BLACK GAS UNIT

Name: BLACK GAS UNIT lease production and value, Dec 2003 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by LUMINANT MINING COMPANY LLC (P-5 512777) in the BALD PRAIRIE (CV CONSOLIDATED) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 199647District 05Field 05189550Hydrogen sulphide field2 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$6.3 M

Dec 2003 – Jun 2019

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

187

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The BALD PRAIRIE (CV CONSOLIDATED) 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 868 leases and 868 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

2001-02-22

as the register files it

Field class

Gas

the register's own label

Between wells

0 ft

minimum

From a lease line

330 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 acres. The field rule took effect on 2011-03-08.

The register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “PER DOCKET 05-0268631 EFFECTIVE 03/08/2011, AMENDED RULE 2 TO”

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
High Cost Gas	1	1	2004-03-29	155937
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	212 bbl	$7,905
Gas	Production	1,022,858 Mcf	$6,255,944
Total			$6,263,849

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 31.3003, -96.4381. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.30033, -96.43807 · 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

14,500 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

14 months

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 14,500 ft.

Completions filed

Apr 2018

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Jun 2019

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 14 months across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 14 months and 14 months. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-39530827	1	14,500 ft	Apr 2018	Jun 2019	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 (187)

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

187 months


Jun 2019	0	0	52.78	2.49	$0
May 2019	0	0	58.48	2.74	$0
Apr 2019	0	0	62.63	2.75	$0
Mar 2019	0	0	56.80	3.06	$0
Feb 2019	0	0	50.85	2.79	$0
Jan 2019	0	0	46.03	3.23	$0
Dec 2018	0	0	46.59	4.19	$0
Nov 2018	0	0	52.93	4.24	$0
Oct 2018	0	0	61.44	3.40	$0
Sep 2018	0	0	59.54	3.11	$0
Aug 2018	0	0	59.40	3.07	$0
Jul 2018	0	0	65.14	2.93	$0
Jun 2018	0	0	60.18	3.08	$0
May 2018	0	0	65.38	2.90	$0
Apr 2018	0	191	63.84	2.90	$554
Mar 2018	0	998	61.22	2.79	$2,781
Feb 2018	0	1,272	61.78	2.77	$3,519
Jan 2018	0	1,503	62.87	4.01	$6,026
Dec 2017	0	1,883	57.27	2.92	$5,501
Nov 2017	0	1,645	55.42	3.12	$5,130
Oct 2017	0	1,936	49.29	2.98	$5,776
Sep 2017	0	2,202	47.52	3.09	$6,798
Aug 2017	0	1,757	45.37	3.00	$5,279
Jul 2017	0	2,228	43.87	3.09	$6,878
Jun 2017	0	1,805	42.49	3.09	$5,573
May 2017	0	1,851	45.37	3.26	$6,041
Apr 2017	0	1,814	47.93	3.21	$5,826
Mar 2017	0	2,231	46.77	2.98	$6,657
Feb 2017	0	332	50.45	2.95	$980
Jan 2017	0	1,900	49.41	3.42	$6,496
Dec 2016	0	2,190	48.76	3.72	$8,153
Nov 2016	0	1,645	42.49	2.64	$4,350
Oct 2016	0	1,720	46.19	3.09	$5,315
Sep 2016	0	1,574	41.55	3.10	$4,880
Aug 2016	0	2,171	41.44	2.92	$6,349
Jul 2016	0	1,345	41.62	2.92	$3,933
Jun 2016	0	1,865	45.35	2.69	$5,009
May 2016	0	1,878	42.52	1.99	$3,739
Apr 2016	0	2,567	36.56	1.99	$5,111
Mar 2016	0	1,895	33.01	1.79	$3,400
Feb 2016	0	512	26.47	2.06	$1,057
Jan 2016	0	607	27.35	2.36	$1,435
Dec 2015	0	666	32.36	2.00	$1,333
Nov 2015	0	801	38.79	2.17	$1,736
Oct 2015	0	851	43.55	2.43	$2,065
Sep 2015	0	849	42.99	2.76	$2,342
Aug 2015	0	889	40.16	2.87	$2,554
Jul 2015	0	947	48.15	2.95	$2,789
Jun 2015	0	959	56.15	2.88	$2,765
May 2015	0	1,007	55.21	2.96	$2,976
Apr 2015	0	1,053	49.82	2.71	$2,850
Mar 2015	0	1,496	42.89	2.93	$4,390
Feb 2015	0	1,503	44.66	2.98	$4,473
Jan 2015	0	1,765	43.43	3.10	$5,473
Dec 2014	0	1,656	54.69	3.59	$5,947
Nov 2014	0	1,664	70.46	4.25	$7,075
Oct 2014	0	1,650	78.30	3.90	$6,437
Sep 2014	0	1,705	86.16	4.05	$6,897
Aug 2014	0	2,272	89.39	4.04	$9,168
Jul 2014	0	2,655	96.56	4.18	$11,097
Jun 2014	0	2,676	98.16	4.74	$12,676
May 2014	0	2,656	94.73	4.73	$12,554
Apr 2014	0	2,558	95.94	4.81	$12,302
Mar 2014	0	2,810	95.89	5.06	$14,210
Feb 2014	0	2,350	97.40	6.19	$14,551
Jan 2014	0	3,035	90.40	4.86	$14,752
Dec 2013	0	2,964	91.82	4.35	$12,907
Nov 2013	0	3,038	88.85	3.74	$11,357
Oct 2013	0	3,038	97.42	3.78	$11,482
Sep 2013	0	3,258	104.11	3.72	$12,112
Aug 2013	0	2,909	104.25	3.52	$10,247
Jul 2013	0	3,396	102.52	3.72	$12,625
Jun 2013	0	3,257	94.40	3.93	$12,811
May 2013	0	3,369	94.83	4.15	$13,978
Apr 2013	0	3,421	93.96	4.28	$14,651
Mar 2013	0	3,666	93.62	3.91	$14,345
Feb 2013	0	3,339	91.23	3.42	$11,419
Jan 2013	0	4,110	91.60	3.42	$14,056
Dec 2012	0	3,715	86.77	3.42	$12,706
Nov 2012	0	3,635	86.95	3.62	$13,177
Oct 2012	0	4,088	89.38	3.40	$13,898
Sep 2012	0	3,832	94.67	2.92	$11,183
Aug 2012	0	3,255	92.66	2.91	$9,466
Jul 2012	0	3,106	85.13	3.02	$9,383
Jun 2012	0	3,259	79.82	2.52	$8,210
May 2012	0	3,686	91.61	2.49	$9,172
Apr 2012	0	3,139	101.65	2.00	$6,268
Mar 2012	0	3,034	105.05	2.22	$6,742
Feb 2012	0	3,543	101.10	2.57	$9,106
Jan 2012	0	2,484	98.09	2.73	$6,791
Dec 2011	0	1,510	96.87	3.24	$4,892
Nov 2011	0	2,739	95.72	3.31	$9,070
Oct 2011	0	2,749	84.98	3.65	$10,030
Sep 2011	0	2,279	83.62	3.99	$9,084
Aug 2011	0	941	83.40	4.15	$3,905
Jul 2011	0	1,010	94.14	4.52	$4,562
Jun 2011	0	815	92.90	4.64	$3,782
May 2011	0	1,538	98.13	4.40	$6,775
Apr 2011	1	1,205	105.96	4.33	$5,328
Mar 2011	0	1,848	96.36	4.06	$7,498
Feb 2011	0	1,991	85.64	4.18	$8,322
Jan 2011	0	2,873	86.50	4.59	$13,184
Dec 2010	0	1,731	85.73	4.35	$7,526
Nov 2010	0	2,048	80.84	3.80	$7,773
Oct 2010	0	2,408	78.10	3.51	$8,449
Sep 2010	0	3,563	72.63	3.98	$14,179
Aug 2010	0	3,606	73.68	4.42	$15,936
Jul 2010	0	751	72.55	4.74	$3,557
Jun 2010	0	864	70.36	4.91	$4,243
May 2010	0	1,192	71.12	4.24	$5,048
Apr 2010	0	820	81.69	4.12	$3,381
Mar 2010	0	1,921	78.39	4.39	$8,431
Feb 2010	0	2,015	73.58	5.44	$10,966
Jan 2010	0	1,293	74.36	5.96	$7,712
Dec 2009	0	1,331	71.44	5.48	$7,299
Nov 2009	0	1,771	74.59	3.75	$6,644
Oct 2009	0	2,135	72.54	4.11	$8,775
Sep 2009	0	2,110	65.54	3.06	$6,467
Aug 2009	0	2,538	67.42	3.22	$8,169
Jul 2009	0	1,649	61.13	3.46	$5,713
Jun 2009	0	1,958	66.16	3.90	$7,626
May 2009	0	1,165	54.74	3.93	$4,574
Apr 2009	0	2,685	46.77	3.59	$9,632
Mar 2009	0	3,069	42.14	4.06	$12,457
Feb 2009	1	1,145	32.81	4.63	$5,338
Jan 2009	1	2,567	35.86	5.37	$13,823
Dec 2008	0	2,830	37.10	5.98	$16,915
Nov 2008	0	3,090	55.49	6.86	$21,199
Oct 2008	1	3,528	75.24	6.92	$24,496
Sep 2008	0	1,524	101.76	7.88	$12,005
Aug 2008	0	1,719	114.22	8.48	$14,582
Jul 2008	0	2,257	131.08	11.39	$25,706
Jun 2008	0	1,534	131.33	13.03	$19,992
May 2008	0	1,431	123.17	11.57	$16,563
Apr 2008	0	1,240	110.31	10.45	$12,964
Mar 2008	2	2,619	101.90	9.66	$25,514
Feb 2008	2	3,202	92.53	8.77	$28,268
Jan 2008	2	5,249	90.38	8.21	$43,253
Dec 2007	0	1,946	88.33	7.30	$14,210
Nov 2007	0	2,528	91.67	7.29	$18,433
Oct 2007	0	2,302	82.85	6.92	$15,934
Sep 2007	0	2,104	75.84	6.24	$13,138
Aug 2007	0	2,570	69.06	6.39	$16,417
Jul 2007	0	4,680	70.90	6.39	$29,896
Jun 2007	1	4,695	62.00	7.55	$35,502
May 2007	0	5,312	58.74	7.85	$41,679
Apr 2007	1	4,281	59.61	7.81	$33,474
Mar 2007	0	3,521	56.92	7.30	$25,710
Feb 2007	0	3,474	55.10	8.22	$28,542
Jan 2007	0	4,665	50.30	6.73	$31,381
Dec 2006	0	4,915	56.65	6.92	$34,004
Nov 2006	0	5,682	54.20	7.62	$43,283
Oct 2006	2	7,170	54.90	6.01	$43,229
Sep 2006	0	4,333	60.08	5.04	$21,826
Aug 2006	0	4,652	68.71	7.34	$34,145
Jul 2006	3	6,901	69.37	6.34	$43,980
Jun 2006	1	6,613	66.28	6.38	$42,283
May 2006	0	7,188	66.01	6.42	$46,183
Apr 2006	0	7,830	64.39	7.36	$57,633
Mar 2006	0	8,560	56.70	7.08	$60,630
Feb 2006	0	6,838	57.59	7.75	$53,002
Jan 2006	1	8,569	60.59	8.93	$76,610
Dec 2005	0	11,664	54.94	13.42	$156,477
Nov 2005	1	10,427	54.69	10.59	$110,460
Oct 2005	0	10,594	58.34	13.80	$146,152
Sep 2005	4	12,794	61.45	12.08	$154,785
Aug 2005	3	16,456	61.51	9.80	$161,401
Jul 2005	0	14,306	55.69	7.84	$112,211
Jun 2005	2	13,896	52.33	7.38	$102,672
May 2005	1	14,257	45.22	6.65	$94,871
Apr 2005	1	16,173	49.20	7.36	$119,090
Mar 2005	1	14,831	50.37	7.15	$106,164
Feb 2005	1	14,852	45.22	6.31	$93,790
Jan 2005	4	19,475	43.16	6.32	$123,297
Dec 2004	0	21,230	39.86	6.75	$143,325
Nov 2004	1	23,767	45.28	6.33	$150,500
Oct 2004	0	23,571	49.70	6.52	$153,567
Sep 2004	2	26,490	43.24	5.28	$140,057
Aug 2004	1	31,125	42.37	5.55	$172,807
Jul 2004	3	34,608	38.28	6.08	$210,676
Jun 2004	5	36,229	36.10	6.43	$233,242
May 2004	8	43,191	37.48	6.49	$280,807
Apr 2004	12	49,330	34.47	5.86	$289,411
Mar 2004	0	53,919	34.36	5.53	$298,180
Feb 2004	1	51,806	32.45	5.51	$285,464
Jan 2004	31	47,275	32.03	6.30	$298,808
Dec 2003	111	24,676	30.26	6.30	$158,858

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.

Apr 2018 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 63.84 =         $0
Gas                  191 Mcf  × $  2.90 =       $554

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Month total                                     $554

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. 05/G/199647 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.