HINSON ESTATE

Operated by PETERSON, DON COMPANY (P-5 658673) in the YOUNG COUNTY REGULAR field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 21538District 09Field 99480001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$40 k
Jan 1993 – Jan 1998
Value, last 12 filed months
$2 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
61
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead gas

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 2,525 leases and 8,014 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1917-12-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
no field rule filed
From a lease line
no field rule filed

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.

StreamBasisVolumeValue
OilDisposition2,405 bbl$39,792
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$39,792

21 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 21 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 (6)

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 33.3410, -98.6431. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

33.34114, -98.64268 · centre of the wells drawn, derived

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%
6 of 6 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
6 of 6 wells
Median depth
879 ft
6 wells filed one
Completion to plug
6.4 years
median over 6 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
6100.0%
A plug date is filed
6100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
6100.0%
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 854 and 886 ft, median 879 ft, over the 6 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Sep 1981 – Jul 1984
6 of 6 wells
Plug dates filed
Feb 1988 – Dec 1997
6 of 6 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 6.4 years across the 6 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 6.3 years and 11.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

6 wells

42-503382852 A883 ftJul 1984Dec 1997Yes
42-503382431A886 ftJul 1984Dec 1997Yes
42-503361377877 ftJul 1982Feb 1988Yes
42-503354001854 ftOct 1981Feb 1988Yes
42-503351082881 ftSep 1981Feb 1988Yes
42-503351094870 ftSep 1981Feb 1988Yes

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 (61)

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

61 months

Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 199736019.253.15$693
Sep 19975017.742.95$89
Aug 19975017.862.55$89
Jul 19975017.582.25$88
Jun 19975017.242.26$86
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 199728018.951.94$531
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 199660021.97$1,318
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 199645019.55$880
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 199641019.43$797
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 199679019.38$1,531
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 199667017.07$1,144
Dec 1995127017.19$2,183
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 199587015.43$1,342
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 1995108016.41$1,772
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 1995100017.73$1,773
Mar 19950016.44$0
Feb 199597016.58$1,608
Jan 19950015.92$0
Dec 19940015.03$0
Nov 199462015.90$986
Oct 199486015.58$1,340
Sep 19940115.29$0
Aug 199446116.13$742
Jul 199448117.56$843
Jun 199477117.09$1,316
May 199471115.88$1,127
Apr 19940114.14$0
Mar 1994124112.46$1,545
Feb 199464112.50$800
Jan 19940112.66$0
Dec 199366112.33$814
Nov 199367114.49$971
Oct 199394115.85$1,490
Sep 199360115.03$902
Aug 199375115.66$1,175
Jul 1993110115.46$1,701
Jun 199361116.79$1,024
May 199377117.68$1,361
Apr 1993160118.05$2,888
Mar 19930118.14$0
Feb 1993104117.90$1,862
Jan 199358116.93$982

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 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   36 bbl  × $ 19.25 =       $693
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.15 =         $0

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Month total                                     $693

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/21538 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.