EAST KEYSTONE(SAN A HOLT UNIT)

Name: EAST KEYSTONE(SAN A HOLT UNIT) lease production and value, Jan 2002 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by MERIT ENERGY COMPANY (P-5 561136) in the KEYSTONE (HOLT) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 36780District 08Field 49129396Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$89.7 M

Jan 2002 – Dec 2015

Value, last 12 filed months

$1.9 M

at the published price for each month

Months reported

168

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The KEYSTONE (HOLT) 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 63 leases and 354 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1943-09-08

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

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 1975-07-07.

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: “ INTO THE KEYSTONE (CONSOLIDATED) FIELD.”

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	1,295,652 bbl	$80,256,242
Casinghead gas	Production	1,809,820 Mcf	$9,433,345
Total			$89,689,587

Wells on this lease (81)

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 31.9387, -103.0017. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 2.1 miles.

31.93860, -103.00226 · centre of 75 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%

81 of 81 wells

With a plug date

27.2%

22 of 81 wells

Median depth

5,300 ft

81 wells filed one

Completion to plug

25.7 years

median over 19 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

81100.0%

A plug date is filed

2227.2%

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

2227.2%

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, 81 of 81 wells. Median 5,300 ft, with the middle half between 5,200 and 5,482 ft; the shallowest is 4,297 ft and the deepest 10,280 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, 81 of 81 wells, May 1974 – 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

May 1974 – Sep 2025

81 of 81 wells

Plug dates filed

Mar 1971 – Dec 2025

22 of 81 wells; 59 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 25.7 years across the 19 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 23.1 years and 38.4 years. A further 3 wells are excluded, because the last completion the Commission holds for them is dated after the plug date. Both dates are the latest of their kind on the wellbore record and they are filed separately, so the two need not run in order. The gap is the distance between two filed dates — it is not a statement of how long the well produced.

81 wells


42-49532442	820	5,203 ft	Sep 2025	—	Yes
42-49532470	811	5,225 ft	Oct 2024	—	Yes
42-49532444	810	5,350 ft	Jul 2024	—	Yes
42-49532478	803	5,215 ft	Jul 2015	—	Yes
42-49532506	828	5,300 ft	Feb 2012	—	Yes
42-49530340	911	5,450 ft	Aug 2011	—	Yes
42-49530339	912	4,900 ft	Aug 2011	—	Yes
42-49530318	833	4,297 ft	Jul 2011	—	Yes
42-49505253	822	8,100 ft	Jul 2007	—	Yes
42-49532923	1301	5,350 ft	Oct 2003	—	Yes
42-49532507	829	5,300 ft	Jun 2003	—	Yes
42-49532762	913	5,403 ft	Apr 2003	—	Yes
42-49532734	917	5,450 ft	Mar 2003	—	Yes
42-49532529	837	5,350 ft	Mar 2003	—	Yes
42-49532592	830	5,350 ft	Sep 2002	—	Yes
42-49532272	1304	5,288 ft	Sep 2002	—	Yes
42-49532346	1305	5,307 ft	Sep 2002	—	Yes
42-49530342	1202	5,400 ft	Aug 2002	Dec 2007	Yes
42-49530382	1204	5,400 ft	Aug 2002	Dec 2024	Yes
42-49532575	908	5,350 ft	Jul 2002	—	Yes
42-49532467	821	5,300 ft	Jul 2002	—	Yes
42-49532468	812	5,300 ft	Jul 2002	—	Yes
42-49532481	704	5,150 ft	Jul 2002	—	Yes
42-49532566	801	5,200 ft	Jul 2002	—	Yes
42-49532482	802	5,219 ft	Jul 2002	—	Yes
42-49532515	827	5,200 ft	Jul 2002	—	Yes
42-49532466	819	5,200 ft	Jun 2002	—	Yes
42-49532763	909	5,405 ft	Jun 2002	—	Yes
42-49532531	835	5,250 ft	Jun 2002	—	Yes
42-49532499	804	5,300 ft	Jun 2002	—	Yes
42-49532527	904	5,450 ft	Jun 2002	—	Yes
42-49532532	805	5,450 ft	Jun 2002	Jun 2023	Yes
42-49532594	901	5,400 ft	Jun 2002	—	Yes
42-49532583	403	5,175 ft	Jun 2002	—	Yes
42-49532539	905	5,600 ft	Jun 2002	—	Yes
42-49532544	201	5,503 ft	Jun 2002	—	Yes
42-49505303	831	10,280 ft	Nov 2001	Jul 1971	Yes
42-49530298	915	4,900 ft	Sep 2001	—	Yes
42-49530294	914	5,240 ft	Jan 1998	—	Yes
42-49532573	838	5,500 ft	Nov 1997	—	Yes
42-49532572	903	5,482 ft	Oct 1997	Mar 2023	Yes
42-49532530	836	5,300 ft	Aug 1997	—	Yes
42-49532664	902	5,400 ft	Aug 1997	Apr 2023	Yes
42-49532526	702	5,190 ft	Jul 1997	—	Yes
42-49532549	402	5,200 ft	Jul 1997	—	Yes
42-49532550	401	5,200 ft	Jun 1997	—	Yes
42-49530324	202	4,900 ft	Mar 1997	—	Yes
42-49530398	1309	5,276 ft	Sep 1996	Nov 2007	Yes
42-49530313	906	5,346 ft	Aug 1996	—	Yes
42-49501307	1300	8,305 ft	Aug 1996	Feb 2003	Yes
42-49530357	301	5,240 ft	Aug 1996	Mar 2023	Yes
42-49530347	809	5,172 ft	May 1996	—	Yes
42-49501330	1307	8,310 ft	Mar 1996	Mar 1971	Yes
42-49532523	703	5,150 ft	Mar 1996	—	Yes
42-49530317	910	5,500 ft	Feb 1996	—	Yes
42-49501332	1308	8,640 ft	Jan 1996	—	Yes
42-49505300	832	8,286 ft	Nov 1995	Jun 1971	Yes
42-49530280	824	5,200 ft	Nov 1995	—	Yes
42-49503945	302	8,923 ft	Oct 1995	Apr 2023	Yes
42-49505301	815	8,275 ft	Oct 1995	—	Yes
42-49530364	834	5,350 ft	Sep 1995	Jul 2019	Yes
42-49505255	823	8,282 ft	Sep 1995	—	Yes
42-49505760	808	8,496 ft	Aug 1995	—	Yes
42-49530289	825	5,199 ft	Jul 1995	—	Yes
42-49505254	806	8,173 ft	May 1995	Jul 2019	Yes
42-49530319	816	5,300 ft	Apr 1995	—	Yes
42-49530365	817	5,400 ft	Mar 1995	—	Yes
42-49505256	807	10,048 ft	Oct 1994	Nov 2018	Yes
42-49531869	705	6,300 ft	Feb 1985	—	Yes
42-49505299	814	8,100 ft	Jan 1985	Jul 2020	Yes
42-49505216	706	8,006 ft	Aug 1984	Dec 2025	Yes
42-49505217	701	10,041 ft	Jan 1983	—	Yes
42-49530522	1205	4,866 ft	Jul 1977	—	Yes
42-49530399	1303	4,885 ft	Dec 1975	Jul 2019	Yes
42-49530400	1302	4,800 ft	Nov 1975	Nov 2007	Yes
42-49530356	1203	4,857 ft	Sep 1975	—	Yes
42-49530328	907	4,898 ft	May 1975	Dec 2025	Yes
42-49530323	203	4,900 ft	Apr 1975	—	Yes
42-49530310	916	4,750 ft	Mar 1975	Apr 2023	Yes
42-49530303	1201	4,880 ft	Feb 1975	Nov 2018	Yes
42-49505302	813	4,727 ft	May 1974	—	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 (168)

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

168 months


Dec 2015	0	0	32.36	2.00	$0
Nov 2015	0	0	38.79	2.17	$0
Oct 2015	0	0	43.55	2.43	$0
Sep 2015	0	0	42.99	2.76	$0
Aug 2015	6,934	2,389	40.16	2.87	$285,332
Jul 2015	4,209	2,131	48.15	2.95	$208,939
Jun 2015	4,067	2,747	56.15	2.88	$236,281
May 2015	4,605	3,931	55.21	2.96	$265,860
Apr 2015	4,373	3,959	49.82	2.71	$228,578
Mar 2015	4,452	2,651	42.89	2.93	$198,726
Feb 2015	3,378	3,586	44.66	2.98	$161,534
Jan 2015	5,954	3,307	43.43	3.10	$268,836
Dec 2014	4,320	4,052	54.69	3.59	$250,813
Nov 2014	3,423	4,015	70.46	4.25	$258,256
Oct 2014	5,016	3,910	78.30	3.90	$408,006
Sep 2014	4,399	3,380	86.16	4.05	$392,691
Aug 2014	4,330	4,786	89.39	4.04	$406,371
Jul 2014	4,889	4,032	96.56	4.18	$488,934
Jun 2014	3,306	2,625	98.16	4.74	$336,951
May 2014	4,884	3,577	94.73	4.73	$479,568
Apr 2014	4,798	4,011	95.94	4.81	$479,610
Mar 2014	4,369	3,938	95.89	5.06	$438,857
Feb 2014	4,247	3,398	97.40	6.19	$434,698
Jan 2014	5,159	4,627	90.40	4.86	$488,864
Dec 2013	4,095	3,479	91.82	4.35	$391,152
Nov 2013	4,713	3,479	88.85	3.74	$431,756
Oct 2013	4,487	2,698	97.42	3.78	$447,320
Sep 2013	4,182	3,767	104.11	3.72	$449,393
Aug 2013	4,658	3,977	104.25	3.52	$499,606
Jul 2013	4,887	3,337	102.52	3.72	$513,421
Jun 2013	4,139	3,677	94.40	3.93	$405,185
May 2013	4,284	3,781	94.83	4.15	$421,939
Apr 2013	5,552	4,160	93.96	4.28	$539,481
Mar 2013	5,154	4,119	93.62	3.91	$498,635
Feb 2013	3,416	3,612	91.23	3.42	$323,994
Jan 2013	3,300	3,700	91.60	3.42	$314,934
Dec 2012	5,805	6,336	86.77	3.42	$525,370
Nov 2012	5,908	6,472	86.95	3.62	$537,161
Oct 2012	6,006	7,268	89.38	3.40	$561,525
Sep 2012	5,480	7,074	94.67	2.92	$539,436
Aug 2012	5,993	7,631	92.66	2.91	$577,504
Jul 2012	5,720	7,766	85.13	3.02	$510,403
Jun 2012	6,056	7,439	79.82	2.52	$502,129
May 2012	6,413	8,866	91.61	2.49	$609,556
Apr 2012	6,506	8,764	101.65	2.00	$678,835
Mar 2012	6,826	8,510	105.05	2.22	$735,981
Feb 2012	6,531	8,181	101.10	2.57	$681,311
Jan 2012	6,730	8,045	98.09	2.73	$682,141
Dec 2011	7,343	7,906	96.87	3.24	$736,930
Nov 2011	7,258	8,261	95.72	3.31	$722,090
Oct 2011	6,620	6,179	84.98	3.65	$585,112
Sep 2011	7,508	5,696	83.62	3.99	$650,522
Aug 2011	8,685	5,625	83.40	4.15	$747,669
Jul 2011	6,931	990	94.14	4.52	$656,956
Jun 2011	5,957	1,565	92.90	4.64	$560,667
May 2011	5,844	5,354	98.13	4.40	$597,055
Apr 2011	5,889	5,684	105.96	4.33	$648,629
Mar 2011	6,064	5,734	96.36	4.06	$607,592
Feb 2011	5,637	3,896	85.64	4.18	$499,038
Jan 2011	6,359	4,470	86.50	4.59	$570,565
Dec 2010	6,469	5,450	85.73	4.35	$578,283
Nov 2010	6,073	5,284	80.84	3.80	$510,996
Oct 2010	6,393	5,736	78.10	3.51	$519,420
Sep 2010	6,204	5,772	72.63	3.98	$473,566
Aug 2010	6,306	6,330	73.68	4.42	$492,601
Jul 2010	6,527	6,490	72.55	4.74	$504,274
Jun 2010	6,306	5,866	70.36	4.91	$472,495
May 2010	6,766	6,621	71.12	4.24	$509,239
Apr 2010	6,548	5,798	81.69	4.12	$558,809
Mar 2010	7,056	5,740	78.39	4.39	$578,311
Feb 2010	6,623	5,205	73.58	5.44	$515,648
Jan 2010	6,670	4,773	74.36	5.96	$524,448
Dec 2009	6,573	4,793	71.44	5.48	$495,859
Nov 2009	6,451	5,505	74.59	3.75	$501,832
Oct 2009	6,990	6,424	72.54	4.11	$533,459
Sep 2009	6,309	6,090	65.54	3.06	$432,156
Aug 2009	7,524	6,890	67.42	3.22	$529,444
Jul 2009	6,980	4,122	61.13	3.46	$440,968
Jun 2009	7,222	6,638	66.16	3.90	$503,663
May 2009	7,246	7,072	54.74	3.93	$424,409
Apr 2009	7,449	7,196	46.77	3.59	$374,205
Mar 2009	7,475	6,961	42.14	4.06	$343,251
Feb 2009	7,078	6,203	32.81	4.63	$260,968
Jan 2009	8,178	6,557	35.86	5.37	$328,481
Dec 2008	8,802	6,432	37.10	5.98	$364,999
Nov 2008	8,214	7,169	55.49	6.86	$504,977
Oct 2008	9,146	8,207	75.24	6.92	$744,954
Sep 2008	9,277	4,070	101.76	7.88	$976,087
Aug 2008	8,733	8,490	114.22	8.48	$1,069,504
Jul 2008	9,113	8,606	131.08	11.39	$1,292,549
Jun 2008	9,402	8,444	131.33	13.03	$1,344,812
May 2008	9,346	8,231	123.17	11.57	$1,246,415
Apr 2008	9,411	7,735	110.31	10.45	$1,118,996
Mar 2008	10,128	8,158	101.90	9.66	$1,110,883
Feb 2008	9,532	7,877	92.53	8.77	$951,082
Jan 2008	10,237	8,444	90.38	8.21	$994,509
Dec 2007	11,080	8,255	88.33	7.30	$1,038,974
Nov 2007	9,658	8,609	91.67	7.29	$948,123
Oct 2007	10,740	9,440	82.85	6.92	$955,152
Sep 2007	8,353	8,405	75.84	6.24	$685,974
Aug 2007	10,189	7,728	69.06	6.39	$753,018
Jul 2007	9,762	7,828	70.90	6.39	$742,131
Jun 2007	9,740	7,104	62.00	7.55	$657,504
May 2007	9,575	8,963	58.74	7.85	$632,762
Apr 2007	8,964	9,063	59.61	7.81	$605,083
Mar 2007	9,816	9,469	56.92	7.30	$627,869
Feb 2007	8,377	7,838	55.10	8.22	$525,970
Jan 2007	9,053	8,139	50.30	6.73	$510,116
Dec 2006	9,513	9,337	56.65	6.92	$603,509
Nov 2006	9,412	9,536	54.20	7.62	$582,771
Oct 2006	10,142	10,670	54.90	6.01	$620,963
Sep 2006	10,039	10,428	60.08	5.04	$655,671
Aug 2006	10,143	10,670	68.71	7.34	$775,242
Jul 2006	10,477	11,158	69.37	6.34	$797,562
Jun 2006	9,624	10,840	66.28	6.38	$707,080
May 2006	11,189	11,611	66.01	6.42	$813,187
Apr 2006	10,581	11,483	64.39	7.36	$765,831
Mar 2006	11,361	10,654	56.70	7.08	$719,630
Feb 2006	9,716	7,948	57.59	7.75	$621,150
Jan 2006	11,439	10,549	60.59	8.93	$787,327
Dec 2005	11,133	10,607	54.94	13.42	$753,944
Nov 2005	11,282	10,832	54.69	10.59	$731,706
Oct 2005	11,646	11,947	58.34	13.80	$844,246
Sep 2005	10,867	11,525	61.45	12.08	$806,988
Aug 2005	12,309	13,219	61.51	9.80	$886,631
Jul 2005	10,548	13,074	55.69	7.84	$689,966
Jun 2005	10,483	12,557	52.33	7.38	$641,259
May 2005	10,658	12,819	45.22	6.65	$567,216
Apr 2005	10,287	11,647	49.20	7.36	$591,848
Mar 2005	10,498	11,949	50.37	7.15	$614,278
Feb 2005	9,182	10,590	45.22	6.31	$482,053
Jan 2005	10,746	12,702	43.16	6.32	$544,102
Dec 2004	9,364	12,520	39.86	6.75	$457,773
Nov 2004	9,657	13,190	45.28	6.33	$520,767
Oct 2004	9,704	9,512	49.70	6.52	$544,260
Sep 2004	9,309	13,859	43.24	5.28	$475,751
Aug 2004	9,423	14,627	42.37	5.55	$480,442
Jul 2004	8,319	15,263	38.28	6.08	$411,314
Jun 2004	8,546	15,407	36.10	6.43	$407,624
May 2004	8,501	16,237	37.48	6.49	$424,070
Apr 2004	8,018	15,990	34.47	5.86	$370,057
Mar 2004	9,212	15,700	34.36	5.53	$403,348
Feb 2004	8,331	16,066	32.45	5.51	$358,859
Jan 2004	7,704	15,282	32.03	6.30	$343,030
Dec 2003	8,096	15,414	30.26	6.30	$342,118
Nov 2003	8,786	16,234	28.80	4.60	$327,635
Oct 2003	9,104	16,771	28.17	4.76	$336,284
Sep 2003	7,778	18,493	26.31	4.75	$292,469
Aug 2003	7,953	18,649	29.76	5.13	$332,345
Jul 2003	5,965	18,483	29.41	5.17	$271,003
Jun 2003	7,348	18,870	28.56	5.98	$322,757
May 2003	9,238	22,919	26.59	5.97	$382,526
Apr 2003	6,724	21,960	26.67	5.41	$298,073
Mar 2003	8,700	25,469	31.14	6.10	$426,178
Feb 2003	7,746	24,029	33.48	7.93	$449,787
Jan 2003	9,113	25,968	30.31	5.58	$421,169
Dec 2002	9,990	28,748	26.91	4.85	$408,367
Nov 2002	9,059	26,777	24.66	4.14	$334,170
Oct 2002	8,351	29,513	26.46	4.23	$345,781
Sep 2002	10,003	30,885	27.44	3.64	$386,755
Aug 2002	9,278	33,969	25.96	3.16	$348,340
Jul 2002	10,258	38,979	24.58	3.06	$371,486
Jun 2002	12,044	45,032	23.73	3.34	$436,132
May 2002	15,262	56,928	24.66	3.58	$580,391
Apr 2002	13,779	54,484	23.65	3.51	$517,239
Mar 2002	15,683	57,337	22.00	3.10	$522,927
Feb 2002	16,125	55,050	18.22	2.38	$424,579
Jan 2002	21,794	62,084	17.17	2.38	$521,695

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.

Aug 2015 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                6,934 bbl  × $ 40.16 =   $278,469
Casinghead gas     2,389 Mcf  × $  2.87 =     $6,862

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Month total                                 $285,332

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/36780 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.