SAUNDERS RANCH LEASE

Operated by RIMROCK ENERGY, LLC (P-5 712325) 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 246958District 09Field 65280200CondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$200 k
Oct 2008 – Mar 2011
Value, last 12 filed months
$175
at the published price for each month
Months reported
30
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

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
CondensateDisposition9 bbl$559
GasProduction32,399 Mcf$199,496
Total$200,055

Every month this lease reported (30)

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

30 months

Mar 20110096.364.06$0
Feb 20110085.644.18$0
Jan 20110086.504.59$0
Dec 20100085.734.35$0
Nov 20100080.843.80$0
Oct 201005078.103.51$175
Sep 20100072.633.98$0
Aug 20100073.684.42$0
Jul 20100072.554.74$0
Jun 20100070.364.91$0
May 20100071.124.24$0
Apr 20100081.694.12$0
Mar 201002178.394.39$92
Feb 20100073.585.44$0
Jan 2010017174.365.96$1,020
Dec 2009022071.445.48$1,206
Nov 20090074.593.75$0
Oct 2009038872.544.11$1,595
Sep 2009023865.543.06$729
Aug 2009012467.423.22$399
Jul 200904361.133.46$149
Jun 2009013666.163.90$530
May 20090054.743.93$0
Apr 20090046.773.59$0
Mar 200902,61742.144.06$10,622
Feb 200902,03232.814.63$9,414
Jan 200904,44935.865.37$23,896
Dec 200801,43237.105.98$8,559
Nov 2008610,38155.496.86$71,550
Oct 2008310,09775.246.92$70,117

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.

Oct 2010 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 78.10 =         $0
Gas                   50 Mcf  × $  3.51 =       $175

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Month total                                     $175

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/246958 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.