SPRAGUE, RUTH

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

Operated by REATTA ENERGY, INC. (P-5 696090) in the RATLIFF, N. (WOLFCAMP) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 31362District 08Field 74796600NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$391 k

Jan 1993 – Jun 2015

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

270

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The RATLIFF, N. (WOLFCAMP) 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 9 leases and 12 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1987-08-01

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

the register's own label

Between wells

1,320 ft

minimum

From a lease line

660 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 1987-12-01.

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	1	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	12,833 bbl	$375,368
Casinghead gas	Production	30,648 Mcf	$15,852
Total			$391,220

24,690 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 46 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 (2)

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 32.0200, -102.4186. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

32.02001, -102.41865 · 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%

2 of 2 wells

With a plug date

100.0%

2 of 2 wells

Median depth

9,411 ft

2 wells filed one

Completion to plug

13.5 years

median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

2100.0%

A plug date is filed

2100.0%

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

2100.0%

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 9,210 and 9,612 ft, median 9,411 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Jul 1987 – Feb 1988

2 of 2 wells

Plug dates filed

Apr 1988 – Apr 2014

2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 13.5 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 6.8 years and 20.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells


42-13535747	2	9,210 ft	Feb 1988	Apr 1988	Yes
42-13535579	1	9,612 ft	Jul 1987	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 (270)

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

270 months


Jun 2015	0	0	56.15	2.88	$0
May 2015	0	0	55.21	2.96	$0
Apr 2015	0	0	49.82	2.71	$0
Mar 2015	0	0	42.89	2.93	$0
Feb 2015	0	0	44.66	2.98	$0
Jan 2015	0	0	43.43	3.10	$0
Dec 2014	0	0	54.69	3.59	$0
Nov 2014	0	0	70.46	4.25	$0
Oct 2014	0	0	78.30	3.90	$0
Sep 2014	0	0	86.16	4.05	$0
Aug 2014	0	0	89.39	4.04	$0
Jul 2014	0	0	96.56	4.18	$0
Jun 2014	0	0	98.16	4.74	$0
May 2014	0	0	94.73	4.73	$0
Apr 2014	0	0	95.94	4.81	$0
Mar 2014	0	0	95.89	5.06	$0
Feb 2014	0	0	97.40	6.19	$0
Jan 2014	0	0	90.40	4.86	$0
Dec 2013	36	0	91.82	4.35	$3,306
Nov 2013	0	0	88.85	3.74	$0
Oct 2013	0	0	97.42	3.78	$0
Sep 2013	0	0	104.11	3.72	$0
Aug 2013	0	0	104.25	3.52	$0
Jul 2013	0	0	102.52	3.72	$0
Jun 2013	37	0	94.40	3.93	$3,493
May 2013	83	0	94.83	4.15	$7,871
Apr 2013	203	0	93.96	4.28	$19,074
Mar 2013	81	0	93.62	3.91	$7,583
Feb 2013	39	0	91.23	3.42	$3,558
Jan 2013	0	0	91.60	3.42	$0
Dec 2012	0	0	86.77	3.42	$0
Nov 2012	0	0	86.95	3.62	$0
Oct 2012	0	0	89.38	3.40	$0
Sep 2012	0	0	94.67	2.92	$0
Aug 2012	0	0	92.66	2.91	$0
Jul 2012	39	0	85.13	3.02	$3,320
Jun 2012	0	0	79.82	2.52	$0
May 2012	1	0	91.61	2.49	$92
Apr 2012	1	0	101.65	2.00	$102
Mar 2012	1	0	105.05	2.22	$105
Feb 2012	1	0	101.10	2.57	$101
Jan 2012	1	0	98.09	2.73	$98
Dec 2011	0	0	96.87	3.24	$0
Nov 2011	44	0	95.72	3.31	$4,212
Oct 2011	0	0	84.98	3.65	$0
Sep 2011	0	0	83.62	3.99	$0
Aug 2011	85	0	83.40	4.15	$7,089
Jul 2011	0	0	94.14	4.52	$0
Jun 2011	0	0	92.90	4.64	$0
May 2011	0	0	98.13	4.40	$0
Apr 2011	45	0	105.96	4.33	$4,768
Mar 2011	1	0	96.36	4.06	$96
Feb 2011	0	0	85.64	4.18	$0
Jan 2011	43	0	86.50	4.59	$3,720
Dec 2010	0	0	85.73	4.35	$0
Nov 2010	0	0	80.84	3.80	$0
Oct 2010	2	0	78.10	3.51	$156
Sep 2010	44	0	72.63	3.98	$3,196
Aug 2010	0	0	73.68	4.42	$0
Jul 2010	0	0	72.55	4.74	$0
Jun 2010	42	0	70.36	4.91	$2,955
May 2010	0	0	71.12	4.24	$0
Apr 2010	89	0	81.69	4.12	$7,270
Mar 2010	1	0	78.39	4.39	$78
Feb 2010	0	0	73.58	5.44	$0
Jan 2010	42	0	74.36	5.96	$3,123
Dec 2009	0	0	71.44	5.48	$0
Nov 2009	46	0	74.59	3.75	$3,431
Oct 2009	0	0	72.54	4.11	$0
Sep 2009	45	0	65.54	3.06	$2,949
Aug 2009	43	0	67.42	3.22	$2,899
Jul 2009	0	0	61.13	3.46	$0
Jun 2009	42	0	66.16	3.90	$2,779
May 2009	0	0	54.74	3.93	$0
Apr 2009	43	0	46.77	3.59	$2,011
Mar 2009	0	0	42.14	4.06	$0
Feb 2009	86	0	32.81	4.63	$2,822
Jan 2009	0	0	35.86	5.37	$0
Dec 2008	43	0	37.10	5.98	$1,595
Nov 2008	43	0	55.49	6.86	$2,386
Oct 2008	0	0	75.24	6.92	$0
Sep 2008	43	0	101.76	7.88	$4,376
Aug 2008	44	0	114.22	8.48	$5,026
Jul 2008	0	0	131.08	11.39	$0
Jun 2008	43	0	131.33	13.03	$5,647
May 2008	44	0	123.17	11.57	$5,419
Apr 2008	0	0	110.31	10.45	$0
Mar 2008	44	0	101.90	9.66	$4,484
Feb 2008	0	0	92.53	8.77	$0
Jan 2008	43	0	90.38	8.21	$3,886
Dec 2007	0	0	88.33	7.30	$0
Nov 2007	43	0	91.67	7.29	$3,942
Oct 2007	0	0	82.85	6.92	$0
Sep 2007	38	0	75.84	6.24	$2,882
Aug 2007	0	0	69.06	6.39	$0
Jul 2007	45	0	70.90	6.39	$3,191
Jun 2007	40	0	62.00	7.55	$2,480
May 2007	1	0	58.74	7.85	$59
Apr 2007	40	0	59.61	7.81	$2,384
Mar 2007	0	0	56.92	7.30	$0
Feb 2007	45	0	55.10	8.22	$2,480
Jan 2007	3	0	50.30	6.73	$151
Dec 2006	43	0	56.65	6.92	$2,436
Nov 2006	44	0	54.20	7.62	$2,385
Oct 2006	0	0	54.90	6.01	$0
Sep 2006	0	0	60.08	5.04	$0
Aug 2006	41	0	68.71	7.34	$2,817
Jul 2006	0	0	69.37	6.34	$0
Jun 2006	0	0	66.28	6.38	$0
May 2006	40	0	66.01	6.42	$2,640
Apr 2006	0	0	64.39	7.36	$0
Mar 2006	1	0	56.70	7.08	$57
Feb 2006	40	0	57.59	7.75	$2,304
Jan 2006	1	0	60.59	8.93	$61
Dec 2005	40	0	54.94	13.42	$2,198
Nov 2005	1	0	54.69	10.59	$55
Oct 2005	44	0	58.34	13.80	$2,567
Sep 2005	0	0	61.45	12.08	$0
Aug 2005	48	0	61.51	9.80	$2,952
Jul 2005	50	0	55.69	7.84	$2,785
Jun 2005	3	0	52.33	7.38	$157
May 2005	43	0	45.22	6.65	$1,944
Apr 2005	0	0	49.20	7.36	$0
Mar 2005	41	0	50.37	7.15	$2,065
Feb 2005	0	0	45.22	6.31	$0
Jan 2005	15	0	43.16	6.32	$647
Dec 2004	42	0	39.86	6.75	$1,674
Nov 2004	47	0	45.28	6.33	$2,128
Oct 2004	5	0	49.70	6.52	$249
Sep 2004	49	0	43.24	5.28	$2,119
Aug 2004	2	0	42.37	5.55	$85
Jul 2004	43	0	38.28	6.08	$1,646
Jun 2004	41	0	36.10	6.43	$1,480
May 2004	0	0	37.48	6.49	$0
Apr 2004	46	0	34.47	5.86	$1,586
Mar 2004	47	0	34.36	5.53	$1,615
Feb 2004	1	0	32.45	5.51	$32
Jan 2004	41	0	32.03	6.30	$1,313
Dec 2003	0	0	30.26	6.30	$0
Nov 2003	3	0	28.80	4.60	$86
Oct 2003	0	0	28.17	4.76	$0
Sep 2003	0	0	26.31	4.75	$0
Aug 2003	2	0	29.76	5.13	$60
Jul 2003	1	0	29.41	5.17	$29
Jun 2003	39	0	28.56	5.98	$1,114
May 2003	2	0	26.59	5.97	$53
Apr 2003	2	0	26.67	5.41	$53
Mar 2003	1	0	31.14	6.10	$31
Feb 2003	46	0	33.48	7.93	$1,540
Jan 2003	1	0	30.31	5.58	$30
Dec 2002	46	0	26.91	4.85	$1,238
Nov 2002	49	0	24.66	4.14	$1,208
Oct 2002	0	0	26.46	4.23	$0
Sep 2002	43	0	27.44	3.64	$1,180
Aug 2002	0	0	25.96	3.16	$0
Jul 2002	46	0	24.58	3.06	$1,131
Jun 2002	0	0	23.73	3.34	$0
May 2002	45	0	24.66	3.58	$1,110
Apr 2002	0	0	23.65	3.51	$0
Mar 2002	128	0	22.00	3.10	$2,816
Feb 2002	0	0	18.22	2.38	$0
Jan 2002	0	0	17.17	2.38	$0
Dec 2001	44	0	16.93	2.36	$745
Nov 2001	0	76	18.07	2.41	$183
Oct 2001	0	214	19.78	2.53	$541
Sep 2001	52	89	24.26	2.25	$1,462
Aug 2001	1	16	24.87	3.05	$74
Jul 2001	0	12	23.93	3.20	$38
Jun 2001	1	13	24.56	3.82	$74
May 2001	54	68	25.52	4.31	$1,671
Apr 2001	2	95	24.68	5.34	$556
Mar 2001	43	98	24.54	5.38	$1,582
Feb 2001	42	50	27.75	5.77	$1,454
Jan 2001	1	15	27.47	8.40	$153
Dec 2000	64	10	26.88	9.12	$1,812
Nov 2000	65	1	32.21	5.66	$2,099
Oct 2000	0	13	31.23	5.15	$67
Sep 2000	64	30	31.87	5.19	$2,195
Aug 2000	62	0	29.64	4.54	$1,838
Jul 2000	0	89	28.53	4.09	$364
Jun 2000	63	94	29.30	4.40	$2,259
May 2000	67	87	27.26	3.68	$2,147
Apr 2000	2	118	24.51	3.12	$417
Mar 2000	61	105	28.42	2.86	$2,034
Feb 2000	65	110	27.62	2.73	$2,095
Jan 2000	66	116	25.27	2.48	$1,956
Dec 1999	0	114	24.28	2.42	$276
Nov 1999	110	116	23.19	2.43	$2,833
Oct 1999	107	124	20.98	2.80	$2,593
Sep 1999	108	125	21.75	2.62	$2,676
Aug 1999	3	138	19.26	2.88	$455
Jul 1999	119	134	17.89	2.37	$2,447
Jun 1999	110	91	15.94	2.36	$1,968
May 1999	112	129	15.79	2.32	$2,068
Apr 1999	112	121	15.10	2.21	$1,958
Mar 1999	111	127	12.47	1.84	$1,618
Feb 1999	113	113	9.98	1.82	$1,333
Jan 1999	119	124	10.38	1.90	$1,471
Dec 1998	4	108	9.20	1.77	$228
Nov 1998	86	125	10.89	2.19	$1,210
Oct 1998	81	140	12.42	1.97	$1,282
Sep 1998	85	139	12.59	2.08	$1,360
Aug 1998	80	150	11.30	1.91	$1,190
Jul 1998	49	150	11.74	2.24	$911
Jun 1998	50	127	11.24	2.24	$846
May 1998	53	121	12.62	2.21	$936
Apr 1998	101	148	13.04	2.51	$1,688
Mar 1998	0	121	12.80	2.31	$279
Feb 1998	59	132	13.95	2.30	$1,127
Jan 1998	58	139	14.70	2.15	$1,152
Dec 1997	120	148	16.32	2.41	$2,315
Nov 1997	53	152	18.19	3.09	$1,433
Oct 1997	62	98	19.25	3.15	$1,502
Sep 1997	60	93	17.74	2.95	$1,339
Aug 1997	55	46	17.86	2.55	$1,100
Jul 1997	115	116	17.58	2.25	$2,282
Jun 1997	54	134	17.24	2.26	$1,233
May 1997	56	100	18.97	2.31	$1,293
Apr 1997	102	128	17.88	2.08	$2,090
Mar 1997	55	161	18.95	1.94	$1,354
Feb 1997	54	87	20.49	2.21	$1,298
Jan 1997	110	120	23.48	3.54	$3,008
Dec 1996	60	122	23.32	—	$1,399
Nov 1996	53	83	21.97	—	$1,164
Oct 1996	54	146	23.31	—	$1,259
Sep 1996	178	137	22.22	—	$3,955
Aug 1996	55	170	20.26	—	$1,114
Jul 1996	120	130	19.55	—	$2,346
Jun 1996	120	96	18.73	—	$2,248
May 1996	54	212	19.43	—	$1,049
Apr 1996	161	159	21.51	—	$3,463
Mar 1996	104	213	19.38	—	$2,016
Feb 1996	50	83	16.98	—	$849
Jan 1996	139	97	17.07	—	$2,373
Dec 1995	139	75	17.19	—	$2,389
Nov 1995	114	128	16.00	—	$1,824
Oct 1995	113	71	15.43	—	$1,744
Sep 1995	100	92	16.18	—	$1,618
Aug 1995	122	122	15.92	—	$1,942
Jul 1995	139	1,951	15.24	—	$2,118
Jun 1995	0	104	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	170	0	17.56	—	$2,985
Apr 1995	162	900	17.73	—	$2,872
Mar 1995	4	900	16.44	—	$66
Feb 1995	170	900	16.58	—	$2,819
Jan 1995	188	900	15.92	—	$2,993
Dec 1994	186	1,013	15.03	—	$2,796
Nov 1994	2	900	15.90	—	$32
Oct 1994	317	868	15.58	—	$4,939
Sep 1994	1	710	15.29	—	$15
Aug 1994	167	941	16.13	—	$2,694
Jul 1994	172	900	17.56	—	$3,020
Jun 1994	181	900	17.09	—	$3,093
May 1994	160	988	15.88	—	$2,541
Apr 1994	183	887	14.14	—	$2,588
Mar 1994	0	1	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	0	0	12.50	—	$0
Jan 1994	140	597	12.66	—	$1,772
Dec 1993	150	951	12.33	—	$1,850
Nov 1993	153	407	14.49	—	$2,217
Oct 1993	170	717	15.85	—	$2,695
Sep 1993	155	367	15.03	—	$2,330
Aug 1993	180	590	15.66	—	$2,819
Jul 1993	167	818	15.46	—	$2,582
Jun 1993	179	1,075	16.79	—	$3,005
May 1993	171	931	17.68	—	$3,023
Apr 1993	170	763	18.05	—	$3,069
Mar 1993	171	887	18.14	—	$3,102
Feb 1993	0	416	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	363	272	16.93	—	$6,146

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.

Dec 2013 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   36 bbl  × $ 91.82 =     $3,306
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  4.35 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $3,306

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/31362 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.