11,440
Oct 1995	520	1	15.43	—	$8,024
Sep 1995	547	1	16.18	—	$8,850
Aug 1995	716	1	15.92	—	$11,399
Jul 1995	707	1	15.24	—	$10,775
Jun 1995	674	1	16.41	—	$11,060
May 1995	1,023	1	17.56	—	$17,964
Apr 1995	703	1	17.73	—	$12,464
Mar 1995	995	1	16.44	—	$16,358
Feb 1995	1,047	1	16.58	—	$17,359
Jan 1995	1,207	1	15.92	—	$19,215
Dec 1994	1,265	1	15.03	—	$19,013
Nov 1994	1,247	1	15.90	—	$19,827
Oct 1994	1,743	1	15.58	—	$27,156
Sep 1994	1,336	1	15.29	—	$20,427
Aug 1994	1,872	1	16.13	—	$30,195
Jul 1994	2,022	1	17.56	—	$35,506
Jun 1994	2,184	1	17.09	—	$37,325
May 1994	1,425	1	15.88	—	$22,629
Apr 1994	1,454	1	14.14	—	$20,560
Mar 1994	1,050	1	12.46	—	$13,083
Feb 1994	833	1	12.50	—	$10,413
Jan 1994	1,233	1	12.66	—	$15,610
Dec 1993	1,885	1	12.33	—	$23,242
Nov 1993	2,933	1	14.49	—	$42,499
Oct 1993	5,261	1	15.85	—	$83,387
Sep 1993	2,202	1	15.03	—	$33,096

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                   45 bbl  × $ 84.98 =     $3,824
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.65 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $3,824

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/3457 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.