BALLARD "D"

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

Operated by GEOMEG ENERGY OPERATING CO., LLC (P-5 300803) in the DALE-MCBRIDE field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 11872District 01Field 22820001OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$342 k

Jan 1993 – Mar 2006

Value, last 12 filed months

$7 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

159

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The DALE-MCBRIDE 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 100 leases and 463 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1970-07-01

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

the register's own label

Between wells

300 ft

minimum

From a lease line

150 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 2 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “& DALE, WEST INTO ONE FIELD DALE-MCBRIDE 7/1/70”

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	18,429 bbl	$342,293
Casinghead gas	Production	50 Mcf	$14
Total			$342,307

44 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 44 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 29.9332, -97.5198. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.93322, -97.51983 · 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

0.0%

0 of 1 wells

With a plug date

0.0%

0 of 1 wells

Median depth

2,500 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

—

no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

00.0%

A plug date is filed

00.0%

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

00.0%

NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.

1100.0%

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 2,500 ft.

Completions filed

Sep 1987

1 of 1 wells

1 well


42-05534311	1 D	2,500 ft	Sep 1987	—	—

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 (159)

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

159 months


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	13	0	58.34	13.80	$758
Sep 2005	10	0	61.45	12.08	$615
Aug 2005	94	0	61.51	9.80	$5,782
Jul 2005	0	0	55.69	7.84	$0
Jun 2005	0	0	52.33	7.38	$0
May 2005	0	0	45.22	6.65	$0
Apr 2005	0	0	49.20	7.36	$0
Mar 2005	0	0	50.37	7.15	$0
Feb 2005	0	0	45.22	6.31	$0
Jan 2005	0	0	43.16	6.32	$0
Dec 2004	0	0	39.86	6.75	$0
Nov 2004	0	0	45.28	6.33	$0
Oct 2004	0	0	49.70	6.52	$0
Sep 2004	0	0	43.24	5.28	$0
Aug 2004	0	0	42.37	5.55	$0
Jul 2004	0	0	38.28	6.08	$0
Jun 2004	0	0	36.10	6.43	$0
May 2004	0	0	37.48	6.49	$0
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	36	0	24.56	3.82	$884
May 2001	97	0	25.52	4.31	$2,475
Apr 2001	151	0	24.68	5.34	$3,727
Mar 2001	85	0	24.54	5.38	$2,086
Feb 2001	112	0	27.75	5.77	$3,108
Jan 2001	137	0	27.47	8.40	$3,763
Dec 2000	134	0	26.88	9.12	$3,602
Nov 2000	0	0	32.21	5.66	$0
Oct 2000	0	0	31.23	5.15	$0
Sep 2000	89	0	31.87	5.19	$2,836
Aug 2000	85	0	29.64	4.54	$2,519
Jul 2000	138	0	28.53	4.09	$3,937
Jun 2000	86	0	29.30	4.40	$2,520
May 2000	87	0	27.26	3.68	$2,372
Apr 2000	165	0	24.51	3.12	$4,044
Mar 2000	69	0	28.42	2.86	$1,961
Feb 2000	158	0	27.62	2.73	$4,364
Jan 2000	182	0	25.27	2.48	$4,599
Dec 1999	0	0	24.28	2.42	$0
Nov 1999	75	0	23.19	2.43	$1,739
Oct 1999	74	0	20.98	2.80	$1,553
Sep 1999	121	0	21.75	2.62	$2,632
Aug 1999	105	0	19.26	2.88	$2,022
Jul 1999	69	0	17.89	2.37	$1,234
Jun 1999	97	0	15.94	2.36	$1,546
May 1999	117	0	15.79	2.32	$1,847
Apr 1999	154	0	15.10	2.21	$2,325
Mar 1999	182	0	12.47	1.84	$2,270
Feb 1999	176	0	9.98	1.82	$1,756
Jan 1999	176	0	10.38	1.90	$1,827
Dec 1998	176	0	9.20	1.77	$1,619
Nov 1998	216	0	10.89	2.19	$2,352
Oct 1998	348	0	12.42	1.97	$4,322
Sep 1998	171	0	12.59	2.08	$2,153
Aug 1998	225	0	11.30	1.91	$2,543
Jul 1998	224	0	11.74	2.24	$2,630
Jun 1998	245	0	11.24	2.24	$2,754
May 1998	174	0	12.62	2.21	$2,196
Apr 1998	224	0	13.04	2.51	$2,921
Mar 1998	131	0	12.80	2.31	$1,677
Feb 1998	216	0	13.95	2.30	$3,013
Jan 1998	161	0	14.70	2.15	$2,367
Dec 1997	337	0	16.32	2.41	$5,500
Nov 1997	149	0	18.19	3.09	$2,710
Oct 1997	175	0	19.25	3.15	$3,369
Sep 1997	279	0	17.74	2.95	$4,949
Aug 1997	292	0	17.86	2.55	$5,215
Jul 1997	360	0	17.58	2.25	$6,329
Jun 1997	271	1	17.24	2.26	$4,674
May 1997	312	1	18.97	2.31	$5,921
Apr 1997	425	1	17.88	2.08	$7,601
Mar 1997	302	1	18.95	1.94	$5,725
Feb 1997	287	1	20.49	2.21	$5,883
Jan 1997	415	1	23.48	3.54	$9,748
Dec 1996	312	1	23.32	—	$7,276
Nov 1996	422	1	21.97	—	$9,271
Oct 1996	422	1	23.31	—	$9,837
Sep 1996	310	1	22.22	—	$6,888
Aug 1996	485	1	20.26	—	$9,826
Jul 1996	427	1	19.55	—	$8,348
Jun 1996	582	1	18.73	—	$10,901
May 1996	450	1	19.43	—	$8,744
Apr 1996	473	1	21.51	—	$10,174
Mar 1996	649	1	19.38	—	$12,578
Feb 1996	525	1	16.98	—	$8,915
Jan 1996	760	1	17.07	—	$12,973
Dec 1995	629	1	17.19	—	$10,813
Nov 1995	718	1	16.00	—	$11,488
Oct 1995	789	1	15.43	—	$12,174
Sep 1995	0	1	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	0	0	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	55	1	15.24	—	$838
Jun 1995	0	1	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	27	1	17.56	—	$474
Apr 1995	60	1	17.73	—	$1,064
Mar 1995	0	1	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	46	1	16.58	—	$763
Jan 1995	0	1	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	44	1	15.03	—	$661
Nov 1994	0	0	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	0	0	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	0	1	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	74	1	16.13	—	$1,194
Jul 1994	0	1	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	89	1	17.09	—	$1,521
May 1994	0	1	15.88	—	$0
Apr 1994	55	1	14.14	—	$778
Mar 1994	35	1	12.46	—	$436
Feb 1994	32	1	12.50	—	$400
Jan 1994	110	1	12.66	—	$1,393
Dec 1993	0	1	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	0	1	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	108	1	15.85	—	$1,712
Sep 1993	0	1	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	20	0	15.66	—	$313
Jul 1993	53	1	15.46	—	$819
Jun 1993	148	1	16.79	—	$2,485
May 1993	0	1	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	0	1	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	131	1	18.14	—	$2,376
Feb 1993	0	1	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	0	1	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.

Oct 2005 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   13 bbl  × $ 58.34 =       $758
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $ 13.80 =         $0

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Month total                                     $758

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. 01/O/11872 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.