BLACK LAKE #3

Name: BLACK LAKE #3 lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by ANADARKO E&P COMPANY LP (P-5 20542) in the GIDDINGS (AUSTIN CHALK-3) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 16656District 03Field 34733500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$598 k

Jan 1993 – Feb 2006

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

158

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The GIDDINGS (AUSTIN CHALK-3) 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 5,900 leases and 6,985 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1960-10-29

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

0 ft

minimum

From a lease line

330 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 2025-09-30.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “DKT OG-25-00028011: UFT FIELD, ALLOCATION FORMULA SUSPENDED”

Severance-tax incentive filings

Applications the operator filed to have this lease's gas taxed at a reduced state rate. A filing is an application, and this page never calls one a reduction that was granted.

Programme	Filings	With an approval date	Dated	Docket
NGPA	1	none	—	—

This says nothing about a royalty. A severance tax is charged to the operator. Whether a reduced rate reaches a royalty owner depends on the wording of the lease instrument, which is a private contract this site does not hold.

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	24,141 bbl	$450,430
Casinghead gas	Production	78,600 Mcf	$148,011
Total			$598,442

35,102 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 (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 30.5942, -96.5531. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.59425, -96.55308 · 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

7,660 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

22.3 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 7,660 ft.

Completions filed

May 1983

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Aug 2005

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 22.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 22.3 years and 22.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-05132394	3	7,660 ft	May 1983	Aug 2005	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 (158)

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

158 months


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	245	42.37	5.55	$1,360
Jul 2004	95	0	38.28	6.08	$3,637
Jun 2004	0	0	36.10	6.43	$0
May 2004	0	76	37.48	6.49	$494
Apr 2004	187	382	34.47	5.86	$8,684
Mar 2004	0	0	34.36	5.53	$0
Feb 2004	0	0	32.45	5.51	$0
Jan 2004	186	150	32.03	6.30	$6,903
Dec 2003	0	54	30.26	6.30	$340
Nov 2003	0	34	28.80	4.60	$156
Oct 2003	0	53	28.17	4.76	$252
Sep 2003	0	343	26.31	4.75	$1,629
Aug 2003	184	407	29.76	5.13	$7,564
Jul 2003	0	437	29.41	5.17	$2,260
Jun 2003	1	240	28.56	5.98	$1,464
May 2003	339	443	26.59	5.97	$11,660
Apr 2003	0	461	26.67	5.41	$2,493
Mar 2003	0	462	31.14	6.10	$2,816
Feb 2003	0	500	33.48	7.93	$3,963
Jan 2003	146	443	30.31	5.58	$6,898
Dec 2002	1	449	26.91	4.85	$2,206
Nov 2002	180	365	24.66	4.14	$5,949
Oct 2002	0	404	26.46	4.23	$1,709
Sep 2002	178	424	27.44	3.64	$6,426
Aug 2002	0	458	25.96	3.16	$1,449
Jul 2002	187	469	24.58	3.06	$6,032
Jun 2002	0	418	23.73	3.34	$1,395
May 2002	179	511	24.66	3.58	$6,246
Apr 2002	0	554	23.65	3.51	$1,946
Mar 2002	180	216	22.00	3.10	$4,630
Feb 2002	0	344	18.22	2.38	$817
Jan 2002	181	598	17.17	2.38	$4,528
Dec 2001	0	556	16.93	2.36	$1,315
Nov 2001	169	479	18.07	2.41	$4,206
Oct 2001	164	364	19.78	2.53	$4,164
Sep 2001	0	334	24.26	2.25	$752
Aug 2001	0	552	24.87	3.05	$1,685
Jul 2001	185	506	23.93	3.20	$6,045
Jun 2001	173	515	24.56	3.82	$6,218
May 2001	0	643	25.52	4.31	$2,770
Apr 2001	174	622	24.68	5.34	$7,613
Mar 2001	0	321	24.54	5.38	$1,726
Feb 2001	184	275	27.75	5.77	$6,692
Jan 2001	0	373	27.47	8.40	$3,133
Dec 2000	180	343	26.88	9.12	$7,967
Nov 2000	0	553	32.21	5.66	$3,129
Oct 2000	177	731	31.23	5.15	$9,289
Sep 2000	0	750	31.87	5.19	$3,890
Aug 2000	178	728	29.64	4.54	$8,582
Jul 2000	178	745	28.53	4.09	$8,125
Jun 2000	175	799	29.30	4.40	$8,641
May 2000	1	509	27.26	3.68	$1,900
Apr 2000	180	482	24.51	3.12	$5,914
Mar 2000	0	412	28.42	2.86	$1,178
Feb 2000	185	326	27.62	2.73	$5,999
Jan 2000	1	521	25.27	2.48	$1,318
Dec 1999	181	564	24.28	2.42	$5,762
Nov 1999	0	438	23.19	2.43	$1,066
Oct 1999	179	614	20.98	2.80	$5,477
Sep 1999	168	655	21.75	2.62	$5,369
Aug 1999	172	641	19.26	2.88	$5,156
Jul 1999	175	656	17.89	2.37	$4,687
Jun 1999	179	706	15.94	2.36	$4,521
May 1999	181	711	15.79	2.32	$4,508
Apr 1999	175	637	15.10	2.21	$4,049
Mar 1999	181	699	12.47	1.84	$3,542
Feb 1999	178	616	9.98	1.82	$2,896
Jan 1999	178	434	10.38	1.90	$2,672
Dec 1998	186	413	9.20	1.77	$2,444
Nov 1998	177	434	10.89	2.19	$2,876
Oct 1998	182	375	12.42	1.97	$2,999
Sep 1998	345	574	12.59	2.08	$5,539
Aug 1998	174	426	11.30	1.91	$2,779
Jul 1998	177	677	11.74	2.24	$3,593
Jun 1998	181	575	11.24	2.24	$3,321
May 1998	344	703	12.62	2.21	$5,892
Apr 1998	184	826	13.04	2.51	$4,469
Mar 1998	357	598	12.80	2.31	$5,951
Feb 1998	179	606	13.95	2.30	$3,890
Jan 1998	359	665	14.70	2.15	$6,710
Dec 1997	352	702	16.32	2.41	$7,437
Nov 1997	184	454	18.19	3.09	$4,749
Oct 1997	346	624	19.25	3.15	$8,626
Sep 1997	346	541	17.74	2.95	$7,737
Aug 1997	353	592	17.86	2.55	$7,817
Jul 1997	359	751	17.58	2.25	$7,999
Jun 1997	533	802	17.24	2.26	$10,999
May 1997	362	1,063	18.97	2.31	$9,321
Apr 1997	0	286	17.88	2.08	$596
Mar 1997	175	324	18.95	1.94	$3,945
Feb 1997	345	128	20.49	2.21	$7,351
Jan 1997	368	609	23.48	3.54	$10,796
Dec 1996	368	610	23.32	—	$8,582
Nov 1996	359	680	21.97	—	$7,887
Oct 1996	360	655	23.31	—	$8,392
Sep 1996	356	1,063	22.22	—	$7,910
Aug 1996	349	1,344	20.26	—	$7,071
Jul 1996	352	1,365	19.55	—	$6,882
Jun 1996	367	1,386	18.73	—	$6,874
May 1996	188	1,053	19.43	—	$3,653
Apr 1996	175	964	21.51	—	$3,764
Mar 1996	177	836	19.38	—	$3,430
Feb 1996	173	765	16.98	—	$2,938
Jan 1996	338	872	17.07	—	$5,770
Dec 1995	186	1,007	17.19	—	$3,197
Nov 1995	176	955	16.00	—	$2,816
Oct 1995	173	884	15.43	—	$2,669
Sep 1995	345	646	16.18	—	$5,582
Aug 1995	188	521	15.92	—	$2,993
Jul 1995	342	703	15.24	—	$5,212
Jun 1995	171	709	16.41	—	$2,806
May 1995	167	269	17.56	—	$2,933
Apr 1995	175	435	17.73	—	$3,103
Mar 1995	359	197	16.44	—	$5,902
Feb 1995	353	380	16.58	—	$5,853
Jan 1995	181	335	15.92	—	$2,882
Dec 1994	0	598	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	177	732	15.90	—	$2,814
Oct 1994	1	870	15.58	—	$16
Sep 1994	172	839	15.29	—	$2,630
Aug 1994	167	1,000	16.13	—	$2,694
Jul 1994	169	705	17.56	—	$2,968
Jun 1994	0	724	17.09	—	$0
May 1994	329	811	15.88	—	$5,225
Apr 1994	174	713	14.14	—	$2,460
Mar 1994	179	963	12.46	—	$2,230
Feb 1994	178	446	12.50	—	$2,225
Jan 1994	359	491	12.66	—	$4,545
Dec 1993	0	542	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	184	386	14.49	—	$2,666
Oct 1993	345	477	15.85	—	$5,468
Sep 1993	707	626	15.03	—	$10,626
Aug 1993	1	163	15.66	—	$16
Jul 1993	347	410	15.46	—	$5,365
Jun 1993	170	577	16.79	—	$2,854
May 1993	182	915	17.68	—	$3,218
Apr 1993	172	603	18.05	—	$3,105
Mar 1993	175	702	18.14	—	$3,175
Feb 1993	352	699	17.90	—	$6,301
Jan 1993	180	1,476	16.93	—	$3,047

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 2004 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                    0 bbl  × $ 42.37 =         $0
Casinghead gas       245 Mcf  × $  5.55 =     $1,360

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $1,360

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/O/16656 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.