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 125544District 7BField 19280700NGPA filingGasSave Export

Value, all time

$257 k

Jan 1993 – Aug 2020

Value, last 12 filed months

$3 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

332

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	102,741 Mcf	$257,085
Total			$257,085

37,931 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 32.5253, -97.9412. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.52528, -97.94117 · 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

2,980 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

32.9 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 2,980 ft.

Completions filed

Sep 1987

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Aug 2020

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 32.9 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 32.9 years and 32.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-22130810	27	2,980 ft	Sep 1987	Aug 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 (332)

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

332 months


Aug 2020	0	39.98	2.39	$0
Jul 2020	0	38.37	1.83	$0
Jun 2020	0	34.90	1.69	$0
May 2020	138	16.92	1.81	$250
Apr 2020	166	14.75	1.80	$300
Mar 2020	164	30.34	1.86	$304
Feb 2020	154	49.88	1.98	$305
Jan 2020	173	57.25	2.09	$362
Dec 2019	164	59.01	2.30	$378
Nov 2019	168	55.30	2.75	$462
Oct 2019	60	53.47	2.42	$145
Sep 2019	4	55.05	2.66	$11
Aug 2019	123	53.11	2.30	$283
Jul 2019	291	56.27	2.46	$716
Jun 2019	141	52.78	2.49	$351
May 2019	24	58.48	2.74	$66
Apr 2019	186	62.63	2.75	$512
Mar 2019	0	56.80	3.06	$0
Feb 2019	50	50.85	2.79	$140
Jan 2019	139	46.03	3.23	$449
Dec 2018	348	46.59	4.19	$1,457
Nov 2018	560	52.93	4.24	$2,373
Oct 2018	255	61.44	3.40	$867
Sep 2018	296	59.54	3.11	$920
Aug 2018	179	59.40	3.07	$549
Jul 2018	143	65.14	2.93	$419
Jun 2018	221	60.18	3.08	$680
May 2018	116	65.38	2.90	$336
Apr 2018	129	63.84	2.90	$374
Mar 2018	200	61.22	2.79	$557
Feb 2018	167	61.78	2.77	$462
Jan 2018	238	62.87	4.01	$954
Dec 2017	144	57.27	2.92	$421
Nov 2017	238	55.42	3.12	$742
Oct 2017	182	49.29	2.98	$543
Sep 2017	26	47.52	3.09	$80
Aug 2017	169	45.37	3.00	$508
Jul 2017	188	43.87	3.09	$580
Jun 2017	194	42.49	3.09	$599
May 2017	224	45.37	3.26	$731
Apr 2017	396	47.93	3.21	$1,272
Mar 2017	291	46.77	2.98	$868
Feb 2017	323	50.45	2.95	$954
Jan 2017	372	49.41	3.42	$1,272
Dec 2016	58	48.76	3.72	$216
Nov 2016	211	42.49	2.64	$558
Oct 2016	193	46.19	3.09	$596
Sep 2016	190	41.55	3.10	$589
Aug 2016	162	41.44	2.92	$474
Jul 2016	207	41.62	2.92	$605
Jun 2016	172	45.35	2.69	$462
May 2016	380	42.52	1.99	$757
Apr 2016	204	36.56	1.99	$406
Mar 2016	267	33.01	1.79	$479
Feb 2016	373	26.47	2.06	$770
Jan 2016	499	27.35	2.36	$1,180
Dec 2015	417	32.36	2.00	$835
Nov 2015	337	38.79	2.17	$730
Oct 2015	275	43.55	2.43	$667
Sep 2015	390	42.99	2.76	$1,076
Aug 2015	355	40.16	2.87	$1,020
Jul 2015	346	48.15	2.95	$1,019
Jun 2015	271	56.15	2.88	$781
May 2015	263	55.21	2.96	$777
Apr 2015	276	49.82	2.71	$747
Mar 2015	382	42.89	2.93	$1,121
Feb 2015	270	44.66	2.98	$804
Jan 2015	274	43.43	3.10	$850
Dec 2014	340	54.69	3.59	$1,221
Nov 2014	421	70.46	4.25	$1,790
Oct 2014	410	78.30	3.90	$1,599
Sep 2014	469	86.16	4.05	$1,897
Aug 2014	450	89.39	4.04	$1,816
Jul 2014	451	96.56	4.18	$1,885
Jun 2014	337	98.16	4.74	$1,596
May 2014	303	94.73	4.73	$1,432
Apr 2014	479	95.94	4.81	$2,304
Mar 2014	378	95.89	5.06	$1,911
Feb 2014	240	97.40	6.19	$1,486
Jan 2014	234	90.40	4.86	$1,137
Dec 2013	321	91.82	4.35	$1,398
Nov 2013	244	88.85	3.74	$912
Oct 2013	300	97.42	3.78	$1,134
Sep 2013	258	104.11	3.72	$959
Aug 2013	202	104.25	3.52	$712
Jul 2013	148	102.52	3.72	$550
Jun 2013	151	94.40	3.93	$594
May 2013	198	94.83	4.15	$822
Apr 2013	306	93.96	4.28	$1,310
Mar 2013	342	93.62	3.91	$1,338
Feb 2013	281	91.23	3.42	$961
Jan 2013	107	91.60	3.42	$366
Dec 2012	197	86.77	3.42	$674
Nov 2012	228	86.95	3.62	$826
Oct 2012	144	89.38	3.40	$490
Sep 2012	162	94.67	2.92	$473
Aug 2012	168	92.66	2.91	$489
Jul 2012	136	85.13	3.02	$411
Jun 2012	141	79.82	2.52	$355
May 2012	170	91.61	2.49	$423
Apr 2012	193	101.65	2.00	$385
Mar 2012	279	105.05	2.22	$620
Feb 2012	222	101.10	2.57	$571
Jan 2012	284	98.09	2.73	$776
Dec 2011	210	96.87	3.24	$680
Nov 2011	184	95.72	3.31	$609
Oct 2011	173	84.98	3.65	$631
Sep 2011	0	83.62	3.99	$0
Aug 2011	0	83.40	4.15	$0
Jul 2011	30	94.14	4.52	$136
Jun 2011	164	92.90	4.64	$761
May 2011	147	98.13	4.40	$648
Apr 2011	115	105.96	4.33	$498
Mar 2011	129	96.36	4.06	$523
Feb 2011	188	85.64	4.18	$786
Jan 2011	156	86.50	4.59	$716
Dec 2010	98	85.73	4.35	$426
Nov 2010	0	80.84	3.80	$0
Oct 2010	134	78.10	3.51	$470
Sep 2010	109	72.63	3.98	$434
Aug 2010	249	73.68	4.42	$1,100
Jul 2010	106	72.55	4.74	$502
Jun 2010	109	70.36	4.91	$535
May 2010	163	71.12	4.24	$690
Apr 2010	136	81.69	4.12	$561
Mar 2010	359	78.39	4.39	$1,576
Feb 2010	135	73.58	5.44	$735
Jan 2010	0	74.36	5.96	$0
Dec 2009	177	71.44	5.48	$971
Nov 2009	179	74.59	3.75	$672
Oct 2009	274	72.54	4.11	$1,126
Sep 2009	136	65.54	3.06	$417
Aug 2009	63	67.42	3.22	$203
Jul 2009	96	61.13	3.46	$333
Jun 2009	69	66.16	3.90	$269
May 2009	126	54.74	3.93	$495
Apr 2009	238	46.77	3.59	$854
Mar 2009	251	42.14	4.06	$1,019
Feb 2009	185	32.81	4.63	$857
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	238	75.24	6.92	$1,647
Sep 2008	207	101.76	7.88	$1,631
Aug 2008	120	114.22	8.48	$1,018
Jul 2008	112	131.08	11.39	$1,276
Jun 2008	105	131.33	13.03	$1,368
May 2008	96	123.17	11.57	$1,111
Apr 2008	0	110.31	10.45	$0
Mar 2008	158	101.90	9.66	$1,527
Feb 2008	215	92.53	8.77	$1,886
Jan 2008	157	90.38	8.21	$1,288
Dec 2007	179	88.33	7.30	$1,307
Nov 2007	120	91.67	7.29	$875
Oct 2007	93	82.85	6.92	$644
Sep 2007	108	75.84	6.24	$674
Aug 2007	155	69.06	6.39	$990
Jul 2007	149	70.90	6.39	$952
Jun 2007	130	62.00	7.55	$981
May 2007	172	58.74	7.85	$1,350
Apr 2007	118	59.61	7.81	$921
Mar 2007	140	56.92	7.30	$1,022
Feb 2007	109	55.10	8.22	$896
Jan 2007	130	50.30	6.73	$874
Dec 2006	141	56.65	6.92	$976
Nov 2006	144	54.20	7.62	$1,097
Oct 2006	190	54.90	6.01	$1,143
Sep 2006	150	60.08	5.04	$756
Aug 2006	99	68.71	7.34	$727
Jul 2006	121	69.37	6.34	$767
Jun 2006	153	66.28	6.38	$977
May 2006	167	66.01	6.42	$1,073
Apr 2006	196	64.39	7.36	$1,443
Mar 2006	177	56.70	7.08	$1,254
Feb 2006	14	57.59	7.75	$109
Jan 2006	145	60.59	8.93	$1,295
Dec 2005	166	54.94	13.42	$2,227
Nov 2005	162	54.69	10.59	$1,715
Oct 2005	179	58.34	13.80	$2,469
Sep 2005	187	61.45	12.08	$2,259
Aug 2005	172	61.51	9.80	$1,685
Jul 2005	169	55.69	7.84	$1,326
Jun 2005	140	52.33	7.38	$1,033
May 2005	168	45.22	6.65	$1,117
Apr 2005	153	49.20	7.36	$1,126
Mar 2005	176	50.37	7.15	$1,259
Feb 2005	218	45.22	6.31	$1,376
Jan 2005	205	43.16	6.32	$1,296
Dec 2004	207	39.86	6.75	$1,397
Nov 2004	208	45.28	6.33	$1,317
Oct 2004	233	49.70	6.52	$1,518
Sep 2004	223	43.24	5.28	$1,178
Aug 2004	203	42.37	5.55	$1,127
Jul 2004	209	38.28	6.08	$1,272
Jun 2004	221	36.10	6.43	$1,422
May 2004	224	37.48	6.49	$1,455
Apr 2004	209	34.47	5.86	$1,224
Mar 2004	259	34.36	5.53	$1,432
Feb 2004	231	32.45	5.51	$1,273
Jan 2004	249	32.03	6.30	$1,569
Dec 2003	227	30.26	6.30	$1,430
Nov 2003	248	28.80	4.60	$1,140
Oct 2003	256	28.17	4.76	$1,218
Sep 2003	240	26.31	4.75	$1,140
Aug 2003	241	29.76	5.13	$1,236
Jul 2003	239	29.41	5.17	$1,236
Jun 2003	208	28.56	5.98	$1,244
May 2003	261	26.59	5.97	$1,559
Apr 2003	236	26.67	5.41	$1,276
Mar 2003	259	31.14	6.10	$1,579
Feb 2003	247	33.48	7.93	$1,958
Jan 2003	266	30.31	5.58	$1,485
Dec 2002	261	26.91	4.85	$1,267
Nov 2002	256	24.66	4.14	$1,059
Oct 2002	264	26.46	4.23	$1,116
Sep 2002	268	27.44	3.64	$974
Aug 2002	258	25.96	3.16	$816
Jul 2002	296	24.58	3.06	$906
Jun 2002	272	23.73	3.34	$908
May 2002	276	24.66	3.58	$989
Apr 2002	258	23.65	3.51	$906
Mar 2002	277	22.00	3.10	$859
Feb 2002	167	18.22	2.38	$397
Jan 2002	230	17.17	2.38	$546
Dec 2001	305	16.93	2.36	$721
Nov 2001	264	18.07	2.41	$635
Oct 2001	255	19.78	2.53	$645
Sep 2001	276	24.26	2.25	$621
Aug 2001	288	24.87	3.05	$879
Jul 2001	267	23.93	3.20	$854
Jun 2001	266	24.56	3.82	$1,017
May 2001	287	25.52	4.31	$1,236
Apr 2001	272	24.68	5.34	$1,451
Mar 2001	269	24.54	5.38	$1,446
Feb 2001	250	27.75	5.77	$1,442
Jan 2001	270	27.47	8.40	$2,268
Dec 2000	272	26.88	9.12	$2,481
Nov 2000	260	32.21	5.66	$1,471
Oct 2000	263	31.23	5.15	$1,353
Sep 2000	246	31.87	5.19	$1,276
Aug 2000	258	29.64	4.54	$1,172
Jul 2000	278	28.53	4.09	$1,137
Jun 2000	274	29.30	4.40	$1,205
May 2000	280	27.26	3.68	$1,030
Apr 2000	283	24.51	3.12	$882
Mar 2000	292	28.42	2.86	$835
Feb 2000	285	27.62	2.73	$777
Jan 2000	317	25.27	2.48	$786
Dec 1999	313	24.28	2.42	$759
Nov 1999	297	23.19	2.43	$723
Oct 1999	323	20.98	2.80	$906
Sep 1999	319	21.75	2.62	$835
Aug 1999	328	19.26	2.88	$943
Jul 1999	354	17.89	2.37	$840
Jun 1999	338	15.94	2.36	$798
May 1999	329	15.79	2.32	$764
Apr 1999	308	15.10	2.21	$680
Mar 1999	329	12.47	1.84	$605
Feb 1999	306	9.98	1.82	$556
Jan 1999	344	10.38	1.90	$654
Dec 1998	331	9.20	1.77	$587
Nov 1998	332	10.89	2.19	$726
Oct 1998	354	12.42	1.97	$697
Sep 1998	345	12.59	2.08	$719
Aug 1998	357	11.30	1.91	$681
Jul 1998	375	11.74	2.24	$839
Jun 1998	448	11.24	2.24	$1,002
May 1998	337	12.62	2.21	$744
Apr 1998	331	13.04	2.51	$829
Mar 1998	357	12.80	2.31	$824
Feb 1998	461	13.95	2.30	$1,060
Jan 1998	342	14.70	2.15	$737
Dec 1997	397	16.32	2.41	$957
Nov 1997	481	18.19	3.09	$1,485
Oct 1997	514	19.25	3.15	$1,619
Sep 1997	369	17.74	2.95	$1,090
Aug 1997	365	17.86	2.55	$932
Jul 1997	386	17.58	2.25	$867
Jun 1997	403	17.24	2.26	$910
May 1997	471	18.97	2.31	$1,087
Apr 1997	447	17.88	2.08	$931
Mar 1997	572	18.95	1.94	$1,109
Feb 1997	454	20.49	2.21	$1,001
Jan 1997	528	23.48	3.54	$1,869
Dec 1996	699	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	603	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	594	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	587	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	535	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	550	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	546	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	594	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	646	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	560	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	699	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	472	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	532	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	623	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	648	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	706	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	725	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	705	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	627	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	700	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	690	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	673	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	643	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	974	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	802	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	749	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	749	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	861	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	1,023	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	989	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	724	17.09	—	$0
May 1994	724	15.88	—	$0
Apr 1994	772	14.14	—	$0
Mar 1994	960	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	933	12.50	—	$0
Jan 1994	772	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	819	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	1,058	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	1,257	15.85	—	$0
Sep 1993	961	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	1,168	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	1,002	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	931	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	1,095	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	906	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	1,091	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	1,054	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	1,200	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                  138 Mcf  × $  1.81 =       $250

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                     $250

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/125544 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.