HOWARD UNIT

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

Operated by STEPHENS & JOHNSON OPERATING CO. (P-5 817555) in the CHICO, WEST field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 20059District 09Field 17634001NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$921 k

Jan 1993 – Mar 2015

Value, last 12 filed months

$17 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

267

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The CHICO, WEST 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 1 leases and 1 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1948-12-31

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

the register's own label

Between wells

—

no field rule filed

From a lease line

—

no field rule filed

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “TRANS. FROM DIST. 7-B 4/49”

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	1	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	6,704 bbl	$212,515
Casinghead gas	Production	218,583 Mcf	$708,210
Total			$920,725

65,570 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 (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 33.3210, -97.8323. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.32101, -97.83226 · 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%

1 of 1 wells

With a plug date

100.0%

1 of 1 wells

Median depth

5,800 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

43.5 years

median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

1100.0%

A plug date is filed

1100.0%

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

1100.0%

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

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 5,800 ft.

Completions filed

Jan 1980

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Jul 2023

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 43.5 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 43.5 years and 43.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-49731648	1	5,800 ft	Jan 1980	Jul 2023	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 (267)

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

267 months


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	0	0	78.30	3.90	$0
Sep 2014	121	0	86.16	4.05	$10,425
Aug 2014	0	0	89.39	4.04	$0
Jul 2014	0	318	96.56	4.18	$1,329
Jun 2014	0	313	98.16	4.74	$1,483
May 2014	0	436	94.73	4.73	$2,061
Apr 2014	0	435	95.94	4.81	$2,092
Mar 2014	0	401	95.89	5.06	$2,028
Feb 2014	0	394	97.40	6.19	$2,440
Jan 2014	0	443	90.40	4.86	$2,153
Dec 2013	0	450	91.82	4.35	$1,960
Nov 2013	0	437	88.85	3.74	$1,634
Oct 2013	0	448	97.42	3.78	$1,693
Sep 2013	0	418	104.11	3.72	$1,554
Aug 2013	0	437	104.25	3.52	$1,539
Jul 2013	0	438	102.52	3.72	$1,628
Jun 2013	0	401	94.40	3.93	$1,577
May 2013	0	464	94.83	4.15	$1,925
Apr 2013	0	448	93.96	4.28	$1,919
Mar 2013	0	464	93.62	3.91	$1,816
Feb 2013	0	420	91.23	3.42	$1,436
Jan 2013	0	463	91.60	3.42	$1,583
Dec 2012	0	464	86.77	3.42	$1,587
Nov 2012	0	453	86.95	3.62	$1,642
Oct 2012	0	471	89.38	3.40	$1,601
Sep 2012	0	450	94.67	2.92	$1,313
Aug 2012	0	444	92.66	2.91	$1,291
Jul 2012	0	444	85.13	3.02	$1,341
Jun 2012	0	434	79.82	2.52	$1,093
May 2012	0	454	91.61	2.49	$1,130
Apr 2012	0	444	101.65	2.00	$887
Mar 2012	0	450	105.05	2.22	$1,000
Feb 2012	0	420	101.10	2.57	$1,080
Jan 2012	0	439	98.09	2.73	$1,200
Dec 2011	0	438	96.87	3.24	$1,419
Nov 2011	0	427	95.72	3.31	$1,414
Oct 2011	0	486	84.98	3.65	$1,773
Sep 2011	0	502	83.62	3.99	$2,001
Aug 2011	0	413	83.40	4.15	$1,714
Jul 2011	0	464	94.14	4.52	$2,096
Jun 2011	0	464	92.90	4.64	$2,153
May 2011	0	516	98.13	4.40	$2,273
Apr 2011	0	492	105.96	4.33	$2,132
Mar 2011	0	589	96.36	4.06	$2,390
Feb 2011	0	309	85.64	4.18	$1,292
Jan 2011	186	531	86.50	4.59	$18,526
Dec 2010	0	558	85.73	4.35	$2,426
Nov 2010	0	514	80.84	3.80	$1,951
Oct 2010	0	576	78.10	3.51	$2,021
Sep 2010	0	509	72.63	3.98	$2,026
Aug 2010	0	507	73.68	4.42	$2,241
Jul 2010	0	508	72.55	4.74	$2,406
Jun 2010	0	495	70.36	4.91	$2,431
May 2010	0	529	71.12	4.24	$2,240
Apr 2010	0	508	81.69	4.12	$2,094
Mar 2010	175	507	78.39	4.39	$15,943
Feb 2010	0	439	73.58	5.44	$2,389
Jan 2010	0	530	74.36	5.96	$3,161
Dec 2009	0	521	71.44	5.48	$2,857
Nov 2009	0	503	74.59	3.75	$1,887
Oct 2009	0	541	72.54	4.11	$2,224
Sep 2009	0	541	65.54	3.06	$1,658
Aug 2009	0	564	67.42	3.22	$1,815
Jul 2009	0	566	61.13	3.46	$1,961
Jun 2009	0	566	66.16	3.90	$2,205
May 2009	0	605	54.74	3.93	$2,375
Apr 2009	0	569	46.77	3.59	$2,041
Mar 2009	0	566	42.14	4.06	$2,297
Feb 2009	0	548	32.81	4.63	$2,539
Jan 2009	183	649	35.86	5.37	$10,048
Dec 2008	0	645	37.10	5.98	$3,855
Nov 2008	0	587	55.49	6.86	$4,027
Oct 2008	0	583	75.24	6.92	$4,036
Sep 2008	0	460	101.76	7.88	$3,623
Aug 2008	0	568	114.22	8.48	$4,818
Jul 2008	0	568	131.08	11.39	$6,469
Jun 2008	0	554	131.33	13.03	$7,220
May 2008	0	564	123.17	11.57	$6,528
Apr 2008	159	629	110.31	10.45	$24,115
Mar 2008	0	630	101.90	9.66	$6,088
Feb 2008	0	616	92.53	8.77	$5,403
Jan 2008	0	631	90.38	8.21	$5,178
Dec 2007	0	685	88.33	7.30	$5,002
Nov 2007	0	674	91.67	7.29	$4,915
Oct 2007	0	585	82.85	6.92	$4,049
Sep 2007	0	661	75.84	6.24	$4,127
Aug 2007	186	623	69.06	6.39	$16,825
Jul 2007	0	651	70.90	6.39	$4,159
Jun 2007	0	612	62.00	7.55	$4,620
May 2007	0	659	58.74	7.85	$5,171
Apr 2007	0	645	59.61	7.81	$5,034
Mar 2007	0	615	56.92	7.30	$4,491
Feb 2007	0	575	55.10	8.22	$4,724
Jan 2007	0	659	50.30	6.73	$4,433
Dec 2006	0	693	56.65	6.92	$4,794
Nov 2006	0	551	54.20	7.62	$4,197
Oct 2006	163	725	54.90	6.01	$13,309
Sep 2006	0	759	60.08	5.04	$3,823
Aug 2006	0	744	68.71	7.34	$5,461
Jul 2006	0	505	69.37	6.34	$3,203
Jun 2006	0	586	66.28	6.38	$3,741
May 2006	0	751	66.01	6.42	$4,825
Apr 2006	0	694	64.39	7.36	$5,108
Mar 2006	159	638	56.70	7.08	$13,534
Feb 2006	0	687	57.59	7.75	$5,325
Jan 2006	0	728	60.59	8.93	$6,503
Dec 2005	0	694	54.94	13.42	$9,310
Nov 2005	0	715	54.69	10.59	$7,571
Oct 2005	0	777	58.34	13.80	$10,719
Sep 2005	0	759	61.45	12.08	$9,168
Aug 2005	155	744	61.51	9.80	$16,823
Jul 2005	0	782	55.69	7.84	$6,134
Jun 2005	0	703	52.33	7.38	$5,189
May 2005	0	612	45.22	6.65	$4,071
Apr 2005	0	727	49.20	7.36	$5,351
Mar 2005	0	653	50.37	7.15	$4,672
Feb 2005	0	669	45.22	6.31	$4,223
Jan 2005	166	721	43.16	6.32	$11,723
Dec 2004	0	830	39.86	6.75	$5,603
Nov 2004	0	746	45.28	6.33	$4,722
Oct 2004	0	715	49.70	6.52	$4,658
Sep 2004	0	653	43.24	5.28	$3,450
Aug 2004	0	597	42.37	5.55	$3,314
Jul 2004	153	545	38.28	6.08	$9,173
Jun 2004	0	677	36.10	6.43	$4,355
May 2004	0	828	37.48	6.49	$5,378
Apr 2004	0	768	34.47	5.86	$4,499
Mar 2004	0	633	34.36	5.53	$3,501
Feb 2004	0	663	32.45	5.51	$3,653
Jan 2004	0	741	32.03	6.30	$4,668
Dec 2003	168	720	30.26	6.30	$9,621
Nov 2003	0	724	28.80	4.60	$3,327
Oct 2003	0	775	28.17	4.76	$3,689
Sep 2003	0	768	26.31	4.75	$3,648
Aug 2003	0	826	29.76	5.13	$4,237
Jul 2003	0	877	29.41	5.17	$4,535
Jun 2003	161	782	28.56	5.98	$9,277
May 2003	0	878	26.59	5.97	$5,244
Apr 2003	0	938	26.67	5.41	$5,072
Mar 2003	0	941	31.14	6.10	$5,736
Feb 2003	0	818	33.48	7.93	$6,483
Jan 2003	0	966	30.31	5.58	$5,392
Dec 2002	143	945	26.91	4.85	$8,435
Nov 2002	0	938	24.66	4.14	$3,880
Oct 2002	0	985	26.46	4.23	$4,166
Sep 2002	0	1,008	27.44	3.64	$3,664
Aug 2002	0	1,032	25.96	3.16	$3,265
Jul 2002	165	956	24.58	3.06	$6,983
Jun 2002	0	884	23.73	3.34	$2,951
May 2002	0	979	24.66	3.58	$3,509
Apr 2002	0	641	23.65	3.51	$2,251
Mar 2002	0	696	22.00	3.10	$2,159
Feb 2002	0	646	18.22	2.38	$1,535
Jan 2002	168	661	17.17	2.38	$4,455
Dec 2001	0	723	16.93	2.36	$1,709
Nov 2001	0	807	18.07	2.41	$1,941
Oct 2001	0	817	19.78	2.53	$2,066
Sep 2001	0	864	24.26	2.25	$1,945
Aug 2001	0	773	24.87	3.05	$2,360
Jul 2001	160	775	23.93	3.20	$6,307
Jun 2001	1	833	24.56	3.82	$3,210
May 2001	0	846	25.52	4.31	$3,644
Apr 2001	0	822	24.68	5.34	$4,386
Mar 2001	0	940	24.54	5.38	$5,054
Feb 2001	0	804	27.75	5.77	$4,637
Jan 2001	184	835	27.47	8.40	$12,067
Dec 2000	0	825	26.88	9.12	$7,526
Nov 2000	0	848	32.21	5.66	$4,798
Oct 2000	0	928	31.23	5.15	$4,775
Sep 2000	0	1,024	31.87	5.19	$5,311
Aug 2000	0	1,016	29.64	4.54	$4,613
Jul 2000	178	1,067	28.53	4.09	$9,442
Jun 2000	0	1,051	29.30	4.40	$4,622
May 2000	0	1,109	27.26	3.68	$4,081
Apr 2000	0	1,015	24.51	3.12	$3,163
Mar 2000	0	1,057	28.42	2.86	$3,023
Feb 2000	0	952	27.62	2.73	$2,596
Jan 2000	181	962	25.27	2.48	$6,960
Dec 1999	0	1,054	24.28	2.42	$2,555
Nov 1999	0	1,057	23.19	2.43	$2,573
Oct 1999	0	1,133	20.98	2.80	$3,177
Sep 1999	0	989	21.75	2.62	$2,590
Aug 1999	0	1,248	19.26	2.88	$3,589
Jul 1999	164	1,130	17.89	2.37	$5,615
Jun 1999	0	1,075	15.94	2.36	$2,539
May 1999	0	1,086	15.79	2.32	$2,521
Apr 1999	0	1,112	15.10	2.21	$2,455
Mar 1999	0	917	12.47	1.84	$1,686
Feb 1999	159	927	9.98	1.82	$3,272
Jan 1999	0	1,074	10.38	1.90	$2,041
Dec 1998	0	936	9.20	1.77	$1,660
Nov 1998	0	1,001	10.89	2.19	$2,188
Oct 1998	171	1,139	12.42	1.97	$4,367
Sep 1998	0	1,155	12.59	2.08	$2,405
Aug 1998	0	1,262	11.30	1.91	$2,407
Jul 1998	0	1,103	11.74	2.24	$2,468
Jun 1998	0	1,182	11.24	2.24	$2,644
May 1998	170	1,229	12.62	2.21	$4,857
Apr 1998	0	1,128	13.04	2.51	$2,826
Mar 1998	0	1,095	12.80	2.31	$2,529
Feb 1998	0	990	13.95	2.30	$2,276
Jan 1998	0	980	14.70	2.15	$2,112
Dec 1997	174	1,058	16.32	2.41	$5,391
Nov 1997	0	1,070	18.19	3.09	$3,304
Oct 1997	0	1,148	19.25	3.15	$3,616
Sep 1997	0	1,149	17.74	2.95	$3,395
Aug 1997	162	1,193	17.86	2.55	$5,941
Jul 1997	0	1,228	17.58	2.25	$2,759
Jun 1997	0	1,091	17.24	2.26	$2,463
May 1997	0	1,112	18.97	2.31	$2,567
Apr 1997	0	1,091	17.88	2.08	$2,272
Mar 1997	164	1,106	18.95	1.94	$5,252
Feb 1997	0	953	20.49	2.21	$2,102
Jan 1997	0	1,098	23.48	3.54	$3,887
Dec 1996	0	1,182	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	166	1,181	21.97	—	$3,647
Oct 1996	0	1,206	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	0	990	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	0	1,264	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	0	1,278	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	179	1,287	18.73	—	$3,353
May 1996	0	1,346	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	0	1,215	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	0	1,091	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	0	1,102	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	177	1,209	17.07	—	$3,021
Dec 1995	0	1,193	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	0	1,171	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	0	1,204	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	0	1,280	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	152	1,370	15.92	—	$2,420
Jul 1995	0	1,303	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	0	1,332	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	0	1,453	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	351	1,310	17.73	—	$6,223
Mar 1995	0	1,287	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	0	1,191	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	0	1,156	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	0	1,343	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	0	1,291	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	0	1,412	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	171	1,307	15.29	—	$2,615
Aug 1994	0	1,161	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	175	1,437	17.56	—	$3,073
Jun 1994	0	1,355	17.09	—	$0
May 1994	0	1,404	15.88	—	$0
Apr 1994	168	1,489	14.14	—	$2,376
Mar 1994	0	1,428	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	0	1,243	12.50	—	$0
Jan 1994	0	1,207	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	0	1,384	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	0	1,569	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	0	1,555	15.85	—	$0
Sep 1993	168	1,710	15.03	—	$2,525
Aug 1993	167	1,691	15.66	—	$2,615
Jul 1993	0	1,889	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	0	1,832	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	173	1,802	17.68	—	$3,059
Apr 1993	0	1,962	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	178	1,701	18.14	—	$3,229
Feb 1993	0	1,341	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	0	1,456	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.

Sep 2014 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  121 bbl  × $ 86.16 =    $10,425
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  4.05 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                  $10,425

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. 09/O/20059 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.