BLACK, S.E. "42"

Operated by APACHE CORPORATION (P-5 27200) 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 30601District 08Field 85280300NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$13.7 M
Jan 1993 – Apr 2022
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
352
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
NGPA3none

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
OilDisposition279,133 bbl$11,221,024
Casinghead gasProduction755,193 Mcf$2,481,351
Total$13,702,376

189,885 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 (8)

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 31.7280, -101.7366. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.8 miles.

31.72799, -101.73664 · 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
87.5%
7 of 8 wells
With a plug date
87.5%
7 of 8 wells
Median depth
8,983 ft
8 wells filed one
Completion to plug
14.8 years
median over 7 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
787.5%
A plug date is filed
787.5%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
787.5%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
112.5%

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

Total depth in feet, 8 of 8 wells. Median 8,983 ft, with the middle half between 8,555 and 9,811 ft; the shallowest is 8,510 ft and the deepest 9,898 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

Last completion by decade, 8 of 8 wells, Feb 1975 – Oct 2025. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Feb 1975 – Oct 2025
8 of 8 wells
Plug dates filed
Aug 2002 – Feb 2022
7 of 8 wells; 1 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 14.8 years across the 7 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 14.1 years and 28.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

8 wells

42-1730011418,556 ftOct 2025
42-1733333289,878 ftJan 2008Oct 2021Yes
42-1733331179,898 ftOct 2007Feb 2022Yes
42-1733322569,788 ftFeb 2007Dec 2021Yes
42-1733268359,216 ftDec 1996Aug 2002Yes
42-1733226948,750 ftDec 1992Sep 2020Yes
42-1733191238,510 ftFeb 1986Oct 2015Yes
42-1730011528,550 ftFeb 1975Oct 2015Yes

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 (352)

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

352 months

Apr 202200104.226.84$0
Mar 202200108.885.08$0
Feb 20220091.054.86$0
Jan 20220081.844.54$0
Dec 20210071.323.90$0
Nov 20210077.435.24$0
Oct 20210079.795.71$0
Sep 20210069.865.35$0
Aug 20210066.024.22$0
Jul 20210070.783.98$0
Jun 20210069.493.38$0
May 20210063.483.02$0
Apr 20210060.362.76$0
Mar 20210061.302.72$0
Feb 20210057.805.55$0
Jan 20210050.412.81$0
Dec 20200044.642.68$0
Nov 20200038.772.71$0
Oct 20200036.972.48$0
Sep 20200037.091.99$0
Aug 20200039.982.39$0
Jul 20200038.371.83$0
Jun 20200034.901.69$0
May 20200016.921.81$0
Apr 20200014.751.80$0
Mar 20200030.341.86$0
Feb 20200049.881.98$0
Jan 20200057.252.09$0
Dec 20190059.012.30$0
Nov 20190055.302.75$0
Oct 20190053.472.42$0
Sep 20190055.052.66$0
Aug 20190053.112.30$0
Jul 20190056.272.46$0
Jun 20190052.782.49$0
May 20190058.482.74$0
Apr 20190062.632.75$0
Mar 20190056.803.06$0
Feb 20190050.852.79$0
Jan 20190046.033.23$0
Dec 20180046.594.19$0
Nov 20180052.934.24$0
Oct 20180061.443.40$0
Sep 20180059.543.11$0
Aug 20180059.403.07$0
Jul 20180065.142.93$0
Jun 20180060.183.08$0
May 20180065.382.90$0
Apr 20180063.842.90$0
Mar 201812661.222.79$751
Feb 20180661.782.77$17
Jan 201801962.874.01$76
Dec 20174257.272.92$235
Nov 2017216355.423.12$1,360
Oct 2017653649.292.98$3,311
Sep 20171157847.523.09$5,706
Aug 2017415845.373.00$2,034
Jul 2017584243.873.09$2,674
Jun 2017684942.493.09$3,041
May 2017783645.373.26$3,656
Apr 201716930647.933.21$9,083
Mar 201720254746.772.98$11,080
Feb 201712234750.452.95$7,179
Jan 201710617149.413.42$5,822
Dec 201613013648.763.72$6,845
Nov 2016884842.492.64$3,866
Oct 2016913346.193.09$4,305
Sep 2016915841.553.10$3,961
Aug 2016814041.442.92$3,474
Jul 20169619841.622.92$4,575
Jun 201612945045.352.69$7,059
May 201610425742.521.99$4,934
Apr 201616225736.561.99$6,434
Mar 201615422433.011.79$5,485
Feb 201618027026.472.06$5,322
Jan 201637134727.352.36$10,967
Dec 201532134432.362.00$11,076
Nov 201534817138.792.17$13,870
Oct 201545537043.552.43$20,713
Sep 201518621142.992.76$8,578
Aug 201518114440.162.87$7,683
Jul 20159047448.152.95$5,729
Jun 201514855056.152.88$9,896
May 201547177655.212.96$28,297
Apr 20159291,27949.822.71$49,744
Mar 20151,1341,36742.892.93$52,649
Feb 20151,0841,91044.662.98$54,096
Jan 20151,2082,02743.433.10$58,748
Dec 20141,2592,29954.693.59$77,111
Nov 20141,0961,80870.464.25$84,911
Oct 20141,3002,55078.303.90$111,737
Sep 20141,3042,84186.164.05$123,846
Aug 20144691,13189.394.04$46,488
Jul 20141,186096.564.18$114,520
Jun 20141,6822,73198.164.74$178,042
May 20141,9103,25394.734.73$196,310
Apr 20141,1482,51895.944.81$122,248
Mar 20149981,79295.895.06$104,760
Feb 20141,5362,72197.406.19$166,455
Jan 20141,9052,96790.404.86$186,634
Dec 20131,1071,66291.824.35$108,882
Nov 20131,0611,53188.853.74$99,993
Oct 20131,5981,88497.423.78$162,797
Sep 20131,2771,844104.113.72$139,804
Aug 20131,1451,545104.253.52$124,809
Jul 20131,0861,635102.523.72$117,415
Jun 20131,2951,96894.403.93$129,989
May 20131,6773,06994.834.15$171,763
Apr 20131,5722,35593.964.28$157,791
Mar 201374186893.623.91$72,769
Feb 20131,3971,77191.233.42$133,505
Jan 20131,5431,61591.603.42$146,862
Dec 20121,2241,55586.773.42$111,525
Nov 20121,0481,49786.953.62$96,550
Oct 20127441,14189.383.40$70,378
Sep 20121,0451,96794.672.92$104,671
Aug 20128602,08892.662.91$85,760
Jul 20128592,20485.133.02$79,785
Jun 20127981,35179.822.52$67,100
May 20129401,59891.612.49$90,090
Apr 2012563961101.652.00$59,148
Mar 2012546933105.052.22$59,431
Feb 20128381,439101.102.57$88,420
Jan 20121,2482,58798.092.73$129,489
Dec 20111,2942,70896.873.24$134,123
Nov 201183362995.723.31$81,818
Oct 201175225884.983.65$64,846
Sep 201155739283.623.99$48,139
Aug 20116951,10583.404.15$62,548
Jul 20119775,03694.144.52$114,724
Jun 20111,2595,03692.904.64$140,328
May 20111,1734,65998.134.40$135,629
Apr 20117333,640105.964.33$93,442
Mar 20111,1433,45196.364.06$124,141
Feb 20116951,29885.644.18$64,945
Jan 20119411,69286.504.59$89,161
Dec 20101741,52885.734.35$21,560
Nov 201012638380.843.80$11,639
Oct 20102172,85678.103.51$26,969
Sep 201021972572.633.98$18,791
Aug 20103693,71473.684.42$43,601
Jul 20103363,11872.554.74$39,145
Jun 201029850870.364.91$23,462
May 20104131,59571.124.24$36,128
Apr 20105282,77981.694.12$54,589
Mar 20102191,07078.394.39$21,863
Feb 20104001,18073.585.44$35,854
Jan 201044981974.365.96$38,272
Dec 20094511,04971.445.48$37,972
Nov 20094571,22974.593.75$38,698
Oct 20094081,14872.544.11$34,315
Sep 20094471,23165.543.06$33,069
Aug 20093331,02367.423.22$25,743
Jul 20092711,04461.133.46$20,183
Jun 200932761966.163.90$24,045
May 200928670154.743.93$18,408
Apr 200939445446.773.59$20,056
Mar 200941168342.144.06$20,092
Feb 200936381732.814.63$15,695
Jan 200929268535.865.37$14,150
Dec 200837699137.105.98$19,873
Nov 200826961355.496.86$19,132
Oct 200824293475.246.92$24,673
Sep 2008139616101.767.88$18,997
Aug 20082321,350114.228.48$37,951
Jul 20084541,747131.0811.39$79,408
Jun 20083731,434131.3313.03$67,675
May 20082851,630123.1711.57$53,970
Apr 20083091,527110.3110.45$50,050
Mar 20082241,491101.909.66$37,235
Feb 20083031,79692.538.77$43,789
Jan 20084972,08390.388.21$62,011
Dec 20074881,64688.337.30$55,124
Nov 20074441,80491.677.29$53,856
Oct 20075002,28182.856.92$57,214
Sep 20075042,42075.846.24$53,334
Aug 20074462,11469.066.39$44,305
Jul 20076633,06570.906.39$66,586
Jun 200768854862.007.55$46,793
May 200768734358.747.85$43,046
Apr 20071,5753,50059.617.81$121,204
Mar 20071,6721,74256.927.30$107,890
Feb 20071,1821,78355.108.22$79,777
Jan 20071,8092,05750.306.73$104,830
Dec 20061,1681,48556.656.92$76,441
Nov 20067381,32854.207.62$50,116
Oct 20066041,35654.906.01$41,314
Sep 20065311,10360.085.04$37,459
Aug 200646998868.717.34$39,477
Jul 200632253469.376.34$25,724
Jun 20063181,08166.286.38$27,978
May 20062951,23566.016.42$27,408
Apr 20062961,14064.397.36$27,450
Mar 200629373656.707.08$21,826
Feb 200622158157.597.75$17,231
Jan 200631397360.598.93$27,657
Dec 20056351,02454.9413.42$48,624
Nov 20051,1211,06954.6910.59$72,626
Oct 20051,0621,24258.3413.80$79,091
Sep 20059521,52461.4512.08$76,909
Aug 20057601,76461.519.80$64,029
Jul 20057681,81355.697.84$56,990
Jun 20056821,64352.337.38$47,816
May 20058151,95245.226.65$49,837
Apr 20057741,95049.207.36$52,434
Mar 20057242,51450.377.15$54,455
Feb 20055332,06745.226.31$37,149
Jan 20054732,72943.166.32$37,668
Dec 20045731,89839.866.75$35,653
Nov 20047252,35945.286.33$47,761
Oct 20043081,93249.706.52$27,895
Sep 20046842,34243.245.28$41,951
Aug 2004617042.375.55$26,142
Jul 2004670038.286.08$25,648
Jun 20043622,26036.106.43$27,607
May 20045742,72037.486.49$39,179
Apr 2004530034.475.86$18,269
Mar 200451510034.365.53$18,248
Feb 20047693,15832.455.51$42,353
Jan 20048693,11732.036.30$47,470
Dec 20036742,55130.266.30$36,471
Nov 20037312,84728.804.60$34,135
Oct 20036032,55128.174.76$29,128
Sep 20037192,82326.314.75$32,324
Aug 20036362,34129.765.13$30,936
Jul 20039292,49829.415.17$40,239
Jun 20036252,00028.565.98$29,816
May 20038073,35826.595.97$41,514
Apr 20031,09929,37326.675.41$188,138
Mar 20033252,22231.146.10$23,666
Feb 20034921,77133.487.93$30,509
Jan 20035072,20430.315.58$27,670
Dec 20026302,41826.914.85$28,690
Nov 20027232,26424.664.14$27,195
Oct 20025493,14326.464.23$27,819
Sep 20026792,27727.443.64$26,909
Aug 20024972,42925.963.16$20,588
Jul 20028183,26824.583.06$30,112
Jun 2002596023.733.34$14,143
May 20027032,75724.663.58$27,217
Apr 20021,070023.653.51$25,306
Mar 20029142,59522.003.10$28,160
Feb 20027552,51918.222.38$19,740
Jan 20021,074017.172.38$18,441
Dec 20017131,85716.932.36$16,462
Nov 2001783018.072.41$14,149
Oct 20011,0234,02219.782.53$30,406
Sep 2001837024.262.25$20,306
Aug 2001820024.873.05$20,393
Jul 20014922,11423.933.20$18,532
Jun 20012471,35924.563.82$11,263
May 200171013,45025.524.31$76,053
Apr 200194216,04124.685.34$108,832
Mar 20011,1974,06324.545.38$51,219
Feb 20011,2533,54427.755.77$55,209
Jan 20019532,26127.478.40$45,169
Dec 20001,1382,78126.889.12$55,959
Nov 20001,1264,75832.215.66$63,189
Oct 20001,0779,48031.235.15$82,414
Sep 20001,0414,24531.875.19$55,193
Aug 20001,3475,16629.644.54$63,383
Jul 20009615,20828.534.09$48,717
Jun 20001,0254,22729.304.40$48,620
May 20001,1433,63627.263.68$44,538
Apr 20001,1293,90524.513.12$39,840
Mar 20001,2373,88428.422.86$46,263
Feb 20001,2963,31227.622.73$44,826
Jan 20001,6663,98425.272.48$51,982
Dec 19991,4214,07224.282.42$44,371
Nov 19991,4604,26623.192.43$44,241
Oct 19991,4554,91120.982.80$44,295
Sep 19991,5132,59621.752.62$39,706
Aug 19991,8643,81719.262.88$46,877
Jul 19991,3704,65917.892.37$35,562
Jun 19991,8444,03915.942.36$38,934
May 19991,4233,70915.792.32$31,078
Apr 19991,8774,33915.102.21$37,923
Mar 19991,4214,01812.471.84$25,106
Feb 19991,4173,2489.981.82$20,046
Jan 19991,9103,04310.381.90$25,607
Dec 19989062,2939.201.77$12,401
Nov 19989192,29910.892.19$15,033
Oct 19981,8654,89512.421.97$32,803
Sep 19981,4094,20212.592.08$26,490
Aug 19981,4104,77911.301.91$25,048
Jul 19981,3184,35011.742.24$25,205
Jun 19981,3454,19211.242.24$24,496
May 19981,4154,66112.622.21$28,141
Apr 19981,4284,57413.042.51$30,081
Mar 19981,3954,25312.802.31$27,678
Feb 19981,8733,69613.952.30$34,626
Jan 19981,4264,58614.702.15$30,844
Dec 19971,8854,23816.322.41$40,981
Nov 19971,9114,36518.193.09$48,241
Oct 19971,4184,19719.253.15$40,516
Sep 19971,8994,34217.742.95$46,518
Aug 19971,8844,07217.862.55$44,051
Jul 19971,8514,19117.582.25$41,958
Jun 19971,4084,08917.242.26$33,504
May 19971,8983,99918.972.31$45,237
Apr 19971,8484,00717.882.08$41,388
Mar 19972,2344,37718.951.94$50,822
Feb 19971,4093,87120.492.21$37,409
Jan 19972,3265,07723.483.54$72,586
Dec 19961,8364,89723.32$42,816
Nov 19961,3693,14021.97$30,077
Oct 19961,4193,41523.31$33,077
Sep 19969483,08322.22$21,065
Aug 19961,4002,92620.26$28,364
Jul 19961,4163,07419.55$27,683
Jun 19961,4083,37218.73$26,372
May 19961,3933,06719.43$27,066
Apr 19961,4313,51921.51$30,781
Mar 19961,8933,62919.38$36,686
Feb 19961,4362,96216.98$24,383
Jan 19961,3943,18817.07$23,796
Dec 19951,4243,17917.19$24,479
Nov 19951,4322,84216.00$22,912
Oct 19951,3692,76615.43$21,124
Sep 19951,3472,64516.18$21,794
Aug 19951,3933,34015.92$22,177
Jul 19951,4103,14115.24$21,488
Jun 19951,3292,51916.41$21,809
May 19959242,63417.56$16,225
Apr 19959052,51017.73$16,046
Mar 19951,3022,45916.44$21,405
Feb 19958392,55216.58$13,911
Jan 199596741915.92$15,395
Dec 19941,3553,63215.03$20,366
Nov 19941,2964,45215.90$20,606
Oct 19941,3434,24415.58$20,924
Sep 19941,2952,95315.29$19,801
Aug 19941,2654,16316.13$20,404
Jul 19949033,93517.56$15,857
Jun 19941,3443,68317.09$22,969
May 19948774,46715.88$13,927
Apr 19942,2424,72714.14$31,702
Mar 19941,7685,36812.46$22,029
Feb 19942,1475,69512.50$26,838
Jan 19942,6256,46212.66$33,233
Dec 19932,9406,26412.33$36,250
Nov 19931,8126,31614.49$26,256
Oct 19932,5297,08415.85$40,085
Sep 19932,2196,79615.03$33,352
Aug 19931,9057,50715.66$29,832
Jul 19931,8346,24215.46$28,354
Jun 19931,3925,53116.79$23,372
May 19931,8625,29417.68$32,920
Apr 19931,7704,75418.05$31,949
Mar 19931,8682,80618.14$33,886
Feb 19931,6013,45617.90$28,658
Jan 19931,0292,77616.93$17,421

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 2018 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   12 bbl  × $ 61.22 =       $735
Casinghead gas         6 Mcf  × $  2.79 =        $17

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Month total                                     $751

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/30601 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.