WEST RANCH "A"

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

Operated by HILCORP ENERGY COMPANY (P-5 386310) in the WEST RANCH (VENADO ZONE) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 7607District 02Field 96545650OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$1.9 M

Jan 1993 – May 2009

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

197

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The WEST RANCH (VENADO ZONE) 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 3 leases and 33 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1958-08-01

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

the register's own label

Between wells

933 ft

minimum

From a lease line

466 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “TRANSFERRED FROM WEST RANCH /OTHER ZONES/ FIELD - 8-1-58”

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	99,054 bbl	$1,739,412
Casinghead gas	Production	139,745 Mcf	$176,298
Total			$1,915,710

88,340 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 (5)

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 28.7919, -96.6127. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.9 miles.

28.79094, -96.61290 · 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%

5 of 5 wells

With a plug date

40.0%

2 of 5 wells

Median depth

6,354 ft

5 wells filed one

Completion to plug

23.0 years

median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

5100.0%

A plug date is filed

240.0%

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

240.0%

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 6,190 and 6,580 ft, median 6,354 ft, over the 5 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Oct 1993 – Dec 2022

5 of 5 wells

Plug dates filed

Sep 2016 – Nov 2016

2 of 5 wells; 3 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 23.0 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 22.9 years and 23.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

5 wells


42-23902683	336	6,553 ft	Dec 2022	—	Yes
42-23902679	332	6,354 ft	Sep 2020	—	Yes
42-23902677	330	6,190 ft	Apr 2016	—	Yes
42-23902647	299	6,325 ft	Nov 1993	Nov 2016	Yes
42-23902403	48	6,580 ft	Oct 1993	Sep 2016	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 (197)

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

197 months


May 2009	0	0	54.74	3.93	$0
Apr 2009	0	0	46.77	3.59	$0
Mar 2009	0	0	42.14	4.06	$0
Feb 2009	0	0	32.81	4.63	$0
Jan 2009	0	0	35.86	5.37	$0
Dec 2008	0	0	37.10	5.98	$0
Nov 2008	0	0	55.49	6.86	$0
Oct 2008	0	0	75.24	6.92	$0
Sep 2008	0	0	101.76	7.88	$0
Aug 2008	0	0	114.22	8.48	$0
Jul 2008	0	0	131.08	11.39	$0
Jun 2008	0	0	131.33	13.03	$0
May 2008	0	0	123.17	11.57	$0
Apr 2008	0	0	110.31	10.45	$0
Mar 2008	0	0	101.90	9.66	$0
Feb 2008	0	0	92.53	8.77	$0
Jan 2008	0	0	90.38	8.21	$0
Dec 2007	0	0	88.33	7.30	$0
Nov 2007	0	0	91.67	7.29	$0
Oct 2007	0	0	82.85	6.92	$0
Sep 2007	0	0	75.84	6.24	$0
Aug 2007	0	0	69.06	6.39	$0
Jul 2007	0	0	70.90	6.39	$0
Jun 2007	0	0	62.00	7.55	$0
May 2007	0	0	58.74	7.85	$0
Apr 2007	0	0	59.61	7.81	$0
Mar 2007	0	0	56.92	7.30	$0
Feb 2007	0	0	55.10	8.22	$0
Jan 2007	0	0	50.30	6.73	$0
Dec 2006	0	0	56.65	6.92	$0
Nov 2006	0	0	54.20	7.62	$0
Oct 2006	0	0	54.90	6.01	$0
Sep 2006	0	0	60.08	5.04	$0
Aug 2006	0	0	68.71	7.34	$0
Jul 2006	0	0	69.37	6.34	$0
Jun 2006	0	0	66.28	6.38	$0
May 2006	0	0	66.01	6.42	$0
Apr 2006	0	0	64.39	7.36	$0
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	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	4	0	26.46	4.23	$106
Sep 2002	41	51	27.44	3.64	$1,310
Aug 2002	18	12	25.96	3.16	$505
Jul 2002	4	0	24.58	3.06	$98
Jun 2002	40	0	23.73	3.34	$949
May 2002	491	1,096	24.66	3.58	$16,036
Apr 2002	69	19	23.65	3.51	$1,699
Mar 2002	385	464	22.00	3.10	$9,910
Feb 2002	340	875	18.22	2.38	$8,274
Jan 2002	183	149	17.17	2.38	$3,496
Dec 2001	502	1,196	16.93	2.36	$11,327
Nov 2001	137	0	18.07	2.41	$2,476
Oct 2001	471	361	19.78	2.53	$10,229
Sep 2001	450	637	24.26	2.25	$12,351
Aug 2001	451	773	24.87	3.05	$13,576
Jul 2001	402	0	23.93	3.20	$9,620
Jun 2001	436	1,101	24.56	3.82	$14,919
May 2001	488	867	25.52	4.31	$16,188
Apr 2001	420	1,364	24.68	5.34	$17,643
Mar 2001	521	1,989	24.54	5.38	$23,479
Feb 2001	441	1,688	27.75	5.77	$21,973
Jan 2001	475	1,748	27.47	8.40	$27,729
Dec 2000	472	1,596	26.88	9.12	$27,247
Nov 2000	462	1,644	32.21	5.66	$24,183
Oct 2000	511	1,387	31.23	5.15	$23,095
Sep 2000	471	1,158	31.87	5.19	$21,017
Aug 2000	358	876	29.64	4.54	$14,589
Jul 2000	0	0	28.53	4.09	$0
Jun 2000	53	0	29.30	4.40	$1,553
May 2000	465	237	27.26	3.68	$13,548
Apr 2000	452	260	24.51	3.12	$11,889
Mar 2000	496	156	28.42	2.86	$14,542
Feb 2000	473	0	27.62	2.73	$13,064
Jan 2000	543	122	25.27	2.48	$14,024
Dec 1999	556	218	24.28	2.42	$14,028
Nov 1999	571	53	23.19	2.43	$13,370
Oct 1999	591	0	20.98	2.80	$12,399
Sep 1999	552	86	21.75	2.62	$12,231
Aug 1999	555	151	19.26	2.88	$11,124
Jul 1999	591	253	17.89	2.37	$11,173
Jun 1999	585	312	15.94	2.36	$10,062
May 1999	644	298	15.79	2.32	$10,860
Apr 1999	545	467	15.10	2.21	$9,261
Mar 1999	301	331	12.47	1.84	$4,362
Feb 1999	0	0	9.98	1.82	$0
Jan 1999	57	0	10.38	1.90	$592
Dec 1998	481	391	9.20	1.77	$5,119
Nov 1998	538	310	10.89	2.19	$6,536
Oct 1998	625	436	12.42	1.97	$8,621
Sep 1998	633	710	12.59	2.08	$9,448
Aug 1998	695	922	11.30	1.91	$9,612
Jul 1998	756	2,327	11.74	2.24	$14,082
Jun 1998	689	1,762	11.24	2.24	$11,686
May 1998	874	1,454	12.62	2.21	$14,238
Apr 1998	909	903	13.04	2.51	$14,116
Mar 1998	822	483	12.80	2.31	$11,637
Feb 1998	796	987	13.95	2.30	$13,373
Jan 1998	900	910	14.70	2.15	$15,191
Dec 1997	854	2,255	16.32	2.41	$19,374
Nov 1997	836	281	18.19	3.09	$16,075
Oct 1997	876	0	19.25	3.15	$16,863
Sep 1997	923	1,275	17.74	2.95	$20,141
Aug 1997	971	376	17.86	2.55	$18,303
Jul 1997	806	1,246	17.58	2.25	$16,969
Jun 1997	796	2,162	17.24	2.26	$18,603
May 1997	915	2,617	18.97	2.31	$23,399
Apr 1997	922	4,128	17.88	2.08	$25,083
Mar 1997	969	1,179	18.95	1.94	$20,649
Feb 1997	705	130	20.49	2.21	$14,732
Jan 1997	217	166	23.48	3.54	$5,683
Dec 1996	928	965	23.32	—	$21,641
Nov 1996	880	1,595	21.97	—	$19,334
Oct 1996	927	1,726	23.31	—	$21,608
Sep 1996	877	1,121	22.22	—	$19,487
Aug 1996	948	1,467	20.26	—	$19,206
Jul 1996	984	486	19.55	—	$19,237
Jun 1996	901	1,369	18.73	—	$16,876
May 1996	962	1,260	19.43	—	$18,692
Apr 1996	976	719	21.51	—	$20,994
Mar 1996	1,002	1,719	19.38	—	$19,419
Feb 1996	811	1,365	16.98	—	$13,771
Jan 1996	938	1,287	17.07	—	$16,012
Dec 1995	1,150	1,375	17.19	—	$19,769
Nov 1995	1,036	1,091	16.00	—	$16,576
Oct 1995	521	205	15.43	—	$8,039
Sep 1995	1,064	2,574	16.18	—	$17,216
Aug 1995	1,006	1,670	15.92	—	$16,016
Jul 1995	1,032	775	15.24	—	$15,728
Jun 1995	1,124	1,812	16.41	—	$18,445
May 1995	1,219	1,510	17.56	—	$21,406
Apr 1995	1,054	1,309	17.73	—	$18,687
Mar 1995	1,106	2,534	16.44	—	$18,183
Feb 1995	1,119	3,339	16.58	—	$18,553
Jan 1995	1,436	3,180	15.92	—	$22,861
Dec 1994	1,501	2,683	15.03	—	$22,560
Nov 1994	1,621	2,563	15.90	—	$25,774
Oct 1994	1,380	2,433	15.58	—	$21,500
Sep 1994	1,424	2,668	15.29	—	$21,773
Aug 1994	1,267	1,828	16.13	—	$20,437
Jul 1994	1,453	1,660	17.56	—	$25,515
Jun 1994	1,360	2,299	17.09	—	$23,242
May 1994	1,535	3,045	15.88	—	$24,376
Apr 1994	1,421	2,919	14.14	—	$20,093
Mar 1994	1,610	1,547	12.46	—	$20,061
Feb 1994	1,734	971	12.50	—	$21,675
Jan 1994	1,991	2,616	12.66	—	$25,206
Dec 1993	1,874	2,342	12.33	—	$23,106
Nov 1993	1,993	1,688	14.49	—	$28,879
Oct 1993	1,396	1,757	15.85	—	$22,127
Sep 1993	1,371	1,588	15.03	—	$20,606
Aug 1993	1,527	1,404	15.66	—	$23,913
Jul 1993	1,665	1,472	15.46	—	$25,741
Jun 1993	1,615	827	16.79	—	$27,116
May 1993	1,634	1,594	17.68	—	$28,889
Apr 1993	1,927	1,940	18.05	—	$34,782
Mar 1993	2,091	2,469	18.14	—	$37,931
Feb 1993	1,968	3,973	17.90	—	$35,227
Jan 1993	2,114	3,601	16.93	—	$35,790

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 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                    4 bbl  × $ 26.46 =       $106
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  4.23 =         $0

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Month total                                     $106

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. 02/O/7607 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.