BACKSWING STATE

Operated by COG OPERATING LLC (P-5 166150) in the SANDBAR (BONE SPRING) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 277804District 08Field 80544500Hydrogen sulphide field2 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$19.2 M
Feb 2014 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$645
at the published price for each month
Months reported
148
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, gas

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 1,654 leases and 2,003 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
2010-09-15
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and 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 2015-08-25.

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: DKT08-0319479 ORDER NUNC PRO TUNC REGARDING SWR13

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.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
High Cost Gas112015-12-17217769
NGPA1none

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.

StreamBasisVolumeValue
CondensateDisposition161,420 bbl$10,381,845
GasProduction2,589,152 Mcf$8,769,952
Total$19,151,798

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 31.9488, -104.1953. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.94884, -104.19527 · centre of the wells drawn, derived

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
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
7,398 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
00.0%
A plug date is filed
00.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
00.0%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
1100.0%

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 7,398 ft.

Completions filed
Feb 2014
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-109324052002H7,398 ftFeb 2014

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 (148)

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

148 months

May 202600106.413.05$0
Apr 20260098.932.87$0
Mar 202609989.753.15$312
Feb 20260363.503.75$11
Jan 202601459.138.00$112
Dec 20250856.664.41$35
Nov 20250058.593.93$0
Oct 202501359.383.30$43
Sep 202501162.743.08$34
Aug 20250063.933.01$0
Jul 20250466.743.32$13
Jun 202502766.483.13$84
May 20250260.553.23$6
Apr 202501762.363.54$60
Mar 20250067.704.27$0
Feb 20250070.884.34$0
Jan 202557074.324.28$4,236
Dec 20240068.993.12$0
Nov 202403369.052.20$73
Oct 20240671.372.28$14
Sep 20240769.612.36$17
Aug 20240675.632.06$12
Jul 20240679.932.15$13
Jun 202401678.082.63$42
May 20240078.812.20$0
Apr 202407384.451.66$121
Mar 202405880.301.55$90
Feb 202404576.091.78$80
Jan 202404373.023.30$142
Dec 202301671.262.61$42
Nov 202303077.892.81$84
Oct 202302385.443.09$71
Sep 202303789.042.74$101
Aug 20230080.522.67$0
Jul 20230074.852.64$0
Jun 20231847,20468.962.26$28,959
May 202354119,15170.622.23$80,862
Apr 20232145,70078.122.24$29,473
Mar 202305,42572.852.39$12,983
Feb 20233484,99775.112.47$38,459
Jan 20231545,74876.533.39$31,258
Dec 20222929,40076.415.73$76,165
Nov 20221958,72685.005.65$65,844
Oct 202259410,84487.185.86$115,372
Sep 202225512,07584.888.16$120,221
Aug 202247311,10094.529.13$146,019
Jul 202246611,678101.587.54$135,413
Jun 202238511,674115.097.98$137,435
May 202233411,853109.378.43$136,486
Apr 202258711,285104.226.84$138,339
Mar 202251013,188108.885.08$122,476
Feb 202250912,64891.054.86$107,799
Jan 202245610,94081.844.54$86,961
Dec 2021645071.323.90$46,001
Nov 202171814,92977.435.24$133,776
Oct 202122213,36079.795.71$94,051
Sep 20210069.865.35$0
Aug 202149010,05166.024.22$74,771
Jul 202165113,63770.783.98$100,381
Jun 202138612,75269.493.38$69,933
May 202122815,27563.483.02$60,568
Apr 202121514,04060.362.76$51,706
Mar 202126115,43861.302.72$57,943
Feb 20211719,55257.805.55$62,878
Jan 202134716,71950.412.81$64,477
Dec 202066416,44444.642.68$73,636
Nov 202051416,13538.772.71$63,598
Oct 202063615,72136.972.48$62,476
Sep 202079518,11737.091.99$65,558
Aug 202065919,69139.982.39$73,312
Jul 202092816,94838.371.83$66,539
Jun 202059616,23634.901.69$48,244
May 202088416,11516.921.81$44,202
Apr 202058914,78214.751.80$35,360
Mar 202061513,79130.341.86$44,258
Feb 202071013,47249.881.98$62,098
Jan 202091311,48257.252.09$76,321
Dec 201980819,31959.012.30$92,198
Nov 201986917,97655.302.75$97,502
Oct 201984415,92853.472.42$83,651
Sep 201990318,51555.052.66$98,910
Aug 201981218,39253.112.30$85,507
Jul 201995715,84756.272.46$92,835
Jun 201970118,25952.782.49$82,486
May 20191,01815,24258.482.74$101,301
Apr 20191,14616,77962.632.75$117,928
Mar 20191,21614,05056.803.06$112,091
Feb 201983111,71150.852.79$74,956
Jan 20191,17115,99546.033.23$105,536
Dec 201893815,40846.594.19$108,191
Nov 20181,02715,05652.934.24$118,155
Oct 20181,17716,35161.443.40$127,877
Sep 201859115,32259.543.11$82,809
Aug 20181,25017,56259.403.07$128,105
Jul 20181,73416,88265.142.93$162,449
Jun 201859916,46760.183.08$86,715
May 20181,25617,92565.382.90$134,114
Apr 201895215,17863.842.90$104,804
Mar 20181,25218,36861.222.79$127,836
Feb 20181,34116,54061.782.77$128,599
Jan 20181,16316,15262.874.01$137,876
Dec 20171,04419,10957.272.92$115,617
Nov 201759821,12155.423.12$99,004
Oct 20171,17926,57649.292.98$137,407
Sep 20171,49421,63347.523.09$137,782
Aug 201789619,13445.373.00$98,138
Jul 20171,26018,86943.873.09$113,530
Jun 20171,42418,08942.493.09$116,352
May 201746120,75945.373.26$88,660
Apr 20171,26819,29647.933.21$122,746
Mar 20171,26519,70746.772.98$117,963
Feb 20171,22819,27250.452.95$118,855
Jan 20171,22322,09249.413.42$135,957
Dec 201686023,99148.763.72$131,248
Nov 20161,45224,69542.492.64$126,998
Oct 20161,36523,39546.193.09$135,346
Sep 20161,80522,84741.553.10$145,838
Aug 20161,51629,66941.442.92$149,585
Jul 20161,54740,82241.622.92$183,764
Jun 20161,69540,69545.352.69$186,168
May 20161,80725,22242.521.99$127,052
Apr 20161,86729,72036.561.99$127,431
Mar 20162,37440,61133.011.79$151,222
Feb 20162,06733,73126.472.06$124,322
Jan 20161,63238,11327.352.36$134,748
Dec 20151,72638,00332.362.00$131,913
Nov 20152,46937,47738.792.17$176,998
Oct 20151,93129,34643.552.43$155,305
Sep 20151,82325,20042.992.76$147,883
Aug 20152,22540,84940.162.87$206,694
Jul 20152,87245,38948.152.95$271,961
Jun 20152,24826,14756.152.88$201,603
May 20152,20133,42555.212.96$220,303
Apr 20152,29335,16149.822.71$209,403
Mar 20152,84538,62242.892.93$235,366
Feb 20152,05233,02944.662.98$189,943
Jan 20152,94836,54343.433.10$241,338
Dec 20143,22840,93354.693.59$323,544
Nov 20142,72936,48770.464.25$347,422
Oct 20143,84671,52178.303.90$580,142
Sep 20143,13563,79886.164.05$528,203
Aug 20145,09075,52089.394.04$759,727
Jul 20145,84879,73096.564.18$897,922
Jun 20147,90696,46898.164.74$1,233,010
May 201411,370107,16694.734.73$1,583,607
Apr 201413,02874,57595.944.81$1,608,546
Mar 201433234595.895.06$33,580
Feb 2014110697.406.19$754

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 2026 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 89.75 =         $0
Gas                   99 Mcf  × $  3.15 =       $312

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Month total                                     $312

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. 08/G/277804 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.