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 279748District 08Field 09358450Hydrogen sulphide fieldCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$2.1 M
Aug 2015 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$131 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
CondensateDisposition1,946 bbl$102,893
GasProduction616,728 Mcf$2,027,945
Total$2,130,838

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 31.4661, -102.4531. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.46612, -102.45305 · 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
9,040 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 9,040 ft.

Completions filed
Feb 1991
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-10330873P 79,040 ftFeb 1991

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 202602106.413.05$6
Apr 202632,70898.932.87$8,068
Mar 202614,15289.753.15$13,166
Feb 202634,00763.503.75$15,218
Jan 202633,10359.138.00$24,995
Dec 202522,37156.664.41$10,577
Nov 202512,59458.593.93$10,244
Oct 202502,51959.383.30$8,325
Sep 202513,72562.743.08$11,524
Aug 202522,72263.933.01$8,334
Jul 202533,39366.743.32$11,449
Jun 202532,77266.483.13$8,872
May 202522,13360.553.23$7,016
Apr 202562,81662.363.54$10,352
Mar 2025121,54267.704.27$7,394
Feb 202584,20670.884.34$18,825
Jan 202563,09274.324.28$13,676
Dec 202443,78468.993.12$12,087
Nov 202463,94369.052.20$9,083
Oct 202432,89171.372.28$6,810
Sep 202432,48369.612.36$6,080
Aug 202442,55375.632.06$5,571
Jul 202452,93779.932.15$6,704
Jun 202421,23678.082.63$3,412
May 2024152678.812.20$1,235
Apr 20240084.451.66$0
Mar 2024182180.301.55$1,349
Feb 202453,26876.091.78$6,209
Jan 202483,51373.023.30$12,169
Dec 2023104,02071.262.61$11,208
Nov 202374,37377.892.81$12,823
Oct 202354,50885.443.09$14,345
Sep 202355,37189.042.74$15,135
Aug 202322,41880.522.67$6,624
Jul 202332,96574.852.64$8,057
Jun 202364,38668.962.26$10,319
May 202384,66470.622.23$10,954
Apr 202343,51778.122.24$8,183
Mar 202343,15472.852.39$7,839
Feb 202363,21175.112.47$8,368
Jan 202364,10776.533.39$14,373
Dec 202284,50476.415.73$26,415
Nov 202294,79985.005.65$27,861
Oct 2022114,88887.185.86$29,621
Sep 2022146,12884.888.16$51,215
Aug 202234,93194.529.13$45,290
Jul 202244,937101.587.54$37,642
Jun 202265,160115.097.98$41,853
May 202234,790109.378.43$40,722
Apr 202243,864104.226.84$26,837
Mar 202274,118108.885.08$21,667
Feb 2022173,75091.054.86$19,769
Jan 2022213,45281.844.54$17,383
Dec 2021203,45271.323.90$14,886
Nov 2021113,85977.435.24$21,061
Oct 2021184,75279.795.71$28,589
Sep 2021395,19469.865.35$30,517
Aug 202154,22766.024.22$18,171
Jul 2021132,57670.783.98$11,178
Jun 2021353,62969.493.38$14,700
May 20210063.483.02$0
Apr 20210060.362.76$0
Mar 20210061.302.72$0
Feb 202151,80457.805.55$10,298
Jan 2021194,38150.412.81$13,270
Dec 2020214,79944.642.68$13,777
Nov 2020114,80438.772.71$13,429
Oct 2020153,75236.972.48$9,854
Sep 2020315,03837.091.99$11,181
Aug 2020335,76239.982.39$15,062
Jul 2020405,07238.371.83$10,792
Jun 2020254,65234.901.69$8,736
May 202054,55316.921.81$8,347
Apr 202054,39314.751.80$8,000
Mar 2020345,74430.341.86$11,694
Feb 2020626,79149.881.98$16,543
Jan 2020125,05057.252.09$11,265
Dec 2019235,01659.012.30$12,916
Nov 201953,99355.302.75$11,260
Oct 201954,24053.472.42$10,522
Sep 2019114,44855.052.66$12,425
Aug 2019234,42353.112.30$11,414
Jul 2019164,20256.272.46$11,237
Jun 2019195,85752.782.49$15,594
May 2019288,19658.482.74$24,097
Apr 2019206,00062.632.75$17,757
Mar 2019165,86856.803.06$18,877
Feb 2019125,37150.852.79$15,607
Jan 2019176,34446.033.23$21,262
Dec 2018295,97046.594.19$26,338
Nov 2018143,92152.934.24$17,355
Oct 2018103,92361.443.40$13,945
Sep 201884,60259.543.11$14,779
Aug 2018165,69359.403.07$18,408
Jul 2018145,24265.142.93$16,281
Jun 2018155,97360.183.08$19,281
May 2018146,85965.382.90$20,812
Apr 2018217,76463.842.90$23,862
Mar 2018287,41161.222.79$22,367
Feb 2018246,93561.782.77$20,666
Jan 2018247,25462.874.01$30,592
Dec 2017217,27357.272.92$22,451
Nov 201796,97955.423.12$22,262
Oct 2017237,32649.292.98$22,992
Sep 2017267,63247.523.09$24,798
Aug 2017218,04845.373.00$25,132
Jul 2017188,23543.873.09$26,213
Jun 2017238,06142.493.09$25,864
May 2017248,52745.373.26$28,916
Apr 2017128,31547.933.21$27,280
Mar 2017218,67646.772.98$26,869
Feb 2017156,73350.452.95$20,637
Jan 2017267,97649.413.42$28,553
Dec 20165110,39648.763.72$41,189
Nov 2016266,57742.492.64$18,497
Oct 2016425,82546.193.09$19,941
Sep 201665,19841.553.10$16,366
Aug 2016336,12141.442.92$19,267
Jul 2016887,65341.622.92$26,043
Jun 2016524,67745.352.69$14,920
May 2016343,84142.521.99$9,093
Apr 2016134,43536.561.99$9,306
Mar 2016164,90933.011.79$9,335
Feb 2016236,01926.472.06$13,030
Jan 2016316,62827.352.36$16,519
Dec 2015357,52532.362.00$16,193
Nov 2015327,38638.792.17$17,249
Oct 2015248,02843.552.43$20,526
Sep 2015249,36742.992.76$26,870
Aug 20153510,74640.162.87$32,273

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                    2 Mcf  × $  3.05 =         $6

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Month total                                       $6

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/279748 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.