CHALK, OTIS

Name: CHALK, OTIS lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by TRADITION RESOURCES LLC (P-5 864295) in the HOWARD-GLASSCOCK (GLORIETA) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 19011District 08Field 42971332Hydrogen sulphide fieldNGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$24.8 M

Jan 1993 – Feb 2012

Value, last 12 filed months

$1.5 M

at the published price for each month

Months reported

230

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The HOWARD-GLASSCOCK (GLORIETA) 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 131 leases and 850 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1925-12-31

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

the register's own label

Between wells

660 ft

minimum

From a lease line

330 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 10 acres.

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: “11/22/11.”

Severance-tax incentive filings

Applications the operator filed to have this lease's gas taxed at a reduced state rate. A filing is an application, and this page never calls one a reduction that was granted.

Programme	Filings	With an approval date	Dated	Docket
NGPA	2	none	—	—

This says nothing about a royalty. A severance tax is charged to the operator. Whether a reduced rate reaches a royalty owner depends on the wording of the lease instrument, which is a private contract this site does not hold.

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	738,916 bbl	$24,198,060
Casinghead gas	Production	242,864 Mcf	$551,968
Total			$24,750,028

125,162 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 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 (30)

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 32.1082, -101.2805. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.8 miles.

32.10936, -101.28107 · 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%

30 of 30 wells

With a plug date

50.0%

15 of 30 wells

Median depth

3,200 ft

28 wells filed one

Completion to plug

26.4 years

median over 8 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

30100.0%

A plug date is filed

1550.0%

BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.

1550.0%

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

Total depth in feet, 28 of 30 wells. Median 3,200 ft, with the middle half between 3,139 and 3,213 ft; the shallowest is 1,848 ft and the deepest 5,595 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

Last completion by decade, 18 of 30 wells, Jan 1963 – Sep 2025. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed

Jan 1963 – Sep 2025

18 of 30 wells; 12 filed none

Plug dates filed

Oct 1973 – Sep 2024

15 of 30 wells; 15 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 26.4 years across the 8 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 18.2 years and 29.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

30 wells


42-22702699	1	3,139 ft	—	—	Yes
42-22702703	5	3,200 ft	—	—	Yes
42-22702705	10	3,236 ft	—	Oct 2009	Yes
42-22702706	11	3,100 ft	—	Jul 1993	Yes
42-22702711	16	—	—	—	Yes
42-22702712	17	3,126 ft	—	Mar 2010	Yes
42-22702714	19	—	—	—	Yes
42-22702715	20	3,123 ft	—	Apr 2014	Yes
42-22704273	9	3,116 ft	—	Jul 1993	Yes
42-22704274	7	1,848 ft	—	—	Yes
42-22710173	22 L	5,595 ft	—	Nov 1992	Yes
42-22710175	2401	3,215 ft	—	Oct 1973	Yes
42-22702716	21	3,176 ft	Sep 2025	—	Yes
42-22734778	L 11WR	3,226 ft	Feb 2019	—	Yes
42-22730358	2W	3,200 ft	Aug 1995	—	Yes
42-22730296	1W	3,139 ft	Jul 1995	Jan 2010	Yes
42-22733575	39	3,200 ft	Dec 1994	Apr 2014	Yes
42-22730309	5W	3,200 ft	Mar 1994	Sep 2024	Yes
42-22730310	6W	3,107 ft	Mar 1994	—	Yes
42-22730340	8W	3,179 ft	Dec 1993	Jun 2006	Yes
42-22730308	4W	3,200 ft	Nov 1993	Apr 2023	Yes
42-22734779	L 9WR	3,233 ft	Aug 1993	—	Yes
42-22702713	18	3,200 ft	Apr 1993	—	Yes
42-22734711	3R	3,212 ft	Mar 1993	—	Yes
42-22734715	2R	3,224 ft	Mar 1993	—	Yes
42-22734734	42	3,222 ft	Feb 1993	—	Yes
42-22733576	40	3,205 ft	May 1992	—	Yes
42-22703553	8	3,179 ft	Nov 1990	Apr 2014	Yes
42-22710176	2501	3,149 ft	Feb 1963	Dec 1992	Yes
42-22710174	2301	3,179 ft	Jan 1963	Apr 1993	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 (230)

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

230 months


Feb 2012	0	0	101.10	2.57	$0
Jan 2012	0	0	98.09	2.73	$0
Dec 2011	0	0	96.87	3.24	$0
Nov 2011	2,085	512	95.72	3.31	$201,272
Oct 2011	1,837	479	84.98	3.65	$157,856
Sep 2011	1,565	513	83.62	3.99	$132,910
Aug 2011	1,910	545	83.40	4.15	$161,555
Jul 2011	1,931	567	94.14	4.52	$184,346
Jun 2011	1,934	567	92.90	4.64	$182,299
May 2011	1,869	532	98.13	4.40	$185,748
Apr 2011	1,758	155	105.96	4.33	$186,949
Mar 2011	1,536	136	96.36	4.06	$148,561
Feb 2011	1,233	190	85.64	4.18	$106,388
Jan 2011	1,774	305	86.50	4.59	$154,851
Dec 2010	1,700	200	85.73	4.35	$146,611
Nov 2010	1,555	95	80.84	3.80	$126,067
Oct 2010	1,787	55	78.10	3.51	$139,758
Sep 2010	1,786	92	72.63	3.98	$130,083
Aug 2010	1,937	213	73.68	4.42	$143,659
Jul 2010	1,222	163	72.55	4.74	$89,428
Jun 2010	737	178	70.36	4.91	$52,729
May 2010	1,632	141	71.12	4.24	$116,665
Apr 2010	1,677	224	81.69	4.12	$137,918
Mar 2010	1,603	362	78.39	4.39	$127,248
Feb 2010	1,903	273	73.58	5.44	$141,509
Jan 2010	2,473	286	74.36	5.96	$185,598
Dec 2009	2,064	246	71.44	5.48	$148,801
Nov 2009	2,432	368	74.59	3.75	$182,783
Oct 2009	2,401	447	72.54	4.11	$176,006
Sep 2009	2,446	102	65.54	3.06	$160,623
Aug 2009	2,063	245	67.42	3.22	$139,876
Jul 2009	2,171	466	61.13	3.46	$134,328
Jun 2009	2,207	414	66.16	3.90	$147,628
May 2009	2,249	464	54.74	3.93	$124,932
Apr 2009	2,706	450	46.77	3.59	$128,174
Mar 2009	2,659	293	42.14	4.06	$113,240
Feb 2009	2,044	332	32.81	4.63	$68,602
Jan 2009	2,530	315	35.86	5.37	$92,418
Dec 2008	2,596	263	37.10	5.98	$97,884
Nov 2008	2,786	305	55.49	6.86	$156,688
Oct 2008	2,708	327	75.24	6.92	$206,013
Sep 2008	1,719	277	101.76	7.88	$177,107
Aug 2008	2,177	381	114.22	8.48	$251,889
Jul 2008	1,842	357	131.08	11.39	$245,515
Jun 2008	1,764	448	131.33	13.03	$237,505
May 2008	2,295	646	123.17	11.57	$290,152
Apr 2008	2,150	542	110.31	10.45	$242,833
Mar 2008	2,681	681	101.90	9.66	$279,775
Feb 2008	2,313	577	92.53	8.77	$219,083
Jan 2008	2,039	317	90.38	8.21	$186,886
Dec 2007	2,386	209	88.33	7.30	$212,281
Nov 2007	2,275	265	91.67	7.29	$210,482
Oct 2007	2,407	280	82.85	6.92	$201,358
Sep 2007	2,302	273	75.84	6.24	$176,288
Aug 2007	2,352	285	69.06	6.39	$164,250
Jul 2007	2,219	102	70.90	6.39	$157,979
Jun 2007	2,330	75	62.00	7.55	$145,026
May 2007	2,130	106	58.74	7.85	$125,948
Apr 2007	2,386	506	59.61	7.81	$146,179
Mar 2007	2,192	457	56.92	7.30	$128,106
Feb 2007	2,249	438	55.10	8.22	$127,519
Jan 2007	2,228	457	50.30	6.73	$115,143
Dec 2006	2,208	435	56.65	6.92	$128,093
Nov 2006	2,344	446	54.20	7.62	$130,442
Oct 2006	2,605	552	54.90	6.01	$146,334
Sep 2006	2,704	539	60.08	5.04	$165,171
Aug 2006	2,707	536	68.71	7.34	$189,932
Jul 2006	2,558	550	69.37	6.34	$180,937
Jun 2006	2,156	582	66.28	6.38	$146,615
May 2006	2,376	947	66.01	6.42	$162,924
Apr 2006	2,561	983	64.39	7.36	$172,138
Mar 2006	2,635	792	56.70	7.08	$155,014
Feb 2006	2,644	772	57.59	7.75	$158,252
Jan 2006	2,869	753	60.59	8.93	$180,560
Dec 2005	2,137	707	54.94	13.42	$126,891
Nov 2005	2,570	781	54.69	10.59	$148,823
Oct 2005	2,749	751	58.34	13.80	$170,737
Sep 2005	2,734	783	61.45	12.08	$177,462
Aug 2005	2,606	770	61.51	9.80	$167,839
Jul 2005	2,173	681	55.69	7.84	$126,356
Jun 2005	1,959	664	52.33	7.38	$107,415
May 2005	2,252	758	45.22	6.65	$106,877
Apr 2005	2,418	804	49.20	7.36	$124,883
Mar 2005	2,546	790	50.37	7.15	$133,894
Feb 2005	2,418	783	45.22	6.31	$114,284
Jan 2005	2,588	416	43.16	6.32	$114,328
Dec 2004	2,721	1,064	39.86	6.75	$115,642
Nov 2004	2,662	821	45.28	6.33	$125,733
Oct 2004	2,669	739	49.70	6.52	$137,464
Sep 2004	2,832	897	43.24	5.28	$127,195
Aug 2004	3,041	984	42.37	5.55	$134,309
Jul 2004	3,142	1,053	38.28	6.08	$126,682
Jun 2004	2,849	900	36.10	6.43	$108,639
May 2004	2,900	478	37.48	6.49	$111,796
Apr 2004	2,826	933	34.47	5.86	$102,878
Mar 2004	2,966	753	34.36	5.53	$106,076
Feb 2004	2,739	881	32.45	5.51	$93,735
Jan 2004	2,843	501	32.03	6.30	$94,217
Dec 2003	3,004	706	30.26	6.30	$95,350
Nov 2003	2,906	895	28.80	4.60	$87,805
Oct 2003	2,889	889	28.17	4.76	$85,614
Sep 2003	2,869	1,098	26.31	4.75	$80,698
Aug 2003	3,054	836	29.76	5.13	$95,175
Jul 2003	2,759	631	29.41	5.17	$84,405
Jun 2003	2,608	562	28.56	5.98	$77,847
May 2003	2,853	627	26.59	5.97	$79,606
Apr 2003	2,846	582	26.67	5.41	$79,050
Mar 2003	2,827	510	31.14	6.10	$91,142
Feb 2003	2,757	516	33.48	7.93	$96,394
Jan 2003	2,840	585	30.31	5.58	$89,346
Dec 2002	3,072	627	26.91	4.85	$85,711
Nov 2002	2,946	601	24.66	4.14	$75,135
Oct 2002	3,041	578	26.46	4.23	$82,909
Sep 2002	2,971	526	27.44	3.64	$83,436
Aug 2002	3,278	698	25.96	3.16	$87,305
Jul 2002	3,178	730	24.58	3.06	$80,350
Jun 2002	3,282	722	23.73	3.34	$80,292
May 2002	2,905	606	24.66	3.58	$73,809
Apr 2002	3,214	646	23.65	3.51	$78,280
Mar 2002	3,972	653	22.00	3.10	$89,410
Feb 2002	2,911	611	18.22	2.38	$54,490
Jan 2002	3,646	717	17.17	2.38	$64,305
Dec 2001	3,323	638	16.93	2.36	$57,767
Nov 2001	2,910	702	18.07	2.41	$54,272
Oct 2001	3,427	770	19.78	2.53	$69,733
Sep 2001	3,116	846	24.26	2.25	$77,499
Aug 2001	3,588	798	24.87	3.05	$91,670
Jul 2001	3,109	622	23.93	3.20	$76,387
Jun 2001	3,045	734	24.56	3.82	$77,592
May 2001	3,141	723	25.52	4.31	$83,273
Apr 2001	2,872	673	24.68	5.34	$74,472
Mar 2001	3,155	668	24.54	5.38	$81,015
Feb 2001	2,918	621	27.75	5.77	$84,556
Jan 2001	3,210	745	27.47	8.40	$94,436
Dec 2000	3,519	875	26.88	9.12	$102,573
Nov 2000	3,615	694	32.21	5.66	$120,366
Oct 2000	3,599	775	31.23	5.15	$116,385
Sep 2000	3,380	780	31.87	5.19	$111,766
Aug 2000	3,725	312	29.64	4.54	$111,826
Jul 2000	3,728	329	28.53	4.09	$107,705
Jun 2000	3,747	1,222	29.30	4.40	$115,161
May 2000	3,693	1,152	27.26	3.68	$104,910
Apr 2000	3,665	996	24.51	3.12	$92,933
Mar 2000	3,624	1,136	28.42	2.86	$106,243
Feb 2000	3,439	911	27.62	2.73	$97,469
Jan 2000	3,690	688	25.27	2.48	$94,953
Dec 1999	3,716	619	24.28	2.42	$91,725
Nov 1999	3,433	463	23.19	2.43	$80,738
Oct 1999	3,762	725	20.98	2.80	$80,959
Sep 1999	3,857	1,077	21.75	2.62	$86,710
Aug 1999	3,486	1,238	19.26	2.88	$70,700
Jul 1999	4,093	1,410	17.89	2.37	$76,569
Jun 1999	4,355	1,218	15.94	2.36	$72,296
May 1999	4,113	1,076	15.79	2.32	$67,442
Apr 1999	4,296	1,089	15.10	2.21	$67,274
Mar 1999	4,507	969	12.47	1.84	$57,984
Feb 1999	4,505	835	9.98	1.82	$46,478
Jan 1999	5,316	815	10.38	1.90	$56,729
Dec 1998	5,118	931	9.20	1.77	$48,737
Nov 1998	4,853	996	10.89	2.19	$55,026
Oct 1998	5,176	1,057	12.42	1.97	$66,367
Sep 1998	5,316	1,224	12.59	2.08	$69,478
Aug 1998	5,526	1,267	11.30	1.91	$64,860
Jul 1998	6,136	1,322	11.74	2.24	$74,994
Jun 1998	5,625	1,382	11.24	2.24	$66,317
May 1998	5,595	1,317	12.62	2.21	$73,515
Apr 1998	5,731	1,200	13.04	2.51	$77,739
Mar 1998	5,261	1,245	12.80	2.31	$70,216
Feb 1998	4,268	1,080	13.95	2.30	$62,022
Jan 1998	4,969	656	14.70	2.15	$74,458
Dec 1997	5,232	785	16.32	2.41	$87,279
Nov 1997	5,264	777	18.19	3.09	$98,152
Oct 1997	5,501	1,003	19.25	3.15	$109,054
Sep 1997	5,522	927	17.74	2.95	$100,699
Aug 1997	5,862	956	17.86	2.55	$107,138
Jul 1997	5,585	969	17.58	2.25	$100,362
Jun 1997	5,379	953	17.24	2.26	$94,885
May 1997	4,796	774	18.97	2.31	$92,767
Apr 1997	3,897	701	17.88	2.08	$71,138
Mar 1997	3,995	1,228	18.95	1.94	$78,087
Feb 1997	3,113	1,337	20.49	2.21	$66,735
Jan 1997	3,658	1,441	23.48	3.54	$90,991
Dec 1996	4,685	1,483	23.32	—	$109,254
Nov 1996	4,753	1,896	21.97	—	$104,423
Oct 1996	4,541	1,816	23.31	—	$105,851
Sep 1996	4,583	1,773	22.22	—	$101,834
Aug 1996	4,309	1,386	20.26	—	$87,300
Jul 1996	4,027	869	19.55	—	$78,728
Jun 1996	4,513	3,777	18.73	—	$84,528
May 1996	4,365	3,570	19.43	—	$84,812
Apr 1996	4,846	2,304	21.51	—	$104,237
Mar 1996	4,895	1,867	19.38	—	$94,865
Feb 1996	4,701	1,745	16.98	—	$79,823
Jan 1996	5,260	1,482	17.07	—	$89,788
Dec 1995	5,068	1,392	17.19	—	$87,119
Nov 1995	4,740	1,417	16.00	—	$75,840
Oct 1995	4,922	1,461	15.43	—	$75,946
Sep 1995	5,514	2,431	16.18	—	$89,217
Aug 1995	5,925	3,265	15.92	—	$94,326
Jul 1995	5,819	3,149	15.24	—	$88,682
Jun 1995	5,783	2,768	16.41	—	$94,899
May 1995	6,089	3,410	17.56	—	$106,923
Apr 1995	4,796	3,193	17.73	—	$85,033
Mar 1995	4,647	2,377	16.44	—	$76,397
Feb 1995	4,236	2,382	16.58	—	$70,233
Jan 1995	3,320	2,716	15.92	—	$52,854
Dec 1994	4,532	2,393	15.03	—	$68,116
Nov 1994	3,436	2,352	15.90	—	$54,632
Oct 1994	3,559	2,364	15.58	—	$55,449
Sep 1994	2,524	2,463	15.29	—	$38,592
Aug 1994	2,652	2,718	16.13	—	$42,777
Jul 1994	2,496	3,136	17.56	—	$43,830
Jun 1994	2,571	2,676	17.09	—	$43,938
May 1994	1,804	2,638	15.88	—	$28,648
Apr 1994	2,881	2,592	14.14	—	$40,737
Mar 1994	2,396	3,136	12.46	—	$29,854
Feb 1994	1,803	2,741	12.50	—	$22,538
Jan 1994	2,524	2,959	12.66	—	$31,954
Dec 1993	2,830	3,181	12.33	—	$34,894
Nov 1993	2,606	2,614	14.49	—	$37,761
Oct 1993	3,158	3,454	15.85	—	$50,054
Sep 1993	3,751	3,846	15.03	—	$56,378
Aug 1993	4,097	3,266	15.66	—	$64,159
Jul 1993	4,718	3,195	15.46	—	$72,940
Jun 1993	4,532	3,135	16.79	—	$76,092
May 1993	5,016	3,911	17.68	—	$88,683
Apr 1993	5,000	3,558	18.05	—	$90,250
Mar 1993	4,593	3,332	18.14	—	$83,317
Feb 1993	3,878	2,580	17.90	—	$69,416
Jan 1993	4,890	2,993	16.93	—	$82,788

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.

Nov 2011 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                2,085 bbl  × $ 95.72 =   $199,576
Casinghead gas       512 Mcf  × $  3.31 =     $1,695

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Month total                                 $201,272

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/O/19011 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.