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 279627District 08Field 09358450Hydrogen sulphide fieldCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$3.0 M
Aug 2015 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$256 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
CondensateDisposition2,285 bbl$129,582
GasProduction872,249 Mcf$2,891,429
Total$3,021,011

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 31.4483, -102.4419. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.44831, -102.44191 · 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
9,050 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 9,050 ft.

Completions filed
Feb 1975
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-10330996Z 49,050 ftFeb 1975

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 202605106.413.05$15
Apr 202635,90198.932.87$17,231
Mar 202648,54989.753.15$27,284
Feb 202666,55863.503.75$24,976
Jan 202697,42259.138.00$59,893
Dec 2025117,29256.664.41$32,805
Nov 2025107,54858.593.93$30,223
Oct 2025186,49359.383.30$22,527
Sep 2025217,14162.743.08$23,290
Aug 2025101,68463.933.01$5,716
Jul 202591,82866.743.32$6,661
Jun 202581,69966.483.13$5,848
May 202591,26560.553.23$4,634
Apr 2025101,51262.363.54$5,981
Mar 2025251,43967.704.27$7,835
Feb 2025183,69970.884.34$17,333
Jan 2025274,69174.324.28$22,078
Dec 2024405,73568.993.12$20,661
Nov 2024355,85069.052.20$15,278
Oct 2024176,73671.372.28$16,581
Sep 2024116,10669.612.36$15,202
Aug 2024205,80675.632.06$13,494
Jul 2024195,33279.932.15$12,964
Jun 2024134,20278.082.63$12,083
May 2024224,76678.812.20$12,212
Apr 2024183,93984.451.66$8,056
Mar 2024295,59080.301.55$10,966
Feb 2024195,58676.091.78$11,409
Jan 202495,79273.023.30$19,757
Dec 2023126,47471.262.61$17,757
Nov 2023156,98977.892.81$20,790
Oct 2023177,40585.443.09$24,314
Sep 202386,48789.042.74$18,455
Aug 202363,06480.522.67$8,673
Jul 202383,72274.852.64$10,432
Jun 202374,79468.962.26$11,310
May 2023106,14270.622.23$14,387
Apr 2023125,85278.122.24$14,033
Mar 2023196,17472.852.39$16,160
Feb 2023235,43375.112.47$15,124
Jan 2023266,66976.533.39$24,582
Dec 2022166,75376.415.73$39,911
Nov 2022126,93585.005.65$40,176
Oct 202276,37787.185.86$38,003
Sep 202267,19084.888.16$59,206
Aug 202287,87694.529.13$72,642
Jul 202278,007101.587.54$61,100
Jun 202287,740115.097.98$62,664
May 2022127,680109.378.43$66,078
Apr 2022127,561104.226.84$52,950
Mar 202296,633108.885.08$34,652
Feb 2022196,46191.054.86$33,123
Jan 2022197,76381.844.54$36,781
Dec 2021238,20271.323.90$33,621
Nov 2021196,89277.435.24$37,564
Oct 2021107,17979.795.71$41,818
Sep 202186,05769.865.35$32,969
Aug 2021116,89266.024.22$29,815
Jul 2021155,28270.783.98$22,095
Jun 2021135,72169.493.38$20,244
May 20210063.483.02$0
Apr 20210060.362.76$0
Mar 20212061.302.72$123
Feb 2021143,08157.805.55$17,902
Jan 2021327,23150.412.81$21,934
Dec 2020164,64544.642.68$13,142
Nov 2020154,90238.772.71$13,849
Oct 202085,28536.972.48$13,394
Sep 202055,38037.091.99$10,897
Aug 2020126,86939.982.39$16,863
Jul 2020127,17338.371.83$13,552
Jun 202096,97434.901.69$12,102
May 2020106,42216.921.81$11,824
Apr 2020136,22214.751.80$11,419
Mar 2020146,65830.341.86$12,784
Feb 2020146,06149.881.98$12,703
Jan 2020236,46257.252.09$14,853
Dec 2019266,70359.012.30$16,980
Nov 2019136,67555.302.75$19,080
Oct 201966,76953.472.42$16,692
Sep 201986,78355.052.66$18,465
Aug 2019137,28153.112.30$17,468
Jul 2019147,29256.272.46$18,727
Jun 2019157,08552.782.49$18,442
May 2019187,85058.482.74$22,564
Apr 2019308,26162.632.75$24,602
Mar 2019378,20756.803.06$27,232
Feb 2019397,24950.852.79$22,224
Jan 2019347,60346.033.23$26,109
Dec 2018236,84346.594.19$29,713
Nov 2018206,44852.934.24$28,380
Oct 2018228,64361.443.40$30,721
Sep 2018138,32959.543.11$26,661
Aug 201898,38159.403.07$26,235
Jul 2018138,40665.142.93$25,492
Jun 201858,17860.183.08$25,464
May 201848,06865.382.90$23,665
Apr 201857,65063.842.90$22,510
Mar 2018107,74961.222.79$22,207
Feb 2018197,17661.782.77$21,024
Jan 2018217,33362.874.01$30,721
Dec 2017197,43857.272.92$22,818
Nov 201777,38855.423.12$23,426
Oct 201737,71949.292.98$23,179
Sep 201727,27947.523.09$22,567
Aug 201788,29745.373.00$25,290
Jul 20171610,24843.873.09$32,340
Jun 20171310,04742.493.09$31,570
May 20171510,46945.373.26$34,845
Apr 2017179,65247.933.21$31,813
Mar 2017449,93346.772.98$31,695
Feb 2017689,22850.452.95$30,677
Jan 2017378,87549.413.42$32,170
Dec 2016389,62748.763.72$37,693
Nov 2016238,41142.492.64$23,219
Oct 2016248,68846.193.09$27,957
Sep 2016139,02941.553.10$28,536
Aug 2016178,78441.442.92$26,392
Jul 2016269,56941.622.92$29,065
Jun 2016269,48445.352.69$26,652
May 20163510,01542.521.99$21,428
Apr 20163910,61136.561.99$22,553
Mar 20164410,40033.011.79$20,110
Feb 2016569,95626.472.06$22,028
Jan 2016598,17427.352.36$20,940
Dec 2015679,31732.362.00$20,815
Nov 2015539,16838.792.17$21,926
Oct 2015199,42443.552.43$23,696
Sep 2015148,59742.992.76$24,316
Aug 2015209,52340.162.87$28,158

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             0 bbl  × $106.41 =         $0
Gas                    5 Mcf  × $  3.05 =        $15

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Month total                                      $15

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/279627 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.