HIGHTOWER, IRMA "A"

Name: HIGHTOWER, IRMA "A" lease production and value, Nov 1996 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by XTO ENERGY INC. (P-5 945936) in the BETHANY, EAST (COTTON VALLEY) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 13705District 06Field 07528500OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$2.1 M

Nov 1996 – Dec 2011

Value, last 12 filed months

$11 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

182

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The BETHANY, EAST (COTTON VALLEY) 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 264 leases and 264 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1973-06-01

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

0 ft

minimum

From a lease line

330 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 2010-12-14.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “DENSITY HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED, CORRELATIVE INTERVAL 8112-9435 FT.”

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	12,423 bbl	$346,813
Casinghead gas	Production	407,113 Mcf	$1,775,336
Total			$2,122,150

23,055 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 2 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 32.2785, -94.0756. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.27847, -94.07559 · 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

11,200 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

13.0 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 11,200 ft.

Completions filed

Apr 2011

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Apr 2024

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 13.0 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 13.0 years and 13.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-36533294	3	11,200 ft	Apr 2011	Apr 2024	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 (182)

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

182 months


Dec 2011	0	0	96.87	3.24	$0
Nov 2011	0	0	95.72	3.31	$0
Oct 2011	0	0	84.98	3.65	$0
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	2	0	105.96	4.33	$212
Mar 2011	0	467	96.36	4.06	$1,895
Feb 2011	0	935	85.64	4.18	$3,908
Jan 2011	0	988	86.50	4.59	$4,534
Dec 2010	0	1,169	85.73	4.35	$5,083
Nov 2010	0	860	80.84	3.80	$3,264
Oct 2010	5	773	78.10	3.51	$3,103
Sep 2010	0	594	72.63	3.98	$2,364
Aug 2010	0	800	73.68	4.42	$3,535
Jul 2010	0	916	72.55	4.74	$4,339
Jun 2010	0	1,123	70.36	4.91	$5,514
May 2010	0	1,204	71.12	4.24	$5,099
Apr 2010	0	588	81.69	4.12	$2,424
Mar 2010	0	745	78.39	4.39	$3,270
Feb 2010	0	585	73.58	5.44	$3,184
Jan 2010	0	487	74.36	5.96	$2,905
Dec 2009	0	486	71.44	5.48	$2,665
Nov 2009	20	637	74.59	3.75	$3,882
Oct 2009	0	563	72.54	4.11	$2,314
Sep 2009	0	614	65.54	3.06	$1,882
Aug 2009	0	690	67.42	3.22	$2,221
Jul 2009	0	171	61.13	3.46	$592
Jun 2009	0	971	66.16	3.90	$3,782
May 2009	0	995	54.74	3.93	$3,906
Apr 2009	0	894	46.77	3.59	$3,207
Mar 2009	75	875	42.14	4.06	$6,712
Feb 2009	0	416	32.81	4.63	$1,927
Jan 2009	0	928	35.86	5.37	$4,984
Dec 2008	0	798	37.10	5.98	$4,770
Nov 2008	0	885	55.49	6.86	$6,071
Oct 2008	0	1,029	75.24	6.92	$7,123
Sep 2008	0	566	101.76	7.88	$4,458
Aug 2008	0	867	114.22	8.48	$7,355
Jul 2008	94	1,240	131.08	11.39	$26,444
Jun 2008	0	1,186	131.33	13.03	$15,457
May 2008	0	1,158	123.17	11.57	$13,403
Apr 2008	0	1,438	110.31	10.45	$15,034
Mar 2008	0	1,148	101.90	9.66	$11,094
Feb 2008	42	1,867	92.53	8.77	$20,261
Jan 2008	0	707	90.38	8.21	$5,801
Dec 2007	0	1,890	88.33	7.30	$13,801
Nov 2007	147	1,898	91.67	7.29	$27,315
Oct 2007	141	1,746	82.85	6.92	$23,768
Sep 2007	0	1,240	75.84	6.24	$7,743
Aug 2007	0	1,102	69.06	6.39	$7,040
Jul 2007	144	1,966	70.90	6.39	$22,768
Jun 2007	1	1,586	62.00	7.55	$12,034
May 2007	88	1,834	58.74	7.85	$19,559
Apr 2007	0	2,152	59.61	7.81	$16,797
Mar 2007	0	1,795	56.92	7.30	$13,107
Feb 2007	80	1,238	55.10	8.22	$14,579
Jan 2007	0	1,701	50.30	6.73	$11,442
Dec 2006	62	1,951	56.65	6.92	$17,010
Nov 2006	0	1,701	54.20	7.62	$12,957
Oct 2006	0	2,121	54.90	6.01	$12,755
Sep 2006	62	2,096	60.08	5.04	$14,283
Aug 2006	0	1,942	68.71	7.34	$14,254
Jul 2006	61	2,051	69.37	6.34	$17,241
Jun 2006	0	2,098	66.28	6.38	$13,393
May 2006	65	2,281	66.01	6.42	$18,946
Apr 2006	0	2,135	64.39	7.36	$15,715
Mar 2006	60	2,062	56.70	7.08	$18,007
Feb 2006	55	2,117	57.59	7.75	$19,577
Jan 2006	0	1,965	60.59	8.93	$17,554
Dec 2005	61	1,960	54.94	13.42	$29,646
Nov 2005	0	2,129	54.69	10.59	$22,543
Oct 2005	63	2,331	58.34	13.80	$35,833
Sep 2005	0	2,060	61.45	12.08	$24,883
Aug 2005	0	2,266	61.51	9.80	$22,200
Jul 2005	73	2,288	55.69	7.84	$22,012
Jun 2005	74	2,091	52.33	7.38	$19,306
May 2005	0	2,333	45.22	6.65	$15,517
Apr 2005	0	2,268	49.20	7.36	$16,694
Mar 2005	69	2,364	50.37	7.15	$20,390
Feb 2005	0	2,101	45.22	6.31	$13,261
Jan 2005	87	2,275	43.16	6.32	$18,138
Dec 2004	0	2,437	39.86	6.75	$16,452
Nov 2004	84	2,387	45.28	6.33	$18,914
Oct 2004	0	2,674	49.70	6.52	$17,421
Sep 2004	0	2,470	43.24	5.28	$13,051
Aug 2004	65	2,606	42.37	5.55	$17,219
Jul 2004	0	2,521	38.28	6.08	$15,338
Jun 2004	90	2,591	36.10	6.43	$19,917
May 2004	0	2,600	37.48	6.49	$16,886
Apr 2004	0	2,674	34.47	5.86	$15,666
Mar 2004	92	2,693	34.36	5.53	$18,054
Feb 2004	0	2,592	32.45	5.51	$14,281
Jan 2004	95	2,876	32.03	6.30	$21,161
Dec 2003	0	2,721	30.26	6.30	$17,147
Nov 2003	0	2,601	28.80	4.60	$11,952
Oct 2003	94	2,633	28.17	4.76	$15,180
Sep 2003	0	2,541	26.31	4.75	$12,068
Aug 2003	0	2,620	29.76	5.13	$13,440
Jul 2003	94	2,731	29.41	5.17	$16,886
Jun 2003	0	2,747	28.56	5.98	$16,435
May 2003	89	1,615	26.59	5.97	$12,012
Apr 2003	92	1,894	26.67	5.41	$12,695
Mar 2003	92	2,975	31.14	6.10	$21,001
Feb 2003	90	2,458	33.48	7.93	$22,495
Jan 2003	90	2,759	30.31	5.58	$18,129
Dec 2002	117	907	26.91	4.85	$7,551
Nov 2002	131	1,336	24.66	4.14	$8,757
Oct 2002	0	2,587	26.46	4.23	$10,941
Sep 2002	123	1,927	27.44	3.64	$10,380
Aug 2002	111	2,629	25.96	3.16	$11,200
Jul 2002	177	2,372	24.58	3.06	$11,613
Jun 2002	0	2,309	23.73	3.34	$7,708
May 2002	177	2,582	24.66	3.58	$13,619
Apr 2002	280	2,620	23.65	3.51	$15,824
Mar 2002	42	2,918	22.00	3.10	$9,978
Feb 2002	0	2,359	18.22	2.38	$5,604
Jan 2002	34	3,074	17.17	2.38	$7,887
Dec 2001	58	3,443	16.93	2.36	$9,123
Nov 2001	4	3,031	18.07	2.41	$7,363
Oct 2001	5	3,037	19.78	2.53	$7,779
Sep 2001	8	3,268	24.26	2.25	$7,551
Aug 2001	23	2,528	24.87	3.05	$8,290
Jul 2001	95	3,140	23.93	3.20	$12,312
Jun 2001	176	2,507	24.56	3.82	$13,910
May 2001	0	2,372	25.52	4.31	$10,217
Apr 2001	0	1,764	24.68	5.34	$9,412
Mar 2001	182	2,663	24.54	5.38	$18,784
Feb 2001	0	2,385	27.75	5.77	$13,754
Jan 2001	0	2,546	27.47	8.40	$21,383
Dec 2000	187	2,506	26.88	9.12	$27,888
Nov 2000	187	2,826	32.21	5.66	$22,013
Oct 2000	182	2,204	31.23	5.15	$17,025
Sep 2000	0	1,328	31.87	5.19	$6,888
Aug 2000	0	1,617	29.64	4.54	$7,342
Jul 2000	180	2,189	28.53	4.09	$14,088
Jun 2000	0	1,988	29.30	4.40	$8,742
May 2000	186	2,007	27.26	3.68	$12,456
Apr 2000	0	2,732	24.51	3.12	$8,513
Mar 2000	191	2,668	28.42	2.86	$13,058
Feb 2000	180	2,957	27.62	2.73	$13,034
Jan 2000	0	2,713	25.27	2.48	$6,730
Dec 1999	181	3,100	24.28	2.42	$11,908
Nov 1999	180	2,901	23.19	2.43	$11,235
Oct 1999	184	3,502	20.98	2.80	$13,679
Sep 1999	0	2,977	21.75	2.62	$7,796
Aug 1999	180	478	19.26	2.88	$4,841
Jul 1999	0	3,233	17.89	2.37	$7,670
Jun 1999	177	2,629	15.94	2.36	$9,031
May 1999	186	2,664	15.79	2.32	$9,120
Apr 1999	0	1,229	15.10	2.21	$2,714
Mar 1999	184	1,652	12.47	1.84	$5,331
Feb 1999	0	1,030	9.98	1.82	$1,872
Jan 1999	186	2,199	10.38	1.90	$6,109
Dec 1998	0	1,489	9.20	1.77	$2,640
Nov 1998	184	2,223	10.89	2.19	$6,863
Oct 1998	182	3,221	12.42	1.97	$8,603
Sep 1998	0	2,356	12.59	2.08	$4,907
Aug 1998	182	2,774	11.30	1.91	$7,348
Jul 1998	0	3,013	11.74	2.24	$6,741
Jun 1998	189	3,548	11.24	2.24	$10,062
May 1998	191	3,055	12.62	2.21	$9,151
Apr 1998	183	3,717	13.04	2.51	$11,699
Mar 1998	0	3,449	12.80	2.31	$7,965
Feb 1998	189	3,405	13.95	2.30	$10,465
Jan 1998	188	3,962	14.70	2.15	$11,301
Dec 1997	188	4,837	16.32	2.41	$14,731
Nov 1997	194	4,105	18.19	3.09	$16,206
Oct 1997	184	4,271	19.25	3.15	$16,995
Sep 1997	0	4,063	17.74	2.95	$12,006
Aug 1997	184	4,402	17.86	2.55	$14,532
Jul 1997	183	3,549	17.58	2.25	$11,192
Jun 1997	186	4,743	17.24	2.26	$13,913
May 1997	191	5,368	18.97	2.31	$16,015
Apr 1997	186	5,194	17.88	2.08	$14,144
Mar 1997	186	7,437	18.95	1.94	$17,946
Feb 1997	372	7,762	20.49	2.21	$24,744
Jan 1997	383	10,569	23.48	3.54	$46,404
Dec 1996	754	13,048	23.32	—	$17,583
Nov 1996	552	10,007	21.97	—	$12,127

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.

Apr 2011 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                    2 bbl  × $105.96 =       $212
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  4.33 =         $0

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Month total                                     $212

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. 06/O/13705 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.