BLOCK 31 UNIT

Operated by HILCORP ENERGY COMPANY (P-5 386310) in the BLOCK 31 (DEVONIAN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 279499District 08Field 09358450Hydrogen sulphide fieldCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.6 M
Aug 2015 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$122 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
130
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, 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 87 leases and 441 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1945-10-27
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
800 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 acres. The field rule took effect on 1988-12-12.

The register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: FORMULA IS SUSPENDED AND ALL OVERPRODUCTION IS CANCELLED.

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
CondensateDisposition1,543 bbl$91,655
GasProduction461,631 Mcf$1,492,948
Total$1,584,603

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 31.4727, -102.4541. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.47273, -102.45407 · 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
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
9,350 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
00.0%
A plug date is filed
00.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
00.0%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
1100.0%

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 9,350 ft.

Completions filed
Jul 1990
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-10333635A 16A9,350 ftJul 1990

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 (130)

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

130 months

May 202612106.413.05$113
Apr 202681,98498.932.87$6,485
Mar 202693,75489.753.15$12,631
Feb 202673,08663.503.75$12,018
Jan 2026133,55459.138.00$29,193
Dec 2025133,28356.664.41$15,226
Nov 202592,31958.593.93$9,633
Oct 202592,24059.383.30$7,937
Sep 2025573962.743.08$2,588
Aug 202572,78063.933.01$8,829
Jul 202552,87166.743.32$9,852
Jun 202552,37666.483.13$7,766
May 202581,79060.553.23$6,270
Apr 202582,04462.363.54$7,741
Mar 2025221,07467.704.27$6,074
Feb 202551,68470.884.34$7,664
Jan 202581,95174.324.28$8,942
Dec 2024162,93968.993.12$10,278
Nov 202472,52069.052.20$6,023
Oct 202472,26971.372.28$5,676
Sep 202482,42669.612.36$6,293
Aug 2024102,59775.632.06$6,116
Jul 2024172,21679.932.15$6,116
Jun 2024202,38978.082.63$7,854
May 2024133,17978.812.20$8,013
Apr 202482,66284.451.66$5,092
Mar 2024112,80180.301.55$5,211
Feb 2024112,54076.091.78$5,367
Jan 2024102,36373.023.30$8,523
Dec 202383,25971.262.61$9,078
Nov 202392,92777.892.81$8,919
Oct 202383,12685.443.09$10,334
Sep 202373,81889.042.74$11,066
Aug 202331,36280.522.67$3,882
Jul 202342,13474.852.64$5,937
Jun 202362,70768.962.26$6,527
May 202372,93670.622.23$7,034
Apr 202382,69278.122.24$6,649
Mar 2023102,23372.852.39$6,072
Feb 2023142,57175.112.47$7,391
Jan 2023194,05276.533.39$15,181
Dec 2022153,03476.415.73$18,528
Nov 202282,82485.005.65$16,625
Oct 202272,81487.185.86$17,111
Sep 202283,12484.888.16$26,182
Aug 202283,40494.529.13$31,825
Jul 202283,469101.587.54$26,976
Jun 2022163,358115.097.98$28,629
May 202282,696109.378.43$23,610
Apr 2022122,738104.226.84$19,972
Mar 2022143,188108.885.08$17,708
Feb 2022232,49591.054.86$14,217
Jan 2022242,07981.844.54$11,398
Dec 202132,40171.323.90$9,576
Nov 202172,96077.435.24$16,043
Oct 202134,12579.795.71$23,809
Sep 202173,13869.865.35$17,280
Aug 202154,16366.024.22$17,900
Jul 202192,76370.783.98$11,640
Jun 2021133,80269.493.38$13,756
May 202143,49663.483.02$10,804
Apr 20210060.362.76$0
Mar 20211061.302.72$61
Feb 202171,12857.805.55$6,663
Jan 2021183,25350.412.81$10,049
Dec 202093,05544.642.68$8,575
Nov 2020143,47938.772.71$9,959
Oct 202062,59236.972.48$6,646
Sep 2020135,45537.091.99$11,343
Aug 2020294,08839.982.39$10,910
Jul 2020104,34738.371.83$8,318
Jun 2020214,12434.901.69$7,704
May 202091,94816.921.81$3,687
Apr 2020132,29914.751.80$4,340
Mar 202092,59830.341.86$5,096
Feb 2020152,33549.881.98$5,373
Jan 2020332,71357.252.09$7,572
Dec 201995,13659.012.30$12,366
Nov 2019154,24455.302.75$12,503
Oct 201994,71353.472.42$11,880
Sep 2019104,41055.052.66$12,269
Aug 2019104,06353.112.30$9,894
Jul 2019354,70256.272.46$13,537
Jun 2019343,52652.782.49$10,578
May 2019234,04158.482.74$12,419
Apr 201963,96062.632.75$11,269
Mar 2019254,67656.803.06$15,738
Feb 201994,27850.852.79$12,403
Jan 2019104,98846.033.23$16,562
Dec 2018114,79346.594.19$20,573
Nov 2018124,01752.934.24$17,656
Oct 201885,25961.443.40$18,362
Sep 201884,99859.543.11$16,010
Aug 2018115,28959.403.07$16,872
Jul 2018115,21565.142.93$16,006
Jun 2018144,91360.183.08$15,959
May 2018174,56665.382.90$14,357
Apr 2018185,25363.842.90$16,387
Mar 2018225,08061.222.79$15,504
Feb 2018233,84761.782.77$12,062
Jan 201884,42062.874.01$18,224
Dec 2017124,88057.272.92$14,944
Nov 2017144,84355.423.12$15,878
Oct 2017154,86049.292.98$15,240
Sep 201795,17047.523.09$16,389
Aug 2017105,20345.373.00$16,086
Jul 201794,88143.873.09$15,464
Jun 201785,24542.493.09$16,533
May 2017175,63745.373.26$19,167
Apr 2017165,54047.933.21$18,559
Mar 2017155,42946.772.98$16,900
Feb 2017165,15250.452.95$16,019
Jan 2017215,89849.413.42$21,202
Dec 2016116,55448.763.72$24,936
Nov 2016135,86842.492.64$16,069
Oct 2016175,46246.193.09$17,664
Sep 2016105,25241.553.10$16,700
Aug 2016105,41241.442.92$16,241
Jul 2016105,59641.622.92$16,781
Jun 2016145,41845.352.69$15,187
May 2016145,50442.521.99$11,554
Apr 2016185,56136.561.99$11,730
Mar 2016164,14933.011.79$7,972
Feb 2016205,26026.472.06$11,384
Jan 2016195,13927.352.36$12,670
Dec 2015225,43132.362.00$11,582
Nov 2015175,08238.792.17$11,674
Oct 2015205,08443.552.43$13,208
Sep 20150042.992.76$0
Aug 20150040.162.87$0

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.

May 2026 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             1 bbl  × $106.41 =       $106
Gas                    2 Mcf  × $  3.05 =         $6

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Month total                                     $113

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. 08/G/279499 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.