BIG MINERAL CREEK/BARNES SD/UNIT

Name: BIG MINERAL CREEK/BARNES SD/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 (BARNES SAND) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 12557District 09Field 07988180NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$4.5 M

Jan 1993 – Mar 2008

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

183

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The BIG MINERAL CREEK (BARNES 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 1 leases and 47 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1951-12-02

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

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 Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “DOC. 09-0217503 (FLD CONSL) TO BIG MINERAL CREEK (CONSOLIDATED)”

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.

Programme	Filings	With an approval date	Dated	Docket
NGPA	2	none	—	—

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Oil	Disposition	267,477 bbl	$4,406,200
Casinghead gas	Production	105,250 Mcf	$52,662
Total			$4,458,862

83,644 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 47 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 (47)

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 33.7374, -96.7865. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 2.0 miles. 1 well has no surveyed location and is left out of it.

33.73553, -96.78801 · centre of 46 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%

47 of 47 wells

With a plug date

40.4%

19 of 47 wells

Median depth

5,749 ft

43 wells filed one

Completion to plug

36.8 years

median over 10 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

47100.0%

A plug date is filed

1940.4%

BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.

1940.4%

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

Total depth in feet, 43 of 47 wells. Median 5,749 ft, with the middle half between 5,366 and 7,100 ft; the shallowest is 3,400 ft and the deepest 10,581 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

Last completion by decade, 32 of 47 wells, Mar 1954 – Sep 2024. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed

Mar 1954 – Sep 2024

32 of 47 wells; 15 filed none

Plug dates filed

Jan 1993 – Oct 2024

19 of 47 wells; 28 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 36.8 years across the 10 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 34.8 years and 38.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

47 wells


42-18100164	205W	5,703 ft	—	Mar 1993	Yes
42-18100165	214W	5,640 ft	—	Mar 1993	Yes
42-18100167	227	5,504 ft	—	—	Yes
42-18100479	216W	5,297 ft	—	Mar 1993	Yes
42-18100847	202	—	—	—	Yes
42-18101228	206	6,560 ft	—	Apr 2024	Yes
42-18101683	232W	5,390 ft	—	Mar 1993	Yes
42-18101813	218	6,688 ft	—	Oct 2024	Yes
42-18101851	212	5,350 ft	—	—	Yes
42-18101852	246W	7,978 ft	—	Feb 1995	Yes
42-18101856	225 W	6,397 ft	—	Mar 1993	Yes
42-18102055	228W	7,483 ft	—	—	Yes
42-18130037	234W	6,050 ft	—	Jun 2023	Yes
42-18130153	235	—	—	—	Yes
42-18180749	329 W	—	—	—	Yes
42-18101845	237	7,038 ft	Sep 2024	—	Yes
42-18101224	210	7,102 ft	Sep 2024	—	Yes
42-18101865	203	5,282 ft	Sep 2023	—	Yes
42-18100628	219	5,604 ft	Dec 2021	—	Yes
42-18101696	239	7,339 ft	Dec 2021	—	Yes
42-18101810	1D	3,400 ft	Jul 2021	—	Yes
42-18101239	247W	7,043 ft	Apr 2021	—	Yes
42-18100627	217	7,260 ft	Sep 2020	—	Yes
42-18101689	233 W	5,414 ft	Apr 2018	—	Yes
42-18101830	220	5,342 ft	Oct 2017	Jun 2023	Yes
42-18101812	223	7,099 ft	Dec 2014	—	Yes
42-18130672	245	6,105 ft	Oct 2014	—	Yes
42-18101238	209	10,581 ft	Sep 2014	—	Yes
42-18101225	241	7,995 ft	Dec 2013	—	Yes
42-18101819	207	5,258 ft	Nov 1992	—	Yes
42-18130151	236	5,300 ft	Oct 1992	—	Yes
42-18101832	224	5,350 ft	Aug 1989	—	Yes
42-18100645	215W	7,260 ft	Jun 1989	—	Yes
42-18101236	249	7,330 ft	Mar 1989	—	Yes
42-18101828	242W	7,417 ft	Feb 1989	Jun 2023	Yes
42-18101817	211	7,100 ft	Jan 1989	—	Yes
42-18101226	248	—	Jun 1988	—	Yes
42-18100166	221W	5,567 ft	Oct 1986	May 2023	Yes
42-18101682	231	5,400 ft	Jul 1986	Jun 2023	Yes
42-18101862	200U	6,915 ft	Oct 1982	Jan 1993	Yes
42-18101230	238	6,552 ft	Apr 1982	—	Yes
42-18130663	243W	5,220 ft	Dec 1979	Jun 2023	Yes
42-18101234	222W	5,749 ft	Feb 1957	Mar 1993	Yes
42-18101850	208	5,381 ft	Dec 1954	Jun 2023	Yes
42-18101870	204W	5,384 ft	Aug 1954	Mar 1993	Yes
42-18101699	229	5,315 ft	Jul 1954	Mar 1993	Yes
42-18101697	230	5,314 ft	Mar 1954	—	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 (183)

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

183 months


Mar 2008	0	0	101.90	9.66	$0
Feb 2008	0	0	92.53	8.77	$0
Jan 2008	0	0	90.38	8.21	$0
Dec 2007	0	0	88.33	7.30	$0
Nov 2007	0	0	91.67	7.29	$0
Oct 2007	0	0	82.85	6.92	$0
Sep 2007	0	0	75.84	6.24	$0
Aug 2007	0	0	69.06	6.39	$0
Jul 2007	0	0	70.90	6.39	$0
Jun 2007	0	0	62.00	7.55	$0
May 2007	0	0	58.74	7.85	$0
Apr 2007	0	0	59.61	7.81	$0
Mar 2007	0	0	56.92	7.30	$0
Feb 2007	0	0	55.10	8.22	$0
Jan 2007	0	0	50.30	6.73	$0
Dec 2006	0	0	56.65	6.92	$0
Nov 2006	0	0	54.20	7.62	$0
Oct 2006	0	0	54.90	6.01	$0
Sep 2006	0	0	60.08	5.04	$0
Aug 2006	0	0	68.71	7.34	$0
Jul 2006	0	0	69.37	6.34	$0
Jun 2006	0	0	66.28	6.38	$0
May 2006	0	0	66.01	6.42	$0
Apr 2006	0	0	64.39	7.36	$0
Mar 2006	0	0	56.70	7.08	$0
Feb 2006	0	0	57.59	7.75	$0
Jan 2006	0	0	60.59	8.93	$0
Dec 2005	0	0	54.94	13.42	$0
Nov 2005	0	0	54.69	10.59	$0
Oct 2005	0	0	58.34	13.80	$0
Sep 2005	0	0	61.45	12.08	$0
Aug 2005	0	0	61.51	9.80	$0
Jul 2005	0	0	55.69	7.84	$0
Jun 2005	0	0	52.33	7.38	$0
May 2005	0	0	45.22	6.65	$0
Apr 2005	0	0	49.20	7.36	$0
Mar 2005	0	0	50.37	7.15	$0
Feb 2005	0	0	45.22	6.31	$0
Jan 2005	0	0	43.16	6.32	$0
Dec 2004	0	0	39.86	6.75	$0
Nov 2004	0	0	45.28	6.33	$0
Oct 2004	0	0	49.70	6.52	$0
Sep 2004	0	0	43.24	5.28	$0
Aug 2004	0	0	42.37	5.55	$0
Jul 2004	0	0	38.28	6.08	$0
Jun 2004	0	0	36.10	6.43	$0
May 2004	0	0	37.48	6.49	$0
Apr 2004	0	0	34.47	5.86	$0
Mar 2004	0	0	34.36	5.53	$0
Feb 2004	0	0	32.45	5.51	$0
Jan 2004	0	0	32.03	6.30	$0
Dec 2003	0	0	30.26	6.30	$0
Nov 2003	0	0	28.80	4.60	$0
Oct 2003	0	0	28.17	4.76	$0
Sep 2003	0	0	26.31	4.75	$0
Aug 2003	0	0	29.76	5.13	$0
Jul 2003	0	0	29.41	5.17	$0
Jun 2003	0	0	28.56	5.98	$0
May 2003	0	0	26.59	5.97	$0
Apr 2003	0	0	26.67	5.41	$0
Mar 2003	0	0	31.14	6.10	$0
Feb 2003	0	0	33.48	7.93	$0
Jan 2003	0	0	30.31	5.58	$0
Dec 2002	0	0	26.91	4.85	$0
Nov 2002	0	0	24.66	4.14	$0
Oct 2002	0	0	26.46	4.23	$0
Sep 2002	0	0	27.44	3.64	$0
Aug 2002	0	0	25.96	3.16	$0
Jul 2002	0	0	24.58	3.06	$0
Jun 2002	0	0	23.73	3.34	$0
May 2002	0	0	24.66	3.58	$0
Apr 2002	0	0	23.65	3.51	$0
Mar 2002	0	0	22.00	3.10	$0
Feb 2002	0	0	18.22	2.38	$0
Jan 2002	0	0	17.17	2.38	$0
Dec 2001	0	0	16.93	2.36	$0
Nov 2001	0	0	18.07	2.41	$0
Oct 2001	0	0	19.78	2.53	$0
Sep 2001	0	0	24.26	2.25	$0
Aug 2001	0	0	24.87	3.05	$0
Jul 2001	0	0	23.93	3.20	$0
Jun 2001	0	0	24.56	3.82	$0
May 2001	0	0	25.52	4.31	$0
Apr 2001	0	0	24.68	5.34	$0
Mar 2001	0	0	24.54	5.38	$0
Feb 2001	0	0	27.75	5.77	$0
Jan 2001	0	0	27.47	8.40	$0
Dec 2000	0	0	26.88	9.12	$0
Nov 2000	0	0	32.21	5.66	$0
Oct 2000	0	0	31.23	5.15	$0
Sep 2000	0	0	31.87	5.19	$0
Aug 2000	0	0	29.64	4.54	$0
Jul 2000	0	0	28.53	4.09	$0
Jun 2000	0	0	29.30	4.40	$0
May 2000	0	0	27.26	3.68	$0
Apr 2000	0	0	24.51	3.12	$0
Mar 2000	0	0	28.42	2.86	$0
Feb 2000	0	0	27.62	2.73	$0
Jan 2000	0	0	25.27	2.48	$0
Dec 1999	0	0	24.28	2.42	$0
Nov 1999	0	0	23.19	2.43	$0
Oct 1999	0	0	20.98	2.80	$0
Sep 1999	0	0	21.75	2.62	$0
Aug 1999	0	0	19.26	2.88	$0
Jul 1999	0	0	17.89	2.37	$0
Jun 1999	0	0	15.94	2.36	$0
May 1999	0	0	15.79	2.32	$0
Apr 1999	0	0	15.10	2.21	$0
Mar 1999	0	0	12.47	1.84	$0
Feb 1999	0	0	9.98	1.82	$0
Jan 1999	0	0	10.38	1.90	$0
Dec 1998	0	0	9.20	1.77	$0
Nov 1998	3,488	1,336	10.89	2.19	$40,904
Oct 1998	3,491	1,052	12.42	1.97	$45,430
Sep 1998	3,201	1,226	12.59	2.08	$42,854
Aug 1998	3,296	896	11.30	1.91	$38,954
Jul 1998	3,058	106	11.74	2.24	$36,138
Jun 1998	3,135	409	11.24	2.24	$36,152
May 1998	3,642	187	12.62	2.21	$46,375
Apr 1998	3,779	318	13.04	2.51	$50,075
Mar 1998	3,207	1,008	12.80	2.31	$43,378
Feb 1998	2,068	739	13.95	2.30	$30,548
Jan 1998	3,249	954	14.70	2.15	$49,816
Dec 1997	3,425	1,042	16.32	2.41	$58,408
Nov 1997	3,223	1,040	18.19	3.09	$61,838
Oct 1997	3,363	1,279	19.25	3.15	$68,766
Sep 1997	2,824	1,424	17.74	2.95	$54,306
Aug 1997	3,243	1,686	17.86	2.55	$62,227
Jul 1997	3,433	1,296	17.58	2.25	$63,264
Jun 1997	3,482	957	17.24	2.26	$62,190
May 1997	4,085	970	18.97	2.31	$79,732
Apr 1997	3,707	877	17.88	2.08	$68,108
Mar 1997	3,488	904	18.95	1.94	$67,851
Feb 1997	3,165	690	20.49	2.21	$66,373
Jan 1997	3,220	1,210	23.48	3.54	$79,889
Dec 1996	2,850	2,320	23.32	—	$66,462
Nov 1996	3,116	1,809	21.97	—	$68,459
Oct 1996	3,100	1,315	23.31	—	$72,261
Sep 1996	3,706	1,657	22.22	—	$82,347
Aug 1996	3,600	1,562	20.26	—	$72,936
Jul 1996	3,298	1,386	19.55	—	$64,476
Jun 1996	3,786	1,397	18.73	—	$70,912
May 1996	4,074	1,742	19.43	—	$79,158
Apr 1996	3,346	1,276	21.51	—	$71,972
Mar 1996	3,571	1,229	19.38	—	$69,206
Feb 1996	3,787	0	16.98	—	$64,303
Jan 1996	4,053	2,162	17.07	—	$69,185
Dec 1995	3,596	2,103	17.19	—	$61,815
Nov 1995	3,509	1,683	16.00	—	$56,144
Oct 1995	3,569	1,561	15.43	—	$55,070
Sep 1995	3,805	1,450	16.18	—	$61,565
Aug 1995	4,103	2,143	15.92	—	$65,320
Jul 1995	3,570	5,080	15.24	—	$54,407
Jun 1995	2,716	1,403	16.41	—	$44,570
May 1995	3,047	1,392	17.56	—	$53,505
Apr 1995	3,450	1,625	17.73	—	$61,169
Mar 1995	4,187	1,635	16.44	—	$68,834
Feb 1995	3,718	2,271	16.58	—	$61,644
Jan 1995	4,430	1,827	15.92	—	$70,526
Dec 1994	4,503	1,917	15.03	—	$67,680
Nov 1994	4,188	2,023	15.90	—	$66,589
Oct 1994	3,831	1,889	15.58	—	$59,687
Sep 1994	3,324	1,824	15.29	—	$50,824
Aug 1994	3,995	2,216	16.13	—	$64,439
Jul 1994	4,361	2,413	17.56	—	$76,579
Jun 1994	4,018	2,339	17.09	—	$68,668
May 1994	4,519	1,732	15.88	—	$71,762
Apr 1994	4,343	1,455	14.14	—	$61,410
Mar 1994	4,602	1,450	12.46	—	$57,341
Feb 1994	4,465	1,065	12.50	—	$55,813
Jan 1994	4,586	2,320	12.66	—	$58,059
Dec 1993	4,567	1,690	12.33	—	$56,311
Nov 1993	4,161	2,128	14.49	—	$60,293
Oct 1993	5,002	960	15.85	—	$79,282
Sep 1993	4,670	1,062	15.03	—	$70,190
Aug 1993	5,313	3,617	15.66	—	$83,202
Jul 1993	4,886	1,399	15.46	—	$75,538
Jun 1993	3,483	781	16.79	—	$58,480
May 1993	4,115	903	17.68	—	$72,753
Apr 1993	4,243	1,583	18.05	—	$76,586
Mar 1993	4,751	1,597	18.14	—	$86,183
Feb 1993	4,188	1,572	17.90	—	$74,965
Jan 1993	5,104	1,681	16.93	—	$86,411

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.

Nov 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                3,488 bbl  × $ 10.89 =    $37,984
Casinghead gas     1,336 Mcf  × $  2.19 =     $2,920

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Month total                                  $40,904

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/O/12557 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.