GATES RANCH

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

Operated by BLACKBRUSH O & G, INC. (P-5 73027) in the DOS HERMANOS, E. (OLMOS) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 61832District 04Field 25567500CondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$110 k

Jan 1993 – May 2005

Value, last 12 filed months

$2 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

149

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The DOS HERMANOS, E. (OLMOS) 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 38 leases and 38 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1978-10-01

as the register files it

Field class

Gas

the register's own label

Between wells

1,320 ft

minimum

From a lease line

660 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “NORTH (OLMOS) FIELD (35566500).”

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
Condensate	Disposition	698 bbl	$13,916
Gas	Production	62,766 Mcf	$95,909
Total			$109,825

36,067 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 28.1350, -99.8013. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.13496, -99.80127 · 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

5,600 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

30.6 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 5,600 ft.

Completions filed

May 1974

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Dec 2004

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 30.6 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 30.6 years and 30.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-47930703	1993	5,600 ft	May 1974	Dec 2004	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 (149)

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

149 months


May 2005	0	0	45.22	6.65	$0
Apr 2005	0	0	49.20	7.36	$0
Mar 2005	7	0	50.37	7.15	$353
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	31	42.37	5.55	$172
Jul 2004	0	12	38.28	6.08	$73
Jun 2004	0	236	36.10	6.43	$1,518
May 2004	0	254	37.48	6.49	$1,650
Apr 2004	0	283	34.47	5.86	$1,658
Mar 2004	0	312	34.36	5.53	$1,725
Feb 2004	0	314	32.45	5.51	$1,730
Jan 2004	0	326	32.03	6.30	$2,054
Dec 2003	0	265	30.26	6.30	$1,670
Nov 2003	0	305	28.80	4.60	$1,402
Oct 2003	0	316	28.17	4.76	$1,504
Sep 2003	0	321	26.31	4.75	$1,525
Aug 2003	0	305	29.76	5.13	$1,565
Jul 2003	0	282	29.41	5.17	$1,458
Jun 2003	0	251	28.56	5.98	$1,502
May 2003	0	63	26.59	5.97	$376
Apr 2003	0	192	26.67	5.41	$1,038
Mar 2003	0	292	31.14	6.10	$1,780
Feb 2003	0	252	33.48	7.93	$1,997
Jan 2003	0	305	30.31	5.58	$1,703
Dec 2002	0	293	26.91	4.85	$1,422
Nov 2002	0	335	24.66	4.14	$1,386
Oct 2002	0	331	26.46	4.23	$1,400
Sep 2002	0	314	27.44	3.64	$1,141
Aug 2002	0	316	25.96	3.16	$1,000
Jul 2002	0	321	24.58	3.06	$983
Jun 2002	13	278	23.73	3.34	$1,237
May 2002	0	251	24.66	3.58	$900
Apr 2002	0	159	23.65	3.51	$558
Mar 2002	0	230	22.00	3.10	$714
Feb 2002	0	209	18.22	2.38	$497
Jan 2002	16	230	17.17	2.38	$821
Dec 2001	0	61	16.93	2.36	$144
Nov 2001	0	203	18.07	2.41	$488
Oct 2001	22	220	19.78	2.53	$992
Sep 2001	22	204	24.26	2.25	$993
Aug 2001	0	256	24.87	3.05	$782
Jul 2001	0	237	23.93	3.20	$758
Jun 2001	22	241	24.56	3.82	$1,462
May 2001	0	348	25.52	4.31	$1,499
Apr 2001	15	310	24.68	5.34	$2,024
Mar 2001	15	268	24.54	5.38	$1,809
Feb 2001	16	275	27.75	5.77	$2,030
Jan 2001	14	340	27.47	8.40	$3,240
Dec 2000	12	266	26.88	9.12	$2,749
Nov 2000	0	275	32.21	5.66	$1,556
Oct 2000	12	277	31.23	5.15	$1,800
Sep 2000	0	248	31.87	5.19	$1,286
Aug 2000	0	290	29.64	4.54	$1,317
Jul 2000	14	122	28.53	4.09	$898
Jun 2000	0	0	29.30	4.40	$0
May 2000	0	201	27.26	3.68	$740
Apr 2000	0	338	24.51	3.12	$1,053
Mar 2000	18	328	28.42	2.86	$1,450
Feb 2000	0	292	27.62	2.73	$796
Jan 2000	12	354	25.27	2.48	$1,181
Dec 1999	0	286	24.28	2.42	$693
Nov 1999	0	245	23.19	2.43	$596
Oct 1999	0	147	20.98	2.80	$412
Sep 1999	4	257	21.75	2.62	$760
Aug 1999	0	233	19.26	2.88	$670
Jul 1999	0	205	17.89	2.37	$486
Jun 1999	5	167	15.94	2.36	$474
May 1999	0	187	15.79	2.32	$434
Apr 1999	0	179	15.10	2.21	$395
Mar 1999	0	11	12.47	1.84	$20
Feb 1999	11	18	9.98	1.82	$143
Jan 1999	0	22	10.38	1.90	$42
Dec 1998	0	85	9.20	1.77	$151
Nov 1998	0	233	10.89	2.19	$509
Oct 1998	0	275	12.42	1.97	$542
Sep 1998	0	270	12.59	2.08	$562
Aug 1998	0	224	11.30	1.91	$427
Jul 1998	9	159	11.74	2.24	$461
Jun 1998	0	416	11.24	2.24	$931
May 1998	0	562	12.62	2.21	$1,240
Apr 1998	0	515	13.04	2.51	$1,290
Mar 1998	0	469	12.80	2.31	$1,083
Feb 1998	0	369	13.95	2.30	$848
Jan 1998	0	333	14.70	2.15	$718
Dec 1997	0	378	16.32	2.41	$911
Nov 1997	16	367	18.19	3.09	$1,424
Oct 1997	0	380	19.25	3.15	$1,197
Sep 1997	0	356	17.74	2.95	$1,052
Aug 1997	0	655	17.86	2.55	$1,673
Jul 1997	13	535	17.58	2.25	$1,431
Jun 1997	0	414	17.24	2.26	$934
May 1997	0	635	18.97	2.31	$1,466
Apr 1997	21	775	17.88	2.08	$1,990
Mar 1997	0	783	18.95	1.94	$1,518
Feb 1997	19	708	20.49	2.21	$1,951
Jan 1997	0	708	23.48	3.54	$2,506
Dec 1996	18	646	23.32	—	$420
Nov 1996	0	564	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	16	514	23.31	—	$373
Sep 1996	0	404	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	0	642	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	17	612	19.55	—	$332
Jun 1996	0	615	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	21	685	19.43	—	$408
Apr 1996	0	741	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	21	767	19.38	—	$407
Feb 1996	0	689	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	0	665	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	13	632	17.19	—	$223
Nov 1995	0	526	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	13	755	15.43	—	$201
Sep 1995	0	766	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	6	737	15.92	—	$96
Jul 1995	0	637	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	6	538	16.41	—	$98
May 1995	0	450	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	9	647	17.73	—	$160
Mar 1995	0	641	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	7	634	16.58	—	$116
Jan 1995	13	732	15.92	—	$207
Dec 1994	0	779	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	15	773	15.90	—	$239
Oct 1994	7	785	15.58	—	$109
Sep 1994	0	687	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	17	767	16.13	—	$274
Jul 1994	0	799	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	17	703	17.09	—	$291
May 1994	0	700	15.88	—	$0
Apr 1994	0	571	14.14	—	$0
Mar 1994	23	805	12.46	—	$287
Feb 1994	23	847	12.50	—	$288
Jan 1994	0	962	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	18	739	12.33	—	$222
Nov 1993	0	901	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	4	944	15.85	—	$63
Sep 1993	0	922	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	0	857	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	4	1,031	15.46	—	$62
Jun 1993	0	917	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	12	749	17.68	—	$212
Apr 1993	0	787	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	45	1,214	18.14	—	$816
Feb 1993	0	1,126	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	25	1,463	16.93	—	$423

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.

Mar 2005 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate             7 bbl  × $ 50.37 =       $353
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  7.15 =         $0

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Month total                                     $353

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. 04/G/61832 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.