BIG SKY

Name: BIG SKY lease production and value, Sep 2003 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by LIME ROCK RESOURCES IV-A, L.P. (P-5 500794) in the NEWARK, EAST (BARNETT SHALE) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 197165District 09Field 652802002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$2.3 M

Sep 2003 – May 2026

Value, last 12 filed months

$47 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

273

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The NEWARK, EAST (BARNETT SHALE) 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 21,881 leases and 22,468 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1981-10-15

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 20 acres. The field rule took effect on 2009-09-29.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “DESIGNATED AS UFT FIELD PER DOCKET 01-0299858”

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
High Cost Gas	1	1	2004-03-18	154032
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
Condensate	Disposition	9,630 bbl	$475,667
Gas	Production	368,993 Mcf	$1,823,470
Total			$2,299,138

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 33.2496, -97.3691. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.24964, -97.36911 · 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

0.0%

0 of 1 wells

With a plug date

0.0%

0 of 1 wells

Median depth

8,465 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

—

no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

00.0%

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.

1100.0%

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 8,465 ft.

Completions filed

Sep 2003

1 of 1 wells

1 well


42-12131895	9	8,465 ft	Sep 2003	—	—

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 (273)

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

273 months


May 2026	0	921	106.41	3.05	$2,805
Apr 2026	0	912	98.93	2.87	$2,617
Mar 2026	0	1,058	89.75	3.15	$3,332
Feb 2026	0	979	63.50	3.75	$3,672
Jan 2026	0	855	59.13	8.00	$6,838
Dec 2025	0	946	56.66	4.41	$4,175
Nov 2025	0	1,279	58.59	3.93	$5,022
Oct 2025	0	1,049	59.38	3.30	$3,467
Sep 2025	0	1,318	62.74	3.08	$4,055
Aug 2025	72	1,228	63.93	3.01	$8,305
Jul 2025	0	0	66.74	3.32	$0
Jun 2025	0	849	66.48	3.13	$2,656
May 2025	0	952	60.55	3.23	$3,077
Apr 2025	0	928	62.36	3.54	$3,288
Mar 2025	0	1,161	67.70	4.27	$4,956
Feb 2025	0	742	70.88	4.34	$3,221
Jan 2025	0	819	74.32	4.28	$3,504
Dec 2024	0	1,017	68.99	3.12	$3,174
Nov 2024	0	1,047	69.05	2.20	$2,302
Oct 2024	0	1,184	71.37	2.28	$2,701
Sep 2024	0	830	69.61	2.36	$1,962
Aug 2024	88	1,052	75.63	2.06	$8,826
Jul 2024	0	1,051	79.93	2.15	$2,256
Jun 2024	0	1,093	78.08	2.63	$2,879
May 2024	0	1,056	78.81	2.20	$2,322
Apr 2024	0	1,019	84.45	1.66	$1,691
Mar 2024	0	1,065	80.30	1.55	$1,646
Feb 2024	0	1,031	76.09	1.78	$1,839
Jan 2024	0	994	73.02	3.30	$3,278
Dec 2023	0	1,054	71.26	2.61	$2,752
Nov 2023	0	1,028	77.89	2.81	$2,886
Oct 2023	0	1,013	85.44	3.09	$3,127
Sep 2023	0	817	89.04	2.74	$2,235
Aug 2023	70	989	80.52	2.67	$8,280
Jul 2023	0	1,082	74.85	2.64	$2,858
Jun 2023	0	1,048	68.96	2.26	$2,367
May 2023	0	1,090	70.62	2.23	$2,428
Apr 2023	0	1,087	78.12	2.24	$2,432
Mar 2023	0	1,127	72.85	2.39	$2,697
Feb 2023	0	1,036	75.11	2.47	$2,554
Jan 2023	0	1,194	76.53	3.39	$4,045
Dec 2022	0	1,287	76.41	5.73	$7,373
Nov 2022	0	1,533	85.00	5.65	$8,656
Oct 2022	0	562	87.18	5.86	$3,295
Sep 2022	0	0	84.88	8.16	$0
Aug 2022	0	0	94.52	9.13	$0
Jul 2022	0	0	101.58	7.54	$0
Jun 2022	57	416	115.09	7.98	$9,879
May 2022	0	1,043	109.37	8.43	$8,796
Apr 2022	0	1,009	104.22	6.84	$6,899
Mar 2022	0	1,045	108.88	5.08	$5,305
Feb 2022	0	985	91.05	4.86	$4,786
Jan 2022	0	1,053	81.84	4.54	$4,778
Dec 2021	0	1,063	71.32	3.90	$4,145
Nov 2021	168	1,042	77.43	5.24	$18,465
Oct 2021	0	1,075	79.79	5.71	$6,142
Sep 2021	0	1,036	69.86	5.35	$5,544
Aug 2021	0	1,077	66.02	4.22	$4,546
Jul 2021	0	1,073	70.78	3.98	$4,273
Jun 2021	0	1,052	69.49	3.38	$3,556
May 2021	0	1,114	63.48	3.02	$3,362
Apr 2021	0	1,103	60.36	2.76	$3,043
Mar 2021	0	1,174	61.30	2.72	$3,190
Feb 2021	0	1,050	57.80	5.55	$5,825
Jan 2021	0	1,096	50.41	2.81	$3,080
Dec 2020	0	1,081	44.64	2.68	$2,892
Nov 2020	0	1,069	38.77	2.71	$2,893
Oct 2020	0	1,105	36.97	2.48	$2,739
Sep 2020	0	1,066	37.09	1.99	$2,122
Aug 2020	0	1,101	39.98	2.39	$2,626
Jul 2020	0	1,098	38.37	1.83	$2,004
Jun 2020	0	1,057	34.90	1.69	$1,787
May 2020	0	1,103	16.92	1.81	$2,002
Apr 2020	0	1,105	14.75	1.80	$1,994
Mar 2020	0	1,291	30.34	1.86	$2,396
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	916	55.05	2.66	$2,434
Aug 2019	62	1,135	53.11	2.30	$5,908
Jul 2019	0	1,139	56.27	2.46	$2,802
Jun 2019	0	1,143	52.78	2.49	$2,847
May 2019	0	1,170	58.48	2.74	$3,206
Apr 2019	0	1,129	62.63	2.75	$3,106
Mar 2019	0	1,174	56.80	3.06	$3,595
Feb 2019	0	1,093	50.85	2.79	$3,052
Jan 2019	0	1,133	46.03	3.23	$3,658
Dec 2018	69	784	46.59	4.19	$6,496
Nov 2018	0	1,072	52.93	4.24	$4,542
Oct 2018	0	1,115	61.44	3.40	$3,789
Sep 2018	0	1,081	59.54	3.11	$3,360
Aug 2018	0	1,158	59.40	3.07	$3,551
Jul 2018	0	1,144	65.14	2.93	$3,354
Jun 2018	0	1,100	60.18	3.08	$3,385
May 2018	0	1,141	65.38	2.90	$3,310
Apr 2018	0	1,096	63.84	2.90	$3,179
Mar 2018	0	1,145	61.22	2.79	$3,191
Feb 2018	0	1,027	61.78	2.77	$2,841
Jan 2018	0	1,152	62.87	4.01	$4,619
Dec 2017	0	1,240	57.27	2.92	$3,623
Nov 2017	0	1,121	55.42	3.12	$3,496
Oct 2017	0	1,293	49.29	2.98	$3,858
Sep 2017	0	1,166	47.52	3.09	$3,600
Aug 2017	89	1,197	45.37	3.00	$7,634
Jul 2017	0	1,186	43.87	3.09	$3,662
Jun 2017	0	1,166	42.49	3.09	$3,600
May 2017	0	1,230	45.37	3.26	$4,014
Apr 2017	0	1,167	47.93	3.21	$3,748
Mar 2017	0	1,194	46.77	2.98	$3,563
Feb 2017	0	1,087	50.45	2.95	$3,209
Jan 2017	0	1,165	49.41	3.42	$3,983
Dec 2016	0	1,264	48.76	3.72	$4,706
Nov 2016	59	1,152	42.49	2.64	$5,553
Oct 2016	0	1,467	46.19	3.09	$4,533
Sep 2016	0	1,422	41.55	3.10	$4,409
Aug 2016	0	1,360	41.44	2.92	$3,977
Jul 2016	0	1,385	41.62	2.92	$4,050
Jun 2016	0	1,135	45.35	2.69	$3,048
May 2016	0	1,255	42.52	1.99	$2,499
Apr 2016	0	1,340	36.56	1.99	$2,668
Mar 2016	0	1,436	33.01	1.79	$2,576
Feb 2016	0	1,268	26.47	2.06	$2,617
Jan 2016	0	1,350	27.35	2.36	$3,192
Dec 2015	0	1,333	32.36	2.00	$2,668
Nov 2015	0	1,309	38.79	2.17	$2,837
Oct 2015	0	1,453	43.55	2.43	$3,526
Sep 2015	56	1,406	42.99	2.76	$6,286
Aug 2015	0	1,453	40.16	2.87	$4,174
Jul 2015	0	1,453	48.15	2.95	$4,279
Jun 2015	0	1,406	56.15	2.88	$4,053
May 2015	0	1,453	55.21	2.96	$4,294
Apr 2015	0	1,395	49.82	2.71	$3,776
Mar 2015	0	1,474	42.89	2.93	$4,326
Feb 2015	0	1,534	44.66	2.98	$4,565
Jan 2015	0	428	43.43	3.10	$1,327
Dec 2014	0	219	54.69	3.59	$787
Nov 2014	0	754	70.46	4.25	$3,206
Oct 2014	0	739	78.30	3.90	$2,883
Sep 2014	80	595	86.16	4.05	$9,300
Aug 2014	0	601	89.39	4.04	$2,425
Jul 2014	0	590	96.56	4.18	$2,466
Jun 2014	0	607	98.16	4.74	$2,875
May 2014	0	689	94.73	4.73	$3,257
Apr 2014	0	659	95.94	4.81	$3,169
Mar 2014	0	614	95.89	5.06	$3,105
Feb 2014	0	618	97.40	6.19	$3,827
Jan 2014	0	969	90.40	4.86	$4,710
Dec 2013	0	578	91.82	4.35	$2,517
Nov 2013	0	547	88.85	3.74	$2,045
Oct 2013	0	578	97.42	3.78	$2,184
Sep 2013	0	491	104.11	3.72	$1,825
Aug 2013	0	501	104.25	3.52	$1,765
Jul 2013	0	573	102.52	3.72	$2,130
Jun 2013	0	573	94.40	3.93	$2,254
May 2013	0	604	94.83	4.15	$2,506
Apr 2013	0	564	93.96	4.28	$2,415
Mar 2013	0	590	93.62	3.91	$2,309
Feb 2013	0	537	91.23	3.42	$1,836
Jan 2013	0	600	91.60	3.42	$2,052
Dec 2012	62	543	86.77	3.42	$7,237
Nov 2012	0	522	86.95	3.62	$1,892
Oct 2012	0	533	89.38	3.40	$1,812
Sep 2012	0	505	94.67	2.92	$1,474
Aug 2012	0	480	92.66	2.91	$1,396
Jul 2012	0	518	85.13	3.02	$1,565
Jun 2012	0	530	79.82	2.52	$1,335
May 2012	0	551	91.61	2.49	$1,371
Apr 2012	0	545	101.65	2.00	$1,088
Mar 2012	0	890	105.05	2.22	$1,978
Feb 2012	0	394	101.10	2.57	$1,013
Jan 2012	0	592	98.09	2.73	$1,619
Dec 2011	0	554	96.87	3.24	$1,795
Nov 2011	0	577	95.72	3.31	$1,911
Oct 2011	0	879	84.98	3.65	$3,207
Sep 2011	0	635	83.62	3.99	$2,531
Aug 2011	0	461	83.40	4.15	$1,913
Jul 2011	0	701	94.14	4.52	$3,167
Jun 2011	187	1,008	92.90	4.64	$22,049
May 2011	0	467	98.13	4.40	$2,057
Apr 2011	0	647	105.96	4.33	$2,804
Mar 2011	0	669	96.36	4.06	$2,714
Feb 2011	0	608	85.64	4.18	$2,541
Jan 2011	0	660	86.50	4.59	$3,029
Dec 2010	0	500	85.73	4.35	$2,174
Nov 2010	0	600	80.84	3.80	$2,277
Oct 2010	0	577	78.10	3.51	$2,025
Sep 2010	0	685	72.63	3.98	$2,726
Aug 2010	0	862	73.68	4.42	$3,809
Jul 2010	0	974	72.55	4.74	$4,613
Jun 2010	0	676	70.36	4.91	$3,319
May 2010	0	934	71.12	4.24	$3,956
Apr 2010	0	831	81.69	4.12	$3,426
Mar 2010	190	910	78.39	4.39	$18,888
Feb 2010	0	683	73.58	5.44	$3,717
Jan 2010	0	827	74.36	5.96	$4,932
Dec 2009	0	878	71.44	5.48	$4,815
Nov 2009	0	918	74.59	3.75	$3,444
Oct 2009	0	867	72.54	4.11	$3,564
Sep 2009	176	955	65.54	3.06	$14,462
Aug 2009	0	1,122	67.42	3.22	$3,611
Jul 2009	0	642	61.13	3.46	$2,224
Jun 2009	0	919	66.16	3.90	$3,580
May 2009	0	949	54.74	3.93	$3,726
Apr 2009	0	1,036	46.77	3.59	$3,717
Mar 2009	188	1,197	42.14	4.06	$12,781
Feb 2009	0	643	32.81	4.63	$2,979
Jan 2009	0	848	35.86	5.37	$4,555
Dec 2008	0	1,022	37.10	5.98	$6,109
Nov 2008	0	1,101	55.49	6.86	$7,553
Oct 2008	0	878	75.24	6.92	$6,078
Sep 2008	169	1,289	101.76	7.88	$27,351
Aug 2008	0	763	114.22	8.48	$6,473
Jul 2008	0	1,027	131.08	11.39	$11,697
Jun 2008	0	1,071	131.33	13.03	$13,958
May 2008	0	850	123.17	11.57	$9,838
Apr 2008	177	1,130	110.31	10.45	$31,339
Mar 2008	0	989	101.90	9.66	$9,558
Feb 2008	0	1,043	92.53	8.77	$9,148
Jan 2008	0	1,162	90.38	8.21	$9,535
Dec 2007	0	964	88.33	7.30	$7,039
Nov 2007	191	1,009	91.67	7.29	$24,866
Oct 2007	0	1,035	82.85	6.92	$7,164
Sep 2007	0	832	75.84	6.24	$5,195
Aug 2007	0	1,006	69.06	6.39	$6,426
Jul 2007	185	1,098	70.90	6.39	$20,130
Jun 2007	1	769	62.00	7.55	$5,867
May 2007	0	850	58.74	7.85	$6,669
Apr 2007	195	959	59.61	7.81	$19,109
Mar 2007	1	889	56.92	7.30	$6,548
Feb 2007	0	971	55.10	8.22	$7,978
Jan 2007	1	1,052	50.30	6.73	$7,127
Dec 2006	195	1,010	56.65	6.92	$18,034
Nov 2006	0	1,183	54.20	7.62	$9,011
Oct 2006	0	994	54.90	6.01	$5,978
Sep 2006	0	1,030	60.08	5.04	$5,188
Aug 2006	188	1,045	68.71	7.34	$20,588
Jul 2006	0	1,078	69.37	6.34	$6,838
Jun 2006	0	1,141	66.28	6.38	$7,284
May 2006	188	1,219	66.01	6.42	$20,242
Apr 2006	0	1,360	64.39	7.36	$10,010
Mar 2006	0	1,706	56.70	7.08	$12,083
Feb 2006	131	1,565	57.59	7.75	$19,675
Jan 2006	69	2,065	60.59	8.93	$22,628
Dec 2005	0	3,118	54.94	13.42	$41,829
Nov 2005	119	2,569	54.69	10.59	$33,710
Oct 2005	186	3,015	58.34	13.80	$52,445
Sep 2005	0	3,146	61.45	12.08	$38,001
Aug 2005	187	2,976	61.51	9.80	$40,658
Jul 2005	134	1,414	55.69	7.84	$18,553
Jun 2005	0	1,471	52.33	7.38	$10,858
May 2005	1	920	45.22	6.65	$6,164
Apr 2005	186	820	49.20	7.36	$15,187
Mar 2005	0	3,981	50.37	7.15	$28,484
Feb 2005	221	3,598	45.22	6.31	$32,704
Jan 2005	189	4,018	43.16	6.32	$33,560
Dec 2004	0	4,300	39.86	6.75	$29,030
Nov 2004	385	3,707	45.28	6.33	$40,900
Oct 2004	197	4,018	49.70	6.52	$35,969
Sep 2004	189	4,259	43.24	5.28	$30,676
Aug 2004	243	4,075	42.37	5.55	$32,915
Jul 2004	150	4,327	38.28	6.08	$32,068
Jun 2004	171	4,147	36.10	6.43	$32,851
May 2004	51	3,863	37.48	6.49	$27,000
Apr 2004	375	4,951	34.47	5.86	$41,931
Mar 2004	383	4,643	34.36	5.53	$38,836
Feb 2004	193	2,457	32.45	5.51	$19,800
Jan 2004	340	6,065	32.03	6.30	$49,098
Dec 2003	360	8,831	30.26	6.30	$66,543
Nov 2003	559	11,240	28.80	4.60	$67,749
Oct 2003	546	15,360	28.17	4.76	$88,489
Sep 2003	901	20,503	26.31	4.75	$121,081

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.

May 2026 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate             0 bbl  × $106.41 =         $0
Gas                  921 Mcf  × $  3.05 =     $2,805

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Month total                                   $2,805

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. 09/G/197165 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.