BLACK STONE MINERALS B

Name: BLACK STONE MINERALS B lease production and value, Apr 1995 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by MARINER ENERGY, INC. (P-5 526155) in the PINE ISLAND BAYOU (YEGUA EY-1) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 155694District 03Field 71607495CondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$44.4 M

Apr 1995 – Apr 2002

Value, last 12 filed months

$1 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The PINE ISLAND BAYOU (YEGUA EY-1) 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 13 leases and 13 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1994-06-20

as the register files it

Field class

Gas

the register's own label

Between wells

—

no field rule filed

From a lease line

—

no field rule filed

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “FIELD ARE PERMANENTLY CLASSIFIED AS GAS WELLS.”

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
Condensate	Disposition	1,106,668 bbl	$19,121,990
Gas	Production	12,735,846 Mcf	$25,237,316
Total			$44,359,306

2,112,968 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 14 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 30.1791, -94.1699. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.17908, -94.16993 · 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%

1 of 1 wells

With a plug date

100.0%

1 of 1 wells

Median depth

11,654 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

7.0 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 11,654 ft.

Completions filed

Apr 1995

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Apr 2002

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 7.0 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 7.0 years and 7.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-24532103	1	11,654 ft	Apr 1995	Apr 2002	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 (85)

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

85 months


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	4	0	24.87	3.05	$99
Jul 2001	4	0	23.93	3.20	$96
Jun 2001	12	0	24.56	3.82	$295
May 2001	27	0	25.52	4.31	$689
Apr 2001	60	0	24.68	5.34	$1,481
Mar 2001	0	0	24.54	5.38	$0
Feb 2001	0	0	27.75	5.77	$0
Jan 2001	190	0	27.47	8.40	$5,219
Dec 2000	1,563	11,982	26.88	9.12	$151,319
Nov 2000	1,836	37,281	32.21	5.66	$270,073
Oct 2000	2,168	44,094	31.23	5.15	$294,592
Sep 2000	2,997	45,462	31.87	5.19	$331,303
Aug 2000	2,769	49,196	29.64	4.54	$305,460
Jul 2000	2,746	51,654	28.53	4.09	$289,595
Jun 2000	2,365	50,814	29.30	4.40	$292,736
May 2000	1,609	51,257	27.26	3.68	$232,474
Apr 2000	2,096	50,549	24.51	3.12	$208,884
Mar 2000	2,154	53,358	28.42	2.86	$213,807
Feb 2000	2,133	47,641	27.62	2.73	$188,807
Jan 2000	2,421	57,640	25.27	2.48	$204,155
Dec 1999	1,964	68,092	24.28	2.42	$212,722
Nov 1999	2,497	79,102	23.19	2.43	$250,439
Oct 1999	2,657	92,440	20.98	2.80	$314,919
Sep 1999	3,483	98,883	21.75	2.62	$334,715
Aug 1999	4,050	116,753	19.26	2.88	$413,738
Jul 1999	4,794	129,984	17.89	2.37	$394,135
Jun 1999	5,398	138,221	15.94	2.36	$412,536
May 1999	6,325	178,050	15.79	2.32	$513,129
Apr 1999	7,876	207,411	15.10	2.21	$576,901
Mar 1999	9,838	237,220	12.47	1.84	$558,769
Feb 1999	5,871	248,290	9.98	1.82	$509,932
Jan 1999	9,113	351,817	10.38	1.90	$763,028
Dec 1998	11,983	414,570	9.20	1.77	$845,409
Nov 1998	13,177	417,079	10.89	2.19	$1,055,115
Oct 1998	16,163	466,357	12.42	1.97	$1,119,099
Sep 1998	19,201	469,804	12.59	2.08	$1,220,164
Aug 1998	22,825	468,414	11.30	1.91	$1,151,352
Jul 1998	26,921	485,998	11.74	2.24	$1,403,361
Jun 1998	24,180	388,912	11.24	2.24	$1,141,884
May 1998	33,435	501,237	12.62	2.21	$1,527,849
Apr 1998	33,584	436,812	13.04	2.51	$1,532,294
Mar 1998	37,506	439,460	12.80	2.31	$1,494,983
Feb 1998	37,022	391,928	13.95	2.30	$1,417,550
Jan 1998	41,323	400,625	14.70	2.15	$1,470,711
Dec 1997	42,966	373,986	16.32	2.41	$1,602,923
Nov 1997	40,891	329,995	18.19	3.09	$1,762,918
Oct 1997	41,533	310,467	19.25	3.15	$1,777,425
Sep 1997	36,149	257,386	17.74	2.95	$1,401,828
Aug 1997	33,336	234,636	17.86	2.55	$1,194,815
Jul 1997	34,301	240,218	17.58	2.25	$1,142,767
Jun 1997	33,750	234,918	17.24	2.26	$1,112,107
May 1997	35,194	246,616	18.97	2.31	$1,236,943
Apr 1997	31,048	221,283	17.88	2.08	$1,016,022
Mar 1997	26,290	176,287	18.95	1.94	$840,041
Feb 1997	10,932	73,088	20.49	2.21	$385,222
Jan 1997	22,385	145,611	23.48	3.54	$1,041,019
Dec 1996	22,559	139,744	23.32	—	$526,076
Nov 1996	18,916	135,875	21.97	—	$415,585
Oct 1996	24,247	158,736	23.31	—	$565,198
Sep 1996	27,014	178,912	22.22	—	$600,251
Aug 1996	24,838	162,214	20.26	—	$503,218
Jul 1996	28,578	197,527	19.55	—	$558,700
Jun 1996	31,689	227,170	18.73	—	$593,535
May 1996	34,586	243,151	19.43	—	$672,006
Apr 1996	20,111	152,291	21.51	—	$432,588
Mar 1996	16,492	95,753	19.38	—	$319,615
Feb 1996	21,114	140,145	16.98	—	$358,516
Jan 1996	28,860	202,164	17.07	—	$492,640
Dec 1995	10,189	78,714	17.19	—	$175,149
Nov 1995	0	0	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	0	0	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	0	0	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	0	0	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	0	0	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	0	0	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	0	0	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	360	572	17.73	—	$6,383

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.

Aug 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate             4 bbl  × $ 24.87 =        $99
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  3.05 =         $0

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Month total                                      $99

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. 03/G/155694 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.