TXL 3 -A-

Operated by NORTHSTAR OPERATING COMPANY (P-5 614609) in the SPRABERRY (TREND AREA) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 27372District 08Field 85280300NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$284 k
Jan 1993 – Oct 2006
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
166
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead 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 16,587 leases and 43,997 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1952-12-22
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 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 2018-02-13.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: SPRABERRY (TREND AREA) FIELD EFFECTIVE 10/1/2019.

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
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
OilDisposition7,582 bbl$174,024
Casinghead gasProduction43,764 Mcf$110,359
Total$284,383

13,527 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 (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 31.8249, -101.7114. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.82488, -101.71145 · 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
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
8,520 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
9.6 years
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 8,520 ft.

Completions filed
Feb 1997
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 2006
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 9.6 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 9.6 years and 9.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-1733114918,520 ftFeb 1997Sep 2006Yes

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 (166)

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

166 months

Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 20060069.376.34$0
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 200556050.377.15$2,821
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 200510917443.166.32$5,805
Dec 200411019239.866.75$5,681
Nov 20045220845.286.33$3,671
Oct 20045516149.706.52$3,782
Sep 20045611643.245.28$3,034
Aug 200411112142.375.55$5,375
Jul 20045522938.286.08$3,499
Jun 20045419536.106.43$3,204
May 200411016837.486.49$5,214
Apr 200411119434.475.86$4,963
Mar 200411022034.365.53$4,996
Feb 20045418632.455.51$2,777
Jan 200416121032.036.30$6,480
Dec 20035518830.266.30$2,849
Nov 2003536028.804.60$1,802
Oct 20031106028.174.76$3,384
Sep 2003020826.314.75$988
Aug 200318148829.765.13$7,890
Jul 2003057129.415.17$2,953
Jun 2003050628.565.98$3,027
May 2003060526.595.97$3,613
Apr 2003059126.675.41$3,196
Mar 200316546031.146.10$7,942
Feb 2003158133.487.93$4,638
Jan 200316268030.315.58$8,706
Dec 2002050826.914.85$2,466
Nov 2002011924.664.14$492
Oct 2002012626.464.23$533
Sep 2002013727.443.64$498
Aug 2002616325.963.16$672
Jul 2002012824.583.06$392
Jun 200217915323.733.34$4,758
May 2002030124.663.58$1,079
Apr 2002044923.653.51$1,577
Mar 200218754322.003.10$5,799
Feb 2002049718.222.38$1,181
Jan 2002040917.172.38$972
Dec 2001030116.932.36$712
Nov 2001052518.072.41$1,263
Oct 200117859619.782.53$5,028
Sep 2001135124.262.25$814
Aug 200106424.873.05$195
Jul 200138823.933.20$353
Jun 2001020724.563.82$792
May 200118142025.524.31$6,428
Apr 2001030224.685.34$1,611
Mar 200106024.545.38$323
Feb 200106127.755.77$352
Jan 20011636827.478.40$5,049
Dec 200076026.889.12$736
Nov 200008032.215.66$453
Oct 2000010231.235.15$525
Sep 200015710431.875.19$5,543
Aug 2000031429.644.54$1,426
Jul 2000158228.534.09$2,409
Jun 2000049329.304.40$2,168
May 200017062227.263.68$6,923
Apr 2000054724.513.12$1,704
Mar 2000037828.422.86$1,081
Feb 2000023127.622.73$630
Jan 200018318825.272.48$5,091
Dec 1999031424.282.42$761
Nov 1999057623.192.43$1,402
Oct 199918962720.982.80$5,723
Sep 1999041821.752.62$1,095
Aug 1999057119.262.88$1,642
Jul 1999036817.892.37$873
Jun 1999041515.942.36$980
May 19991767715.792.32$2,958
Apr 199906015.102.21$132
Mar 199906012.471.84$110
Feb 1999188609.981.82$1,985
Jan 199906010.381.90$114
Dec 199802719.201.77$481
Nov 1998034310.892.19$750
Oct 199818842612.421.97$3,174
Sep 1998052612.592.08$1,095
Aug 1998020211.301.91$385
Jul 199806011.742.24$134
Jun 199815828211.242.24$2,407
May 1998054312.622.21$1,198
Apr 1998050113.042.51$1,255
Mar 199818748312.802.31$3,509
Feb 1998045313.952.30$1,042
Jan 1998037814.702.15$815
Dec 1997039816.322.41$960
Nov 199718537218.193.09$4,514
Oct 1997029919.253.15$942
Sep 1997040117.742.95$1,185
Aug 1997040917.862.55$1,045
Jul 199716741217.582.25$3,862
Jun 1997042817.242.26$966
May 1997042018.972.31$970
Apr 199718540617.882.08$4,153
Mar 1997035118.951.94$681
Feb 1997031820.492.21$701
Jan 1997030023.483.54$1,062
Dec 199618823723.32$4,384
Nov 1996027121.97$0
Oct 1996061223.31$0
Sep 199619145922.22$4,244
Aug 1996032020.26$0
Jul 1996039319.55$0
Jun 1996042518.73$0
May 199618139819.43$3,517
Apr 1996035221.51$0
Mar 1996010519.38$0
Feb 199607916.98$0
Jan 199618737017.07$3,192
Dec 1995052717.19$0
Nov 1995056016.00$0
Oct 199518959515.43$2,916
Sep 1995055916.18$0
Aug 1995020615.92$0
Jul 1995016615.24$0
Jun 1995014716.41$0
May 199517313617.56$3,038
Apr 1995010617.73$0
Mar 199509016.44$0
Feb 19951856516.58$3,067
Jan 199507215.92$0
Dec 1994028115.03$0
Nov 199418663115.90$2,957
Oct 1994019715.58$0
Sep 1994024415.29$0
Aug 1994047616.13$0
Jul 19941888317.56$3,301
Jun 1994013517.09$0
May 1994016715.88$0
Apr 199418730414.14$2,644
Mar 1994023812.46$0
Feb 1994019312.50$0
Jan 1994022212.66$0
Dec 199318922012.33$2,330
Nov 1993021314.49$0
Oct 1993023315.85$0
Sep 199318931915.03$2,841
Aug 1993030815.66$0
Jul 1993028915.46$0
Jun 199318826016.79$3,157
May 1993031717.68$0
Apr 1993031818.05$0
Mar 1993023918.14$0
Feb 199319118717.90$3,419
Jan 1993020316.93$0

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 2005 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   56 bbl  × $ 50.37 =     $2,821
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  7.15 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,821

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/27372 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.