BENAVIDES

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

Operated by VIRTEX OPERATING COMPANY, INC. (P-5 886261) in the MESQUITE (ESCONDIDO) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 72714District 04Field 60753300NGPA filingCondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$272 k

Jan 1993 – May 2017

Value, last 12 filed months

$369

at the published price for each month

Months reported

293

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The MESQUITE (ESCONDIDO) 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 13 leases and 13 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1975-11-18

as the register files it

Field class

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 1979-05-14.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “THE OWEN (OLMOS) EFF 02/01/10.”

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
Condensate	Disposition	32 bbl	$1,413
Gas	Production	61,193 Mcf	$270,327
Total			$271,740

12,491 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 27.8304, -99.5637. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

27.83042, -99.56375 · 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

5,860 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

39.3 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 5,860 ft.

Completions filed

Jun 1977

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Oct 2016

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 39.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 39.3 years and 39.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-47931466	11	5,860 ft	Jun 1977	Oct 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 (293)

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

293 months


May 2017	0	0	45.37	3.26	$0
Apr 2017	0	0	47.93	3.21	$0
Mar 2017	0	0	46.77	2.98	$0
Feb 2017	0	0	50.45	2.95	$0
Jan 2017	0	0	49.41	3.42	$0
Dec 2016	2	0	48.76	3.72	$98
Nov 2016	0	0	42.49	2.64	$0
Oct 2016	0	0	46.19	3.09	$0
Sep 2016	0	0	41.55	3.10	$0
Aug 2016	0	65	41.44	2.92	$190
Jul 2016	0	5	41.62	2.92	$15
Jun 2016	0	25	45.35	2.69	$67
May 2016	0	11	42.52	1.99	$22
Apr 2016	0	5	36.56	1.99	$10
Mar 2016	0	11	33.01	1.79	$20
Feb 2016	0	13	26.47	2.06	$27
Jan 2016	0	61	27.35	2.36	$144
Dec 2015	0	130	32.36	2.00	$260
Nov 2015	0	1	38.79	2.17	$2
Oct 2015	0	11	43.55	2.43	$27
Sep 2015	0	25	42.99	2.76	$69
Aug 2015	0	26	40.16	2.87	$75
Jul 2015	0	11	48.15	2.95	$32
Jun 2015	0	3	56.15	2.88	$9
May 2015	0	5	55.21	2.96	$15
Apr 2015	0	2	49.82	2.71	$5
Mar 2015	0	1	42.89	2.93	$3
Feb 2015	0	3	44.66	2.98	$9
Jan 2015	0	6	43.43	3.10	$19
Dec 2014	0	0	54.69	3.59	$0
Nov 2014	0	0	70.46	4.25	$0
Oct 2014	0	0	78.30	3.90	$0
Sep 2014	0	0	86.16	4.05	$0
Aug 2014	0	0	89.39	4.04	$0
Jul 2014	0	0	96.56	4.18	$0
Jun 2014	0	14	98.16	4.74	$66
May 2014	0	96	94.73	4.73	$454
Apr 2014	0	54	95.94	4.81	$260
Mar 2014	0	10	95.89	5.06	$51
Feb 2014	0	0	97.40	6.19	$0
Jan 2014	5	3	90.40	4.86	$467
Dec 2013	0	28	91.82	4.35	$122
Nov 2013	0	45	88.85	3.74	$168
Oct 2013	0	13	97.42	3.78	$49
Sep 2013	0	36	104.11	3.72	$134
Aug 2013	0	77	104.25	3.52	$271
Jul 2013	0	35	102.52	3.72	$130
Jun 2013	0	31	94.40	3.93	$122
May 2013	0	30	94.83	4.15	$124
Apr 2013	0	22	93.96	4.28	$94
Mar 2013	0	17	93.62	3.91	$67
Feb 2013	0	9	91.23	3.42	$31
Jan 2013	0	5	91.60	3.42	$17
Dec 2012	0	114	86.77	3.42	$390
Nov 2012	0	240	86.95	3.62	$870
Oct 2012	0	224	89.38	3.40	$762
Sep 2012	0	281	94.67	2.92	$820
Aug 2012	5	297	92.66	2.91	$1,327
Jul 2012	0	285	85.13	3.02	$861
Jun 2012	0	277	79.82	2.52	$698
May 2012	0	244	91.61	2.49	$607
Apr 2012	0	237	101.65	2.00	$473
Mar 2012	0	248	105.05	2.22	$551
Feb 2012	0	254	101.10	2.57	$653
Jan 2012	0	169	98.09	2.73	$462
Dec 2011	0	175	96.87	3.24	$567
Nov 2011	0	226	95.72	3.31	$748
Oct 2011	0	210	84.98	3.65	$766
Sep 2011	0	139	83.62	3.99	$554
Aug 2011	0	143	83.40	4.15	$593
Jul 2011	0	0	94.14	4.52	$0
Jun 2011	0	99	92.90	4.64	$459
May 2011	0	263	98.13	4.40	$1,158
Apr 2011	0	213	105.96	4.33	$923
Mar 2011	0	208	96.36	4.06	$844
Feb 2011	0	79	85.64	4.18	$330
Jan 2011	0	295	86.50	4.59	$1,354
Dec 2010	0	272	85.73	4.35	$1,183
Nov 2010	0	252	80.84	3.80	$956
Oct 2010	0	95	78.10	3.51	$333
Sep 2010	0	132	72.63	3.98	$525
Aug 2010	0	215	73.68	4.42	$950
Jul 2010	0	149	72.55	4.74	$706
Jun 2010	0	200	70.36	4.91	$982
May 2010	0	193	71.12	4.24	$817
Apr 2010	0	231	81.69	4.12	$952
Mar 2010	0	269	78.39	4.39	$1,181
Feb 2010	1	155	73.58	5.44	$917
Jan 2010	0	228	74.36	5.96	$1,360
Dec 2009	0	211	71.44	5.48	$1,157
Nov 2009	0	185	74.59	3.75	$694
Oct 2009	0	225	72.54	4.11	$925
Sep 2009	0	238	65.54	3.06	$729
Aug 2009	0	214	67.42	3.22	$689
Jul 2009	0	184	61.13	3.46	$637
Jun 2009	0	198	66.16	3.90	$771
May 2009	0	204	54.74	3.93	$801
Apr 2009	0	194	46.77	3.59	$696
Mar 2009	0	213	42.14	4.06	$865
Feb 2009	0	150	32.81	4.63	$695
Jan 2009	0	204	35.86	5.37	$1,096
Dec 2008	0	205	37.10	5.98	$1,225
Nov 2008	0	214	55.49	6.86	$1,468
Oct 2008	0	272	75.24	6.92	$1,883
Sep 2008	0	232	101.76	7.88	$1,827
Aug 2008	0	230	114.22	8.48	$1,951
Jul 2008	0	237	131.08	11.39	$2,699
Jun 2008	0	242	131.33	13.03	$3,154
May 2008	0	249	123.17	11.57	$2,882
Apr 2008	0	222	110.31	10.45	$2,321
Mar 2008	0	273	101.90	9.66	$2,638
Feb 2008	0	266	92.53	8.77	$2,333
Jan 2008	0	290	90.38	8.21	$2,380
Dec 2007	0	303	88.33	7.30	$2,213
Nov 2007	0	310	91.67	7.29	$2,260
Oct 2007	0	296	82.85	6.92	$2,049
Sep 2007	0	262	75.84	6.24	$1,636
Aug 2007	0	290	69.06	6.39	$1,853
Jul 2007	0	205	70.90	6.39	$1,310
Jun 2007	0	282	62.00	7.55	$2,129
May 2007	0	265	58.74	7.85	$2,079
Apr 2007	0	273	59.61	7.81	$2,131
Mar 2007	0	254	56.92	7.30	$1,855
Feb 2007	0	285	55.10	8.22	$2,342
Jan 2007	0	302	50.30	6.73	$2,032
Dec 2006	0	250	56.65	6.92	$1,730
Nov 2006	0	280	54.20	7.62	$2,133
Oct 2006	0	267	54.90	6.01	$1,606
Sep 2006	0	286	60.08	5.04	$1,441
Aug 2006	0	318	68.71	7.34	$2,334
Jul 2006	0	350	69.37	6.34	$2,220
Jun 2006	0	245	66.28	6.38	$1,564
May 2006	0	423	66.01	6.42	$2,718
Apr 2006	0	278	64.39	7.36	$2,046
Mar 2006	0	356	56.70	7.08	$2,522
Feb 2006	0	360	57.59	7.75	$2,790
Jan 2006	0	460	60.59	8.93	$4,109
Dec 2005	0	477	54.94	13.42	$6,399
Nov 2005	0	377	54.69	10.59	$3,992
Oct 2005	0	430	58.34	13.80	$5,932
Sep 2005	0	428	61.45	12.08	$5,170
Aug 2005	0	403	61.51	9.80	$3,948
Jul 2005	0	472	55.69	7.84	$3,702
Jun 2005	0	375	52.33	7.38	$2,768
May 2005	0	326	45.22	6.65	$2,168
Apr 2005	0	351	49.20	7.36	$2,584
Mar 2005	0	521	50.37	7.15	$3,728
Feb 2005	0	396	45.22	6.31	$2,500
Jan 2005	0	492	43.16	6.32	$3,111
Dec 2004	0	502	39.86	6.75	$3,389
Nov 2004	0	401	45.28	6.33	$2,539
Oct 2004	0	477	49.70	6.52	$3,108
Sep 2004	0	430	43.24	5.28	$2,272
Aug 2004	0	310	42.37	5.55	$1,721
Jul 2004	0	389	38.28	6.08	$2,367
Jun 2004	0	412	36.10	6.43	$2,650
May 2004	0	449	37.48	6.49	$2,916
Apr 2004	0	414	34.47	5.86	$2,425
Mar 2004	0	406	34.36	5.53	$2,245
Feb 2004	0	2,214	32.45	5.51	$12,198
Jan 2004	0	420	32.03	6.30	$2,646
Dec 2003	0	437	30.26	6.30	$2,754
Nov 2003	0	403	28.80	4.60	$1,852
Oct 2003	0	425	28.17	4.76	$2,023
Sep 2003	0	403	26.31	4.75	$1,914
Aug 2003	0	405	29.76	5.13	$2,078
Jul 2003	0	396	29.41	5.17	$2,048
Jun 2003	0	227	28.56	5.98	$1,358
May 2003	0	453	26.59	5.97	$2,706
Apr 2003	0	456	26.67	5.41	$2,466
Mar 2003	0	453	31.14	6.10	$2,762
Feb 2003	0	405	33.48	7.93	$3,210
Jan 2003	0	484	30.31	5.58	$2,702
Dec 2002	0	431	26.91	4.85	$2,092
Nov 2002	0	395	24.66	4.14	$1,634
Oct 2002	0	460	26.46	4.23	$1,945
Sep 2002	0	399	27.44	3.64	$1,450
Aug 2002	0	392	25.96	3.16	$1,240
Jul 2002	0	398	24.58	3.06	$1,219
Jun 2002	0	343	23.73	3.34	$1,145
May 2002	0	357	24.66	3.58	$1,279
Apr 2002	0	367	23.65	3.51	$1,289
Mar 2002	0	372	22.00	3.10	$1,154
Feb 2002	0	329	18.22	2.38	$782
Jan 2002	0	367	17.17	2.38	$872
Dec 2001	0	378	16.93	2.36	$894
Nov 2001	0	394	18.07	2.41	$948
Oct 2001	0	328	19.78	2.53	$829
Sep 2001	0	334	24.26	2.25	$752
Aug 2001	0	322	24.87	3.05	$983
Jul 2001	0	519	23.93	3.20	$1,659
Jun 2001	0	551	24.56	3.82	$2,107
May 2001	0	644	25.52	4.31	$2,774
Apr 2001	0	646	24.68	5.34	$3,447
Mar 2001	0	604	24.54	5.38	$3,247
Feb 2001	0	0	27.75	5.77	$0
Jan 2001	0	0	27.47	8.40	$0
Dec 2000	0	0	26.88	9.12	$0
Nov 2000	0	0	32.21	5.66	$0
Oct 2000	0	0	31.23	5.15	$0
Sep 2000	0	0	31.87	5.19	$0
Aug 2000	0	0	29.64	4.54	$0
Jul 2000	0	0	28.53	4.09	$0
Jun 2000	0	0	29.30	4.40	$0
May 2000	0	0	27.26	3.68	$0
Apr 2000	0	0	24.51	3.12	$0
Mar 2000	0	0	28.42	2.86	$0
Feb 2000	0	0	27.62	2.73	$0
Jan 2000	0	0	25.27	2.48	$0
Dec 1999	0	0	24.28	2.42	$0
Nov 1999	0	0	23.19	2.43	$0
Oct 1999	0	0	20.98	2.80	$0
Sep 1999	0	0	21.75	2.62	$0
Aug 1999	0	0	19.26	2.88	$0
Jul 1999	0	0	17.89	2.37	$0
Jun 1999	0	0	15.94	2.36	$0
May 1999	0	0	15.79	2.32	$0
Apr 1999	0	0	15.10	2.21	$0
Mar 1999	0	0	12.47	1.84	$0
Feb 1999	0	0	9.98	1.82	$0
Jan 1999	0	0	10.38	1.90	$0
Dec 1998	0	0	9.20	1.77	$0
Nov 1998	0	0	10.89	2.19	$0
Oct 1998	0	0	12.42	1.97	$0
Sep 1998	0	0	12.59	2.08	$0
Aug 1998	0	0	11.30	1.91	$0
Jul 1998	0	0	11.74	2.24	$0
Jun 1998	0	0	11.24	2.24	$0
May 1998	0	95	12.62	2.21	$210
Apr 1998	0	67	13.04	2.51	$168
Mar 1998	5	79	12.80	2.31	$246
Feb 1998	0	97	13.95	2.30	$223
Jan 1998	0	104	14.70	2.15	$224
Dec 1997	0	112	16.32	2.41	$270
Nov 1997	0	97	18.19	3.09	$300
Oct 1997	0	126	19.25	3.15	$397
Sep 1997	0	103	17.74	2.95	$304
Aug 1997	0	91	17.86	2.55	$232
Jul 1997	0	119	17.58	2.25	$267
Jun 1997	0	125	17.24	2.26	$282
May 1997	0	108	18.97	2.31	$249
Apr 1997	0	102	17.88	2.08	$212
Mar 1997	0	114	18.95	1.94	$221
Feb 1997	0	105	20.49	2.21	$232
Jan 1997	0	101	23.48	3.54	$358
Dec 1996	0	89	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	0	64	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	0	120	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	0	103	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	5	88	20.26	—	$101
Jul 1996	0	92	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	0	84	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	0	86	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	0	114	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	0	99	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	0	96	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	0	95	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	0	102	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	0	112	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	0	86	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	0	65	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	0	83	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	0	69	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	0	94	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	0	91	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	0	94	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	0	85	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	0	100	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	0	81	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	0	222	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	0	507	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	0	544	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	0	355	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	0	491	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	0	547	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	0	600	17.09	—	$0
May 1994	0	513	15.88	—	$0
Apr 1994	0	394	14.14	—	$0
Mar 1994	0	438	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	0	395	12.50	—	$0
Jan 1994	0	306	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	0	362	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	0	342	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	0	389	15.85	—	$0
Sep 1993	0	383	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	0	453	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	0	556	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	0	304	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	0	528	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	0	377	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	0	400	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	9	327	17.90	—	$161
Jan 1993	0	566	16.93	—	$0

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.

Dec 2016 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate             2 bbl  × $ 48.76 =        $98
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  3.72 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                      $98

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/72714 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.