BLACK STONE MINERALS

Operated by DALE OPERATING COMPANY (P-5 197624) in the DOUBLE A WELLS (WOODBINE) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 198193District 03Field 25645100CondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$348 k
Oct 2002 – Aug 2011
Value, last 12 filed months
$3 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
107
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, 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 62 leases and 62 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1985-03-17
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,867 ft
minimum
From a lease line
933 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 320 acres. The field rule took effect on 1996-12-03.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: ANALYSIS.

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
CondensateDisposition2,193 bbl$100,956
GasProduction38,570 Mcf$246,770
Total$347,725

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 30.7479, -94.8153. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.74786, -94.81525 · 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
14,270 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
7.2 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 14,270 ft.

Completions filed
Oct 2002
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Dec 2009
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 7.2 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 7.2 years and 7.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-37330967114,270 ftOct 2002Dec 2009Yes

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 (107)

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

107 months

Aug 20110083.404.15$0
Jul 20110094.144.52$0
Jun 201131092.904.64$2,880
May 20110098.134.40$0
Apr 201100105.964.33$0
Mar 20110096.364.06$0
Feb 20110085.644.18$0
Jan 20110086.504.59$0
Dec 20100085.734.35$0
Nov 20100080.843.80$0
Oct 20100078.103.51$0
Sep 20100072.633.98$0
Aug 20100073.684.42$0
Jul 20100072.554.74$0
Jun 20100070.364.91$0
May 20100071.124.24$0
Apr 20100081.694.12$0
Mar 20100078.394.39$0
Feb 20100073.585.44$0
Jan 20100074.365.96$0
Dec 20090071.445.48$0
Nov 20090074.593.75$0
Oct 20090072.544.11$0
Sep 20090065.543.06$0
Aug 20090067.423.22$0
Jul 20090061.133.46$0
Jun 20090066.163.90$0
May 20090054.743.93$0
Apr 20090046.773.59$0
Mar 2009140042.144.06$5,900
Feb 200910032.814.63$328
Jan 20090035.865.37$0
Dec 200801137.105.98$66
Nov 200801155.496.86$75
Oct 200801375.246.92$90
Sep 200802101.767.88$16
Aug 200809114.228.48$76
Jul 2008011131.0811.39$125
Jun 2008035131.3313.03$456
May 20080113123.1711.57$1,308
Apr 2008074110.3110.45$774
Mar 2008190468101.909.66$23,884
Feb 200803092.538.77$263
Jan 2008016390.388.21$1,338
Dec 200702388.337.30$168
Nov 2007016391.677.29$1,189
Oct 2007027182.856.92$1,876
Sep 2007026275.846.24$1,636
Aug 2007010069.066.39$639
Jul 2007010270.906.39$652
Jun 2007011062.007.55$830
May 2007031858.747.85$2,495
Apr 200707559.617.81$585
Mar 2007060956.927.30$4,447
Feb 200707355.108.22$600
Jan 2007020350.306.73$1,366
Dec 200608256.656.92$567
Nov 2006025654.207.62$1,950
Oct 2006022154.906.01$1,329
Sep 2006016760.085.04$841
Aug 2006029168.717.34$2,136
Jul 2006037969.376.34$2,404
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 2006029766.016.42$1,908
Apr 200619146064.397.36$15,684
Mar 2006023656.707.08$1,672
Feb 2006026857.597.75$2,077
Jan 2006041960.598.93$3,743
Dec 2005055054.9413.42$7,378
Nov 2005042154.6910.59$4,458
Oct 2005064858.3413.80$8,940
Sep 2005011061.4512.08$1,329
Aug 2005050561.519.80$4,947
Jul 2005040655.697.84$3,185
Jun 200517116352.337.38$10,152
May 2005044445.226.65$2,953
Apr 2005055149.207.36$4,056
Mar 200501,14350.377.15$8,178
Feb 200501,10545.226.31$6,975
Jan 2005037843.166.32$2,390
Dec 20041811,07639.866.75$14,479
Nov 2004077145.286.33$4,881
Oct 20041781,38049.706.52$17,837
Sep 200401,46743.245.28$7,751
Aug 200401,24742.375.55$6,922
Jul 2004080538.286.08$4,898
Jun 2004060636.106.43$3,898
May 200418364337.486.49$11,035
Apr 200418324534.475.86$7,743
Mar 200401,28734.365.53$7,117
Feb 20041901,60532.455.51$15,008
Jan 200401,98532.036.30$12,505
Dec 20031792,88330.266.30$23,584
Nov 20031902,35428.804.60$16,289
Oct 20031764,32528.174.76$25,543
Sep 200303,14226.314.75$14,922
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

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.

Jun 2011 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            31 bbl  × $ 92.90 =     $2,880
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  4.64 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,880

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/198193 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.