BENNETT, MILLS EST. FEE

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

Operated by GAITHER PETROLEUM CORPORATION (P-5 292850) in the MILLS BENNETT ( E SAND) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 1828District 04Field 61673483OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$173 k

Jan 1993 – Aug 1997

Value, last 12 filed months

$33 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The MILLS BENNETT ( E SAND) 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 1 leases and 7 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1953-04-04

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 20 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “ NGOR 10,000-1 IF GAS DIVERTED TO LEGAL USE.”

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
Oil	Disposition	9,905 bbl	$168,941
Casinghead gas	Production	19,931 Mcf	$3,581
Total			$172,522

18,493 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 (7)

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 27.1930, -98.3371. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.0 miles.

27.19272, -98.33406 · 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%

7 of 7 wells

With a plug date

71.4%

5 of 7 wells

Median depth

5,910 ft

7 wells filed one

Completion to plug

40.7 years

median over 4 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

7100.0%

A plug date is filed

571.4%

BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.

571.4%

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 4,680 and 6,083 ft, median 5,910 ft, over the 7 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Jun 1972 – Jan 2018

6 of 7 wells; 1 filed none

Plug dates filed

Jun 2012 – Mar 2025

5 of 7 wells; 2 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 40.7 years across the 4 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 31.5 years and 43.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

7 wells


42-04700384	35	4,680 ft	—	Mar 2025	Yes
42-04700398	14	5,961 ft	Jan 2018	Mar 2024	Yes
42-04700399	20 L	6,028 ft	Jan 2018	—	Yes
42-04700404	47	5,870 ft	Aug 1982	—	Yes
42-04700393	3	4,900 ft	Dec 1979	Apr 2021	Yes
42-04700385	34	5,910 ft	Jul 1972	Jun 2012	Yes
42-04700396	13	6,083 ft	Jun 1972	Apr 2021	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 (56)

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

56 months


Aug 1997	0	0	17.86	2.55	$0
Jul 1997	0	0	17.58	2.25	$0
Jun 1997	0	0	17.24	2.26	$0
May 1997	180	268	18.97	2.31	$4,033
Apr 1997	123	258	17.88	2.08	$2,737
Mar 1997	157	265	18.95	1.94	$3,489
Feb 1997	137	284	20.49	2.21	$3,434
Jan 1997	153	363	23.48	3.54	$4,877
Dec 1996	154	238	23.32	—	$3,591
Nov 1996	148	296	21.97	—	$3,252
Oct 1996	196	338	23.31	—	$4,569
Sep 1996	152	305	22.22	—	$3,377
Aug 1996	123	361	20.26	—	$2,492
Jul 1996	154	206	19.55	—	$3,011
Jun 1996	156	336	18.73	—	$2,922
May 1996	181	243	19.43	—	$3,517
Apr 1996	176	211	21.51	—	$3,786
Mar 1996	177	266	19.38	—	$3,430
Feb 1996	190	324	16.98	—	$3,226
Jan 1996	226	251	17.07	—	$3,858
Dec 1995	208	315	17.19	—	$3,576
Nov 1995	183	213	16.00	—	$2,928
Oct 1995	166	363	15.43	—	$2,561
Sep 1995	174	420	16.18	—	$2,815
Aug 1995	191	334	15.92	—	$3,041
Jul 1995	197	301	15.24	—	$3,002
Jun 1995	179	296	16.41	—	$2,937
May 1995	143	419	17.56	—	$2,511
Apr 1995	196	480	17.73	—	$3,475
Mar 1995	167	482	16.44	—	$2,745
Feb 1995	192	444	16.58	—	$3,183
Jan 1995	216	422	15.92	—	$3,439
Dec 1994	202	392	15.03	—	$3,036
Nov 1994	195	423	15.90	—	$3,101
Oct 1994	217	458	15.58	—	$3,381
Sep 1994	203	404	15.29	—	$3,104
Aug 1994	227	649	16.13	—	$3,662
Jul 1994	188	466	17.56	—	$3,301
Jun 1994	205	455	17.09	—	$3,503
May 1994	235	453	15.88	—	$3,732
Apr 1994	177	408	14.14	—	$2,503
Mar 1994	221	427	12.46	—	$2,754
Feb 1994	182	396	12.50	—	$2,275
Jan 1994	214	397	12.66	—	$2,709
Dec 1993	214	493	12.33	—	$2,639
Nov 1993	219	467	14.49	—	$3,173
Oct 1993	187	452	15.85	—	$2,964
Sep 1993	153	362	15.03	—	$2,300
Aug 1993	208	491	15.66	—	$3,257
Jul 1993	202	513	15.46	—	$3,123
Jun 1993	197	485	16.79	—	$3,308
May 1993	206	418	17.68	—	$3,642
Apr 1993	209	417	18.05	—	$3,772
Mar 1993	233	410	18.14	—	$4,227
Feb 1993	206	372	17.90	—	$3,687
Jan 1993	210	421	16.93	—	$3,555

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.

May 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  180 bbl  × $ 18.97 =     $3,415
Casinghead gas       268 Mcf  × $  2.31 =       $619

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Month total                                   $4,033

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/O/1828 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.