WHITTENBURG

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

Operated by H & K PLUGGING AND SALVAGE (P-5 341247) in the PANHANDLE HUTCHINSON COUNTY FLD. field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 5791District 10Field 68887001NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$129 k

Jan 1993 – Aug 2003

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

128

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The PANHANDLE HUTCHINSON COUNTY FLD. 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 918 leases and 8,177 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1921-12-31

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

the register's own label

Between wells

467 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 1989-05-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “SPECIAL TESTING REQUIREMENTS FOR WELLS WITH GOR GREATER THAN 5000.”

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	35	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	7,871 bbl	$128,668
Casinghead gas	Production	235,621 Mcf	$31
Total			$128,699

235,607 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 45 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 (48)

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 35.9280, -101.5787. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.9 miles.

35.92549, -101.57663 · 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%

48 of 48 wells

With a plug date

100.0%

48 of 48 wells

Median depth

3,445 ft

48 wells filed one

Completion to plug

13.1 years

median over 46 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

48100.0%

A plug date is filed

48100.0%

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

48100.0%

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

Total depth in feet, 48 of 48 wells. Median 3,445 ft, with the middle half between 3,300 and 3,487 ft; the shallowest is 3,226 ft and the deepest 3,635 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, 46 of 48 wells, Jan 1984 – Jul 1985. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed

Jan 1984 – Jul 1985

46 of 48 wells; 2 filed none

Plug dates filed

Aug 1985 – Jul 1998

48 of 48 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 13.1 years across the 46 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 12.8 years and 13.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

48 wells


42-23300026	1D	3,279 ft	—	Jul 1998	Yes
42-23332016	2802	3,450 ft	—	Nov 1997	Yes
42-23331999	2402	3,456 ft	Jul 1985	Jul 1998	Yes
42-23332097	1701	3,325 ft	Jul 1985	Jul 1998	Yes
42-23331994	1401	3,320 ft	Jun 1985	May 1997	Yes
42-23332001	1001	3,600 ft	Jun 1985	Jun 1997	Yes
42-23332002	1902	3,284 ft	Jun 1985	Jul 1998	Yes
42-23332017	2901	3,592 ft	Jun 1985	Dec 1997	Yes
42-23332000	801	3,430 ft	Jun 1985	May 1997	Yes
42-23331995	902	3,600 ft	Jun 1985	Jun 1997	Yes
42-23332004	2401	3,600 ft	Jun 1985	Dec 1997	Yes
42-23332019	2501	3,450 ft	Jun 1985	Jul 1998	Yes
42-23332120	1603	3,614 ft	May 1985	Jul 1998	Yes
42-23332020	2701	3,451 ft	May 1985	Jul 1998	Yes
42-23332015	2601	3,453 ft	Apr 1985	Jul 1998	Yes
42-23332121	2502	3,453 ft	Apr 1985	Jul 1998	Yes
42-23332090	1601	3,620 ft	Apr 1985	Jul 1998	Yes
42-23332087	2602	3,450 ft	Apr 1985	Jul 1998	Yes
42-23332096	1602	3,531 ft	Mar 1985	Jul 1998	Yes
42-23332113	1802	3,279 ft	Feb 1985	Jul 1998	Yes
42-23331917	3202	3,320 ft	Jan 1985	Oct 1997	Yes
42-23331919	3102	3,318 ft	Jan 1985	Oct 1997	Yes
42-23331926	2304	3,280 ft	Jan 1985	Jan 1998	Yes
42-23332043	3402	3,464 ft	Dec 1984	Oct 1997	Yes
42-23332021	2902	3,600 ft	Dec 1984	Oct 1997	Yes
42-23331947	4203	3,290 ft	Dec 1984	Sep 1997	Yes
42-23331872	4103	3,300 ft	Dec 1984	Sep 1997	Yes
42-23331997	1901	3,300 ft	Dec 1984	Dec 1997	Yes
42-23332084	3401	3,450 ft	Dec 1984	Oct 1997	Yes
42-23332022	3001	3,600 ft	Dec 1984	Oct 1997	Yes
42-23332003	901	3,375 ft	Dec 1984	Jun 1997	Yes
42-23331996	1801	3,578 ft	Dec 1984	Jul 1998	Yes
42-23331920	1102	3,300 ft	Oct 1984	Aug 1985	Yes
42-23331924	4101	3,286 ft	Sep 1984	Oct 1997	Yes
42-23331861	4002	3,635 ft	Sep 1984	Sep 1997	Yes
42-23331842	1201	3,400 ft	Sep 1984	Nov 1997	Yes
42-23331874	1101	3,272 ft	Sep 1984	Sep 1985	Yes
42-23331925	2101	3,305 ft	Sep 1984	Nov 1997	Yes
42-23331825	4001	3,488 ft	Jun 1984	Sep 1997	Yes
42-23331824	2201	3,226 ft	Jun 1984	Nov 1997	Yes
42-23331841	5101	3,476 ft	Jun 1984	Sep 1997	Yes
42-23331840	1301	3,486 ft	Jun 1984	May 1997	Yes
42-23331873	3103	3,282 ft	May 1984	Oct 1997	Yes
42-23331839	3101	3,461 ft	May 1984	Nov 1997	Yes
42-23331875	2003	3,275 ft	May 1984	Jul 1998	Yes
42-23331830	4201	3,440 ft	Mar 1984	Sep 1997	Yes
42-23331832	2001	3,434 ft	Feb 1984	May 1997	Yes
42-23331831	3201	3,336 ft	Jan 1984	Oct 1997	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 (128)

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

128 months


Aug 2003	0	0	29.76	5.13	$0
Jul 2003	0	0	29.41	5.17	$0
Jun 2003	0	0	28.56	5.98	$0
May 2003	0	0	26.59	5.97	$0
Apr 2003	0	0	26.67	5.41	$0
Mar 2003	0	0	31.14	6.10	$0
Feb 2003	0	0	33.48	7.93	$0
Jan 2003	0	0	30.31	5.58	$0
Dec 2002	0	0	26.91	4.85	$0
Nov 2002	0	0	24.66	4.14	$0
Oct 2002	0	0	26.46	4.23	$0
Sep 2002	0	0	27.44	3.64	$0
Aug 2002	0	0	25.96	3.16	$0
Jul 2002	0	0	24.58	3.06	$0
Jun 2002	0	0	23.73	3.34	$0
May 2002	0	0	24.66	3.58	$0
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	0	0	16.93	2.36	$0
Nov 2001	0	0	18.07	2.41	$0
Oct 2001	0	0	19.78	2.53	$0
Sep 2001	0	0	24.26	2.25	$0
Aug 2001	0	0	24.87	3.05	$0
Jul 2001	0	0	23.93	3.20	$0
Jun 2001	0	0	24.56	3.82	$0
May 2001	0	0	25.52	4.31	$0
Apr 2001	0	0	24.68	5.34	$0
Mar 2001	0	0	24.54	5.38	$0
Feb 2001	0	0	27.75	5.77	$0
Jan 2001	0	0	27.47	8.40	$0
Dec 2000	0	0	26.88	9.12	$0
Nov 2000	0	0	32.21	5.66	$0
Oct 2000	0	0	31.23	5.15	$0
Sep 2000	0	0	31.87	5.19	$0
Aug 2000	0	0	29.64	4.54	$0
Jul 2000	0	0	28.53	4.09	$0
Jun 2000	0	0	29.30	4.40	$0
May 2000	0	0	27.26	3.68	$0
Apr 2000	0	0	24.51	3.12	$0
Mar 2000	0	0	28.42	2.86	$0
Feb 2000	0	0	27.62	2.73	$0
Jan 2000	0	0	25.27	2.48	$0
Dec 1999	0	0	24.28	2.42	$0
Nov 1999	0	0	23.19	2.43	$0
Oct 1999	0	0	20.98	2.80	$0
Sep 1999	0	0	21.75	2.62	$0
Aug 1999	0	0	19.26	2.88	$0
Jul 1999	0	0	17.89	2.37	$0
Jun 1999	0	0	15.94	2.36	$0
May 1999	0	0	15.79	2.32	$0
Apr 1999	0	0	15.10	2.21	$0
Mar 1999	0	0	12.47	1.84	$0
Feb 1999	0	0	9.98	1.82	$0
Jan 1999	0	0	10.38	1.90	$0
Dec 1998	0	0	9.20	1.77	$0
Nov 1998	0	0	10.89	2.19	$0
Oct 1998	0	0	12.42	1.97	$0
Sep 1998	0	0	12.59	2.08	$0
Aug 1998	0	0	11.30	1.91	$0
Jul 1998	0	0	11.74	2.24	$0
Jun 1998	0	0	11.24	2.24	$0
May 1998	0	0	12.62	2.21	$0
Apr 1998	0	0	13.04	2.51	$0
Mar 1998	0	0	12.80	2.31	$0
Feb 1998	0	0	13.95	2.30	$0
Jan 1998	0	0	14.70	2.15	$0
Dec 1997	0	0	16.32	2.41	$0
Nov 1997	0	0	18.19	3.09	$0
Oct 1997	0	0	19.25	3.15	$0
Sep 1997	0	0	17.74	2.95	$0
Aug 1997	0	0	17.86	2.55	$0
Jul 1997	0	0	17.58	2.25	$0
Jun 1997	0	0	17.24	2.26	$0
May 1997	0	0	18.97	2.31	$0
Apr 1997	1,315	0	17.88	2.08	$23,512
Mar 1997	0	0	18.95	1.94	$0
Feb 1997	0	14	20.49	2.21	$31
Jan 1997	0	0	23.48	3.54	$0
Dec 1996	0	0	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	0	0	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	0	0	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	0	3	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	0	64	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	0	157	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	0	568	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	0	1,070	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	0	1	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	0	1,679	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	0	3,240	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	0	963	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	0	3,280	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	0	2,264	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	0	2,554	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	337	3,104	16.18	—	$5,453
Aug 1995	0	2,709	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	0	5,907	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	0	5,817	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	0	876	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	0	2,894	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	0	3,517	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	0	3,608	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	0	3,566	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	167	1	15.03	—	$2,510
Nov 1994	0	833	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	165	6,762	15.58	—	$2,571
Sep 1994	348	4,608	15.29	—	$5,321
Aug 1994	174	6,601	16.13	—	$2,807
Jul 1994	170	9,268	17.56	—	$2,985
Jun 1994	172	8,890	17.09	—	$2,939
May 1994	351	9,342	15.88	—	$5,574
Apr 1994	0	7,736	14.14	—	$0
Mar 1994	0	6,875	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	168	7,213	12.50	—	$2,100
Jan 1994	178	7,826	12.66	—	$2,253
Dec 1993	169	8,141	12.33	—	$2,084
Nov 1993	168	7,553	14.49	—	$2,434
Oct 1993	350	10,108	15.85	—	$5,548
Sep 1993	519	7,803	15.03	—	$7,801
Aug 1993	695	8,295	15.66	—	$10,884
Jul 1993	342	8,936	15.46	—	$5,287
Jun 1993	354	8,590	16.79	—	$5,944
May 1993	349	8,931	17.68	—	$6,170
Apr 1993	346	9,348	18.05	—	$6,245
Mar 1993	340	12,047	18.14	—	$6,168
Feb 1993	340	10,584	17.90	—	$6,086
Jan 1993	354	11,475	16.93	—	$5,993

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.

Apr 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                1,315 bbl  × $ 17.88 =    $23,512
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.08 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                  $23,512

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. 10/O/5791 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.