DOUBLE DOLLAR LEASE

Operated by BLACKBEARD OPERATING, LLC (P-5 73056) 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 250461District 09Field 65280200GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$4.3 M
Feb 2009 – Apr 2020
Value, last 12 filed months
$111 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
135
no gaps in the span
Streams
1
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
GasProduction1,156,297 Mcf$4,260,647
Total$4,260,647

Every month this lease reported (135)

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

135 months

Apr 2020014.751.80$0
Mar 20201,39330.341.86$2,586
Feb 20204,03549.881.98$7,992
Jan 20204,37157.252.09$9,156
Dec 20194,48859.012.30$10,342
Nov 20194,41455.302.75$12,142
Oct 20194,39953.472.42$10,639
Sep 20194,41355.052.66$11,727
Aug 20194,60953.112.30$10,621
Jul 20194,87656.272.46$11,995
Jun 20194,55752.782.49$11,352
May 20194,71258.482.74$12,912
Apr 20194,75262.632.75$13,071
Mar 20194,85156.803.06$14,854
Feb 20194,43750.852.79$12,389
Jan 20194,65146.033.23$15,014
Dec 20184,72146.594.19$19,759
Nov 20184,71252.934.24$19,966
Oct 20184,70661.443.40$15,991
Sep 20184,69659.543.11$14,595
Aug 20184,93559.403.07$15,133
Jul 20184,89865.142.93$14,360
Jun 20184,89260.183.08$15,052
May 20185,20165.382.90$15,087
Apr 20185,23363.842.90$15,180
Mar 20185,40761.222.79$15,068
Feb 20184,79261.782.77$13,255
Jan 20186,04862.874.01$24,248
Dec 20175,50257.272.92$16,074
Nov 20175,49455.423.12$17,132
Oct 20175,63149.292.98$16,801
Sep 20175,65147.523.09$17,446
Aug 20175,87345.373.00$17,645
Jul 20176,11243.873.09$18,869
Jun 20175,67942.493.09$17,533
May 20175,80545.373.26$18,944
Apr 20175,83947.933.21$18,753
Mar 20176,16746.772.98$18,400
Feb 20174,86550.452.95$14,364
Jan 20174,97449.413.42$17,005
Dec 20165,31748.763.72$19,794
Nov 20164,91742.492.64$13,002
Oct 20164,75646.193.09$14,697
Sep 20164,86341.553.10$15,078
Aug 20164,65841.442.92$13,622
Jul 20165,21141.622.92$15,239
Jun 20163,63845.352.69$9,771
May 20165,54842.521.99$11,046
Apr 20165,45936.561.99$10,869
Mar 20165,70933.011.79$10,242
Feb 20165,52026.472.06$11,391
Jan 20165,14427.352.36$12,162
Dec 20154,63832.362.00$9,283
Nov 20156,59438.792.17$14,291
Oct 20156,11643.552.43$14,841
Sep 20156,70042.992.76$18,481
Aug 20156,66940.162.87$19,157
Jul 20156,63748.152.95$19,547
Jun 20156,67056.152.88$19,229
May 20157,05255.212.96$20,842
Apr 20157,91049.822.71$21,409
Mar 20157,82142.892.93$22,952
Feb 20157,10844.662.98$21,155
Jan 20158,04543.433.10$24,945
Dec 20148,04854.693.59$28,903
Nov 20149,03970.464.25$38,432
Oct 20145,28178.303.90$20,601
Sep 20146,12586.164.05$24,778
Aug 20145,78289.394.04$23,331
Jul 20147,29196.564.18$30,473
Jun 20148,34498.164.74$39,525
May 20148,81094.734.73$41,641
Apr 20148,23895.944.81$39,618
Mar 20149,07495.895.06$45,885
Feb 20147,99897.406.19$49,524
Jan 20147,09390.404.86$34,477
Dec 20136,29891.824.35$27,425
Nov 20134,89588.853.74$18,299
Oct 20133,81997.423.78$14,433
Sep 20135,230104.113.72$19,444
Aug 20138,113104.253.52$28,579
Jul 20137,449102.523.72$27,693
Jun 20133,74894.403.93$14,742
May 20134,13094.834.15$17,136
Apr 20135,38793.964.28$23,070
Mar 20135,24993.623.91$20,539
Feb 20136,33791.233.42$21,672
Jan 20136,53591.603.42$22,349
Dec 20127,43786.773.42$25,436
Nov 20126,73486.953.62$24,410
Oct 20126,46089.383.40$21,962
Sep 20125,05894.672.92$14,761
Aug 20125,35992.662.91$15,585
Jul 20126,63685.133.02$20,046
Jun 20128,02079.822.52$20,203
May 20127,44591.612.49$18,526
Apr 20128,183101.652.00$16,340
Mar 20128,419105.052.22$18,708
Feb 20124,376101.102.57$11,247
Jan 20126,34798.092.73$17,353
Dec 20117,82496.873.24$25,348
Nov 20118,01895.723.31$26,550
Oct 20119,58584.983.65$34,971
Sep 20119,09483.623.99$36,247
Aug 201111,00983.404.15$45,680
Jul 201111,64594.144.52$52,603
Jun 20119,42892.904.64$43,745
May 201110,59898.134.40$46,682
Apr 201110,502105.964.33$45,508
Mar 201111,63296.364.06$47,195
Feb 201110,22785.644.18$42,749
Jan 201111,34486.504.59$52,055
Dec 201010,83185.734.35$47,090
Nov 201010,49180.843.80$39,817
Oct 201013,09278.103.51$45,938
Sep 201012,85872.633.98$51,168
Aug 201013,26073.684.42$58,601
Jul 201014,92772.554.74$70,702
Jun 201013,30070.364.91$65,308
May 201015,43071.124.24$65,349
Apr 201015,37281.694.12$63,374
Mar 201015,65878.394.39$68,718
Feb 201014,52973.585.44$79,072
Jan 201017,25974.365.96$102,934
Dec 200917,82871.445.48$97,764
Nov 200919,13974.593.75$71,800
Oct 200921,45772.544.11$88,194
Sep 200922,76065.543.06$69,754
Aug 200925,77367.423.22$82,950
Jul 200927,31061.133.46$94,616
Jun 2009066.163.90$0
May 200932,67354.743.93$128,266
Apr 200940,26446.773.59$144,447
Mar 200953,68242.144.06$217,895
Feb 200933,22032.814.63$153,908

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 2020 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                1,393 Mcf  × $  1.86 =     $2,586

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Month total                                   $2,586

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/250461 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.