FOSSIL HILL

Operated by BKV NORTH TEXAS, LLC (P-5 100345) 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 277578District 09Field 65280200GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$4.4 M
May 2015 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$223 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
133
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
GasProduction1,436,703 Mcf$4,394,355
Total$4,394,355

Every month this lease reported (133)

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

133 months

May 20264,915106.413.05$14,970
Apr 20265,01598.932.87$14,392
Mar 20265,43989.753.15$17,130
Feb 20265,13063.503.75$19,239
Jan 20265,25859.138.00$42,053
Dec 20255,46056.664.41$24,097
Nov 20255,29558.593.93$20,791
Oct 20255,30559.383.30$17,532
Sep 20255,14662.743.08$15,834
Aug 20255,23463.933.01$15,779
Jul 20255,58366.743.32$18,509
Jun 202579566.483.13$2,487
May 20255,01860.553.23$16,220
Apr 20256,20162.363.54$21,971
Mar 20256,62867.704.27$28,290
Feb 20255,82570.884.34$25,285
Jan 20256,51574.324.28$27,876
Dec 20246,96468.993.12$21,737
Nov 20246,89269.052.20$15,152
Oct 20246,81971.372.28$15,557
Sep 20246,94769.612.36$16,425
Aug 20246,74175.632.06$13,911
Jul 20246,98079.932.15$14,983
Jun 20247,01378.082.63$18,472
May 20246,81878.812.20$14,989
Apr 20245,86484.451.66$9,730
Mar 20246,19680.301.55$9,574
Feb 20245,96576.091.78$10,639
Jan 20246,10873.023.30$20,142
Dec 20236,54571.262.61$17,087
Nov 20236,22677.892.81$17,480
Oct 20236,56185.443.09$20,256
Sep 20235,92089.042.74$16,191
Aug 20237,45480.522.67$19,924
Jul 20236,33474.852.64$16,733
Jun 20234,80868.962.26$10,859
May 20236,66970.622.23$14,855
Apr 20239,63178.122.24$21,552
Mar 20233,70972.852.39$8,876
Feb 2023075.112.47$0
Jan 20231976.533.39$64
Dec 20221,11476.415.73$6,382
Nov 20221,27985.005.65$7,221
Oct 20222,20587.185.86$12,930
Sep 20224,13584.888.16$33,757
Aug 20226,76994.529.13$61,782
Jul 20228,102101.587.54$61,106
Jun 20227,920115.097.98$63,179
May 20228,585109.378.43$72,398
Apr 20228,959104.226.84$61,258
Mar 20225,557108.885.08$28,210
Feb 20225,77391.054.86$28,050
Jan 20228,19081.844.54$37,164
Dec 20217,41771.323.90$28,920
Nov 20217,52677.435.24$39,413
Oct 20218,30579.795.71$47,454
Sep 20218,25769.865.35$44,183
Aug 20218,00266.024.22$33,773
Jul 20217,82470.783.98$31,156
Jun 20218,25469.493.38$27,904
May 20218,55263.483.02$25,807
Apr 20218,53060.362.76$23,529
Mar 20218,77461.302.72$23,838
Feb 20217,48857.805.55$41,543
Jan 20218,26550.412.81$23,227
Dec 20208,40344.642.68$22,482
Nov 20207,74538.772.71$20,962
Oct 20208,57736.972.48$21,257
Sep 20208,73737.091.99$17,396
Aug 20209,15139.982.39$21,826
Jul 20209,37938.371.83$17,118
Jun 20208,92334.901.69$15,083
May 20209,11916.921.81$16,549
Apr 20208,99914.751.80$16,238
Mar 20208,50030.341.86$15,778
Feb 20207,60549.881.98$15,063
Jan 20209,60157.252.09$20,112
Dec 20199,66059.012.30$22,260
Nov 20199,47755.302.75$26,068
Oct 20199,60053.472.42$23,218
Sep 20199,57455.052.66$25,441
Aug 20199,58853.112.30$22,094
Jul 201910,40656.272.46$25,599
Jun 20199,89352.782.49$24,645
May 201910,66358.482.74$29,220
Apr 201910,48162.632.75$28,830
Mar 201910,18256.803.06$31,178
Feb 20199,89950.852.79$27,640
Jan 201910,99946.033.23$35,507
Dec 201811,24246.594.19$47,053
Nov 201811,00152.934.24$46,614
Oct 201811,38361.443.40$38,680
Sep 201811,31459.543.11$35,164
Aug 201811,89559.403.07$36,477
Jul 201812,19865.142.93$35,763
Jun 201812,20460.183.08$37,551
May 201812,34065.382.90$35,796
Apr 201812,21063.842.90$35,419
Mar 201813,01661.222.79$36,274
Feb 201811,83061.782.77$32,723
Jan 201812,71362.874.01$50,970
Dec 201712,71257.272.92$37,138
Nov 201712,91755.423.12$40,280
Oct 201713,66849.292.98$40,781
Sep 201713,38447.523.09$41,320
Aug 201713,58845.373.00$40,824
Jul 201714,37843.873.09$44,389
Jun 201714,37342.493.09$44,373
May 201715,21545.373.26$49,653
Apr 201715,05547.933.21$48,351
Mar 201715,41546.772.98$45,993
Feb 201714,46150.452.95$42,698
Jan 201716,51349.413.42$56,455
Dec 201617,11948.763.72$63,731
Nov 201617,26142.492.64$45,644
Oct 201618,43846.193.09$56,978
Sep 201618,36241.553.10$56,934
Aug 201619,05741.442.92$55,729
Jul 201619,75641.622.92$57,773
Jun 201619,81645.352.69$53,222
May 201621,36542.521.99$42,539
Apr 201621,51836.561.99$42,843
Mar 201623,15733.011.79$41,544
Feb 201622,67726.472.06$46,797
Jan 201625,19327.352.36$59,565
Dec 201526,81532.362.00$53,668
Nov 201527,68938.792.17$60,011
Oct 201530,55543.552.43$74,144
Sep 201532,58342.992.76$89,878
Aug 201537,23040.162.87$106,943
Jul 201542,53448.152.95$125,266
Jun 201546,93256.152.88$135,298
May 201510,73355.212.96$31,721

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
Gas                4,915 Mcf  × $  3.05 =    $14,970

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                  $14,970

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/277578 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.