NORTHERN RANCH

Operated by APACHE CORPORATION (P-5 27200) in the NORTHERN RANCH (CARLSON SAND) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 6482District 03Field 66103222OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$173 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 2006
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
159
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 2 leases and 8 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1960-07-14
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
933 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 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
OilDisposition10,407 bbl$172,643
Casinghead gasProduction21,696 Mcf$0
Total$172,643

21,696 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 46 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 (6)

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 29.0470, -96.0640. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.5 miles.

29.04769, -96.06377 · 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%
6 of 6 wells
With a plug date
33.3%
2 of 6 wells
Median depth
7,725 ft
6 wells filed one
Completion to plug
9.2 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
6100.0%
A plug date is filed
233.3%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
233.3%
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

Between 7,372 and 8,760 ft, median 7,725 ft, over the 6 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Apr 1978 – Apr 2010
6 of 6 wells
Plug dates filed
Feb 1985 – Dec 2004
2 of 6 wells; 4 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 9.2 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 8.0 years and 10.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

6 wells

42-321000234 U8,000 ftApr 2010Yes
42-321026148 U7,400 ftFeb 2008Yes
42-3210002528,756 ftJul 1993Dec 2004Yes
42-3210002438,760 ftJul 1989Yes
42-321000226 U7,450 ftMay 1984Yes
42-3210002177,372 ftApr 1978Feb 1985Yes

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 (159)

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

159 months

Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
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 20020017.172.38$0
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 20000031.875.19$0
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 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
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 19980011.742.24$0
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 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 199653021.97$1,164
Oct 199615767023.31$3,660
Sep 199617468922.22$3,866
Aug 199617555720.26$3,546
Jul 199617742019.55$3,460
Jun 199617650818.73$3,296
May 199619575219.43$3,789
Apr 199619683421.51$4,216
Mar 199620669119.38$3,992
Feb 199618165916.98$3,073
Jan 199623385517.07$3,977
Dec 199517766017.19$3,043
Nov 199518456716.00$2,944
Oct 199522999715.43$3,533
Sep 19951771,40216.18$2,864
Aug 199521745315.92$3,455
Jul 199521857015.24$3,322
Jun 199524848416.41$4,070
May 199522752017.56$3,986
Apr 199524949317.73$4,415
Mar 199524759616.44$4,061
Feb 199524652416.58$4,079
Jan 199521538115.92$3,423
Dec 199422232215.03$3,337
Nov 199422327315.90$3,546
Oct 199418725015.58$2,913
Sep 199422018215.29$3,364
Aug 199419019216.13$3,065
Jul 199425234917.56$4,425
Jun 199421928017.09$3,743
May 199422034915.88$3,494
Apr 199428028814.14$3,959
Mar 199424832012.46$3,090
Feb 199421630712.50$2,700
Jan 199427234312.66$3,444
Dec 199323433712.33$2,885
Nov 199326834614.49$3,883
Oct 199324734215.85$3,915
Sep 199324937715.03$3,742
Aug 199327237315.66$4,260
Jul 199327236315.46$4,205
Jun 199318528916.79$3,106
May 199325133417.68$4,438
Apr 199328430918.05$5,126
Mar 199328330918.14$5,134
Feb 199323029717.90$4,117
Jan 199332628316.93$5,519

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.

Nov 1996 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   53 bbl  × $ 21.97 =     $1,164
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $1,164

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/6482 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.