HOUSTON "A"

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

Operated by BEACH EXPLORATION, INC. (P-5 58915) in the GORDON STREET, S. (WOLFCAMP, LO) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 27679District 08Field 35937500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$2.0 M

Jan 1993 – May 2015

Value, last 12 filed months

$4 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

269

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The GORDON STREET, S. (WOLFCAMP, LO) 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 15 leases and 16 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1960-01-23

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

the register's own label

Between wells

2,000 ft

minimum

From a lease line

1,000 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 160 acres.

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	16,380 bbl	$556,749
Casinghead gas	Production	451,485 Mcf	$1,483,744
Total			$2,040,493

155,586 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 32.0483, -101.7090. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

32.04833, -101.70902 · 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

100.0%

2 of 2 wells

Median depth

10,516 ft

2 wells filed one

Completion to plug

20.4 years

median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

2100.0%

A plug date is filed

2100.0%

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

2100.0%

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 9,856 and 11,176 ft, median 10,516 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Oct 1982 – May 1983

2 of 2 wells

Plug dates filed

May 1992 – Aug 2014

2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 20.4 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 14.8 years and 26.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells


42-17331382	2	9,856 ft	May 1983	May 1992	Yes
42-17331280	1	11,176 ft	Oct 1982	Aug 2014	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 (269)

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

269 months


May 2015	0	0	55.21	2.96	$0
Apr 2015	0	0	49.82	2.71	$0
Mar 2015	0	0	42.89	2.93	$0
Feb 2015	0	0	44.66	2.98	$0
Jan 2015	0	0	43.43	3.10	$0
Dec 2014	0	0	54.69	3.59	$0
Nov 2014	0	0	70.46	4.25	$0
Oct 2014	54	0	78.30	3.90	$4,228
Sep 2014	0	0	86.16	4.05	$0
Aug 2014	0	0	89.39	4.04	$0
Jul 2014	0	0	96.56	4.18	$0
Jun 2014	0	0	98.16	4.74	$0
May 2014	0	0	94.73	4.73	$0
Apr 2014	0	0	95.94	4.81	$0
Mar 2014	0	0	95.89	5.06	$0
Feb 2014	0	0	97.40	6.19	$0
Jan 2014	0	0	90.40	4.86	$0
Dec 2013	0	0	91.82	4.35	$0
Nov 2013	0	0	88.85	3.74	$0
Oct 2013	0	0	97.42	3.78	$0
Sep 2013	0	0	104.11	3.72	$0
Aug 2013	0	0	104.25	3.52	$0
Jul 2013	0	0	102.52	3.72	$0
Jun 2013	0	0	94.40	3.93	$0
May 2013	0	0	94.83	4.15	$0
Apr 2013	0	0	93.96	4.28	$0
Mar 2013	0	0	93.62	3.91	$0
Feb 2013	0	0	91.23	3.42	$0
Jan 2013	0	0	91.60	3.42	$0
Dec 2012	0	0	86.77	3.42	$0
Nov 2012	0	0	86.95	3.62	$0
Oct 2012	0	0	89.38	3.40	$0
Sep 2012	0	0	94.67	2.92	$0
Aug 2012	0	0	92.66	2.91	$0
Jul 2012	0	0	85.13	3.02	$0
Jun 2012	0	0	79.82	2.52	$0
May 2012	0	0	91.61	2.49	$0
Apr 2012	0	0	101.65	2.00	$0
Mar 2012	0	0	105.05	2.22	$0
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	0	0	95.72	3.31	$0
Oct 2011	0	0	84.98	3.65	$0
Sep 2011	0	0	83.62	3.99	$0
Aug 2011	0	0	83.40	4.15	$0
Jul 2011	0	0	94.14	4.52	$0
Jun 2011	0	0	92.90	4.64	$0
May 2011	0	0	98.13	4.40	$0
Apr 2011	0	0	105.96	4.33	$0
Mar 2011	0	0	96.36	4.06	$0
Feb 2011	0	0	85.64	4.18	$0
Jan 2011	0	0	86.50	4.59	$0
Dec 2010	0	0	85.73	4.35	$0
Nov 2010	0	0	80.84	3.80	$0
Oct 2010	0	0	78.10	3.51	$0
Sep 2010	0	0	72.63	3.98	$0
Aug 2010	0	0	73.68	4.42	$0
Jul 2010	0	0	72.55	4.74	$0
Jun 2010	0	1	70.36	4.91	$5
May 2010	0	0	71.12	4.24	$0
Apr 2010	0	0	81.69	4.12	$0
Mar 2010	0	0	78.39	4.39	$0
Feb 2010	0	0	73.58	5.44	$0
Jan 2010	0	1	74.36	5.96	$6
Dec 2009	172	469	71.44	5.48	$14,860
Nov 2009	0	1,227	74.59	3.75	$4,603
Oct 2009	171	1,272	72.54	4.11	$17,633
Sep 2009	0	1,294	65.54	3.06	$3,966
Aug 2009	0	1,326	67.42	3.22	$4,268
Jul 2009	172	1,355	61.13	3.46	$15,209
Jun 2009	0	1,390	66.16	3.90	$5,414
May 2009	0	1,416	54.74	3.93	$5,559
Apr 2009	168	1,240	46.77	3.59	$12,306
Mar 2009	0	1,363	42.14	4.06	$5,532
Feb 2009	178	1,282	32.81	4.63	$11,780
Jan 2009	0	1,421	35.86	5.37	$7,632
Dec 2008	183	1,355	37.10	5.98	$14,888
Nov 2008	0	1,344	55.49	6.86	$9,220
Oct 2008	179	1,631	75.24	6.92	$24,758
Sep 2008	0	1,174	101.76	7.88	$9,248
Aug 2008	176	1,574	114.22	8.48	$33,455
Jul 2008	0	1,479	131.08	11.39	$16,845
Jun 2008	0	1,076	131.33	13.03	$14,023
May 2008	175	1,465	123.17	11.57	$38,511
Apr 2008	0	1,435	110.31	10.45	$15,003
Mar 2008	0	1,484	101.90	9.66	$14,341
Feb 2008	180	1,285	92.53	8.77	$27,926
Jan 2008	0	1,392	90.38	8.21	$11,422
Dec 2007	0	1,457	88.33	7.30	$10,639
Nov 2007	174	1,345	91.67	7.29	$25,758
Oct 2007	0	1,546	82.85	6.92	$10,701
Sep 2007	0	1,511	75.84	6.24	$9,435
Aug 2007	175	1,501	69.06	6.39	$21,674
Jul 2007	0	1,596	70.90	6.39	$10,195
Jun 2007	179	1,538	62.00	7.55	$22,708
May 2007	0	1,514	58.74	7.85	$11,879
Apr 2007	0	1,531	59.61	7.81	$11,950
Mar 2007	187	1,535	56.92	7.30	$21,853
Feb 2007	0	1,468	55.10	8.22	$12,061
Jan 2007	190	1,565	50.30	6.73	$20,085
Dec 2006	0	1,552	56.65	6.92	$10,737
Nov 2006	0	1,559	54.20	7.62	$11,876
Oct 2006	180	1,624	54.90	6.01	$19,648
Sep 2006	0	1,543	60.08	5.04	$7,772
Aug 2006	178	1,722	68.71	7.34	$24,870
Jul 2006	0	1,678	69.37	6.34	$10,643
Jun 2006	0	1,660	66.28	6.38	$10,597
May 2006	180	1,730	66.01	6.42	$22,997
Apr 2006	0	1,637	64.39	7.36	$12,049
Mar 2006	0	1,741	56.70	7.08	$12,331
Feb 2006	168	1,520	57.59	7.75	$21,457
Jan 2006	0	1,780	60.59	8.93	$15,901
Dec 2005	164	1,792	54.94	13.42	$33,051
Nov 2005	0	1,719	54.69	10.59	$18,201
Oct 2005	184	1,939	58.34	13.80	$37,485
Sep 2005	0	1,557	61.45	12.08	$18,807
Aug 2005	175	1,964	61.51	9.80	$30,005
Jul 2005	0	1,833	55.69	7.84	$14,377
Jun 2005	177	1,692	52.33	7.38	$21,751
May 2005	0	1,867	45.22	6.65	$12,418
Apr 2005	0	1,803	49.20	7.36	$13,271
Mar 2005	160	1,771	50.37	7.15	$20,730
Feb 2005	0	1,715	45.22	6.31	$10,825
Jan 2005	182	1,860	43.16	6.32	$19,614
Dec 2004	179	2,024	39.86	6.75	$20,799
Nov 2004	0	1,919	45.28	6.33	$12,148
Oct 2004	173	1,961	49.70	6.52	$21,374
Sep 2004	0	1,983	43.24	5.28	$10,478
Aug 2004	0	1,896	42.37	5.55	$10,524
Jul 2004	177	2,230	38.28	6.08	$20,343
Jun 2004	0	2,308	36.10	6.43	$14,847
May 2004	0	2,277	37.48	6.49	$14,788
Apr 2004	140	2,295	34.47	5.86	$18,271
Mar 2004	0	2,242	34.36	5.53	$12,399
Feb 2004	183	2,248	32.45	5.51	$18,324
Jan 2004	184	2,477	32.03	6.30	$21,498
Dec 2003	0	2,478	30.26	6.30	$15,615
Nov 2003	178	2,488	28.80	4.60	$16,559
Oct 2003	0	2,546	28.17	4.76	$12,118
Sep 2003	0	2,562	26.31	4.75	$12,168
Aug 2003	143	2,558	29.76	5.13	$17,378
Jul 2003	0	2,792	29.41	5.17	$14,437
Jun 2003	230	2,941	28.56	5.98	$24,165
May 2003	0	3,034	26.59	5.97	$18,121
Apr 2003	170	3,032	26.67	5.41	$20,929
Mar 2003	184	3,204	31.14	6.10	$25,261
Feb 2003	0	2,924	33.48	7.93	$23,175
Jan 2003	183	3,289	30.31	5.58	$23,906
Dec 2002	183	3,501	26.91	4.85	$21,918
Nov 2002	182	3,567	24.66	4.14	$19,245
Oct 2002	185	3,810	26.46	4.23	$21,008
Sep 2002	0	3,856	27.44	3.64	$14,017
Aug 2002	337	4,222	25.96	3.16	$22,108
Jul 2002	360	4,458	24.58	3.06	$22,498
Jun 2002	181	4,938	23.73	3.34	$20,779
May 2002	538	4,977	24.66	3.58	$31,105
Apr 2002	360	3,204	23.65	3.51	$19,767
Mar 2002	0	41	22.00	3.10	$127
Feb 2002	0	169	18.22	2.38	$401
Jan 2002	0	299	17.17	2.38	$710
Dec 2001	0	224	16.93	2.36	$530
Nov 2001	0	224	18.07	2.41	$539
Oct 2001	0	224	19.78	2.53	$566
Sep 2001	0	0	24.26	2.25	$0
Aug 2001	0	0	24.87	3.05	$0
Jul 2001	0	499	23.93	3.20	$1,595
Jun 2001	0	525	24.56	3.82	$2,008
May 2001	0	1,343	25.52	4.31	$5,785
Apr 2001	180	1,352	24.68	5.34	$11,656
Mar 2001	0	1,427	24.54	5.38	$7,672
Feb 2001	0	1,448	27.75	5.77	$8,351
Jan 2001	186	1,810	27.47	8.40	$20,311
Dec 2000	0	1,801	26.88	9.12	$16,430
Nov 2000	183	1,418	32.21	5.66	$13,917
Oct 2000	173	1,787	31.23	5.15	$14,598
Sep 2000	0	1,716	31.87	5.19	$8,900
Aug 2000	174	1,766	29.64	4.54	$13,176
Jul 2000	0	1,691	28.53	4.09	$6,916
Jun 2000	0	1,058	29.30	4.40	$4,652
May 2000	179	2,077	27.26	3.68	$12,522
Apr 2000	172	1,695	24.51	3.12	$9,497
Mar 2000	0	2,163	28.42	2.86	$6,186
Feb 2000	0	1,488	27.62	2.73	$4,057
Jan 2000	187	1,468	25.27	2.48	$8,367
Dec 1999	0	2,147	24.28	2.42	$5,204
Nov 1999	0	2,020	23.19	2.43	$4,917
Oct 1999	184	2,254	20.98	2.80	$10,180
Sep 1999	183	1,982	21.75	2.62	$9,171
Aug 1999	0	2,159	19.26	2.88	$6,208
Jul 1999	0	1,069	17.89	2.37	$2,536
Jun 1999	0	1,995	15.94	2.36	$4,712
May 1999	0	104	15.79	2.32	$241
Apr 1999	0	850	15.10	2.21	$1,877
Mar 1999	0	1,228	12.47	1.84	$2,257
Feb 1999	364	1,590	9.98	1.82	$6,523
Jan 1999	0	1,929	10.38	1.90	$3,665
Dec 1998	2	1,691	9.20	1.77	$3,017
Nov 1998	2	2,078	10.89	2.19	$4,564
Oct 1998	0	2,125	12.42	1.97	$4,185
Sep 1998	0	1,454	12.59	2.08	$3,028
Aug 1998	0	1,963	11.30	1.91	$3,744
Jul 1998	362	2,395	11.74	2.24	$9,608
Jun 1998	0	2,132	11.24	2.24	$4,770
May 1998	0	2,542	12.62	2.21	$5,609
Apr 1998	1	2,569	13.04	2.51	$6,449
Mar 1998	0	2,586	12.80	2.31	$5,972
Feb 1998	0	2,156	13.95	2.30	$4,957
Jan 1998	188	2,599	14.70	2.15	$8,364
Dec 1997	0	2,675	16.32	2.41	$6,450
Nov 1997	0	2,442	18.19	3.09	$7,542
Oct 1997	0	3,080	19.25	3.15	$9,701
Sep 1997	153	2,946	17.74	2.95	$11,419
Aug 1997	0	3,121	17.86	2.55	$7,973
Jul 1997	179	2,878	17.58	2.25	$9,614
Jun 1997	0	2,995	17.24	2.26	$6,760
May 1997	179	2,590	18.97	2.31	$9,375
Apr 1997	0	2,630	17.88	2.08	$5,478
Mar 1997	0	2,637	18.95	1.94	$5,114
Feb 1997	176	2,637	20.49	2.21	$9,423
Jan 1997	0	2,581	23.48	3.54	$9,136
Dec 1996	172	2,624	23.32	—	$4,011
Nov 1996	0	2,449	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	0	2,356	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	131	2,215	22.22	—	$2,911
Aug 1996	0	2,382	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	170	2,473	19.55	—	$3,324
Jun 1996	0	2,064	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	0	2,653	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	0	2,861	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	2	2,174	19.38	—	$39
Feb 1996	158	2,247	16.98	—	$2,683
Jan 1996	0	3,556	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	166	3,451	17.19	—	$2,854
Nov 1995	0	3,318	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	184	3,744	15.43	—	$2,839
Sep 1995	2	2,769	16.18	—	$32
Aug 1995	174	3,249	15.92	—	$2,770
Jul 1995	1	3,671	15.24	—	$15
Jun 1995	0	3,435	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	0	2,942	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	164	3,792	17.73	—	$2,908
Mar 1995	0	3,953	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	175	3,519	16.58	—	$2,902
Jan 1995	0	3,928	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	162	3,955	15.03	—	$2,435
Nov 1994	177	3,952	15.90	—	$2,814
Oct 1994	0	4,399	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	167	3,599	15.29	—	$2,553
Aug 1994	0	4,478	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	0	3,636	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	164	3,746	17.09	—	$2,803
May 1994	163	4,790	15.88	—	$2,588
Apr 1994	160	4,600	14.14	—	$2,262
Mar 1994	0	4,531	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	351	4,172	12.50	—	$4,388
Jan 1994	0	4,906	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	178	4,529	12.33	—	$2,195
Nov 1993	521	3,881	14.49	—	$7,549
Oct 1993	0	4,235	15.85	—	$0
Sep 1993	2	5,032	15.03	—	$30
Aug 1993	0	1,920	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	0	2,106	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	0	839	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	180	416	17.68	—	$3,182
Apr 1993	0	4,898	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	338	182	18.14	—	$6,131
Feb 1993	0	3,212	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	0	1,747	16.93	—	$0

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.

Oct 2014 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   54 bbl  × $ 78.30 =     $4,228
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.90 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $4,228

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/27679 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.