BENBOW "A" UNIT

Operated by PIERCE OPERATING COMPANY, L.L.C. (P-5 665010) in the KURTEN (BUDA) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 21559District 03Field 50424500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$222 k
Jan 1993 – Jul 2005
Value, last 12 filed months
$7 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
151
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead 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 456 leases and 533 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1976-12-02
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 2015-03-24.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: ALLOCATION FORMULA SET TO 100 % ACRES.

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
OilDisposition13,259 bbl$221,880
Casinghead gasProduction3,235 Mcf$14
Total$221,894

3,229 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 39 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.

Every month this lease reported (151)

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

151 months

Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 2005147049.207.36$7,232
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
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
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 2002115017.172.38$1,975
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 2000168031.875.19$5,354
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 199914017.892.37$250
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 1999184015.792.32$2,905
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 1998175011.742.24$2,055
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 1997108017.742.95$1,916
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 19970117.242.26$2
May 19970118.972.31$2
Apr 19970117.882.08$2
Mar 19970118.951.94$2
Feb 19971120.492.21$23
Jan 19970123.483.54$4
Dec 19960123.32$0
Nov 19960121.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 1996162021.51$3,485
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 1996166016.98$2,819
Jan 1996348217.07$5,940
Dec 19950117.19$0
Nov 19951754016.00$2,800
Oct 19951681915.43$2,592
Sep 19951729816.18$2,783
Aug 1995172115.92$2,738
Jul 1995180315.24$2,743
Jun 19950216.41$0
May 1995152817.56$2,669
Apr 19953206517.73$5,674
Mar 19953522416.44$5,787
Feb 19951782116.58$2,951
Jan 1995355615.92$5,652
Dec 199401815.03$0
Nov 19941811015.90$2,878
Oct 1994180515.58$2,804
Sep 1994174615.29$2,660
Aug 1994355816.13$5,726
Jul 1994360417.56$6,322
Jun 199401317.09$0
May 19942414515.88$3,827
Apr 19943372414.14$4,765
Mar 19941702112.46$2,118
Feb 1994652212.50$8,150
Jan 199401912.66$0
Dec 19933514912.33$4,328
Nov 19933331914.49$4,825
Oct 199335911115.85$5,690
Sep 199352929015.03$7,951
Aug 19933649315.66$5,700
Jul 199336015415.46$5,566
Jun 199371723516.79$12,038
May 199383717817.68$14,798
Apr 199304718.05$0
Mar 199352320418.14$9,487
Feb 199389350417.90$15,985
Jan 19931,53187816.93$25,920

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.

Apr 2005 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  147 bbl  × $ 49.20 =     $7,232
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  7.36 =         $0

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Month total                                   $7,232

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/21559 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.