HILL STATE

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

Operated by CUSTER & WRIGHT OPERATING, INC. (P-5 195651) in the SOUTHWEST MESA (WOLFCAMP) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 13028District 7CField 84819850Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$748 k

Jan 1993 – Jun 2006

Value, last 12 filed months

$386

at the published price for each month

Months reported

162

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The SOUTHWEST MESA (WOLFCAMP) 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 16 leases and 24 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1988-08-18

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

1,200 ft

minimum

From a lease line

467 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 1990-01-01.

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: “OIL RULES ADDED TO GAS 1/24/95”

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	35,070 bbl	$682,351
Casinghead gas	Production	92,915 Mcf	$65,468
Total			$747,819

75,588 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 (3)

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 31.0283, -102.0980. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.0 miles.

31.02832, -102.09826 · 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%

3 of 3 wells

With a plug date

100.0%

3 of 3 wells

Median depth

7,050 ft

3 wells filed one

Completion to plug

14.8 years

median over 3 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

3100.0%

A plug date is filed

3100.0%

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

3100.0%

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 6,903 and 7,072 ft, median 7,050 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

May 1991 – May 2004

3 of 3 wells

Plug dates filed

Apr 2006 – May 2006

3 of 3 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 14.8 years across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 8.4 years and 14.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells


42-10535921	1	6,903 ft	May 2004	May 2006	Yes
42-10535949	3	7,050 ft	Jul 1991	Apr 2006	Yes
42-10535941	2	7,072 ft	May 1991	May 2006	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 (162)

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

162 months


Jun 2006	0	0	66.28	6.38	$0
May 2006	0	0	66.01	6.42	$0
Apr 2006	6	0	64.39	7.36	$386
Mar 2006	0	0	56.70	7.08	$0
Feb 2006	0	0	57.59	7.75	$0
Jan 2006	0	0	60.59	8.93	$0
Dec 2005	0	0	54.94	13.42	$0
Nov 2005	0	0	54.69	10.59	$0
Oct 2005	0	0	58.34	13.80	$0
Sep 2005	0	0	61.45	12.08	$0
Aug 2005	0	0	61.51	9.80	$0
Jul 2005	0	0	55.69	7.84	$0
Jun 2005	0	116	52.33	7.38	$856
May 2005	0	31	45.22	6.65	$206
Apr 2005	29	104	49.20	7.36	$2,192
Mar 2005	21	98	50.37	7.15	$1,759
Feb 2005	139	77	45.22	6.31	$6,772
Jan 2005	0	87	43.16	6.32	$550
Dec 2004	25	105	39.86	6.75	$1,705
Nov 2004	25	79	45.28	6.33	$1,632
Oct 2004	76	336	49.70	6.52	$5,966
Sep 2004	200	1,400	43.24	5.28	$16,045
Aug 2004	320	413	42.37	5.55	$15,851
Jul 2004	1,157	2,048	38.28	6.08	$56,750
Jun 2004	1,647	1,105	36.10	6.43	$66,565
May 2004	808	421	37.48	6.49	$33,018
Apr 2004	0	0	34.47	5.86	$0
Mar 2004	0	0	34.36	5.53	$0
Feb 2004	0	0	32.45	5.51	$0
Jan 2004	0	0	32.03	6.30	$0
Dec 2003	0	0	30.26	6.30	$0
Nov 2003	0	0	28.80	4.60	$0
Oct 2003	0	0	28.17	4.76	$0
Sep 2003	0	0	26.31	4.75	$0
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	5	0	29.64	4.54	$148
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	2	229	23.19	2.43	$604
Oct 1999	2	289	20.98	2.80	$852
Sep 1999	1	348	21.75	2.62	$933
Aug 1999	16	288	19.26	2.88	$1,136
Jul 1999	18	272	17.89	2.37	$967
Jun 1999	1	194	15.94	2.36	$474
May 1999	3	343	15.79	2.32	$843
Apr 1999	4	200	15.10	2.21	$502
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	4	64	9.20	1.77	$150
Nov 1998	0	120	10.89	2.19	$262
Oct 1998	20	172	12.42	1.97	$587
Sep 1998	70	440	12.59	2.08	$1,798
Aug 1998	236	501	11.30	1.91	$3,622
Jul 1998	178	506	11.74	2.24	$3,222
Jun 1998	189	419	11.24	2.24	$3,062
May 1998	170	544	12.62	2.21	$3,346
Apr 1998	215	584	13.04	2.51	$4,267
Mar 1998	231	579	12.80	2.31	$4,294
Feb 1998	93	465	13.95	2.30	$2,366
Jan 1998	51	378	14.70	2.15	$1,564
Dec 1997	73	468	16.32	2.41	$2,320
Nov 1997	158	496	18.19	3.09	$4,406
Oct 1997	141	474	19.25	3.15	$4,207
Sep 1997	216	492	17.74	2.95	$5,286
Aug 1997	214	267	17.86	2.55	$4,504
Jul 1997	296	248	17.58	2.25	$5,761
Jun 1997	223	208	17.24	2.26	$4,314
May 1997	217	232	18.97	2.31	$4,652
Apr 1997	145	232	17.88	2.08	$3,076
Mar 1997	203	246	18.95	1.94	$4,324
Feb 1997	185	333	20.49	2.21	$4,525
Jan 1997	237	276	23.48	3.54	$6,542
Dec 1996	427	321	23.32	—	$9,958
Nov 1996	272	579	21.97	—	$5,976
Oct 1996	259	929	23.31	—	$6,037
Sep 1996	266	767	22.22	—	$5,911
Aug 1996	480	632	20.26	—	$9,725
Jul 1996	227	565	19.55	—	$4,438
Jun 1996	300	685	18.73	—	$5,619
May 1996	263	906	19.43	—	$5,110
Apr 1996	386	734	21.51	—	$8,303
Mar 1996	342	635	19.38	—	$6,628
Feb 1996	293	877	16.98	—	$4,975
Jan 1996	237	852	17.07	—	$4,046
Dec 1995	393	1,371	17.19	—	$6,756
Nov 1995	284	1,608	16.00	—	$4,544
Oct 1995	313	1,487	15.43	—	$4,830
Sep 1995	479	1,834	16.18	—	$7,750
Aug 1995	557	2,244	15.92	—	$8,867
Jul 1995	529	2,245	15.24	—	$8,062
Jun 1995	525	2,301	16.41	—	$8,615
May 1995	487	2,150	17.56	—	$8,552
Apr 1995	439	1,960	17.73	—	$7,783
Mar 1995	400	1,712	16.44	—	$6,576
Feb 1995	365	1,976	16.58	—	$6,052
Jan 1995	536	3,243	15.92	—	$8,533
Dec 1994	435	2,403	15.03	—	$6,538
Nov 1994	584	3,196	15.90	—	$9,286
Oct 1994	718	4,293	15.58	—	$11,186
Sep 1994	782	4,450	15.29	—	$11,957
Aug 1994	792	4,038	16.13	—	$12,775
Jul 1994	959	4,245	17.56	—	$16,840
Jun 1994	889	3,458	17.09	—	$15,193
May 1994	915	1,455	15.88	—	$14,530
Apr 1994	1,301	2,146	14.14	—	$18,396
Mar 1994	1,528	960	12.46	—	$19,039
Feb 1994	466	633	12.50	—	$5,825
Jan 1994	14	460	12.66	—	$177
Dec 1993	13	512	12.33	—	$160
Nov 1993	277	569	14.49	—	$4,014
Oct 1993	310	747	15.85	—	$4,914
Sep 1993	321	626	15.03	—	$4,825
Aug 1993	247	688	15.66	—	$3,868
Jul 1993	323	726	15.46	—	$4,994
Jun 1993	360	852	16.79	—	$6,044
May 1993	512	837	17.68	—	$9,052
Apr 1993	622	994	18.05	—	$11,227
Mar 1993	1,128	1,260	18.14	—	$20,462
Feb 1993	1,889	1,555	17.90	—	$33,813
Jan 1993	2,356	1,872	16.93	—	$39,887

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 2006 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                    6 bbl  × $ 64.39 =       $386
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  7.36 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                     $386

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. 7C/O/13028 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.