RICE, B. JR. ET AL

Name: RICE, B. JR. ET AL lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by MERCANTILE OIL & GAS PROD. CORP. (P-5 559735) in the BLUE RIDGE field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 20726District 03Field 09880001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$12.0 M

Jan 1993 – Jun 2016

Value, last 12 filed months

$10 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

282

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The BLUE RIDGE 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 92 leases and 668 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1919-12-31

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

the register's own label

Between wells

0 ft

minimum

From a lease line

0 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 0 acres.

The register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.

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	438,536 bbl	$12,014,887
Casinghead gas	Production	37 Mcf	$0
Total			$12,014,887

37 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 37 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 (8)

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 29.5906, -95.5003. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.6 miles.

29.59058, -95.49726 · 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%

8 of 8 wells

With a plug date

100.0%

8 of 8 wells

Median depth

4,835 ft

8 wells filed one

Completion to plug

24.6 years

median over 8 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

8100.0%

A plug date is filed

8100.0%

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

8100.0%

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

Total depth in feet, 8 of 8 wells. Median 4,835 ft, with the middle half between 4,594 and 4,898 ft; the shallowest is 4,064 ft and the deepest 5,200 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

Last completion by decade, 8 of 8 wells, Jun 1990 – Oct 1997. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed

Jun 1990 – Oct 1997

8 of 8 wells

Plug dates filed

Jan 2016 – Feb 2016

8 of 8 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 24.6 years across the 8 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 21.3 years and 25.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

8 wells


42-15731985	8	4,860 ft	Oct 1997	Feb 2016	Yes
42-15731928	7	5,200 ft	Jun 1995	Feb 2016	Yes
42-15731907	6	4,850 ft	Sep 1994	Feb 2016	Yes
42-15731866	5	4,064 ft	Oct 1991	Feb 2016	Yes
42-15731846	4	4,819 ft	May 1991	Feb 2016	Yes
42-15731845	3	5,012 ft	Jan 1991	Jan 2016	Yes
42-15731839	2	4,486 ft	Oct 1990	Feb 2016	Yes
42-15731820	1	4,630 ft	Jun 1990	Jan 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 (282)

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

282 months


Jun 2016	0	0	45.35	2.69	$0
May 2016	0	0	42.52	1.99	$0
Apr 2016	0	0	36.56	1.99	$0
Mar 2016	0	0	33.01	1.79	$0
Feb 2016	0	0	26.47	2.06	$0
Jan 2016	352	0	27.35	2.36	$9,627
Dec 2015	0	0	32.36	2.00	$0
Nov 2015	0	0	38.79	2.17	$0
Oct 2015	0	0	43.55	2.43	$0
Sep 2015	0	0	42.99	2.76	$0
Aug 2015	0	0	40.16	2.87	$0
Jul 2015	0	0	48.15	2.95	$0
Jun 2015	0	0	56.15	2.88	$0
May 2015	0	0	55.21	2.96	$0
Apr 2015	0	0	49.82	2.71	$0
Mar 2015	0	0	42.89	2.93	$0
Feb 2015	0	0	44.66	2.98	$0
Jan 2015	0	0	43.43	3.10	$0
Dec 2014	0	0	54.69	3.59	$0
Nov 2014	0	0	70.46	4.25	$0
Oct 2014	154	0	78.30	3.90	$12,058
Sep 2014	158	0	86.16	4.05	$13,613
Aug 2014	154	0	89.39	4.04	$13,766
Jul 2014	156	0	96.56	4.18	$15,063
Jun 2014	156	0	98.16	4.74	$15,313
May 2014	156	0	94.73	4.73	$14,778
Apr 2014	156	0	95.94	4.81	$14,967
Mar 2014	311	0	95.89	5.06	$29,822
Feb 2014	159	0	97.40	6.19	$15,487
Jan 2014	0	0	90.40	4.86	$0
Dec 2013	161	0	91.82	4.35	$14,783
Nov 2013	153	0	88.85	3.74	$13,594
Oct 2013	152	0	97.42	3.78	$14,808
Sep 2013	0	0	104.11	3.72	$0
Aug 2013	155	0	104.25	3.52	$16,159
Jul 2013	448	0	102.52	3.72	$45,929
Jun 2013	447	0	94.40	3.93	$42,197
May 2013	305	0	94.83	4.15	$28,923
Apr 2013	304	0	93.96	4.28	$28,564
Mar 2013	462	0	93.62	3.91	$43,252
Feb 2013	307	0	91.23	3.42	$28,008
Jan 2013	464	0	91.60	3.42	$42,502
Dec 2012	300	0	86.77	3.42	$26,031
Nov 2012	463	0	86.95	3.62	$40,258
Oct 2012	450	0	89.38	3.40	$40,221
Sep 2012	504	0	94.67	2.92	$47,714
Aug 2012	496	0	92.66	2.91	$45,959
Jul 2012	314	0	85.13	3.02	$26,731
Jun 2012	318	0	79.82	2.52	$25,383
May 2012	357	0	91.61	2.49	$32,705
Apr 2012	490	0	101.65	2.00	$49,809
Mar 2012	356	0	105.05	2.22	$37,398
Feb 2012	471	0	101.10	2.57	$47,618
Jan 2012	469	0	98.09	2.73	$46,004
Dec 2011	472	0	96.87	3.24	$45,723
Nov 2011	467	0	95.72	3.31	$44,701
Oct 2011	413	0	84.98	3.65	$35,097
Sep 2011	612	0	83.62	3.99	$51,175
Aug 2011	508	0	83.40	4.15	$42,367
Jul 2011	621	0	94.14	4.52	$58,461
Jun 2011	462	0	92.90	4.64	$42,920
May 2011	427	0	98.13	4.40	$41,902
Apr 2011	610	0	105.96	4.33	$64,636
Mar 2011	599	0	96.36	4.06	$57,720
Feb 2011	453	0	85.64	4.18	$38,795
Jan 2011	569	0	86.50	4.59	$49,219
Dec 2010	610	0	85.73	4.35	$52,295
Nov 2010	437	0	80.84	3.80	$35,327
Oct 2010	616	0	78.10	3.51	$48,110
Sep 2010	453	0	72.63	3.98	$32,901
Aug 2010	781	0	73.68	4.42	$57,544
Jul 2010	461	0	72.55	4.74	$33,446
Jun 2010	776	0	70.36	4.91	$54,599
May 2010	663	0	71.12	4.24	$47,153
Apr 2010	645	0	81.69	4.12	$52,690
Mar 2010	365	0	78.39	4.39	$28,612
Feb 2010	562	0	73.58	5.44	$41,352
Jan 2010	182	0	74.36	5.96	$13,534
Dec 2009	335	0	71.44	5.48	$23,932
Nov 2009	512	0	74.59	3.75	$38,190
Oct 2009	527	0	72.54	4.11	$38,229
Sep 2009	520	0	65.54	3.06	$34,081
Aug 2009	541	0	67.42	3.22	$36,474
Jul 2009	538	0	61.13	3.46	$32,888
Jun 2009	536	0	66.16	3.90	$35,462
May 2009	544	0	54.74	3.93	$29,779
Apr 2009	542	0	46.77	3.59	$25,349
Mar 2009	517	0	42.14	4.06	$21,786
Feb 2009	555	0	32.81	4.63	$18,210
Jan 2009	560	0	35.86	5.37	$20,082
Dec 2008	534	0	37.10	5.98	$19,811
Nov 2008	559	0	55.49	6.86	$31,019
Oct 2008	536	0	75.24	6.92	$40,329
Sep 2008	556	0	101.76	7.88	$56,579
Aug 2008	536	0	114.22	8.48	$61,222
Jul 2008	489	0	131.08	11.39	$64,098
Jun 2008	522	0	131.33	13.03	$68,554
May 2008	511	0	123.17	11.57	$62,940
Apr 2008	668	0	110.31	10.45	$73,687
Mar 2008	502	0	101.90	9.66	$51,154
Feb 2008	514	0	92.53	8.77	$47,560
Jan 2008	670	0	90.38	8.21	$60,555
Dec 2007	527	0	88.33	7.30	$46,550
Nov 2007	508	0	91.67	7.29	$46,568
Oct 2007	681	0	82.85	6.92	$56,421
Sep 2007	666	0	75.84	6.24	$50,509
Aug 2007	485	0	69.06	6.39	$33,494
Jul 2007	667	0	70.90	6.39	$47,290
Jun 2007	674	0	62.00	7.55	$41,788
May 2007	535	0	58.74	7.85	$31,426
Apr 2007	639	0	59.61	7.81	$38,091
Mar 2007	681	0	56.92	7.30	$38,763
Feb 2007	336	0	55.10	8.22	$18,514
Jan 2007	706	0	50.30	6.73	$35,512
Dec 2006	659	0	56.65	6.92	$37,332
Nov 2006	712	0	54.20	7.62	$38,590
Oct 2006	691	0	54.90	6.01	$37,936
Sep 2006	556	0	60.08	5.04	$33,404
Aug 2006	866	0	68.71	7.34	$59,503
Jul 2006	884	0	69.37	6.34	$61,323
Jun 2006	1,029	0	66.28	6.38	$68,202
May 2006	1,059	0	66.01	6.42	$69,905
Apr 2006	1,220	0	64.39	7.36	$78,556
Mar 2006	1,089	0	56.70	7.08	$61,746
Feb 2006	521	0	57.59	7.75	$30,004
Jan 2006	677	0	60.59	8.93	$41,019
Dec 2005	683	0	54.94	13.42	$37,524
Nov 2005	694	0	54.69	10.59	$37,955
Oct 2005	737	0	58.34	13.80	$42,997
Sep 2005	663	0	61.45	12.08	$40,741
Aug 2005	720	0	61.51	9.80	$44,287
Jul 2005	712	0	55.69	7.84	$39,651
Jun 2005	710	0	52.33	7.38	$37,154
May 2005	895	0	45.22	6.65	$40,472
Apr 2005	732	0	49.20	7.36	$36,014
Mar 2005	923	0	50.37	7.15	$46,492
Feb 2005	728	0	45.22	6.31	$32,920
Jan 2005	873	0	43.16	6.32	$37,679
Dec 2004	892	0	39.86	6.75	$35,555
Nov 2004	735	0	45.28	6.33	$33,281
Oct 2004	858	0	49.70	6.52	$42,643
Sep 2004	894	0	43.24	5.28	$38,657
Aug 2004	871	0	42.37	5.55	$36,904
Jul 2004	886	0	38.28	6.08	$33,916
Jun 2004	862	0	36.10	6.43	$31,118
May 2004	1,019	0	37.48	6.49	$38,192
Apr 2004	1,069	0	34.47	5.86	$36,848
Mar 2004	1,111	0	34.36	5.53	$38,174
Feb 2004	1,100	0	32.45	5.51	$35,695
Jan 2004	1,270	0	32.03	6.30	$40,678
Dec 2003	1,438	0	30.26	6.30	$43,514
Nov 2003	1,267	0	28.80	4.60	$36,490
Oct 2003	1,613	0	28.17	4.76	$45,438
Sep 2003	1,053	0	26.31	4.75	$27,704
Aug 2003	1,189	0	29.76	5.13	$35,385
Jul 2003	872	0	29.41	5.17	$25,646
Jun 2003	1,007	0	28.56	5.98	$28,760
May 2003	1,500	0	26.59	5.97	$39,885
Apr 2003	1,527	0	26.67	5.41	$40,725
Mar 2003	1,521	0	31.14	6.10	$47,364
Feb 2003	1,522	0	33.48	7.93	$50,957
Jan 2003	1,529	0	30.31	5.58	$46,344
Dec 2002	1,613	0	26.91	4.85	$43,406
Nov 2002	1,954	0	24.66	4.14	$48,186
Oct 2002	1,746	0	26.46	4.23	$46,199
Sep 2002	1,663	0	27.44	3.64	$45,633
Aug 2002	1,705	0	25.96	3.16	$44,262
Jul 2002	1,765	0	24.58	3.06	$43,384
Jun 2002	1,775	0	23.73	3.34	$42,121
May 2002	2,281	0	24.66	3.58	$56,249
Apr 2002	2,094	0	23.65	3.51	$49,523
Mar 2002	1,797	0	22.00	3.10	$39,534
Feb 2002	829	0	18.22	2.38	$15,104
Jan 2002	1,158	0	17.17	2.38	$19,883
Dec 2001	1,165	0	16.93	2.36	$19,723
Nov 2001	1,372	0	18.07	2.41	$24,792
Oct 2001	1,524	0	19.78	2.53	$30,145
Sep 2001	1,064	0	24.26	2.25	$25,813
Aug 2001	1,731	0	24.87	3.05	$43,050
Jul 2001	705	0	23.93	3.20	$16,871
Jun 2001	1,450	0	24.56	3.82	$35,612
May 2001	1,271	0	25.52	4.31	$32,436
Apr 2001	1,124	0	24.68	5.34	$27,740
Mar 2001	1,071	0	24.54	5.38	$26,282
Feb 2001	1,381	0	27.75	5.77	$38,323
Jan 2001	1,610	0	27.47	8.40	$44,227
Dec 2000	1,799	0	26.88	9.12	$48,357
Nov 2000	1,097	0	32.21	5.66	$35,334
Oct 2000	2,186	0	31.23	5.15	$68,269
Sep 2000	1,844	0	31.87	5.19	$58,768
Aug 2000	2,195	0	29.64	4.54	$65,060
Jul 2000	2,569	0	28.53	4.09	$73,294
Jun 2000	1,888	0	29.30	4.40	$55,318
May 2000	2,247	0	27.26	3.68	$61,253
Apr 2000	1,873	0	24.51	3.12	$45,907
Mar 2000	2,366	0	28.42	2.86	$67,242
Feb 2000	2,487	0	27.62	2.73	$68,691
Jan 2000	2,851	0	25.27	2.48	$72,045
Dec 1999	2,913	0	24.28	2.42	$70,728
Nov 1999	2,305	0	23.19	2.43	$53,453
Oct 1999	3,332	0	20.98	2.80	$69,905
Sep 1999	3,532	0	21.75	2.62	$76,821
Aug 1999	3,898	0	19.26	2.88	$75,075
Jul 1999	3,612	0	17.89	2.37	$64,619
Jun 1999	3,273	0	15.94	2.36	$52,172
May 1999	4,725	0	15.79	2.32	$74,608
Apr 1999	2,546	0	15.10	2.21	$38,445
Mar 1999	749	0	12.47	1.84	$9,340
Feb 1999	1,097	0	9.98	1.82	$10,948
Jan 1999	1,101	0	10.38	1.90	$11,428
Dec 1998	1,433	0	9.20	1.77	$13,184
Nov 1998	1,097	0	10.89	2.19	$11,946
Oct 1998	1,462	0	12.42	1.97	$18,158
Sep 1998	1,446	0	12.59	2.08	$18,205
Aug 1998	1,592	0	11.30	1.91	$17,990
Jul 1998	1,805	0	11.74	2.24	$21,191
Jun 1998	2,156	0	11.24	2.24	$24,233
May 1998	2,512	0	12.62	2.21	$31,701
Apr 1998	1,803	0	13.04	2.51	$23,511
Mar 1998	2,477	0	12.80	2.31	$31,706
Feb 1998	1,980	0	13.95	2.30	$27,621
Jan 1998	4,311	0	14.70	2.15	$63,372
Dec 1997	4,691	0	16.32	2.41	$76,557
Nov 1997	3,447	0	18.19	3.09	$62,701
Oct 1997	3,940	0	19.25	3.15	$75,845
Sep 1997	4,641	0	17.74	2.95	$82,331
Aug 1997	3,588	0	17.86	2.55	$64,082
Jul 1997	3,263	0	17.58	2.25	$57,364
Jun 1997	3,568	0	17.24	2.26	$61,512
May 1997	3,878	0	18.97	2.31	$73,566
Apr 1997	3,944	0	17.88	2.08	$70,519
Mar 1997	3,941	0	18.95	1.94	$74,682
Feb 1997	3,611	0	20.49	2.21	$73,989
Jan 1997	4,324	0	23.48	3.54	$101,528
Dec 1996	4,309	0	23.32	—	$100,486
Nov 1996	3,944	0	21.97	—	$86,650
Oct 1996	4,662	0	23.31	—	$108,671
Sep 1996	4,287	0	22.22	—	$95,257
Aug 1996	4,646	0	20.26	—	$94,128
Jul 1996	4,817	0	19.55	—	$94,172
Jun 1996	4,814	0	18.73	—	$90,166
May 1996	3,925	0	19.43	—	$76,263
Apr 1996	4,302	0	21.51	—	$92,536
Mar 1996	4,685	0	19.38	—	$90,795
Feb 1996	3,596	0	16.98	—	$61,060
Jan 1996	5,040	1	17.07	—	$86,033
Dec 1995	3,789	1	17.19	—	$65,133
Nov 1995	2,507	1	16.00	—	$40,112
Oct 1995	3,582	1	15.43	—	$55,270
Sep 1995	3,569	1	16.18	—	$57,746
Aug 1995	3,210	1	15.92	—	$51,103
Jul 1995	3,915	1	15.24	—	$59,665
Jun 1995	4,640	1	16.41	—	$76,142
May 1995	5,005	1	17.56	—	$87,888
Apr 1995	4,649	1	17.73	—	$82,427
Mar 1995	5,358	1	16.44	—	$88,086
Feb 1995	4,330	1	16.58	—	$71,791
Jan 1995	3,058	1	15.92	—	$48,683
Dec 1994	4,625	1	15.03	—	$69,514
Nov 1994	3,950	1	15.90	—	$62,805
Oct 1994	3,940	1	15.58	—	$61,385
Sep 1994	4,819	1	15.29	—	$73,683
Aug 1994	4,292	1	16.13	—	$69,230
Jul 1994	4,977	1	17.56	—	$87,396
Jun 1994	2,462	1	17.09	—	$42,076
May 1994	3,567	1	15.88	—	$56,644
Apr 1994	1,793	1	14.14	—	$25,353
Mar 1994	2,520	1	12.46	—	$31,399
Feb 1994	1,803	1	12.50	—	$22,538
Jan 1994	2,894	1	12.66	—	$36,638
Dec 1993	3,979	1	12.33	—	$49,061
Nov 1993	3,611	1	14.49	—	$52,323
Oct 1993	3,234	1	15.85	—	$51,259
Sep 1993	3,210	1	15.03	—	$48,246
Aug 1993	4,625	1	15.66	—	$72,428
Jul 1993	3,545	1	15.46	—	$54,806
Jun 1993	3,590	1	16.79	—	$60,276
May 1993	3,586	1	17.68	—	$63,400
Apr 1993	3,906	1	18.05	—	$70,503
Mar 1993	2,526	1	18.14	—	$45,822
Feb 1993	2,352	1	17.90	—	$42,101
Jan 1993	3,259	1	16.93	—	$55,175

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.

Jan 2016 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  352 bbl  × $ 27.35 =     $9,627
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.36 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $9,627

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/20726 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.