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 GOLD RIVER, NORTH (OLMOS) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 76538District 04Field 35566500CondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$131 k

Jan 1993 – Feb 2006

Value, last 12 filed months

$21 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

158

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The GOLD RIVER, NORTH (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 830 leases and 840 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1978-10-01

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

933 ft

minimum

From a lease line

467 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 2005-10-25.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “REMAIN SUSPENDED.”

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	2 bbl	$35
Gas	Production	43,152 Mcf	$130,779
Total			$130,814

8,349 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 28.0739, -99.7793. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.07387, -99.77930 · 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

5,850 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

27.8 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 5,850 ft.

Completions filed

Apr 1978

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Feb 2006

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 27.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 27.8 years and 27.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-47931852	H 2	5,850 ft	Apr 1978	Feb 2006	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 (158)

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

158 months


Feb 2006	0	84	57.59	7.75	$651
Jan 2006	0	132	60.59	8.93	$1,179
Dec 2005	0	122	54.94	13.42	$1,637
Nov 2005	0	281	54.69	10.59	$2,975
Oct 2005	0	89	58.34	13.80	$1,228
Sep 2005	0	259	61.45	12.08	$3,128
Aug 2005	0	203	61.51	9.80	$1,989
Jul 2005	0	252	55.69	7.84	$1,977
Jun 2005	0	93	52.33	7.38	$686
May 2005	0	247	45.22	6.65	$1,643
Apr 2005	0	292	49.20	7.36	$2,149
Mar 2005	0	227	50.37	7.15	$1,624
Feb 2005	0	137	45.22	6.31	$865
Jan 2005	0	157	43.16	6.32	$993
Dec 2004	0	204	39.86	6.75	$1,377
Nov 2004	0	98	45.28	6.33	$620
Oct 2004	0	114	49.70	6.52	$743
Sep 2004	0	115	43.24	5.28	$608
Aug 2004	0	104	42.37	5.55	$577
Jul 2004	0	99	38.28	6.08	$602
Jun 2004	0	87	36.10	6.43	$560
May 2004	0	134	37.48	6.49	$870
Apr 2004	0	150	34.47	5.86	$879
Mar 2004	0	111	34.36	5.53	$614
Feb 2004	0	60	32.45	5.51	$331
Jan 2004	0	95	32.03	6.30	$598
Dec 2003	0	122	30.26	6.30	$769
Nov 2003	0	17	28.80	4.60	$78
Oct 2003	0	69	28.17	4.76	$328
Sep 2003	0	29	26.31	4.75	$138
Aug 2003	0	47	29.76	5.13	$241
Jul 2003	0	37	29.41	5.17	$191
Jun 2003	0	76	28.56	5.98	$455
May 2003	0	176	26.59	5.97	$1,051
Apr 2003	0	45	26.67	5.41	$243
Mar 2003	0	148	31.14	6.10	$902
Feb 2003	0	182	33.48	7.93	$1,443
Jan 2003	0	7	30.31	5.58	$39
Dec 2002	0	90	26.91	4.85	$437
Nov 2002	0	227	24.66	4.14	$939
Oct 2002	0	213	26.46	4.23	$901
Sep 2002	0	177	27.44	3.64	$643
Aug 2002	0	201	25.96	3.16	$636
Jul 2002	0	229	24.58	3.06	$701
Jun 2002	0	218	23.73	3.34	$728
May 2002	0	285	24.66	3.58	$1,021
Apr 2002	0	213	23.65	3.51	$748
Mar 2002	0	236	22.00	3.10	$732
Feb 2002	0	182	18.22	2.38	$432
Jan 2002	0	183	17.17	2.38	$435
Dec 2001	0	227	16.93	2.36	$537
Nov 2001	0	298	18.07	2.41	$717
Oct 2001	0	357	19.78	2.53	$903
Sep 2001	0	202	24.26	2.25	$455
Aug 2001	0	358	24.87	3.05	$1,093
Jul 2001	0	312	23.93	3.20	$997
Jun 2001	0	281	24.56	3.82	$1,075
May 2001	0	308	25.52	4.31	$1,327
Apr 2001	0	402	24.68	5.34	$2,145
Mar 2001	0	362	24.54	5.38	$1,946
Feb 2001	0	356	27.75	5.77	$2,053
Jan 2001	0	571	27.47	8.40	$4,796
Dec 2000	0	615	26.88	9.12	$5,610
Nov 2000	0	634	32.21	5.66	$3,587
Oct 2000	0	671	31.23	5.15	$3,453
Sep 2000	0	570	31.87	5.19	$2,956
Aug 2000	0	583	29.64	4.54	$2,647
Jul 2000	0	731	28.53	4.09	$2,990
Jun 2000	0	530	29.30	4.40	$2,331
May 2000	0	641	27.26	3.68	$2,359
Apr 2000	0	630	24.51	3.12	$1,963
Mar 2000	0	745	28.42	2.86	$2,131
Feb 2000	0	587	27.62	2.73	$1,600
Jan 2000	0	683	25.27	2.48	$1,694
Dec 1999	0	665	24.28	2.42	$1,612
Nov 1999	0	405	23.19	2.43	$986
Oct 1999	0	584	20.98	2.80	$1,637
Sep 1999	0	342	21.75	2.62	$896
Aug 1999	0	236	19.26	2.88	$679
Jul 1999	0	384	17.89	2.37	$911
Jun 1999	0	307	15.94	2.36	$725
May 1999	0	357	15.79	2.32	$829
Apr 1999	0	391	15.10	2.21	$863
Mar 1999	0	508	12.47	1.84	$934
Feb 1999	0	536	9.98	1.82	$974
Jan 1999	0	1,484	10.38	1.90	$2,820
Dec 1998	0	2,648	9.20	1.77	$4,696
Nov 1998	0	2,287	10.89	2.19	$4,999
Oct 1998	0	1,460	12.42	1.97	$2,875
Sep 1998	0	135	12.59	2.08	$281
Aug 1998	0	107	11.30	1.91	$204
Jul 1998	0	82	11.74	2.24	$183
Jun 1998	0	200	11.24	2.24	$447
May 1998	0	246	12.62	2.21	$543
Apr 1998	0	237	13.04	2.51	$594
Mar 1998	0	200	12.80	2.31	$462
Feb 1998	0	166	13.95	2.30	$382
Jan 1998	0	158	14.70	2.15	$340
Dec 1997	0	169	16.32	2.41	$407
Nov 1997	0	91	18.19	3.09	$281
Oct 1997	0	76	19.25	3.15	$239
Sep 1997	0	66	17.74	2.95	$195
Aug 1997	0	83	17.86	2.55	$212
Jul 1997	0	132	17.58	2.25	$297
Jun 1997	0	115	17.24	2.26	$260
May 1997	0	154	18.97	2.31	$356
Apr 1997	0	179	17.88	2.08	$373
Mar 1997	0	188	18.95	1.94	$365
Feb 1997	0	186	20.49	2.21	$410
Jan 1997	0	230	23.48	3.54	$814
Dec 1996	0	225	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	0	212	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	0	173	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	0	128	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	0	131	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	0	110	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	0	135	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	0	166	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	0	147	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	0	182	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	0	154	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	0	179	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	0	197	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	0	183	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	0	182	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	0	169	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	0	193	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	0	196	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	0	186	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	0	190	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	0	148	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	0	134	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	0	137	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	0	158	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	0	163	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	0	172	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	0	179	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	0	160	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	0	169	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	0	169	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	0	197	17.09	—	$0
May 1994	0	201	15.88	—	$0
Apr 1994	0	195	14.14	—	$0
Mar 1994	0	201	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	0	178	12.50	—	$0
Jan 1994	0	185	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	0	134	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	0	210	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	0	287	15.85	—	$0
Sep 1993	0	265	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	0	143	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	0	143	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	0	144	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	0	140	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	0	202	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	0	194	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	1	116	17.90	—	$18
Jan 1993	1	187	16.93	—	$17

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.

Feb 2006 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 57.59 =         $0
Gas                   84 Mcf  × $  7.75 =       $651

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Month total                                     $651

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/76538 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.