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 279854District 08Field 09358450Hydrogen sulphide fieldCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.5 M
Aug 2015 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$173 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
CondensateDisposition1,385 bbl$78,087
GasProduction426,574 Mcf$1,428,143
Total$1,506,230

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 31.4788, -102.4629. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.47877, -102.46293 · 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
9,098 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 9,098 ft.

Completions filed
Dec 1982
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-10332994Q 119,098 ftDec 1982

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 202603106.413.05$9
Apr 202613,74898.932.87$10,855
Mar 202635,19489.753.15$16,627
Feb 202634,51163.503.75$17,108
Jan 202634,45159.138.00$35,776
Dec 202534,83356.664.41$21,500
Nov 202524,53658.593.93$17,928
Oct 202533,31359.383.30$11,127
Sep 202534,38362.743.08$13,674
Aug 202563,07363.933.01$9,648
Jul 202573,20666.743.32$11,096
Jun 202552,44966.483.13$7,995
May 202541,29860.553.23$4,438
Apr 202541,83262.363.54$6,740
Mar 202531,14467.704.27$5,086
Feb 202532,37170.884.34$10,505
Jan 2025122,63574.324.28$12,166
Dec 2024203,05668.993.12$10,919
Nov 202463,00569.052.20$7,021
Oct 202453,08571.372.28$7,395
Sep 2024113,16369.612.36$8,244
Aug 2024123,47775.632.06$8,083
Jul 202423,06479.932.15$6,737
Jun 202401,82578.082.63$4,807
May 202402,63378.812.20$5,788
Apr 202401,60284.451.66$2,658
Mar 202402,24180.301.55$3,463
Feb 202401,03276.091.78$1,841
Jan 202422,43273.023.30$8,166
Dec 202393,85871.262.61$10,714
Nov 2023145,79977.892.81$17,372
Oct 202313,62585.443.09$11,277
Sep 202323,67889.042.74$10,238
Aug 202311,28280.522.67$3,507
Jul 202332,40074.852.64$6,565
Jun 202342,81968.962.26$6,643
May 202333,04270.622.23$6,988
Apr 202352,85078.122.24$6,768
Mar 202333,15272.852.39$7,762
Feb 202322,65075.112.47$6,684
Jan 202313,44676.533.39$11,751
Dec 202233,61676.415.73$20,946
Nov 202233,13185.005.65$17,933
Oct 202212,92187.185.86$17,215
Sep 202233,50184.888.16$28,836
Aug 202263,55494.529.13$33,005
Jul 202233,859101.587.54$29,410
Jun 202243,843115.097.98$31,117
May 202233,751109.378.43$31,960
Apr 202203,780104.226.84$25,846
Mar 202213,006108.885.08$15,369
Feb 202222,62991.054.86$12,956
Jan 202233,14781.844.54$14,526
Dec 202133,38271.323.90$13,401
Nov 202123,08777.435.24$16,321
Oct 202123,49179.795.71$20,107
Sep 202113,14069.865.35$16,872
Aug 202133,79666.024.22$16,219
Jul 2021112,91970.783.98$12,402
Jun 2021192,96269.493.38$11,334
May 20210063.483.02$0
Apr 20210060.362.76$0
Mar 20210061.302.72$0
Feb 202131,04357.805.55$5,960
Jan 202182,47150.412.81$7,347
Dec 202082,62144.642.68$7,370
Nov 202082,97238.772.71$8,354
Oct 202063,17536.972.48$8,091
Sep 2020123,01037.091.99$6,438
Aug 202043,29839.982.39$8,026
Jul 202063,55838.371.83$6,724
Jun 202073,38434.901.69$5,964
May 2020203,11316.921.81$5,988
Apr 2020253,21114.751.80$6,163
Mar 202053,32830.341.86$6,329
Feb 2020333,20049.881.98$7,984
Jan 20201013,41257.252.09$12,930
Dec 20191453,47359.012.30$16,559
Nov 20191323,59455.302.75$17,186
Oct 20191353,68553.472.42$16,131
Sep 2019675,23455.052.66$17,597
Aug 2019287,62753.112.30$19,062
Jul 2019303,83556.272.46$11,122
Jun 201903,66152.782.49$9,120
May 201903,87158.482.74$10,608
Apr 201904,30562.632.75$11,842
Mar 201904,80856.803.06$14,723
Feb 201904,45150.852.79$12,428
Jan 201904,45246.033.23$14,372
Dec 201834,78746.594.19$20,175
Nov 201844,64252.934.24$19,881
Oct 201814,22161.443.40$14,405
Sep 201803,83759.543.11$11,925
Aug 201833,77059.403.07$11,739
Jul 2018113,76165.142.93$11,743
Jun 2018143,92760.183.08$12,926
May 201893,74165.382.90$11,440
Apr 2018633,56963.842.90$14,375
Mar 2018663,68761.222.79$14,316
Feb 201813,74061.782.77$10,407
Jan 201813,58262.874.01$14,424
Dec 201722,95757.272.92$8,753
Nov 201722,74855.423.12$8,680
Oct 201712,95549.292.98$8,866
Sep 201712,64147.523.09$8,201
Aug 2017262,67945.373.00$9,228
Jul 2017212,46043.873.09$8,516
Jun 201722,73942.493.09$8,541
May 2017392,61345.373.26$10,297
Apr 2017193,06047.933.21$10,738
Mar 201793,51046.772.98$10,894
Feb 201753,11150.452.95$9,438
Jan 201793,45249.413.42$12,246
Dec 2016164,05748.763.72$15,884
Nov 2016164,58542.492.64$12,804
Oct 201684,66046.193.09$14,770
Sep 201604,70141.553.10$14,576
Aug 201624,80741.442.92$14,140
Jul 201614,89141.622.92$14,345
Jun 201604,91645.352.69$13,204
May 201605,09742.521.99$10,148
Apr 201604,05836.561.99$8,080
Mar 201602,48833.011.79$4,464
Feb 201602,28826.472.06$4,722
Jan 201622,55627.352.36$6,098
Dec 201512,80332.362.00$5,642
Nov 201502,36638.792.17$5,128
Oct 201502,29843.552.43$5,576
Sep 201503,17342.992.76$8,752
Aug 201504,13840.162.87$11,886

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                    3 Mcf  × $  3.05 =         $9

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Month total                                       $9

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/279854 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.