BENTON

Name: BENTON lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by SANDRIDGE EXPL. AND PROD., LLC (P-5 748011) in the DODSON field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 4443District 09Field 25105001OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$569 k

Jan 1993 – Mar 2018

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

303

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The DODSON 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 7 leases and 22 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1940-07-03

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

the register's own label

Between wells

990 ft

minimum

From a lease line

330 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 acres.

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	15,615 bbl	$569,484
Casinghead gas	Production	21 Mcf	$0
Total			$569,484

21 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 21 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 (3)

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 33.7898, -97.7041. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.2 miles.

33.78981, -97.70376 · 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%

3 of 3 wells

With a plug date

100.0%

3 of 3 wells

Median depth

5,120 ft

3 wells filed one

Completion to plug

—

no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

3100.0%

A plug date is filed

3100.0%

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

3100.0%

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

Between 4,570 and 5,210 ft, median 5,120 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Plug dates filed

Nov 2017

3 of 3 wells

3 wells


42-33781574	1	5,120 ft	—	Nov 2017	Yes
42-33781575	2	5,210 ft	—	Nov 2017	Yes
42-33781576	4	4,570 ft	—	Nov 2017	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 (303)

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

303 months


Mar 2018	0	0	61.22	2.79	$0
Feb 2018	0	0	61.78	2.77	$0
Jan 2018	0	0	62.87	4.01	$0
Dec 2017	0	0	57.27	2.92	$0
Nov 2017	0	0	55.42	3.12	$0
Oct 2017	0	0	49.29	2.98	$0
Sep 2017	0	0	47.52	3.09	$0
Aug 2017	0	0	45.37	3.00	$0
Jul 2017	0	0	43.87	3.09	$0
Jun 2017	0	0	42.49	3.09	$0
May 2017	0	0	45.37	3.26	$0
Apr 2017	0	0	47.93	3.21	$0
Mar 2017	0	0	46.77	2.98	$0
Feb 2017	0	0	50.45	2.95	$0
Jan 2017	0	0	49.41	3.42	$0
Dec 2016	0	0	48.76	3.72	$0
Nov 2016	0	0	42.49	2.64	$0
Oct 2016	0	0	46.19	3.09	$0
Sep 2016	0	0	41.55	3.10	$0
Aug 2016	0	0	41.44	2.92	$0
Jul 2016	0	0	41.62	2.92	$0
Jun 2016	0	0	45.35	2.69	$0
May 2016	0	0	42.52	1.99	$0
Apr 2016	0	0	36.56	1.99	$0
Mar 2016	0	0	33.01	1.79	$0
Feb 2016	0	0	26.47	2.06	$0
Jan 2016	0	0	27.35	2.36	$0
Dec 2015	0	0	32.36	2.00	$0
Nov 2015	0	0	38.79	2.17	$0
Oct 2015	0	0	43.55	2.43	$0
Sep 2015	0	0	42.99	2.76	$0
Aug 2015	0	0	40.16	2.87	$0
Jul 2015	0	0	48.15	2.95	$0
Jun 2015	0	0	56.15	2.88	$0
May 2015	0	0	55.21	2.96	$0
Apr 2015	0	0	49.82	2.71	$0
Mar 2015	0	0	42.89	2.93	$0
Feb 2015	0	0	44.66	2.98	$0
Jan 2015	0	0	43.43	3.10	$0
Dec 2014	0	0	54.69	3.59	$0
Nov 2014	0	0	70.46	4.25	$0
Oct 2014	0	0	78.30	3.90	$0
Sep 2014	0	0	86.16	4.05	$0
Aug 2014	0	0	89.39	4.04	$0
Jul 2014	0	0	96.56	4.18	$0
Jun 2014	0	0	98.16	4.74	$0
May 2014	0	0	94.73	4.73	$0
Apr 2014	0	0	95.94	4.81	$0
Mar 2014	0	0	95.89	5.06	$0
Feb 2014	0	0	97.40	6.19	$0
Jan 2014	0	0	90.40	4.86	$0
Dec 2013	0	0	91.82	4.35	$0
Nov 2013	0	0	88.85	3.74	$0
Oct 2013	0	0	97.42	3.78	$0
Sep 2013	0	0	104.11	3.72	$0
Aug 2013	0	0	104.25	3.52	$0
Jul 2013	0	0	102.52	3.72	$0
Jun 2013	0	0	94.40	3.93	$0
May 2013	0	0	94.83	4.15	$0
Apr 2013	0	0	93.96	4.28	$0
Mar 2013	0	0	93.62	3.91	$0
Feb 2013	0	0	91.23	3.42	$0
Jan 2013	0	0	91.60	3.42	$0
Dec 2012	0	0	86.77	3.42	$0
Nov 2012	0	0	86.95	3.62	$0
Oct 2012	23	0	89.38	3.40	$2,056
Sep 2012	0	0	94.67	2.92	$0
Aug 2012	0	0	92.66	2.91	$0
Jul 2012	0	0	85.13	3.02	$0
Jun 2012	79	0	79.82	2.52	$6,306
May 2012	0	0	91.61	2.49	$0
Apr 2012	0	0	101.65	2.00	$0
Mar 2012	85	0	105.05	2.22	$8,929
Feb 2012	88	0	101.10	2.57	$8,897
Jan 2012	0	0	98.09	2.73	$0
Dec 2011	0	0	96.87	3.24	$0
Nov 2011	0	0	95.72	3.31	$0
Oct 2011	165	0	84.98	3.65	$14,022
Sep 2011	56	0	83.62	3.99	$4,683
Aug 2011	0	0	83.40	4.15	$0
Jul 2011	87	0	94.14	4.52	$8,190
Jun 2011	0	0	92.90	4.64	$0
May 2011	90	0	98.13	4.40	$8,832
Apr 2011	0	0	105.96	4.33	$0
Mar 2011	0	0	96.36	4.06	$0
Feb 2011	86	0	85.64	4.18	$7,365
Jan 2011	90	0	86.50	4.59	$7,785
Dec 2010	0	0	85.73	4.35	$0
Nov 2010	0	0	80.84	3.80	$0
Oct 2010	86	0	78.10	3.51	$6,717
Sep 2010	0	0	72.63	3.98	$0
Aug 2010	213	0	73.68	4.42	$15,694
Jul 2010	87	0	72.55	4.74	$6,312
Jun 2010	0	0	70.36	4.91	$0
May 2010	88	0	71.12	4.24	$6,259
Apr 2010	0	0	81.69	4.12	$0
Mar 2010	89	0	78.39	4.39	$6,977
Feb 2010	0	0	73.58	5.44	$0
Jan 2010	88	0	74.36	5.96	$6,544
Dec 2009	88	0	71.44	5.48	$6,287
Nov 2009	0	0	74.59	3.75	$0
Oct 2009	88	0	72.54	4.11	$6,384
Sep 2009	0	0	65.54	3.06	$0
Aug 2009	167	0	67.42	3.22	$11,259
Jul 2009	86	0	61.13	3.46	$5,257
Jun 2009	83	0	66.16	3.90	$5,491
May 2009	0	0	54.74	3.93	$0
Apr 2009	171	0	46.77	3.59	$7,998
Mar 2009	89	0	42.14	4.06	$3,750
Feb 2009	83	0	32.81	4.63	$2,723
Jan 2009	86	0	35.86	5.37	$3,084
Dec 2008	86	0	37.10	5.98	$3,191
Nov 2008	86	0	55.49	6.86	$4,772
Oct 2008	83	0	75.24	6.92	$6,245
Sep 2008	0	0	101.76	7.88	$0
Aug 2008	0	0	114.22	8.48	$0
Jul 2008	0	0	131.08	11.39	$0
Jun 2008	0	0	131.33	13.03	$0
May 2008	87	0	123.17	11.57	$10,716
Apr 2008	0	0	110.31	10.45	$0
Mar 2008	85	0	101.90	9.66	$8,662
Feb 2008	0	0	92.53	8.77	$0
Jan 2008	88	0	90.38	8.21	$7,953
Dec 2007	0	0	88.33	7.30	$0
Nov 2007	91	0	91.67	7.29	$8,342
Oct 2007	0	0	82.85	6.92	$0
Sep 2007	85	0	75.84	6.24	$6,446
Aug 2007	0	0	69.06	6.39	$0
Jul 2007	157	0	70.90	6.39	$11,131
Jun 2007	0	0	62.00	7.55	$0
May 2007	87	0	58.74	7.85	$5,110
Apr 2007	0	0	59.61	7.81	$0
Mar 2007	88	0	56.92	7.30	$5,009
Feb 2007	0	0	55.10	8.22	$0
Jan 2007	0	0	50.30	6.73	$0
Dec 2006	90	0	56.65	6.92	$5,099
Nov 2006	0	0	54.20	7.62	$0
Oct 2006	88	0	54.90	6.01	$4,831
Sep 2006	0	0	60.08	5.04	$0
Aug 2006	88	0	68.71	7.34	$6,046
Jul 2006	0	0	69.37	6.34	$0
Jun 2006	0	0	66.28	6.38	$0
May 2006	89	0	66.01	6.42	$5,875
Apr 2006	83	0	64.39	7.36	$5,344
Mar 2006	87	0	56.70	7.08	$4,933
Feb 2006	0	0	57.59	7.75	$0
Jan 2006	86	0	60.59	8.93	$5,211
Dec 2005	0	0	54.94	13.42	$0
Nov 2005	87	0	54.69	10.59	$4,758
Oct 2005	0	0	58.34	13.80	$0
Sep 2005	0	0	61.45	12.08	$0
Aug 2005	88	0	61.51	9.80	$5,413
Jul 2005	0	0	55.69	7.84	$0
Jun 2005	171	0	52.33	7.38	$8,948
May 2005	0	0	45.22	6.65	$0
Apr 2005	177	0	49.20	7.36	$8,708
Mar 2005	183	0	50.37	7.15	$9,218
Feb 2005	0	0	45.22	6.31	$0
Jan 2005	181	0	43.16	6.32	$7,812
Dec 2004	174	0	39.86	6.75	$6,936
Nov 2004	0	0	45.28	6.33	$0
Oct 2004	174	0	49.70	6.52	$8,648
Sep 2004	0	0	43.24	5.28	$0
Aug 2004	167	0	42.37	5.55	$7,076
Jul 2004	0	0	38.28	6.08	$0
Jun 2004	0	0	36.10	6.43	$0
May 2004	109	0	37.48	6.49	$4,085
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	66	0	29.76	5.13	$1,964
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	122	0	26.67	5.41	$3,254
Mar 2003	0	0	31.14	6.10	$0
Feb 2003	0	0	33.48	7.93	$0
Jan 2003	167	0	30.31	5.58	$5,062
Dec 2002	0	0	26.91	4.85	$0
Nov 2002	176	0	24.66	4.14	$4,340
Oct 2002	170	0	26.46	4.23	$4,498
Sep 2002	0	0	27.44	3.64	$0
Aug 2002	171	0	25.96	3.16	$4,439
Jul 2002	0	0	24.58	3.06	$0
Jun 2002	168	0	23.73	3.34	$3,987
May 2002	0	0	24.66	3.58	$0
Apr 2002	170	0	23.65	3.51	$4,021
Mar 2002	0	0	22.00	3.10	$0
Feb 2002	173	0	18.22	2.38	$3,152
Jan 2002	0	0	17.17	2.38	$0
Dec 2001	171	0	16.93	2.36	$2,895
Nov 2001	0	0	18.07	2.41	$0
Oct 2001	170	0	19.78	2.53	$3,363
Sep 2001	0	0	24.26	2.25	$0
Aug 2001	0	0	24.87	3.05	$0
Jul 2001	168	0	23.93	3.20	$4,020
Jun 2001	172	0	24.56	3.82	$4,224
May 2001	0	0	25.52	4.31	$0
Apr 2001	173	0	24.68	5.34	$4,270
Mar 2001	173	0	24.54	5.38	$4,245
Feb 2001	172	0	27.75	5.77	$4,773
Jan 2001	0	0	27.47	8.40	$0
Dec 2000	180	0	26.88	9.12	$4,838
Nov 2000	173	0	32.21	5.66	$5,572
Oct 2000	179	0	31.23	5.15	$5,590
Sep 2000	186	0	31.87	5.19	$5,928
Aug 2000	0	0	29.64	4.54	$0
Jul 2000	355	0	28.53	4.09	$10,128
Jun 2000	174	0	29.30	4.40	$5,098
May 2000	169	0	27.26	3.68	$4,607
Apr 2000	175	0	24.51	3.12	$4,289
Mar 2000	167	0	28.42	2.86	$4,746
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	0	0	10.89	2.19	$0
Oct 1998	0	0	12.42	1.97	$0
Sep 1998	162	0	12.59	2.08	$2,040
Aug 1998	0	0	11.30	1.91	$0
Jul 1998	0	0	11.74	2.24	$0
Jun 1998	0	0	11.24	2.24	$0
May 1998	0	0	12.62	2.21	$0
Apr 1998	0	0	13.04	2.51	$0
Mar 1998	0	0	12.80	2.31	$0
Feb 1998	0	0	13.95	2.30	$0
Jan 1998	0	0	14.70	2.15	$0
Dec 1997	0	0	16.32	2.41	$0
Nov 1997	0	0	18.19	3.09	$0
Oct 1997	0	0	19.25	3.15	$0
Sep 1997	263	0	17.74	2.95	$4,666
Aug 1997	0	0	17.86	2.55	$0
Jul 1997	0	0	17.58	2.25	$0
Jun 1997	0	0	17.24	2.26	$0
May 1997	0	0	18.97	2.31	$0
Apr 1997	0	0	17.88	2.08	$0
Mar 1997	0	0	18.95	1.94	$0
Feb 1997	0	0	20.49	2.21	$0
Jan 1997	174	0	23.48	3.54	$4,086
Dec 1996	0	0	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	0	0	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	0	0	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	0	0	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	0	0	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	0	0	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	0	0	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	180	0	19.43	—	$3,497
Apr 1996	0	0	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	133	0	19.38	—	$2,578
Feb 1996	0	0	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	0	0	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	143	0	17.19	—	$2,458
Nov 1995	169	0	16.00	—	$2,704
Oct 1995	0	0	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	150	0	16.18	—	$2,427
Aug 1995	165	0	15.92	—	$2,627
Jul 1995	158	0	15.24	—	$2,408
Jun 1995	0	0	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	168	0	17.56	—	$2,950
Apr 1995	0	0	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	190	0	16.44	—	$3,124
Feb 1995	0	0	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	165	0	15.92	—	$2,627
Dec 1994	169	0	15.03	—	$2,540
Nov 1994	0	0	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	0	0	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	183	1	15.29	—	$2,798
Aug 1994	125	1	16.13	—	$2,016
Jul 1994	0	1	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	148	1	17.09	—	$2,529
May 1994	117	1	15.88	—	$1,858
Apr 1994	137	1	14.14	—	$1,937
Mar 1994	163	1	12.46	—	$2,031
Feb 1994	137	1	12.50	—	$1,713
Jan 1994	178	1	12.66	—	$2,253
Dec 1993	177	1	12.33	—	$2,182
Nov 1993	138	1	14.49	—	$2,000
Oct 1993	362	1	15.85	—	$5,738
Sep 1993	183	1	15.03	—	$2,750
Aug 1993	167	1	15.66	—	$2,615
Jul 1993	157	1	15.46	—	$2,427
Jun 1993	164	1	16.79	—	$2,754
May 1993	151	1	17.68	—	$2,670
Apr 1993	161	1	18.05	—	$2,906
Mar 1993	139	1	18.14	—	$2,521
Feb 1993	139	1	17.90	—	$2,488
Jan 1993	174	1	16.93	—	$2,946

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 2012 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   23 bbl  × $ 89.38 =     $2,056
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.40 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $2,056

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/4443 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.