DOWNIE RANCH

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

Operated by SANDRIDGE ENERGY, INC. (P-5 748016) in the THISTLE (CABALLOS B, FB-2) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 30041District 08Field 89408165NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$1.7 M

Jan 1993 – May 2009

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

197

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The THISTLE (CABALLOS B, FB-2) 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 3 leases and 5 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1985-06-21

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

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: “THE THISTLE (OVERTHRUST) FLD.”

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	35,071 bbl	$1,196,133
Casinghead gas	Production	147,686 Mcf	$481,394
Total			$1,677,527

23,839 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 30 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 (3)

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 30.4654, -102.4925. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

30.46504, -102.49285 · 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%

3 of 3 wells

With a plug date

0.0%

0 of 3 wells

Median depth

3,200 ft

3 wells filed one

Completion to plug

—

no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

3100.0%

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.

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 3,000 and 7,000 ft, median 3,200 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Jul 1986 – Jul 1988

3 of 3 wells

3 wells


42-37135360	404	7,000 ft	Jul 1988	—	Yes
42-37135851	410	3,200 ft	Oct 1987	—	Yes
42-37135665	408	3,000 ft	Jul 1986	—	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 (197)

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

197 months


May 2009	0	0	54.74	3.93	$0
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	188	375	110.31	10.45	$24,659
Mar 2008	252	110	101.90	9.66	$26,742
Feb 2008	318	275	92.53	8.77	$31,836
Jan 2008	260	204	90.38	8.21	$25,173
Dec 2007	254	245	88.33	7.30	$24,225
Nov 2007	203	386	91.67	7.29	$21,424
Oct 2007	103	58	82.85	6.92	$8,935
Sep 2007	205	7	75.84	6.24	$15,591
Aug 2007	281	38	69.06	6.39	$19,649
Jul 2007	146	33	70.90	6.39	$10,562
Jun 2007	58	90	62.00	7.55	$4,275
May 2007	166	323	58.74	7.85	$12,285
Apr 2007	225	348	59.61	7.81	$16,128
Mar 2007	207	476	56.92	7.30	$15,258
Feb 2007	237	415	55.10	8.22	$16,468
Jan 2007	100	453	50.30	6.73	$8,077
Dec 2006	239	487	56.65	6.92	$16,909
Nov 2006	286	406	54.20	7.62	$18,594
Oct 2006	257	297	54.90	6.01	$15,895
Sep 2006	128	422	60.08	5.04	$9,816
Aug 2006	137	266	68.71	7.34	$11,366
Jul 2006	275	392	69.37	6.34	$21,563
Jun 2006	199	435	66.28	6.38	$15,967
May 2006	228	341	66.01	6.42	$17,241
Apr 2006	275	305	64.39	7.36	$19,952
Mar 2006	290	348	56.70	7.08	$18,908
Feb 2006	265	326	57.59	7.75	$17,788
Jan 2006	318	377	60.59	8.93	$22,635
Dec 2005	289	406	54.94	13.42	$21,324
Nov 2005	228	345	54.69	10.59	$16,122
Oct 2005	108	214	58.34	13.80	$9,253
Sep 2005	159	335	61.45	12.08	$13,817
Aug 2005	277	424	61.51	9.80	$21,192
Jul 2005	243	363	55.69	7.84	$16,380
Jun 2005	311	503	52.33	7.38	$19,987
May 2005	285	534	45.22	6.65	$16,439
Apr 2005	180	544	49.20	7.36	$12,860
Mar 2005	139	576	50.37	7.15	$11,123
Feb 2005	244	598	45.22	6.31	$14,808
Jan 2005	217	575	43.16	6.32	$13,001
Dec 2004	202	582	39.86	6.75	$11,981
Nov 2004	160	751	45.28	6.33	$11,999
Oct 2004	316	725	49.70	6.52	$20,429
Sep 2004	232	608	43.24	5.28	$13,244
Aug 2004	323	770	42.37	5.55	$17,960
Jul 2004	327	786	38.28	6.08	$17,300
Jun 2004	301	746	36.10	6.43	$15,665
May 2004	290	714	37.48	6.49	$15,506
Apr 2004	159	704	34.47	5.86	$9,605
Mar 2004	293	874	34.36	5.53	$14,901
Feb 2004	270	699	32.45	5.51	$12,613
Jan 2004	287	821	32.03	6.30	$14,365
Dec 2003	312	764	30.26	6.30	$14,256
Nov 2003	326	815	28.80	4.60	$13,134
Oct 2003	312	824	28.17	4.76	$12,711
Sep 2003	199	691	26.31	4.75	$8,518
Aug 2003	296	836	29.76	5.13	$13,097
Jul 2003	285	936	29.41	5.17	$13,222
Jun 2003	998	293	28.56	5.98	$30,256
May 2003	352	1,049	26.59	5.97	$15,625
Apr 2003	320	963	26.67	5.41	$13,742
Mar 2003	373	1,032	31.14	6.10	$17,906
Feb 2003	297	903	33.48	7.93	$17,101
Jan 2003	275	1,013	30.31	5.58	$13,990
Dec 2002	380	1,066	26.91	4.85	$15,400
Nov 2002	368	1,032	24.66	4.14	$13,344
Oct 2002	399	1,032	26.46	4.23	$14,922
Sep 2002	400	915	27.44	3.64	$14,302
Aug 2002	405	1,053	25.96	3.16	$13,846
Jul 2002	415	929	24.58	3.06	$13,045
Jun 2002	419	923	23.73	3.34	$13,024
May 2002	455	935	24.66	3.58	$14,571
Apr 2002	478	700	23.65	3.51	$13,763
Mar 2002	480	1,133	22.00	3.10	$14,075
Feb 2002	441	415	18.22	2.38	$9,021
Jan 2002	428	482	17.17	2.38	$8,494
Dec 2001	455	990	16.93	2.36	$10,044
Nov 2001	467	1,175	18.07	2.41	$11,265
Oct 2001	500	1,583	19.78	2.53	$13,893
Sep 2001	492	1,541	24.26	2.25	$15,405
Aug 2001	447	1,088	24.87	3.05	$14,439
Jul 2001	512	1,533	23.93	3.20	$17,153
Jun 2001	485	1,743	24.56	3.82	$18,577
May 2001	113	672	25.52	4.31	$5,778
Apr 2001	118	672	24.68	5.34	$6,498
Mar 2001	121	646	24.54	5.38	$6,443
Feb 2001	73	578	27.75	5.77	$5,359
Jan 2001	127	614	27.47	8.40	$8,646
Dec 2000	91	499	26.88	9.12	$6,998
Nov 2000	97	557	32.21	5.66	$6,276
Oct 2000	127	522	31.23	5.15	$6,652
Sep 2000	119	544	31.87	5.19	$6,614
Aug 2000	111	546	29.64	4.54	$5,769
Jul 2000	87	1,226	28.53	4.09	$7,496
Jun 2000	34	1,021	29.30	4.40	$5,486
May 2000	105	2,091	27.26	3.68	$10,557
Apr 2000	91	1,542	24.51	3.12	$7,035
Mar 2000	48	1,644	28.42	2.86	$6,066
Feb 2000	83	1,639	27.62	2.73	$6,761
Jan 2000	83	1,844	25.27	2.48	$6,671
Dec 1999	135	1,395	24.28	2.42	$6,659
Nov 1999	83	1,449	23.19	2.43	$5,452
Oct 1999	101	1,734	20.98	2.80	$6,981
Sep 1999	84	1,768	21.75	2.62	$6,457
Aug 1999	100	1,477	19.26	2.88	$6,173
Jul 1999	67	1,095	17.89	2.37	$3,796
Jun 1999	50	1,580	15.94	2.36	$4,529
May 1999	83	1,353	15.79	2.32	$4,451
Apr 1999	83	2,229	15.10	2.21	$6,175
Mar 1999	108	1,749	12.47	1.84	$4,562
Feb 1999	92	1,656	9.98	1.82	$3,928
Jan 1999	67	1,683	10.38	1.90	$3,893
Dec 1998	51	1,077	9.20	1.77	$2,379
Nov 1998	116	1,877	10.89	2.19	$5,366
Oct 1998	83	361	12.42	1.97	$1,742
Sep 1998	75	1,660	12.59	2.08	$4,401
Aug 1998	116	2,091	11.30	1.91	$5,299
Jul 1998	149	1,670	11.74	2.24	$5,486
Jun 1998	48	1,660	11.24	2.24	$4,253
May 1998	120	2,268	12.62	2.21	$6,518
Apr 1998	97	1,434	13.04	2.51	$4,858
Mar 1998	88	2,048	12.80	2.31	$5,856
Feb 1998	72	2,241	13.95	2.30	$6,157
Jan 1998	36	1,739	14.70	2.15	$4,276
Dec 1997	161	3,104	16.32	2.41	$10,112
Nov 1997	213	2,562	18.19	3.09	$11,787
Oct 1997	174	2,022	19.25	3.15	$9,718
Sep 1997	147	2,691	17.74	2.95	$10,559
Aug 1997	28	796	17.86	2.55	$2,534
Jul 1997	21	755	17.58	2.25	$2,066
Jun 1997	17	233	17.24	2.26	$819
May 1997	27	412	18.97	2.31	$1,463
Apr 1997	27	508	17.88	2.08	$1,541
Mar 1997	96	530	18.95	1.94	$2,847
Feb 1997	80	505	20.49	2.21	$2,753
Jan 1997	30	756	23.48	3.54	$3,380
Dec 1996	149	0	23.32	—	$3,475
Nov 1996	220	0	21.97	—	$4,833
Oct 1996	0	0	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	0	0	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	0	0	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	0	0	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	0	0	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	0	0	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	0	0	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	0	0	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	0	0	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	0	0	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	0	0	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	0	0	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	0	0	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	0	0	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	0	0	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	89	0	15.24	—	$1,356
Jun 1995	180	538	16.41	—	$2,954
May 1995	261	673	17.56	—	$4,583
Apr 1995	117	487	17.73	—	$2,074
Mar 1995	81	712	16.44	—	$1,332
Feb 1995	55	570	16.58	—	$912
Jan 1995	47	506	15.92	—	$748
Dec 1994	95	484	15.03	—	$1,428
Nov 1994	92	558	15.90	—	$1,463
Oct 1994	62	600	15.58	—	$966
Sep 1994	73	518	15.29	—	$1,116
Aug 1994	110	610	16.13	—	$1,774
Jul 1994	53	597	17.56	—	$931
Jun 1994	84	624	17.09	—	$1,436
May 1994	76	618	15.88	—	$1,207
Apr 1994	77	1,087	14.14	—	$1,089
Mar 1994	414	798	12.46	—	$5,158
Feb 1994	304	715	12.50	—	$3,800
Jan 1994	133	1,013	12.66	—	$1,684
Dec 1993	143	1,392	12.33	—	$1,763
Nov 1993	53	1,323	14.49	—	$768
Oct 1993	11	1,592	15.85	—	$174
Sep 1993	150	1,174	15.03	—	$2,255
Aug 1993	147	1,281	15.66	—	$2,302
Jul 1993	554	1,011	15.46	—	$8,565
Jun 1993	374	712	16.79	—	$6,279
May 1993	329	660	17.68	—	$5,817
Apr 1993	211	669	18.05	—	$3,809
Mar 1993	271	1,005	18.14	—	$4,916
Feb 1993	278	700	17.90	—	$4,976
Jan 1993	314	612	16.93	—	$5,316

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 2008 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  188 bbl  × $110.31 =    $20,738
Casinghead gas       375 Mcf  × $ 10.45 =     $3,921

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                  $24,659

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/30041 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.