ERNEST

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

Operated by PIONEER NATURAL RES. USA, INC. (P-5 665748) 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 31952District 08Field 85280300OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$2.3 M

Jan 1993 – Mar 2021

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

339

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The SPRABERRY (TREND AREA) 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 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.”

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	52,450 bbl	$1,954,326
Casinghead gas	Production	98,946 Mcf	$320,077
Total			$2,274,403

27,393 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 (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 31.9447, -102.1058. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

31.94466, -102.10577 · 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

9,525 ft

2 wells filed one

Completion to plug

23 months

median over 1 well

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 9,525 and 9,525 ft, median 9,525 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

May 2017

1 of 2 wells; 1 filed none

Plug dates filed

Apr 2019 – Mar 2021

2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 23 months across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 23 months and 23 months. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells


42-32932021	2	9,525 ft	—	Mar 2021	Yes
42-32932018	1	9,525 ft	May 2017	Apr 2019	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 (339)

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

339 months


Mar 2021	0	0	61.30	2.72	$0
Feb 2021	0	0	57.80	5.55	$0
Jan 2021	0	0	50.41	2.81	$0
Dec 2020	0	0	44.64	2.68	$0
Nov 2020	0	0	38.77	2.71	$0
Oct 2020	0	0	36.97	2.48	$0
Sep 2020	0	0	37.09	1.99	$0
Aug 2020	0	0	39.98	2.39	$0
Jul 2020	0	0	38.37	1.83	$0
Jun 2020	0	0	34.90	1.69	$0
May 2020	0	0	16.92	1.81	$0
Apr 2020	0	0	14.75	1.80	$0
Mar 2020	0	0	30.34	1.86	$0
Feb 2020	0	0	49.88	1.98	$0
Jan 2020	0	0	57.25	2.09	$0
Dec 2019	0	0	59.01	2.30	$0
Nov 2019	0	0	55.30	2.75	$0
Oct 2019	0	0	53.47	2.42	$0
Sep 2019	0	0	55.05	2.66	$0
Aug 2019	0	0	53.11	2.30	$0
Jul 2019	0	0	56.27	2.46	$0
Jun 2019	0	0	52.78	2.49	$0
May 2019	0	0	58.48	2.74	$0
Apr 2019	0	0	62.63	2.75	$0
Mar 2019	0	0	56.80	3.06	$0
Feb 2019	0	0	50.85	2.79	$0
Jan 2019	0	0	46.03	3.23	$0
Dec 2018	0	0	46.59	4.19	$0
Nov 2018	0	0	52.93	4.24	$0
Oct 2018	0	0	61.44	3.40	$0
Sep 2018	0	0	59.54	3.11	$0
Aug 2018	0	0	59.40	3.07	$0
Jul 2018	0	0	65.14	2.93	$0
Jun 2018	0	0	60.18	3.08	$0
May 2018	0	0	65.38	2.90	$0
Apr 2018	0	0	63.84	2.90	$0
Mar 2018	0	0	61.22	2.79	$0
Feb 2018	0	0	61.78	2.77	$0
Jan 2018	0	0	62.87	4.01	$0
Dec 2017	0	0	57.27	2.92	$0
Nov 2017	0	0	55.42	3.12	$0
Oct 2017	0	0	49.29	2.98	$0
Sep 2017	0	0	47.52	3.09	$0
Aug 2017	0	0	45.37	3.00	$0
Jul 2017	0	0	43.87	3.09	$0
Jun 2017	0	0	42.49	3.09	$0
May 2017	0	0	45.37	3.26	$0
Apr 2017	0	0	47.93	3.21	$0
Mar 2017	6	0	46.77	2.98	$281
Feb 2017	63	115	50.45	2.95	$3,518
Jan 2017	51	161	49.41	3.42	$3,070
Dec 2016	60	190	48.76	3.72	$3,633
Nov 2016	71	141	42.49	2.64	$3,390
Oct 2016	99	162	46.19	3.09	$5,073
Sep 2016	13	131	41.55	3.10	$946
Aug 2016	63	148	41.44	2.92	$3,044
Jul 2016	61	170	41.62	2.92	$3,036
Jun 2016	68	240	45.35	2.69	$3,728
May 2016	58	294	42.52	1.99	$3,052
Apr 2016	62	232	36.56	1.99	$2,729
Mar 2016	51	226	33.01	1.79	$2,089
Feb 2016	61	172	26.47	2.06	$1,970
Jan 2016	54	170	27.35	2.36	$1,879
Dec 2015	51	147	32.36	2.00	$1,945
Nov 2015	56	138	38.79	2.17	$2,471
Oct 2015	73	184	43.55	2.43	$3,626
Sep 2015	53	176	42.99	2.76	$2,764
Aug 2015	51	183	40.16	2.87	$2,574
Jul 2015	58	194	48.15	2.95	$3,364
Jun 2015	63	207	56.15	2.88	$4,134
May 2015	85	183	55.21	2.96	$5,234
Apr 2015	89	216	49.82	2.71	$5,019
Mar 2015	94	225	42.89	2.93	$4,692
Feb 2015	57	206	44.66	2.98	$3,159
Jan 2015	77	186	43.43	3.10	$3,921
Dec 2014	51	181	54.69	3.59	$3,439
Nov 2014	80	183	70.46	4.25	$6,415
Oct 2014	84	207	78.30	3.90	$7,385
Sep 2014	102	202	86.16	4.05	$9,606
Aug 2014	572	195	89.39	4.04	$51,918
Jul 2014	64	177	96.56	4.18	$6,920
Jun 2014	68	213	98.16	4.74	$7,684
May 2014	54	263	94.73	4.73	$6,359
Apr 2014	59	249	95.94	4.81	$6,858
Mar 2014	64	235	95.89	5.06	$7,325
Feb 2014	74	202	97.40	6.19	$8,458
Jan 2014	50	214	90.40	4.86	$5,560
Dec 2013	105	210	91.82	4.35	$10,556
Nov 2013	56	186	88.85	3.74	$5,671
Oct 2013	132	210	97.42	3.78	$13,653
Sep 2013	74	206	104.11	3.72	$8,470
Aug 2013	75	216	104.25	3.52	$8,580
Jul 2013	67	224	102.52	3.72	$7,702
Jun 2013	131	217	94.40	3.93	$13,220
May 2013	0	218	94.83	4.15	$905
Apr 2013	208	210	93.96	4.28	$20,443
Mar 2013	117	213	93.62	3.91	$11,787
Feb 2013	123	191	91.23	3.42	$11,874
Jan 2013	120	195	91.60	3.42	$11,659
Dec 2012	247	203	86.77	3.42	$22,126
Nov 2012	133	206	86.95	3.62	$12,311
Oct 2012	220	212	89.38	3.40	$20,384
Sep 2012	0	215	94.67	2.92	$627
Aug 2012	234	216	92.66	2.91	$22,311
Jul 2012	87	217	85.13	3.02	$8,062
Jun 2012	88	183	79.82	2.52	$7,485
May 2012	62	185	91.61	2.49	$6,140
Apr 2012	55	169	101.65	2.00	$5,928
Mar 2012	65	170	105.05	2.22	$7,206
Feb 2012	56	157	101.10	2.57	$6,065
Jan 2012	95	173	98.09	2.73	$9,792
Dec 2011	61	172	96.87	3.24	$6,466
Nov 2011	111	171	95.72	3.31	$11,191
Oct 2011	67	179	84.98	3.65	$6,347
Sep 2011	120	173	83.62	3.99	$10,724
Aug 2011	67	178	83.40	4.15	$6,326
Jul 2011	142	198	94.14	4.52	$14,262
Jun 2011	72	222	92.90	4.64	$7,719
May 2011	73	223	98.13	4.40	$8,146
Apr 2011	62	201	105.96	4.33	$7,441
Mar 2011	71	193	96.36	4.06	$7,625
Feb 2011	68	168	85.64	4.18	$6,526
Jan 2011	142	173	86.50	4.59	$13,077
Dec 2010	80	172	85.73	4.35	$7,606
Nov 2010	12	168	80.84	3.80	$1,608
Oct 2010	104	173	78.10	3.51	$8,729
Sep 2010	78	171	72.63	3.98	$6,346
Aug 2010	142	176	73.68	4.42	$11,240
Jul 2010	82	166	72.55	4.74	$6,735
Jun 2010	57	156	70.36	4.91	$4,777
May 2010	113	157	71.12	4.24	$8,701
Apr 2010	61	153	81.69	4.12	$5,614
Mar 2010	62	159	78.39	4.39	$5,558
Feb 2010	112	148	73.58	5.44	$9,046
Jan 2010	53	160	74.36	5.96	$4,895
Dec 2009	119	158	71.44	5.48	$9,368
Nov 2009	50	150	74.59	3.75	$4,292
Oct 2009	55	157	72.54	4.11	$4,635
Sep 2009	113	156	65.54	3.06	$7,884
Aug 2009	117	159	67.42	3.22	$8,400
Jul 2009	138	172	61.13	3.46	$9,032
Jun 2009	0	214	66.16	3.90	$834
May 2009	164	241	54.74	3.93	$9,923
Apr 2009	162	248	46.77	3.59	$8,466
Mar 2009	161	261	42.14	4.06	$7,844
Feb 2009	164	249	32.81	4.63	$6,534
Jan 2009	175	281	35.86	5.37	$7,785
Dec 2008	174	306	37.10	5.98	$8,284
Nov 2008	83	286	55.49	6.86	$6,568
Oct 2008	259	103	75.24	6.92	$20,200
Sep 2008	163	225	101.76	7.88	$18,359
Aug 2008	86	324	114.22	8.48	$12,571
Jul 2008	178	331	131.08	11.39	$27,102
Jun 2008	180	310	131.33	13.03	$27,680
May 2008	319	325	123.17	11.57	$43,053
Apr 2008	165	319	110.31	10.45	$21,536
Mar 2008	189	323	101.90	9.66	$22,381
Feb 2008	0	302	92.53	8.77	$2,649
Jan 2008	185	318	90.38	8.21	$19,330
Dec 2007	165	317	88.33	7.30	$16,889
Nov 2007	170	277	91.67	7.29	$17,604
Oct 2007	166	283	82.85	6.92	$15,712
Sep 2007	150	292	75.84	6.24	$13,199
Aug 2007	134	309	69.06	6.39	$11,228
Jul 2007	146	223	70.90	6.39	$11,776
Jun 2007	180	270	62.00	7.55	$13,198
May 2007	180	287	58.74	7.85	$12,825
Apr 2007	73	295	59.61	7.81	$6,654
Mar 2007	12	229	56.92	7.30	$2,355
Feb 2007	125	216	55.10	8.22	$8,662
Jan 2007	238	260	50.30	6.73	$13,720
Dec 2006	84	295	56.65	6.92	$6,800
Nov 2006	171	293	54.20	7.62	$11,500
Oct 2006	162	301	54.90	6.01	$10,704
Sep 2006	154	296	60.08	5.04	$10,743
Aug 2006	146	317	68.71	7.34	$12,358
Jul 2006	162	367	69.37	6.34	$13,566
Jun 2006	156	327	66.28	6.38	$12,427
May 2006	187	334	66.01	6.42	$14,490
Apr 2006	215	302	64.39	7.36	$16,067
Mar 2006	194	312	56.70	7.08	$13,210
Feb 2006	252	288	57.59	7.75	$16,745
Jan 2006	242	310	60.59	8.93	$17,432
Dec 2005	83	298	54.94	13.42	$8,558
Nov 2005	168	319	54.69	10.59	$12,566
Oct 2005	167	333	58.34	13.80	$14,337
Sep 2005	339	293	61.45	12.08	$24,371
Aug 2005	175	304	61.51	9.80	$13,742
Jul 2005	141	352	55.69	7.84	$10,613
Jun 2005	173	295	52.33	7.38	$11,231
May 2005	164	365	45.22	6.65	$9,844
Apr 2005	119	308	49.20	7.36	$8,122
Mar 2005	177	223	50.37	7.15	$10,511
Feb 2005	170	285	45.22	6.31	$9,486
Jan 2005	162	260	43.16	6.32	$8,636
Dec 2004	158	224	39.86	6.75	$7,810
Nov 2004	157	199	45.28	6.33	$8,369
Oct 2004	160	254	49.70	6.52	$9,607
Sep 2004	162	274	43.24	5.28	$8,453
Aug 2004	165	232	42.37	5.55	$8,279
Jul 2004	170	307	38.28	6.08	$8,375
Jun 2004	180	354	36.10	6.43	$8,775
May 2004	328	378	37.48	6.49	$14,748
Apr 2004	162	345	34.47	5.86	$7,605
Mar 2004	137	338	34.36	5.53	$6,577
Feb 2004	157	323	32.45	5.51	$6,874
Jan 2004	160	329	32.03	6.30	$7,197
Dec 2003	152	312	30.26	6.30	$6,566
Nov 2003	300	386	28.80	4.60	$10,414
Oct 2003	143	398	28.17	4.76	$5,923
Sep 2003	151	404	26.31	4.75	$5,892
Aug 2003	166	411	29.76	5.13	$7,048
Jul 2003	194	395	29.41	5.17	$7,748
Jun 2003	181	282	28.56	5.98	$6,857
May 2003	181	308	26.59	5.97	$6,652
Apr 2003	178	310	26.67	5.41	$6,424
Mar 2003	181	303	31.14	6.10	$7,483
Feb 2003	366	288	33.48	7.93	$14,536
Jan 2003	183	318	30.31	5.58	$7,322
Dec 2002	236	309	26.91	4.85	$7,851
Nov 2002	181	255	24.66	4.14	$5,518
Oct 2002	177	284	26.46	4.23	$5,884
Sep 2002	0	269	27.44	3.64	$978
Aug 2002	179	284	25.96	3.16	$5,545
Jul 2002	181	315	24.58	3.06	$5,413
Jun 2002	180	342	23.73	3.34	$5,413
May 2002	185	370	24.66	3.58	$5,888
Apr 2002	361	330	23.65	3.51	$9,697
Mar 2002	0	286	22.00	3.10	$887
Feb 2002	182	267	18.22	2.38	$3,950
Jan 2002	184	276	17.17	2.38	$3,815
Dec 2001	259	275	16.93	2.36	$5,035
Nov 2001	184	274	18.07	2.41	$3,984
Oct 2001	182	304	19.78	2.53	$4,369
Sep 2001	360	329	24.26	2.25	$9,474
Aug 2001	177	355	24.87	3.05	$5,486
Jul 2001	177	390	23.93	3.20	$5,482
Jun 2001	361	426	24.56	3.82	$10,495
May 2001	0	340	25.52	4.31	$1,464
Apr 2001	187	357	24.68	5.34	$6,520
Mar 2001	182	329	24.54	5.38	$6,235
Feb 2001	360	343	27.75	5.77	$11,968
Jan 2001	178	388	27.47	8.40	$8,148
Dec 2000	182	300	26.88	9.12	$7,629
Nov 2000	183	384	32.21	5.66	$8,067
Oct 2000	182	387	31.23	5.15	$7,675
Sep 2000	182	321	31.87	5.19	$7,465
Aug 2000	182	358	29.64	4.54	$7,020
Jul 2000	361	371	28.53	4.09	$11,817
Jun 2000	179	307	29.30	4.40	$6,595
May 2000	0	264	27.26	3.68	$971
Apr 2000	184	270	24.51	3.12	$5,351
Mar 2000	182	364	28.42	2.86	$6,213
Feb 2000	362	458	27.62	2.73	$11,247
Jan 2000	186	335	25.27	2.48	$5,531
Dec 1999	184	421	24.28	2.42	$5,488
Nov 1999	182	455	23.19	2.43	$5,328
Oct 1999	177	502	20.98	2.80	$5,121
Sep 1999	361	454	21.75	2.62	$9,041
Aug 1999	178	504	19.26	2.88	$4,878
Jul 1999	360	674	17.89	2.37	$8,039
Jun 1999	181	644	15.94	2.36	$4,406
May 1999	182	667	15.79	2.32	$4,422
Apr 1999	181	589	15.10	2.21	$4,034
Mar 1999	183	729	12.47	1.84	$3,622
Feb 1999	365	653	9.98	1.82	$4,830
Jan 1999	370	510	10.38	1.90	$4,810
Dec 1998	185	519	9.20	1.77	$2,622
Nov 1998	179	502	10.89	2.19	$3,047
Oct 1998	364	561	12.42	1.97	$5,626
Sep 1998	183	471	12.59	2.08	$3,285
Aug 1998	360	484	11.30	1.91	$4,991
Jul 1998	183	534	11.74	2.24	$3,343
Jun 1998	528	483	11.24	2.24	$7,015
May 1998	0	592	12.62	2.21	$1,306
Apr 1998	536	588	13.04	2.51	$8,463
Mar 1998	0	492	12.80	2.31	$1,136
Feb 1998	338	483	13.95	2.30	$5,826
Jan 1998	340	516	14.70	2.15	$6,110
Dec 1997	176	547	16.32	2.41	$4,191
Nov 1997	344	565	18.19	3.09	$8,002
Oct 1997	347	531	19.25	3.15	$8,352
Sep 1997	173	535	17.74	2.95	$4,650
Aug 1997	513	571	17.86	2.55	$10,621
Jul 1997	0	571	17.58	2.25	$1,283
Jun 1997	325	481	17.24	2.26	$6,689
May 1997	350	571	18.97	2.31	$7,958
Apr 1997	174	505	17.88	2.08	$4,163
Mar 1997	305	437	18.95	1.94	$6,627
Feb 1997	529	349	20.49	2.21	$11,609
Jan 1997	0	492	23.48	3.54	$1,742
Dec 1996	648	593	23.32	—	$15,111
Nov 1996	0	493	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	357	519	23.31	—	$8,322
Sep 1996	358	329	22.22	—	$7,955
Aug 1996	344	317	20.26	—	$6,969
Jul 1996	347	475	19.55	—	$6,784
Jun 1996	345	631	18.73	—	$6,462
May 1996	347	625	19.43	—	$6,742
Apr 1996	0	652	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	353	601	19.38	—	$6,841
Feb 1996	350	597	16.98	—	$5,943
Jan 1996	354	586	17.07	—	$6,043
Dec 1995	379	544	17.19	—	$6,515
Nov 1995	372	561	16.00	—	$5,952
Oct 1995	0	570	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	358	484	16.18	—	$5,792
Aug 1995	357	593	15.92	—	$5,683
Jul 1995	361	598	15.24	—	$5,502
Jun 1995	0	644	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	359	586	17.56	—	$6,304
Apr 1995	544	642	17.73	—	$9,645
Mar 1995	362	588	16.44	—	$5,951
Feb 1995	0	525	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	366	556	15.92	—	$5,827
Dec 1994	373	556	15.03	—	$5,606
Nov 1994	371	566	15.90	—	$5,899
Oct 1994	345	600	15.58	—	$5,375
Sep 1994	1	606	15.29	—	$15
Aug 1994	365	608	16.13	—	$5,887
Jul 1994	356	592	17.56	—	$6,251
Jun 1994	357	568	17.09	—	$6,101
May 1994	361	570	15.88	—	$5,733
Apr 1994	359	570	14.14	—	$5,076
Mar 1994	364	586	12.46	—	$4,535
Feb 1994	0	511	12.50	—	$0
Jan 1994	363	572	12.66	—	$4,596
Dec 1993	542	590	12.33	—	$6,683
Nov 1993	1	576	14.49	—	$14
Oct 1993	368	634	15.85	—	$5,833
Sep 1993	360	596	15.03	—	$5,411
Aug 1993	180	604	15.66	—	$2,819
Jul 1993	362	624	15.46	—	$5,597
Jun 1993	365	606	16.79	—	$6,128
May 1993	363	614	17.68	—	$6,418
Apr 1993	356	591	18.05	—	$6,426
Mar 1993	353	599	18.14	—	$6,403
Feb 1993	191	540	17.90	—	$3,419
Jan 1993	474	605	16.93	—	$8,025

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 2017 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                    6 bbl  × $ 46.77 =       $281
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.98 =         $0

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Month total                                     $281

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/31952 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.