SLAUGHTER RANCH

Operated by BURLINGTON RESOURCES O & G CO LP (P-5 109333) 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 198512District 09Field 652802002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$2.8 M
Nov 2003 – Mar 2010
Value, last 12 filed months
$964
at the published price for each month
Months reported
77
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, 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 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.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
High Cost Gas112004-03-04155063
NGPA1none

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
CondensateDisposition442 bbl$34,921
GasProduction403,583 Mcf$2,786,474
Total$2,821,395

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 33.0328, -97.2365. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.03280, -97.23651 · 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
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
9,698 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
6.1 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
1100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1100.0%
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

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 9,698 ft.

Completions filed
Nov 2003
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Dec 2009
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 6.1 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 6.1 years and 6.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-1213208329,698 ftNov 2003Dec 2009Yes

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 (77)

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

77 months

Mar 20100078.394.39$0
Feb 20100073.585.44$0
Jan 20100074.365.96$0
Dec 20090071.445.48$0
Nov 20090074.593.75$0
Oct 20090072.544.11$0
Sep 20090065.543.06$0
Aug 20090067.423.22$0
Jul 20090061.133.46$0
Jun 20090066.163.90$0
May 20090054.743.93$0
Apr 2009192146.773.59$964
Mar 20090042.144.06$0
Feb 20090032.814.63$0
Jan 200904835.865.37$258
Dec 2008519837.105.98$1,369
Nov 2008732255.496.86$2,597
Oct 2008935875.246.92$3,155
Sep 20086690101.767.88$6,046
Aug 200881,201114.228.48$11,102
Jul 200813832131.0811.39$11,180
Jun 2008341,274131.3313.03$21,069
May 200817939123.1711.57$12,962
Apr 200825665110.3110.45$9,710
Mar 2008241,130101.909.66$13,366
Feb 2008241,73092.538.77$17,394
Jan 2008381,57890.388.21$16,383
Dec 2007193,19688.337.30$25,015
Nov 2007394,31991.677.29$35,068
Oct 200753,98182.856.92$27,971
Sep 2007282,88375.846.24$20,125
Aug 200701,49069.066.39$9,518
Jul 200703,76570.906.39$24,051
Jun 200703,38562.007.55$25,552
May 200704,20058.747.85$32,954
Apr 200704,98159.617.81$38,878
Mar 200712,73856.927.30$20,050
Feb 2007037955.108.22$3,114
Jan 200703,98050.306.73$26,773
Dec 200608,39756.656.92$58,094
Nov 200604,06654.207.62$30,973
Oct 200601,78954.906.01$10,759
Sep 200634,50460.085.04$22,868
Aug 200604,62668.717.34$33,954
Jul 200604,59869.376.34$29,164
Jun 200605,00066.286.38$31,919
May 200605,22066.016.42$33,539
Apr 200604,68664.397.36$34,491
Mar 200605,46556.707.08$38,708
Feb 200606,72557.597.75$52,126
Jan 200607,81060.598.93$69,769
Dec 200506,35254.9413.42$85,215
Nov 200506,73454.6910.59$71,302
Oct 200506,81158.3413.80$93,963
Sep 200505,10761.4512.08$61,687
Aug 200505,76261.519.80$56,449
Jul 200521,34155.697.84$10,630
Jun 200514,09052.337.38$30,241
May 200517,86645.226.65$52,363
Apr 200527,92349.207.36$58,415
Mar 200527,94250.377.15$56,925
Feb 200525,33345.226.31$33,752
Jan 2005011,36743.166.32$71,864
Dec 2004012,07539.866.75$81,519
Nov 2004511,27545.286.33$71,602
Oct 2004211,59749.706.52$75,655
Sep 2004212,27043.245.28$64,920
Aug 2004113,87742.375.55$77,069
Jul 2004314,35038.286.08$87,423
Jun 2004116,37036.106.43$105,345
May 2004416,68837.486.49$108,531
Apr 20041614,87134.475.86$87,673
Mar 20041319,89334.365.53$110,458
Feb 2004617,90832.455.51$98,861
Jan 20041620,58932.036.30$130,216
Dec 20031716,42630.266.30$104,025
Nov 20032215,59728.804.60$72,304

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 2009 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            19 bbl  × $ 46.77 =       $889
Gas                   21 Mcf  × $  3.59 =        $75

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Month total                                     $964

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/198512 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.