BASS TXL 45-

Name: BASS TXL 45- lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by CHESAPEAKE OPERATING, INC. (P-5 147715) in the DIMMITT (CHERRY CANYON) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 26568District 08Field 24853400NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$2.4 M

Jan 1993 – Apr 2009

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

196

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The DIMMITT (CHERRY CANYON) 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 79 leases and 204 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1980-08-23

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

the register's own label

Between wells

—

no field rule filed

From a lease line

—

no field rule filed

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “CONSOLIDATED TO DIMMITT (DELAWARE CONS)”

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	5	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	79,393 bbl	$1,758,164
Casinghead gas	Production	230,700 Mcf	$595,946
Total			$2,354,110

88,801 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 31.7779, -103.5618. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

31.77755, -103.56140 · 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

100.0%

5 of 5 wells

Median depth

6,347 ft

5 wells filed one

Completion to plug

33.1 years

median over 5 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

5100.0%

A plug date is filed

5100.0%

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

5100.0%

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 5,900 and 6,450 ft, median 6,347 ft, over the 5 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Apr 1981 – Sep 2012

5 of 5 wells

Plug dates filed

Dec 2014 – Mar 2022

5 of 5 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 33.1 years across the 5 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 32.3 years and 33.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

5 wells


42-30100231	5D	5,900 ft	Sep 2012	Mar 2022	Yes
42-30130518	4	6,450 ft	May 1984	Jun 2017	Yes
42-30130396	3	6,347 ft	May 1983	Sep 2015	Yes
42-30130349	2	6,308 ft	Apr 1982	Feb 2019	Yes
42-30130282	1	6,349 ft	Apr 1981	Dec 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 (196)

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

196 months


Apr 2009	0	0	46.77	3.59	$0
Mar 2009	0	0	42.14	4.06	$0
Feb 2009	0	0	32.81	4.63	$0
Jan 2009	0	0	35.86	5.37	$0
Dec 2008	0	0	37.10	5.98	$0
Nov 2008	0	0	55.49	6.86	$0
Oct 2008	0	0	75.24	6.92	$0
Sep 2008	0	0	101.76	7.88	$0
Aug 2008	0	0	114.22	8.48	$0
Jul 2008	0	0	131.08	11.39	$0
Jun 2008	0	0	131.33	13.03	$0
May 2008	0	0	123.17	11.57	$0
Apr 2008	0	0	110.31	10.45	$0
Mar 2008	0	0	101.90	9.66	$0
Feb 2008	0	0	92.53	8.77	$0
Jan 2008	0	0	90.38	8.21	$0
Dec 2007	0	0	88.33	7.30	$0
Nov 2007	0	0	91.67	7.29	$0
Oct 2007	93	0	82.85	6.92	$7,705
Sep 2007	343	0	75.84	6.24	$26,013
Aug 2007	0	0	69.06	6.39	$0
Jul 2007	0	0	70.90	6.39	$0
Jun 2007	0	527	62.00	7.55	$3,978
May 2007	353	467	58.74	7.85	$24,399
Apr 2007	0	174	59.61	7.81	$1,358
Mar 2007	0	39	56.92	7.30	$285
Feb 2007	0	0	55.10	8.22	$0
Jan 2007	0	0	50.30	6.73	$0
Dec 2006	1	106	56.65	6.92	$790
Nov 2006	0	244	54.20	7.62	$1,859
Oct 2006	0	201	54.90	6.01	$1,209
Sep 2006	0	163	60.08	5.04	$821
Aug 2006	0	85	68.71	7.34	$624
Jul 2006	0	81	69.37	6.34	$514
Jun 2006	0	57	66.28	6.38	$364
May 2006	0	42	66.01	6.42	$270
Apr 2006	0	7	64.39	7.36	$52
Mar 2006	0	0	56.70	7.08	$0
Feb 2006	0	637	57.59	7.75	$4,937
Jan 2006	461	711	60.59	8.93	$34,284
Dec 2005	0	1,091	54.94	13.42	$14,636
Nov 2005	547	895	54.69	10.59	$39,392
Oct 2005	243	1,063	58.34	13.80	$28,842
Sep 2005	351	1,013	61.45	12.08	$33,805
Aug 2005	227	1,292	61.51	9.80	$26,620
Jul 2005	208	1,543	55.69	7.84	$23,686
Jun 2005	422	1,441	52.33	7.38	$32,719
May 2005	301	1,592	45.22	6.65	$24,200
Apr 2005	322	1,696	49.20	7.36	$28,326
Mar 2005	508	1,640	50.37	7.15	$37,322
Feb 2005	0	1,505	45.22	6.31	$9,499
Jan 2005	268	752	43.16	6.32	$16,321
Dec 2004	208	873	39.86	6.75	$14,185
Nov 2004	223	798	45.28	6.33	$15,149
Oct 2004	244	947	49.70	6.52	$18,297
Sep 2004	240	896	43.24	5.28	$15,112
Aug 2004	212	969	42.37	5.55	$14,361
Jul 2004	290	893	38.28	6.08	$16,534
Jun 2004	230	977	36.10	6.43	$14,588
May 2004	131	968	37.48	6.49	$11,197
Apr 2004	240	929	34.47	5.86	$13,715
Mar 2004	261	961	34.36	5.53	$14,282
Feb 2004	472	943	32.45	5.51	$20,512
Jan 2004	0	568	32.03	6.30	$3,578
Dec 2003	482	615	30.26	6.30	$18,461
Nov 2003	249	580	28.80	4.60	$9,836
Oct 2003	251	755	28.17	4.76	$10,664
Sep 2003	475	762	26.31	4.75	$16,116
Aug 2003	0	459	29.76	5.13	$2,355
Jul 2003	458	698	29.41	5.17	$17,079
Jun 2003	234	240	28.56	5.98	$8,119
May 2003	459	902	26.59	5.97	$17,592
Apr 2003	281	883	26.67	5.41	$12,269
Mar 2003	420	984	31.14	6.10	$19,077
Feb 2003	387	866	33.48	7.93	$19,821
Jan 2003	388	906	30.31	5.58	$16,818
Dec 2002	421	997	26.91	4.85	$16,168
Nov 2002	453	1,053	24.66	4.14	$15,527
Oct 2002	465	1,108	26.46	4.23	$16,990
Sep 2002	417	1,055	27.44	3.64	$15,278
Aug 2002	414	1,092	25.96	3.16	$14,203
Jul 2002	206	666	24.58	3.06	$7,103
Jun 2002	370	958	23.73	3.34	$11,978
May 2002	374	879	24.66	3.58	$12,373
Apr 2002	379	856	23.65	3.51	$11,970
Mar 2002	451	903	22.00	3.10	$12,724
Feb 2002	428	707	18.22	2.38	$9,478
Jan 2002	0	290	17.17	2.38	$689
Dec 2001	377	894	16.93	2.36	$8,496
Nov 2001	413	1,012	18.07	2.41	$9,897
Oct 2001	454	1,116	19.78	2.53	$11,802
Sep 2001	407	1,170	24.26	2.25	$12,508
Aug 2001	447	1,098	24.87	3.05	$14,469
Jul 2001	477	1,186	23.93	3.20	$15,206
Jun 2001	422	1,063	24.56	3.82	$14,429
May 2001	446	1,254	25.52	4.31	$16,783
Apr 2001	481	1,392	24.68	5.34	$19,298
Mar 2001	474	1,512	24.54	5.38	$19,761
Feb 2001	464	1,346	27.75	5.77	$20,638
Jan 2001	524	1,426	27.47	8.40	$26,371
Dec 2000	465	1,452	26.88	9.12	$25,745
Nov 2000	488	1,444	32.21	5.66	$23,889
Oct 2000	578	1,536	31.23	5.15	$25,954
Sep 2000	539	1,515	31.87	5.19	$25,035
Aug 2000	239	835	29.64	4.54	$10,875
Jul 2000	414	1,421	28.53	4.09	$17,623
Jun 2000	429	1,551	29.30	4.40	$19,390
May 2000	516	1,666	27.26	3.68	$20,197
Apr 2000	516	1,640	24.51	3.12	$17,757
Mar 2000	558	1,575	28.42	2.86	$20,362
Feb 2000	682	1,528	27.62	2.73	$23,003
Jan 2000	277	1,149	25.27	2.48	$9,850
Dec 1999	499	1,454	24.28	2.42	$15,640
Nov 1999	483	1,304	23.19	2.43	$14,375
Oct 1999	543	1,518	20.98	2.80	$15,648
Sep 1999	558	1,558	21.75	2.62	$16,217
Aug 1999	458	1,686	19.26	2.88	$13,669
Jul 1999	499	1,558	17.89	2.37	$12,623
Jun 1999	518	1,681	15.94	2.36	$12,228
May 1999	499	1,622	15.79	2.32	$11,644
Apr 1999	623	1,564	15.10	2.21	$12,861
Mar 1999	500	1,518	12.47	1.84	$9,026
Feb 1999	486	1,388	9.98	1.82	$7,373
Jan 1999	589	1,479	10.38	1.90	$8,924
Dec 1998	568	1,566	9.20	1.77	$8,003
Nov 1998	542	1,649	10.89	2.19	$9,507
Oct 1998	491	1,750	12.42	1.97	$9,544
Sep 1998	625	1,794	12.59	2.08	$11,605
Aug 1998	634	1,851	11.30	1.91	$10,695
Jul 1998	859	1,848	11.74	2.24	$14,219
Jun 1998	343	1,874	11.24	2.24	$8,048
May 1998	498	1,881	12.62	2.21	$10,435
Apr 1998	550	1,803	13.04	2.51	$11,689
Mar 1998	636	2,009	12.80	2.31	$12,780
Feb 1998	700	1,783	13.95	2.30	$13,864
Jan 1998	507	1,367	14.70	2.15	$10,399
Dec 1997	573	1,711	16.32	2.41	$13,477
Nov 1997	651	1,652	18.19	3.09	$16,944
Oct 1997	569	1,517	19.25	3.15	$15,732
Sep 1997	498	1,692	17.74	2.95	$13,834
Aug 1997	583	1,845	17.86	2.55	$15,126
Jul 1997	568	1,837	17.58	2.25	$14,113
Jun 1997	504	1,873	17.24	2.26	$12,917
May 1997	581	2,011	18.97	2.31	$15,664
Apr 1997	688	1,914	17.88	2.08	$16,288
Mar 1997	567	1,997	18.95	1.94	$14,617
Feb 1997	560	1,802	20.49	2.21	$15,449
Jan 1997	752	1,762	23.48	3.54	$23,894
Dec 1996	626	2,130	23.32	—	$14,598
Nov 1996	782	2,107	21.97	—	$17,181
Oct 1996	568	1,790	23.31	—	$13,240
Sep 1996	1,146	1,737	22.22	—	$25,464
Aug 1996	412	1,896	20.26	—	$8,347
Jul 1996	431	1,795	19.55	—	$8,426
Jun 1996	441	1,954	18.73	—	$8,260
May 1996	900	1,909	19.43	—	$17,487
Apr 1996	847	1,982	21.51	—	$18,219
Mar 1996	446	2,017	19.38	—	$8,643
Feb 1996	434	2,021	16.98	—	$7,369
Jan 1996	895	1,892	17.07	—	$15,278
Dec 1995	462	1,923	17.19	—	$7,942
Nov 1995	880	2,014	16.00	—	$14,080
Oct 1995	440	1,651	15.43	—	$6,789
Sep 1995	812	1,623	16.18	—	$13,138
Aug 1995	430	2,105	15.92	—	$6,846
Jul 1995	880	2,274	15.24	—	$13,411
Jun 1995	459	2,044	16.41	—	$7,532
May 1995	916	2,172	17.56	—	$16,085
Apr 1995	465	2,024	17.73	—	$8,244
Mar 1995	905	1,695	16.44	—	$14,878
Feb 1995	453	1,852	16.58	—	$7,511
Jan 1995	880	1,874	15.92	—	$14,010
Dec 1994	442	1,989	15.03	—	$6,643
Nov 1994	912	1,761	15.90	—	$14,501
Oct 1994	0	1,459	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	453	1,475	15.29	—	$6,926
Aug 1994	881	2,031	16.13	—	$14,211
Jul 1994	456	1,994	17.56	—	$8,007
Jun 1994	451	1,905	17.09	—	$7,708
May 1994	932	2,208	15.88	—	$14,800
Apr 1994	928	2,103	14.14	—	$13,122
Mar 1994	473	2,118	12.46	—	$5,894
Feb 1994	912	1,822	12.50	—	$11,400
Jan 1994	468	1,816	12.66	—	$5,925
Dec 1993	939	2,011	12.33	—	$11,578
Nov 1993	465	1,776	14.49	—	$6,738
Oct 1993	919	2,206	15.85	—	$14,566
Sep 1993	917	2,175	15.03	—	$13,783
Aug 1993	475	1,734	15.66	—	$7,439
Jul 1993	430	739	15.46	—	$6,648
Jun 1993	892	2,079	16.79	—	$14,977
May 1993	885	778	17.68	—	$15,647
Apr 1993	866	949	18.05	—	$15,631
Mar 1993	424	1,062	18.14	—	$7,691
Feb 1993	887	2,215	17.90	—	$15,877
Jan 1993	826	1,915	16.93	—	$13,984

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.

Oct 2007 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   93 bbl  × $ 82.85 =     $7,705
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  6.92 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $7,705

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/26568 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.