BALLARD

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

Operated by M. E. OPERATING & SERVICES, INC. (P-5 518265) in the WHITT (BIG SALINE) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 105497District 7BField 97120500NGPA filingGasSave Export

Value, all time

$66 k

Jan 1993 – Jul 2010

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

211

no gaps in the span

Streams

gas

The WHITT (BIG SALINE) 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 10 leases and 10 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1974-10-25

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

1,320 ft

minimum

From a lease line

467 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 160 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “ALLOCATION FORMULA SUSPENDED EFFECTIVE 9/1/94.”

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	1	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
Gas	Production	20,785 Mcf	$66,148
Total			$66,148

6,122 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 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 32.9573, -97.9998. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

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

100.0%

1 of 1 wells

Median depth

5,010 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

27.3 years

median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

1100.0%

A plug date is filed

1100.0%

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

1100.0%

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 5,010 ft.

Completions filed

Mar 1983

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Jul 2010

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 27.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 27.3 years and 27.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-36732434	1	5,010 ft	Mar 1983	Jul 2010	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 (211)

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

211 months


Jul 2010	0	72.55	4.74	$0
Jun 2010	0	70.36	4.91	$0
May 2010	0	71.12	4.24	$0
Apr 2010	0	81.69	4.12	$0
Mar 2010	0	78.39	4.39	$0
Feb 2010	0	73.58	5.44	$0
Jan 2010	0	74.36	5.96	$0
Dec 2009	0	71.44	5.48	$0
Nov 2009	0	74.59	3.75	$0
Oct 2009	0	72.54	4.11	$0
Sep 2009	0	65.54	3.06	$0
Aug 2009	0	67.42	3.22	$0
Jul 2009	0	61.13	3.46	$0
Jun 2009	0	66.16	3.90	$0
May 2009	0	54.74	3.93	$0
Apr 2009	0	46.77	3.59	$0
Mar 2009	0	42.14	4.06	$0
Feb 2009	0	32.81	4.63	$0
Jan 2009	0	35.86	5.37	$0
Dec 2008	0	37.10	5.98	$0
Nov 2008	0	55.49	6.86	$0
Oct 2008	1	75.24	6.92	$7
Sep 2008	4	101.76	7.88	$32
Aug 2008	26	114.22	8.48	$221
Jul 2008	74	131.08	11.39	$843
Jun 2008	69	131.33	13.03	$899
May 2008	55	123.17	11.57	$637
Apr 2008	48	110.31	10.45	$502
Mar 2008	38	101.90	9.66	$367
Feb 2008	65	92.53	8.77	$570
Jan 2008	34	90.38	8.21	$279
Dec 2007	58	88.33	7.30	$424
Nov 2007	68	91.67	7.29	$496
Oct 2007	93	82.85	6.92	$644
Sep 2007	86	75.84	6.24	$537
Aug 2007	0	69.06	6.39	$0
Jul 2007	72	70.90	6.39	$460
Jun 2007	83	62.00	7.55	$627
May 2007	96	58.74	7.85	$753
Apr 2007	76	59.61	7.81	$593
Mar 2007	89	56.92	7.30	$650
Feb 2007	69	55.10	8.22	$567
Jan 2007	71	50.30	6.73	$478
Dec 2006	78	56.65	6.92	$540
Nov 2006	68	54.20	7.62	$518
Oct 2006	92	54.90	6.01	$553
Sep 2006	87	60.08	5.04	$438
Aug 2006	87	68.71	7.34	$639
Jul 2006	91	69.37	6.34	$577
Jun 2006	83	66.28	6.38	$530
May 2006	102	66.01	6.42	$655
Apr 2006	95	64.39	7.36	$699
Mar 2006	85	56.70	7.08	$602
Feb 2006	52	57.59	7.75	$403
Jan 2006	70	60.59	8.93	$625
Dec 2005	80	54.94	13.42	$1,073
Nov 2005	67	54.69	10.59	$709
Oct 2005	73	58.34	13.80	$1,007
Sep 2005	78	61.45	12.08	$942
Aug 2005	60	61.51	9.80	$588
Jul 2005	90	55.69	7.84	$706
Jun 2005	80	52.33	7.38	$590
May 2005	86	45.22	6.65	$572
Apr 2005	90	49.20	7.36	$662
Mar 2005	89	50.37	7.15	$637
Feb 2005	64	45.22	6.31	$404
Jan 2005	79	43.16	6.32	$499
Dec 2004	91	39.86	6.75	$614
Nov 2004	82	45.28	6.33	$519
Oct 2004	115	49.70	6.52	$749
Sep 2004	96	43.24	5.28	$507
Aug 2004	152	42.37	5.55	$844
Jul 2004	183	38.28	6.08	$1,113
Jun 2004	98	36.10	6.43	$630
May 2004	57	37.48	6.49	$370
Apr 2004	0	34.47	5.86	$0
Mar 2004	40	34.36	5.53	$221
Feb 2004	64	32.45	5.51	$353
Jan 2004	89	32.03	6.30	$561
Dec 2003	106	30.26	6.30	$668
Nov 2003	41	28.80	4.60	$188
Oct 2003	96	28.17	4.76	$457
Sep 2003	93	26.31	4.75	$442
Aug 2003	120	29.76	5.13	$616
Jul 2003	89	29.41	5.17	$460
Jun 2003	4	28.56	5.98	$24
May 2003	49	26.59	5.97	$293
Apr 2003	75	26.67	5.41	$406
Mar 2003	83	31.14	6.10	$506
Feb 2003	87	33.48	7.93	$690
Jan 2003	117	30.31	5.58	$653
Dec 2002	45	26.91	4.85	$218
Nov 2002	56	24.66	4.14	$232
Oct 2002	74	26.46	4.23	$313
Sep 2002	116	27.44	3.64	$422
Aug 2002	143	25.96	3.16	$452
Jul 2002	111	24.58	3.06	$340
Jun 2002	162	23.73	3.34	$541
May 2002	145	24.66	3.58	$520
Apr 2002	201	23.65	3.51	$706
Mar 2002	174	22.00	3.10	$540
Feb 2002	167	18.22	2.38	$397
Jan 2002	160	17.17	2.38	$380
Dec 2001	1	16.93	2.36	$2
Nov 2001	79	18.07	2.41	$190
Oct 2001	97	19.78	2.53	$245
Sep 2001	115	24.26	2.25	$259
Aug 2001	186	24.87	3.05	$568
Jul 2001	220	23.93	3.20	$703
Jun 2001	159	24.56	3.82	$608
May 2001	125	25.52	4.31	$538
Apr 2001	105	24.68	5.34	$560
Mar 2001	107	24.54	5.38	$575
Feb 2001	89	27.75	5.77	$513
Jan 2001	85	27.47	8.40	$714
Dec 2000	104	26.88	9.12	$949
Nov 2000	104	32.21	5.66	$588
Oct 2000	141	31.23	5.15	$726
Sep 2000	104	31.87	5.19	$539
Aug 2000	125	29.64	4.54	$568
Jul 2000	121	28.53	4.09	$495
Jun 2000	141	29.30	4.40	$620
May 2000	116	27.26	3.68	$427
Apr 2000	125	24.51	3.12	$390
Mar 2000	122	28.42	2.86	$349
Feb 2000	115	27.62	2.73	$314
Jan 2000	120	25.27	2.48	$298
Dec 1999	101	24.28	2.42	$245
Nov 1999	61	23.19	2.43	$148
Oct 1999	103	20.98	2.80	$289
Sep 1999	172	21.75	2.62	$450
Aug 1999	123	19.26	2.88	$354
Jul 1999	104	17.89	2.37	$247
Jun 1999	149	15.94	2.36	$352
May 1999	137	15.79	2.32	$318
Apr 1999	147	15.10	2.21	$325
Mar 1999	176	12.47	1.84	$324
Feb 1999	278	9.98	1.82	$505
Jan 1999	292	10.38	1.90	$555
Dec 1998	129	9.20	1.77	$229
Nov 1998	138	10.89	2.19	$302
Oct 1998	191	12.42	1.97	$376
Sep 1998	124	12.59	2.08	$258
Aug 1998	57	11.30	1.91	$109
Jul 1998	72	11.74	2.24	$161
Jun 1998	195	11.24	2.24	$436
May 1998	144	12.62	2.21	$318
Apr 1998	141	13.04	2.51	$353
Mar 1998	133	12.80	2.31	$307
Feb 1998	118	13.95	2.30	$271
Jan 1998	137	14.70	2.15	$295
Dec 1997	126	16.32	2.41	$304
Nov 1997	122	18.19	3.09	$377
Oct 1997	116	19.25	3.15	$365
Sep 1997	120	17.74	2.95	$355
Aug 1997	135	17.86	2.55	$345
Jul 1997	169	17.58	2.25	$380
Jun 1997	159	17.24	2.26	$359
May 1997	150	18.97	2.31	$346
Apr 1997	147	17.88	2.08	$306
Mar 1997	140	18.95	1.94	$271
Feb 1997	131	20.49	2.21	$289
Jan 1997	138	23.48	3.54	$488
Dec 1996	133	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	142	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	148	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	136	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	145	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	144	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	147	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	140	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	133	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	138	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	140	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	152	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	98	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	56	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	92	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	85	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	1	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	56	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	92	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	103	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	99	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	95	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	95	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	88	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	111	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	132	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	158	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	66	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	65	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	57	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	46	17.09	—	$0
May 1994	79	15.88	—	$0
Apr 1994	122	14.14	—	$0
Mar 1994	143	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	136	12.50	—	$0
Jan 1994	179	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	209	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	219	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	301	15.85	—	$0
Sep 1993	412	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	380	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	84	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	76	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	88	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	108	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	109	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	91	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	93	16.93	—	$0

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 2008 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Gas                    1 Mcf  × $  6.92 =         $7

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                       $7

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. 7B/G/105497 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.