BLACK RANCH

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

Operated by XTO ENERGY INC. (P-5 945936) in the COCKRELL (STRAWN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 120663District 7BField 19280700NGPA filingGasSave Export

Value, all time

$155 k

Jan 1993 – Jul 2020

Value, last 12 filed months

$38

at the published price for each month

Months reported

331

no gaps in the span

Streams

gas

The COCKRELL (STRAWN) 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 92 leases and 92 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1982-02-24

as the register files it

Field class

Gas

the register's own label

Between wells

—

no field rule filed

From a lease line

—

no field rule filed

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	61,132 Mcf	$154,521
Total			$154,521

22,982 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 32.5480, -97.9169. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.54800, -97.91694 · 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

100.0%

1 of 1 wells

Median depth

5,600 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

34.3 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 5,600 ft.

Completions filed

Mar 1986

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Jul 2020

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 34.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 34.3 years and 34.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-22130773	19	5,600 ft	Mar 1986	Jul 2020	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 (331)

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

331 months


Jul 2020	0	38.37	1.83	$0
Jun 2020	0	34.90	1.69	$0
May 2020	15	16.92	1.81	$27
Apr 2020	0	14.75	1.80	$0
Mar 2020	0	30.34	1.86	$0
Feb 2020	0	49.88	1.98	$0
Jan 2020	0	57.25	2.09	$0
Dec 2019	0	59.01	2.30	$0
Nov 2019	0	55.30	2.75	$0
Oct 2019	0	53.47	2.42	$0
Sep 2019	4	55.05	2.66	$11
Aug 2019	0	53.11	2.30	$0
Jul 2019	0	56.27	2.46	$0
Jun 2019	0	52.78	2.49	$0
May 2019	0	58.48	2.74	$0
Apr 2019	5	62.63	2.75	$14
Mar 2019	30	56.80	3.06	$92
Feb 2019	31	50.85	2.79	$87
Jan 2019	48	46.03	3.23	$155
Dec 2018	47	46.59	4.19	$197
Nov 2018	82	52.93	4.24	$347
Oct 2018	59	61.44	3.40	$200
Sep 2018	79	59.54	3.11	$246
Aug 2018	51	59.40	3.07	$156
Jul 2018	37	65.14	2.93	$108
Jun 2018	54	60.18	3.08	$166
May 2018	21	65.38	2.90	$61
Apr 2018	17	63.84	2.90	$49
Mar 2018	34	61.22	2.79	$95
Feb 2018	23	61.78	2.77	$64
Jan 2018	27	62.87	4.01	$108
Dec 2017	24	57.27	2.92	$70
Nov 2017	39	55.42	3.12	$122
Oct 2017	38	49.29	2.98	$113
Sep 2017	12	47.52	3.09	$37
Aug 2017	60	45.37	3.00	$180
Jul 2017	66	43.87	3.09	$204
Jun 2017	50	42.49	3.09	$154
May 2017	0	45.37	3.26	$0
Apr 2017	45	47.93	3.21	$145
Mar 2017	41	46.77	2.98	$122
Feb 2017	0	50.45	2.95	$0
Jan 2017	10	49.41	3.42	$34
Dec 2016	6	48.76	3.72	$22
Nov 2016	15	42.49	2.64	$40
Oct 2016	21	46.19	3.09	$65
Sep 2016	24	41.55	3.10	$74
Aug 2016	36	41.44	2.92	$105
Jul 2016	23	41.62	2.92	$67
Jun 2016	38	45.35	2.69	$102
May 2016	21	42.52	1.99	$42
Apr 2016	12	36.56	1.99	$24
Mar 2016	9	33.01	1.79	$16
Feb 2016	0	26.47	2.06	$0
Jan 2016	0	27.35	2.36	$0
Dec 2015	0	32.36	2.00	$0
Nov 2015	0	38.79	2.17	$0
Oct 2015	0	43.55	2.43	$0
Sep 2015	4	42.99	2.76	$11
Aug 2015	3	40.16	2.87	$9
Jul 2015	6	48.15	2.95	$18
Jun 2015	0	56.15	2.88	$0
May 2015	0	55.21	2.96	$0
Apr 2015	0	49.82	2.71	$0
Mar 2015	20	42.89	2.93	$59
Feb 2015	25	44.66	2.98	$74
Jan 2015	26	43.43	3.10	$81
Dec 2014	0	54.69	3.59	$0
Nov 2014	0	70.46	4.25	$0
Oct 2014	1	78.30	3.90	$4
Sep 2014	13	86.16	4.05	$53
Aug 2014	6	89.39	4.04	$24
Jul 2014	10	96.56	4.18	$42
Jun 2014	0	98.16	4.74	$0
May 2014	142	94.73	4.73	$671
Apr 2014	40	95.94	4.81	$192
Mar 2014	10	95.89	5.06	$51
Feb 2014	45	97.40	6.19	$279
Jan 2014	51	90.40	4.86	$248
Dec 2013	48	91.82	4.35	$209
Nov 2013	47	88.85	3.74	$176
Oct 2013	43	97.42	3.78	$163
Sep 2013	15	104.11	3.72	$56
Aug 2013	43	104.25	3.52	$151
Jul 2013	44	102.52	3.72	$164
Jun 2013	30	94.40	3.93	$118
May 2013	39	94.83	4.15	$162
Apr 2013	43	93.96	4.28	$184
Mar 2013	22	93.62	3.91	$86
Feb 2013	48	91.23	3.42	$164
Jan 2013	45	91.60	3.42	$154
Dec 2012	11	86.77	3.42	$38
Nov 2012	12	86.95	3.62	$44
Oct 2012	0	89.38	3.40	$0
Sep 2012	15	94.67	2.92	$44
Aug 2012	25	92.66	2.91	$73
Jul 2012	0	85.13	3.02	$0
Jun 2012	0	79.82	2.52	$0
May 2012	22	91.61	2.49	$55
Apr 2012	23	101.65	2.00	$46
Mar 2012	12	105.05	2.22	$27
Feb 2012	6	101.10	2.57	$15
Jan 2012	0	98.09	2.73	$0
Dec 2011	0	96.87	3.24	$0
Nov 2011	0	95.72	3.31	$0
Oct 2011	0	84.98	3.65	$0
Sep 2011	0	83.62	3.99	$0
Aug 2011	2	83.40	4.15	$8
Jul 2011	25	94.14	4.52	$113
Jun 2011	31	92.90	4.64	$144
May 2011	20	98.13	4.40	$88
Apr 2011	29	105.96	4.33	$126
Mar 2011	31	96.36	4.06	$126
Feb 2011	11	85.64	4.18	$46
Jan 2011	0	86.50	4.59	$0
Dec 2010	18	85.73	4.35	$78
Nov 2010	0	80.84	3.80	$0
Oct 2010	17	78.10	3.51	$60
Sep 2010	20	72.63	3.98	$80
Aug 2010	63	73.68	4.42	$278
Jul 2010	5	72.55	4.74	$24
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	2	72.54	4.11	$8
Sep 2009	45	65.54	3.06	$138
Aug 2009	15	67.42	3.22	$48
Jul 2009	39	61.13	3.46	$135
Jun 2009	42	66.16	3.90	$164
May 2009	0	54.74	3.93	$0
Apr 2009	0	46.77	3.59	$0
Mar 2009	52	42.14	4.06	$211
Feb 2009	61	32.81	4.63	$283
Jan 2009	0	35.86	5.37	$0
Dec 2008	0	37.10	5.98	$0
Nov 2008	112	55.49	6.86	$768
Oct 2008	115	75.24	6.92	$796
Sep 2008	104	101.76	7.88	$819
Aug 2008	40	114.22	8.48	$339
Jul 2008	81	131.08	11.39	$923
Jun 2008	19	131.33	13.03	$248
May 2008	50	123.17	11.57	$579
Apr 2008	0	110.31	10.45	$0
Mar 2008	77	101.90	9.66	$744
Feb 2008	97	92.53	8.77	$851
Jan 2008	61	90.38	8.21	$501
Dec 2007	58	88.33	7.30	$424
Nov 2007	0	91.67	7.29	$0
Oct 2007	89	82.85	6.92	$616
Sep 2007	82	75.84	6.24	$512
Aug 2007	87	69.06	6.39	$556
Jul 2007	100	70.90	6.39	$639
Jun 2007	82	62.00	7.55	$619
May 2007	141	58.74	7.85	$1,106
Apr 2007	119	59.61	7.81	$929
Mar 2007	90	56.92	7.30	$657
Feb 2007	58	55.10	8.22	$477
Jan 2007	56	50.30	6.73	$377
Dec 2006	94	56.65	6.92	$650
Nov 2006	209	54.20	7.62	$1,592
Oct 2006	101	54.90	6.01	$607
Sep 2006	70	60.08	5.04	$353
Aug 2006	56	68.71	7.34	$411
Jul 2006	81	69.37	6.34	$514
Jun 2006	127	66.28	6.38	$811
May 2006	125	66.01	6.42	$803
Apr 2006	122	64.39	7.36	$898
Mar 2006	124	56.70	7.08	$878
Feb 2006	98	57.59	7.75	$760
Jan 2006	81	60.59	8.93	$724
Dec 2005	106	54.94	13.42	$1,422
Nov 2005	131	54.69	10.59	$1,387
Oct 2005	164	58.34	13.80	$2,263
Sep 2005	133	61.45	12.08	$1,607
Aug 2005	126	61.51	9.80	$1,234
Jul 2005	132	55.69	7.84	$1,035
Jun 2005	114	52.33	7.38	$841
May 2005	182	45.22	6.65	$1,211
Apr 2005	164	49.20	7.36	$1,207
Mar 2005	211	50.37	7.15	$1,510
Feb 2005	223	45.22	6.31	$1,408
Jan 2005	170	43.16	6.32	$1,075
Dec 2004	148	39.86	6.75	$999
Nov 2004	176	45.28	6.33	$1,114
Oct 2004	253	49.70	6.52	$1,648
Sep 2004	274	43.24	5.28	$1,448
Aug 2004	210	42.37	5.55	$1,166
Jul 2004	257	38.28	6.08	$1,564
Jun 2004	282	36.10	6.43	$1,814
May 2004	249	37.48	6.49	$1,617
Apr 2004	249	34.47	5.86	$1,459
Mar 2004	229	34.36	5.53	$1,266
Feb 2004	220	32.45	5.51	$1,212
Jan 2004	246	32.03	6.30	$1,550
Dec 2003	232	30.26	6.30	$1,462
Nov 2003	223	28.80	4.60	$1,025
Oct 2003	228	28.17	4.76	$1,085
Sep 2003	251	26.31	4.75	$1,192
Aug 2003	353	29.76	5.13	$1,811
Jul 2003	212	29.41	5.17	$1,096
Jun 2003	170	28.56	5.98	$1,017
May 2003	177	26.59	5.97	$1,057
Apr 2003	181	26.67	5.41	$979
Mar 2003	139	31.14	6.10	$847
Feb 2003	0	33.48	7.93	$0
Jan 2003	227	30.31	5.58	$1,267
Dec 2002	225	26.91	4.85	$1,092
Nov 2002	196	24.66	4.14	$811
Oct 2002	213	26.46	4.23	$901
Sep 2002	234	27.44	3.64	$851
Aug 2002	245	25.96	3.16	$775
Jul 2002	298	24.58	3.06	$912
Jun 2002	249	23.73	3.34	$831
May 2002	245	24.66	3.58	$878
Apr 2002	251	23.65	3.51	$882
Mar 2002	172	22.00	3.10	$534
Feb 2002	232	18.22	2.38	$551
Jan 2002	198	17.17	2.38	$470
Dec 2001	213	16.93	2.36	$504
Nov 2001	206	18.07	2.41	$496
Oct 2001	311	19.78	2.53	$786
Sep 2001	300	24.26	2.25	$675
Aug 2001	275	24.87	3.05	$840
Jul 2001	186	23.93	3.20	$595
Jun 2001	336	24.56	3.82	$1,285
May 2001	348	25.52	4.31	$1,499
Apr 2001	202	24.68	5.34	$1,078
Mar 2001	258	24.54	5.38	$1,387
Feb 2001	282	27.75	5.77	$1,626
Jan 2001	279	27.47	8.40	$2,343
Dec 2000	240	26.88	9.12	$2,189
Nov 2000	262	32.21	5.66	$1,482
Oct 2000	310	31.23	5.15	$1,595
Sep 2000	373	31.87	5.19	$1,935
Aug 2000	464	29.64	4.54	$2,107
Jul 2000	315	28.53	4.09	$1,288
Jun 2000	303	29.30	4.40	$1,332
May 2000	366	27.26	3.68	$1,347
Apr 2000	393	24.51	3.12	$1,225
Mar 2000	408	28.42	2.86	$1,167
Feb 2000	402	27.62	2.73	$1,096
Jan 2000	449	25.27	2.48	$1,114
Dec 1999	437	24.28	2.42	$1,059
Nov 1999	495	23.19	2.43	$1,205
Oct 1999	522	20.98	2.80	$1,464
Sep 1999	505	21.75	2.62	$1,323
Aug 1999	547	19.26	2.88	$1,573
Jul 1999	486	17.89	2.37	$1,153
Jun 1999	424	15.94	2.36	$1,002
May 1999	450	15.79	2.32	$1,044
Apr 1999	453	15.10	2.21	$1,000
Mar 1999	406	12.47	1.84	$746
Feb 1999	364	9.98	1.82	$662
Jan 1999	367	10.38	1.90	$697
Dec 1998	400	9.20	1.77	$709
Nov 1998	480	10.89	2.19	$1,049
Oct 1998	551	12.42	1.97	$1,085
Sep 1998	507	12.59	2.08	$1,056
Aug 1998	478	11.30	1.91	$912
Jul 1998	525	11.74	2.24	$1,175
Jun 1998	324	11.24	2.24	$725
May 1998	362	12.62	2.21	$799
Apr 1998	372	13.04	2.51	$932
Mar 1998	285	12.80	2.31	$658
Feb 1998	244	13.95	2.30	$561
Jan 1998	273	14.70	2.15	$588
Dec 1997	312	16.32	2.41	$752
Nov 1997	490	18.19	3.09	$1,513
Oct 1997	312	19.25	3.15	$983
Sep 1997	432	17.74	2.95	$1,277
Aug 1997	328	17.86	2.55	$838
Jul 1997	332	17.58	2.25	$746
Jun 1997	322	17.24	2.26	$727
May 1997	331	18.97	2.31	$764
Apr 1997	451	17.88	2.08	$939
Mar 1997	512	18.95	1.94	$993
Feb 1997	467	20.49	2.21	$1,030
Jan 1997	540	23.48	3.54	$1,911
Dec 1996	577	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	316	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	115	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	307	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	344	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	271	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	383	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	485	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	440	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	387	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	375	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	479	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	392	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	478	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	418	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	378	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	527	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	403	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	468	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	396	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	234	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	370	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	502	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	407	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	412	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	276	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	380	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	309	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	466	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	344	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	284	17.09	—	$0
May 1994	315	15.88	—	$0
Apr 1994	446	14.14	—	$0
Mar 1994	502	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	504	12.50	—	$0
Jan 1994	671	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	650	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	689	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	874	15.85	—	$0
Sep 1993	649	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	723	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	733	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	791	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	803	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	516	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	751	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	721	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	721	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.

May 2020 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Gas                   15 Mcf  × $  1.81 =        $27

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Month total                                      $27

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/120663 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.