HOWARD, B. C.

Operated by HIGHGROUND, INC. (P-5 385761) in the VOGAN (STRAWN REEF) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 17908District 7BField 94012500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$268 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
128
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 12 leases and 12 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1980-06-16
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

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.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
NGPA1none

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.

StreamBasisVolumeValue
OilDisposition15,319 bbl$264,973
Casinghead gasProduction7,072 Mcf$3,464
Total$268,437

5,588 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 32.4664, -100.5546. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.46638, -100.55463 · 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%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
7,110 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
20.8 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 7,110 ft.

Completions filed
Sep 1981
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jun 2002
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 20.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 20.8 years and 20.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-3533113217,110 ftSep 1981Jun 2002Yes

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 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 200181023.933.20$1,938
Jun 2001143024.563.82$3,512
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 2001185024.685.34$4,566
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 2001144027.478.40$3,956
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 2000146029.644.54$4,327
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 2000178027.263.68$4,852
Apr 2000178024.513.12$4,363
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 2000129027.622.73$3,563
Jan 2000349025.272.48$8,819
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 1999178023.192.43$4,128
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19991634521.752.62$3,663
Aug 19991674719.262.88$3,352
Jul 19991724717.892.37$3,189
Jun 199904515.942.36$106
May 19991744515.792.32$2,852
Apr 199904215.102.21$93
Mar 19991714512.471.84$2,215
Feb 1999178429.981.82$1,853
Jan 19991634710.381.90$1,781
Dec 19980459.201.77$80
Nov 19981693110.892.19$1,908
Oct 19981684712.421.97$2,179
Sep 199804512.592.08$94
Aug 19981704711.301.91$2,011
Jul 19981734711.742.24$2,136
Jun 19981704511.242.24$2,011
May 19981674712.622.21$2,211
Apr 199804013.042.51$100
Mar 19981764612.802.31$2,359
Feb 199804213.952.30$97
Jan 19981744714.702.15$2,659
Dec 19971434716.322.41$2,447
Nov 199704518.193.09$139
Oct 19971654719.253.15$3,324
Sep 19971744417.742.95$3,217
Aug 199704717.862.55$120
Jul 19973434717.582.25$6,136
Jun 199714517.242.26$119
May 19971724718.972.31$3,371
Apr 19971664517.882.08$3,062
Mar 19971754718.951.94$3,407
Feb 199704220.492.21$93
Jan 199704723.483.54$166
Dec 19961733223.32$4,034
Nov 199601221.97$0
Oct 19961673623.31$3,893
Sep 19961694122.22$3,755
Aug 19961662620.26$3,363
Jul 19961754719.55$3,421
Jun 199604518.73$0
May 19963414719.43$6,626
Apr 19961744521.51$3,743
Mar 19961684719.38$3,256
Feb 19961734416.98$2,938
Jan 19961795417.07$3,056
Dec 19951617317.19$2,768
Nov 19951726616.00$2,752
Oct 19953474815.43$5,354
Sep 199517230316.18$2,783
Aug 199517148515.92$2,722
Jul 199517215015.24$2,621
Jun 199533616116.41$5,514
May 199516021417.56$2,810
Apr 199517214517.73$3,050
Mar 199516726416.44$2,745
Feb 19951694216.58$2,802
Jan 19951704715.92$2,706
Dec 19943254715.03$4,885
Nov 19941714515.90$2,719
Oct 19941574715.58$2,446
Sep 19943424515.29$5,229
Aug 19941704716.13$2,742
Jul 19943195517.56$5,602
Jun 19941668117.09$2,837
May 199432210015.88$5,113
Apr 1994011214.14$0
Mar 199434113212.46$4,249
Feb 199417416212.50$2,175
Jan 199417013312.66$2,152
Dec 199333918512.33$4,180
Nov 199317118814.49$2,478
Oct 199317120115.85$2,710
Sep 199335121815.03$5,276
Aug 199317924215.66$2,803
Jul 199317720615.46$2,736
Jun 199335917316.79$6,028
May 199317915917.68$3,165
Apr 199318017218.05$3,249
Mar 199334315018.14$6,222
Feb 199316813717.90$3,007
Jan 19931867716.93$3,149

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.

Jul 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   81 bbl  × $ 23.93 =     $1,938
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.20 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,938

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. 7B/O/17908 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.