HANKS, NELLIE "A"

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

Operated by GRUY PETROLEUM MANAGEMENT CO. (P-5 337106) in the KEYSTONE (SAN ANDRES) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 23506District 08Field 49129594Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$547 k

Jan 1993 – Apr 2002

Value, last 12 filed months

$48 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

112

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The KEYSTONE (SAN ANDRES) 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 65 leases and 165 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1960-07-05

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 20 acres. The field rule took effect on 1994-10-31.

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: “4. ALLOCATION BASED ON 100% ACREAGE.”

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	23,879 bbl	$438,501
Casinghead gas	Production	64,924 Mcf	$108,730
Total			$547,231

28,234 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 (2)

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 31.9439, -102.9932. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.2 miles.

31.94394, -102.99320 · 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%

2 of 2 wells

With a plug date

50.0%

1 of 2 wells

Median depth

5,122 ft

2 wells filed one

Completion to plug

50.6 years

median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

2100.0%

A plug date is filed

150.0%

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

150.0%

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

Between 4,898 and 5,346 ft, median 5,122 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

May 1975 – Aug 1996

2 of 2 wells

Plug dates filed

Dec 2025

1 of 2 wells; 1 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 50.6 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 50.6 years and 50.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells


42-49530313	1	5,346 ft	Aug 1996	—	Yes
42-49530328	2	4,898 ft	May 1975	Dec 2025	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 (112)

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

112 months


Apr 2002	0	0	23.65	3.51	$0
Mar 2002	0	0	22.00	3.10	$0
Feb 2002	0	0	18.22	2.38	$0
Jan 2002	0	0	17.17	2.38	$0
Dec 2001	278	842	16.93	2.36	$6,697
Nov 2001	273	837	18.07	2.41	$6,947
Oct 2001	168	961	19.78	2.53	$5,753
Sep 2001	137	698	24.26	2.25	$4,895
Aug 2001	133	743	24.87	3.05	$5,576
Jul 2001	132	690	23.93	3.20	$5,365
Jun 2001	138	602	24.56	3.82	$5,691
May 2001	201	427	25.52	4.31	$6,969
Apr 2001	126	495	24.68	5.34	$5,751
Mar 2001	124	389	24.54	5.38	$5,134
Feb 2001	106	322	27.75	5.77	$4,799
Jan 2001	115	314	27.47	8.40	$5,796
Dec 2000	110	360	26.88	9.12	$6,241
Nov 2000	130	384	32.21	5.66	$6,360
Oct 2000	164	577	31.23	5.15	$8,091
Sep 2000	121	620	31.87	5.19	$7,072
Aug 2000	152	843	29.64	4.54	$8,333
Jul 2000	138	530	28.53	4.09	$6,105
Jun 2000	122	449	29.30	4.40	$5,549
May 2000	129	281	27.26	3.68	$4,551
Apr 2000	100	507	24.51	3.12	$4,031
Mar 2000	104	572	28.42	2.86	$4,591
Feb 2000	139	503	27.62	2.73	$5,211
Jan 2000	215	333	25.27	2.48	$6,259
Dec 1999	173	297	24.28	2.42	$4,920
Nov 1999	297	351	23.19	2.43	$7,742
Oct 1999	151	422	20.98	2.80	$4,351
Sep 1999	163	447	21.75	2.62	$4,716
Aug 1999	349	520	19.26	2.88	$8,217
Jul 1999	171	491	17.89	2.37	$4,224
Jun 1999	176	446	15.94	2.36	$3,859
May 1999	174	414	15.79	2.32	$3,708
Apr 1999	339	408	15.10	2.21	$6,020
Mar 1999	172	455	12.47	1.84	$2,981
Feb 1999	173	383	9.98	1.82	$2,423
Jan 1999	345	349	10.38	1.90	$4,244
Dec 1998	168	337	9.20	1.77	$2,143
Nov 1998	183	396	10.89	2.19	$2,858
Oct 1998	342	422	12.42	1.97	$5,079
Sep 1998	180	325	12.59	2.08	$2,943
Aug 1998	174	404	11.30	1.91	$2,737
Jul 1998	335	957	11.74	2.24	$6,074
Jun 1998	166	1,000	11.24	2.24	$4,103
May 1998	342	899	12.62	2.21	$6,300
Apr 1998	178	742	13.04	2.51	$4,180
Mar 1998	349	846	12.80	2.31	$6,421
Feb 1998	172	653	13.95	2.30	$3,901
Jan 1998	351	1,335	14.70	2.15	$8,036
Dec 1997	338	1,021	16.32	2.41	$7,978
Nov 1997	342	1,090	18.19	3.09	$9,587
Oct 1997	344	1,391	19.25	3.15	$11,003
Sep 1997	175	1,274	17.74	2.95	$6,869
Aug 1997	507	1,410	17.86	2.55	$12,657
Jul 1997	176	692	17.58	2.25	$4,649
Jun 1997	510	606	17.24	2.26	$10,160
May 1997	340	570	18.97	2.31	$7,766
Apr 1997	332	561	17.88	2.08	$7,105
Mar 1997	494	583	18.95	1.94	$10,492
Feb 1997	332	389	20.49	2.21	$7,661
Jan 1997	520	525	23.48	3.54	$14,068
Dec 1996	530	765	23.32	—	$12,360
Nov 1996	536	812	21.97	—	$11,776
Oct 1996	534	1,481	23.31	—	$12,448
Sep 1996	540	1,097	22.22	—	$11,999
Aug 1996	182	286	20.26	—	$3,687
Jul 1996	172	239	19.55	—	$3,363
Jun 1996	173	228	18.73	—	$3,240
May 1996	171	235	19.43	—	$3,323
Apr 1996	337	216	21.51	—	$7,249
Mar 1996	0	213	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	301	339	16.98	—	$5,111
Jan 1996	183	998	17.07	—	$3,124
Dec 1995	0	298	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	178	465	16.00	—	$2,848
Oct 1995	178	433	15.43	—	$2,747
Sep 1995	172	628	16.18	—	$2,783
Aug 1995	177	667	15.92	—	$2,818
Jul 1995	160	390	15.24	—	$2,438
Jun 1995	156	601	16.41	—	$2,560
May 1995	177	336	17.56	—	$3,108
Apr 1995	322	349	17.73	—	$5,709
Mar 1995	180	476	16.44	—	$2,959
Feb 1995	176	438	16.58	—	$2,918
Jan 1995	176	529	15.92	—	$2,802
Dec 1994	177	631	15.03	—	$2,660
Nov 1994	170	629	15.90	—	$2,703
Oct 1994	176	741	15.58	—	$2,742
Sep 1994	178	729	15.29	—	$2,722
Aug 1994	176	789	16.13	—	$2,839
Jul 1994	174	527	17.56	—	$3,055
Jun 1994	176	786	17.09	—	$3,008
May 1994	356	872	15.88	—	$5,653
Apr 1994	0	300	14.14	—	$0
Mar 1994	172	653	12.46	—	$2,143
Feb 1994	359	603	12.50	—	$4,488
Jan 1994	0	314	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	179	703	12.33	—	$2,207
Nov 1993	333	593	14.49	—	$4,825
Oct 1993	177	578	15.85	—	$2,805
Sep 1993	176	609	15.03	—	$2,645
Aug 1993	177	448	15.66	—	$2,772
Jul 1993	178	689	15.46	—	$2,752
Jun 1993	177	695	16.79	—	$2,972
May 1993	178	815	17.68	—	$3,147
Apr 1993	278	756	18.05	—	$5,018
Mar 1993	177	891	18.14	—	$3,211
Feb 1993	178	625	17.90	—	$3,186
Jan 1993	258	739	16.93	—	$4,368

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.

Dec 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  278 bbl  × $ 16.93 =     $4,707
Casinghead gas       842 Mcf  × $  2.36 =     $1,991

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Month total                                   $6,697

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/23506 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.