BIG MINERAL CREEK (UV SAND) UNIT

Name: BIG MINERAL CREEK (UV SAND) UNIT lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by VENOCO, INC. (P-5 884509) in the BIG MINERAL CREEK (UV SAND) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 95457District 09Field 07988810CondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$54 k

Jan 1993 – Sep 1997

Value, last 12 filed months

$27 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The BIG MINERAL CREEK (UV SAND) 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 5 leases and 24 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1993-09-20

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

933 ft

minimum

From a lease line

330 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 1993-09-21.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “TO 6691'.”

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	1,826 bbl	$31,398
Gas	Production	93,052 Mcf	$22,249
Total			$53,647

84,174 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 42 months, carries no value here. No free Texas wellhead gas price exists before 1997, so those months are left out of the total rather than valued at zero. The total above is therefore a floor, not an estimate.

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 33.7462, -96.7930. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.74621, -96.79295 · 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

100.0%

1 of 1 wells

With a plug date

0.0%

0 of 1 wells

Median depth

7,014 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

1100.0%

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.

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 7,014 ft.

Completions filed

Apr 2018

1 of 1 wells

1 well


42-18100854	502	7,014 ft	Apr 2018	—	Yes

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 (57)

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

57 months


Sep 1997	0	0	17.74	2.95	$0
Aug 1997	53	1,690	17.86	2.55	$5,264
Jul 1997	41	1,304	17.58	2.25	$3,651
Jun 1997	39	1,304	17.24	2.26	$3,616
May 1997	25	945	18.97	2.31	$2,656
Apr 1997	28	273	17.88	2.08	$1,069
Mar 1997	32	728	18.95	1.94	$2,018
Feb 1997	60	1,070	20.49	2.21	$3,590
Jan 1997	0	1,564	23.48	3.54	$5,536
Dec 1996	0	2,791	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	0	2,260	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	0	2,014	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	0	2,034	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	11	2,538	20.26	—	$223
Jul 1996	28	1,716	19.55	—	$547
Jun 1996	17	1,536	18.73	—	$318
May 1996	27	1,670	19.43	—	$525
Apr 1996	30	1,638	21.51	—	$645
Mar 1996	50	2,054	19.38	—	$969
Feb 1996	51	1,909	16.98	—	$866
Jan 1996	73	2,035	17.07	—	$1,246
Dec 1995	39	457	17.19	—	$670
Nov 1995	33	395	16.00	—	$528
Oct 1995	46	1,175	15.43	—	$710
Sep 1995	24	1,510	16.18	—	$388
Aug 1995	26	1,602	15.92	—	$414
Jul 1995	19	1,296	15.24	—	$290
Jun 1995	11	689	16.41	—	$181
May 1995	20	1,434	17.56	—	$351
Apr 1995	21	1,749	17.73	—	$372
Mar 1995	32	3,448	16.44	—	$526
Feb 1995	24	3,107	16.58	—	$398
Jan 1995	21	2,565	15.92	—	$334
Dec 1994	27	2,433	15.03	—	$406
Nov 1994	16	2,322	15.90	—	$254
Oct 1994	29	2,730	15.58	—	$452
Sep 1994	23	2,731	15.29	—	$352
Aug 1994	28	2,602	16.13	—	$452
Jul 1994	14	2,934	17.56	—	$246
Jun 1994	42	1,932	17.09	—	$718
May 1994	34	993	15.88	—	$540
Apr 1994	0	0	14.14	—	$0
Mar 1994	0	0	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	0	0	12.50	—	$0
Jan 1994	0	0	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	0	0	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	20	0	14.49	—	$290
Oct 1993	51	1,869	15.85	—	$808
Sep 1993	38	2,184	15.03	—	$571
Aug 1993	99	2,358	15.66	—	$1,550
Jul 1993	44	2,218	15.46	—	$680
Jun 1993	73	2,157	16.79	—	$1,226
May 1993	56	2,108	17.68	—	$990
Apr 1993	82	2,038	18.05	—	$1,480
Mar 1993	81	2,724	18.14	—	$1,469
Feb 1993	81	2,011	17.90	—	$1,450
Jan 1993	107	2,208	16.93	—	$1,812

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.

Aug 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate            53 bbl  × $ 17.86 =       $947
Gas                1,690 Mcf  × $  2.55 =     $4,318

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Month total                                   $5,264

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/95457 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.