BENGE, ARCH

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

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

Oil lease lease 11746District 08Field 69233664NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$6.5 M

Jan 1993 – Feb 2010

Value, last 12 filed months

$34 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

206

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The PARKS (SPRABERRY) 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 65 leases and 175 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1957-06-06

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

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 40 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “PARKS (CONSOLIDATED) EFF. 3/11/09.”

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	3	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
Oil	Disposition	202,687 bbl	$5,792,186
Casinghead gas	Production	305,978 Mcf	$734,157
Total			$6,526,343

139,859 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 (5)

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 31.8157, -102.1193. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.0 miles.

31.81582, -102.11953 · 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%

5 of 5 wells

With a plug date

60.0%

3 of 5 wells

Median depth

8,800 ft

5 wells filed one

Completion to plug

26.8 years

median over 3 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

5100.0%

A plug date is filed

360.0%

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

360.0%

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

Between 8,766 and 11,000 ft, median 8,800 ft, over the 5 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Oct 1984 – Nov 2017

5 of 5 wells

Plug dates filed

Apr 2014 – Oct 2019

3 of 5 wells; 2 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 26.8 years across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 16.5 years and 28.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

5 wells


42-32931280	6	8,952 ft	Nov 2017	—	Yes
42-32931434	11	8,800 ft	May 2009	Jul 2015	Yes
42-32931477	10	11,000 ft	Dec 1992	Oct 2019	Yes
42-32931358	9	8,766 ft	Nov 1984	—	Yes
42-32900818	4	8,800 ft	Oct 1984	Apr 2014	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 (206)

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

206 months


Feb 2010	0	0	73.58	5.44	$0
Jan 2010	0	0	74.36	5.96	$0
Dec 2009	0	0	71.44	5.48	$0
Nov 2009	0	0	74.59	3.75	$0
Oct 2009	0	0	72.54	4.11	$0
Sep 2009	0	0	65.54	3.06	$0
Aug 2009	0	0	67.42	3.22	$0
Jul 2009	0	0	61.13	3.46	$0
Jun 2009	0	0	66.16	3.90	$0
May 2009	0	0	54.74	3.93	$0
Apr 2009	0	0	46.77	3.59	$0
Mar 2009	736	673	42.14	4.06	$33,747
Feb 2009	372	646	32.81	4.63	$15,198
Jan 2009	332	606	35.86	5.37	$15,160
Dec 2008	643	502	37.10	5.98	$26,856
Nov 2008	361	636	55.49	6.86	$24,395
Oct 2008	714	597	75.24	6.92	$57,854
Sep 2008	334	474	101.76	7.88	$37,722
Aug 2008	654	625	114.22	8.48	$80,002
Jul 2008	340	701	131.08	11.39	$52,551
Jun 2008	785	619	131.33	13.03	$111,161
May 2008	362	750	123.17	11.57	$53,268
Apr 2008	755	513	110.31	10.45	$88,647
Mar 2008	695	597	101.90	9.66	$76,590
Feb 2008	657	667	92.53	8.77	$66,642
Jan 2008	868	797	90.38	8.21	$84,990
Dec 2007	675	528	88.33	7.30	$63,478
Nov 2007	361	551	91.67	7.29	$37,111
Oct 2007	640	811	82.85	6.92	$58,638
Sep 2007	850	563	75.84	6.24	$67,979
Aug 2007	449	718	69.06	6.39	$35,594
Jul 2007	904	709	70.90	6.39	$68,623
Jun 2007	424	647	62.00	7.55	$31,172
May 2007	885	584	58.74	7.85	$56,567
Apr 2007	431	604	59.61	7.81	$30,406
Mar 2007	831	561	56.92	7.30	$51,397
Feb 2007	901	647	55.10	8.22	$54,961
Jan 2007	416	727	50.30	6.73	$25,815
Dec 2006	785	494	56.65	6.92	$47,888
Nov 2006	967	505	54.20	7.62	$56,258
Oct 2006	514	642	54.90	6.01	$32,079
Sep 2006	1,001	665	60.08	5.04	$63,490
Aug 2006	893	805	68.71	7.34	$67,267
Jul 2006	436	810	69.37	6.34	$35,383
Jun 2006	931	802	66.28	6.38	$66,827
May 2006	978	762	66.01	6.42	$69,454
Apr 2006	431	824	64.39	7.36	$33,817
Mar 2006	816	662	56.70	7.08	$50,956
Feb 2006	448	595	57.59	7.75	$30,412
Jan 2006	921	787	60.59	8.93	$62,834
Dec 2005	919	844	54.94	13.42	$61,812
Nov 2005	902	769	54.69	10.59	$57,473
Oct 2005	460	573	58.34	13.80	$34,741
Sep 2005	964	783	61.45	12.08	$68,696
Aug 2005	998	980	61.51	9.80	$70,988
Jul 2005	972	960	55.69	7.84	$61,661
Jun 2005	941	904	52.33	7.38	$55,915
May 2005	913	976	45.22	6.65	$47,777
Apr 2005	866	854	49.20	7.36	$48,893
Mar 2005	467	707	50.37	7.15	$28,581
Feb 2005	1,085	607	45.22	6.31	$52,895
Jan 2005	1,165	924	43.16	6.32	$56,123
Dec 2004	504	877	39.86	6.75	$26,010
Nov 2004	937	585	45.28	6.33	$46,131
Oct 2004	999	816	49.70	6.52	$54,967
Sep 2004	539	1,033	43.24	5.28	$28,765
Aug 2004	1,072	954	42.37	5.55	$50,716
Jul 2004	1,048	959	38.28	6.08	$45,952
Jun 2004	538	950	36.10	6.43	$25,533
May 2004	1,083	1,047	37.48	6.49	$47,391
Apr 2004	541	1,036	34.47	5.86	$24,718
Mar 2004	1,188	1,194	34.36	5.53	$47,423
Feb 2004	1,013	1,022	32.45	5.51	$38,503
Jan 2004	809	945	32.03	6.30	$31,865
Dec 2003	947	1,139	30.26	6.30	$35,834
Nov 2003	869	959	28.80	4.60	$29,434
Oct 2003	408	799	28.17	4.76	$15,296
Sep 2003	848	926	26.31	4.75	$26,709
Aug 2003	941	1,036	29.76	5.13	$33,319
Jul 2003	762	973	29.41	5.17	$27,442
Jun 2003	367	559	28.56	5.98	$13,826
May 2003	856	953	26.59	5.97	$28,453
Apr 2003	461	889	26.67	5.41	$17,102
Mar 2003	1,063	1,049	31.14	6.10	$39,497
Feb 2003	1,025	953	33.48	7.93	$41,870
Jan 2003	538	939	30.31	5.58	$21,548
Dec 2002	989	941	26.91	4.85	$31,181
Nov 2002	896	758	24.66	4.14	$25,231
Oct 2002	451	852	26.46	4.23	$15,537
Sep 2002	901	1,056	27.44	3.64	$28,562
Aug 2002	332	1,526	25.96	3.16	$13,447
Jul 2002	937	942	24.58	3.06	$25,916
Jun 2002	885	1,153	23.73	3.34	$24,850
May 2002	983	1,299	24.66	3.58	$28,896
Apr 2002	986	1,350	23.65	3.51	$28,061
Mar 2002	945	1,448	22.00	3.10	$25,283
Feb 2002	917	1,027	18.22	2.38	$19,148
Jan 2002	963	1,362	17.17	2.38	$19,770
Dec 2001	1,048	951	16.93	2.36	$19,991
Nov 2001	1,034	938	18.07	2.41	$20,941
Oct 2001	1,401	594	19.78	2.53	$29,214
Sep 2001	1,025	1,698	24.26	2.25	$28,689
Aug 2001	993	1,249	24.87	3.05	$28,509
Jul 2001	1,360	711	23.93	3.20	$34,818
Jun 2001	969	720	24.56	3.82	$26,552
May 2001	841	644	25.52	4.31	$24,236
Apr 2001	1,198	1,080	24.68	5.34	$35,329
Mar 2001	883	831	24.54	5.38	$26,137
Feb 2001	863	1,042	27.75	5.77	$29,958
Jan 2001	786	1,254	27.47	8.40	$32,123
Dec 2000	1,135	1,273	26.88	9.12	$42,122
Nov 2000	844	1,378	32.21	5.66	$34,982
Oct 2000	905	1,685	31.23	5.15	$36,933
Sep 2000	967	1,685	31.87	5.19	$39,558
Aug 2000	988	1,313	29.64	4.54	$35,246
Jul 2000	995	1,355	28.53	4.09	$33,929
Jun 2000	997	1,364	29.30	4.40	$35,210
May 2000	1,412	1,358	27.26	3.68	$43,488
Apr 2000	1,044	1,337	24.51	3.12	$29,755
Mar 2000	1,042	1,113	28.42	2.86	$32,797
Feb 2000	1,035	1,274	27.62	2.73	$32,060
Jan 2000	996	1,280	25.27	2.48	$28,344
Dec 1999	987	1,436	24.28	2.42	$27,445
Nov 1999	1,418	1,771	23.19	2.43	$37,194
Oct 1999	911	1,778	20.98	2.80	$24,098
Sep 1999	882	1,229	21.75	2.62	$22,402
Aug 1999	1,035	1,588	19.26	2.88	$24,501
Jul 1999	1,034	1,519	17.89	2.37	$22,102
Jun 1999	1,071	2,655	15.94	2.36	$23,343
May 1999	1,059	2,196	15.79	2.32	$21,819
Apr 1999	1,058	2,255	15.10	2.21	$20,955
Mar 1999	1,054	2,055	12.47	1.84	$16,921
Feb 1999	1,374	2,265	9.98	1.82	$17,830
Jan 1999	464	2,315	10.38	1.90	$9,215
Dec 1998	1,596	2,284	9.20	1.77	$18,733
Nov 1998	891	1,062	10.89	2.19	$12,024
Oct 1998	1,003	325	12.42	1.97	$13,097
Sep 1998	952	348	12.59	2.08	$12,710
Aug 1998	985	1,066	11.30	1.91	$13,164
Jul 1998	1,080	460	11.74	2.24	$13,708
Jun 1998	922	522	11.24	2.24	$11,531
May 1998	780	776	12.62	2.21	$11,556
Apr 1998	952	1,489	13.04	2.51	$16,145
Mar 1998	795	295	12.80	2.31	$10,857
Feb 1998	957	641	13.95	2.30	$14,824
Jan 1998	1,277	650	14.70	2.15	$20,173
Dec 1997	1,373	1,252	16.32	2.41	$25,426
Nov 1997	1,151	1,884	18.19	3.09	$26,755
Oct 1997	1,102	1,753	19.25	3.15	$26,735
Sep 1997	872	1,464	17.74	2.95	$19,795
Aug 1997	675	916	17.86	2.55	$14,396
Jul 1997	576	2,405	17.58	2.25	$15,530
Jun 1997	784	3,712	17.24	2.26	$21,895
May 1997	943	4,192	18.97	2.31	$27,566
Apr 1997	1,044	4,475	17.88	2.08	$27,987
Mar 1997	911	4,361	18.95	1.94	$25,720
Feb 1997	1,044	3,579	20.49	2.21	$29,286
Jan 1997	982	3,426	23.48	3.54	$35,184
Dec 1996	1,282	3,482	23.32	—	$29,896
Nov 1996	1,393	2,099	21.97	—	$30,604
Oct 1996	1,204	2,677	23.31	—	$28,065
Sep 1996	1,071	2,590	22.22	—	$23,798
Aug 1996	1,407	2,628	20.26	—	$28,506
Jul 1996	1,353	4,109	19.55	—	$26,451
Jun 1996	1,307	3,008	18.73	—	$24,480
May 1996	1,390	3,139	19.43	—	$27,008
Apr 1996	1,199	2,802	21.51	—	$25,790
Mar 1996	1,358	314	19.38	—	$26,318
Feb 1996	1,338	1,189	16.98	—	$22,719
Jan 1996	1,449	2,928	17.07	—	$24,734
Dec 1995	1,326	2,867	17.19	—	$22,794
Nov 1995	1,411	2,931	16.00	—	$22,576
Oct 1995	1,169	2,193	15.43	—	$18,038
Sep 1995	1,108	873	16.18	—	$17,927
Aug 1995	1,074	639	15.92	—	$17,098
Jul 1995	1,123	971	15.24	—	$17,115
Jun 1995	982	1,538	16.41	—	$16,115
May 1995	1,127	2,271	17.56	—	$19,790
Apr 1995	1,304	1,435	17.73	—	$23,120
Mar 1995	1,731	1,261	16.44	—	$28,458
Feb 1995	1,317	1,507	16.58	—	$21,836
Jan 1995	1,740	2,992	15.92	—	$27,701
Dec 1994	1,739	3,190	15.03	—	$26,137
Nov 1994	1,421	1,848	15.90	—	$22,594
Oct 1994	1,390	3,021	15.58	—	$21,656
Sep 1994	1,476	4,134	15.29	—	$22,568
Aug 1994	1,609	4,106	16.13	—	$25,953
Jul 1994	1,596	4,143	17.56	—	$28,026
Jun 1994	1,398	4,355	17.09	—	$23,892
May 1994	1,679	4,385	15.88	—	$26,663
Apr 1994	1,467	3,410	14.14	—	$20,743
Mar 1994	1,874	3,752	12.46	—	$23,350
Feb 1994	1,715	3,245	12.50	—	$21,438
Jan 1994	2,046	3,650	12.66	—	$25,902
Dec 1993	1,801	3,547	12.33	—	$22,206
Nov 1993	2,206	3,684	14.49	—	$31,965
Oct 1993	2,076	3,444	15.85	—	$32,905
Sep 1993	1,973	2,265	15.03	—	$29,654
Aug 1993	2,039	2,523	15.66	—	$31,931
Jul 1993	1,588	2,593	15.46	—	$24,550
Jun 1993	1,880	3,581	16.79	—	$31,565
May 1993	2,469	5,406	17.68	—	$43,652
Apr 1993	2,354	5,219	18.05	—	$42,490
Mar 1993	2,902	4,723	18.14	—	$52,642
Feb 1993	2,336	3,378	17.90	—	$41,814
Jan 1993	2,046	3,814	16.93	—	$34,639

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 2009 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  736 bbl  × $ 42.14 =    $31,015
Casinghead gas       673 Mcf  × $  4.06 =     $2,732

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Month total                                  $33,747

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/O/11746 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.