BLACK RANCH

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

Gas lease lease 134385District 7BField 642231002 tax incentive programmesGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$589 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 2020
Value, last 12 filed months
$380
at the published price for each month
Months reported
332
no gaps in the span
Streams
1
gas

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 5 leases and 5 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1989-12-23
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

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: ALLOCATION FORMULA EFFECTIVE 08/01/90.

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.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
High Cost Gas111993-10-12128579
NGPA2none

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.

StreamBasisVolumeValue
GasProduction240,577 Mcf$589,363
Total$589,363

96,884 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 (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 32.4566, -97.8915. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.45658, -97.89153 · centre of the wells drawn, derived

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
3,014 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
30.5 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 3,014 ft.

Completions filed
Feb 1990
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Aug 2020
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 30.5 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 30.5 years and 30.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-221308845M3,014 ftFeb 1990Aug 2020Yes

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 2020039.982.39$0
Jul 2020038.371.83$0
Jun 2020034.901.69$0
May 2020016.921.81$0
Apr 20205914.751.80$106
Mar 2020030.341.86$0
Feb 20202049.881.98$40
Jan 20202557.252.09$52
Dec 20197959.012.30$182
Nov 2019055.302.75$0
Oct 2019053.472.42$0
Sep 2019055.052.66$0
Aug 2019053.112.30$0
Jul 2019356.272.46$7
Jun 2019752.782.49$17
May 201940158.482.74$1,099
Apr 201928862.632.75$792
Mar 201921256.803.06$649
Feb 20192350.852.79$64
Jan 2019046.033.23$0
Dec 201830146.594.19$1,260
Nov 2018052.934.24$0
Oct 201813261.443.40$449
Sep 201821559.543.11$668
Aug 201826159.403.07$800
Jul 201822365.142.93$654
Jun 201827460.183.08$843
May 201822965.382.90$664
Apr 201815463.842.90$447
Mar 201816261.222.79$451
Feb 201829761.782.77$822
Jan 201824662.874.01$986
Dec 201721257.272.92$619
Nov 201729355.423.12$914
Oct 201721249.292.98$633
Sep 201722347.523.09$688
Aug 201719745.373.00$592
Jul 201730543.873.09$942
Jun 201730142.493.09$929
May 2017045.373.26$0
Apr 201727147.933.21$870
Mar 2017046.772.98$0
Feb 201727450.452.95$809
Jan 201717049.413.42$581
Dec 201616448.763.72$611
Nov 201621542.492.64$569
Oct 201624446.193.09$754
Sep 201624841.553.10$769
Aug 201632641.442.92$953
Jul 201632941.622.92$962
Jun 201632245.352.69$865
May 201617542.521.99$348
Apr 201625736.561.99$512
Mar 201615133.011.79$271
Feb 201627826.472.06$574
Jan 201622827.352.36$539
Dec 20156932.362.00$138
Nov 201517738.792.17$384
Oct 201514143.552.43$342
Sep 201529842.992.76$822
Aug 201515340.162.87$439
Jul 201513448.152.95$395
Jun 201510156.152.88$291
May 201513355.212.96$393
Apr 201518049.822.71$487
Mar 20156542.892.93$191
Feb 20158944.662.98$265
Jan 20153243.433.10$99
Dec 201410154.693.59$363
Nov 20146470.464.25$272
Oct 201418878.303.90$733
Sep 201421086.164.05$850
Aug 20148489.394.04$339
Jul 20147096.564.18$293
Jun 201414398.164.74$677
May 20143694.734.73$170
Apr 20143995.944.81$188
Mar 20141895.895.06$91
Feb 20145597.406.19$341
Jan 20149390.404.86$452
Dec 201321491.824.35$932
Nov 201323088.853.74$860
Oct 201323397.423.78$881
Sep 2013252104.113.72$937
Aug 2013260104.253.52$916
Jul 2013227102.523.72$844
Jun 201323494.403.93$920
May 201324094.834.15$996
Apr 201323893.964.28$1,019
Mar 201329993.623.91$1,170
Feb 201317491.233.42$595
Jan 201315291.603.42$520
Dec 201216986.773.42$578
Nov 201215486.953.62$558
Oct 201215489.383.40$524
Sep 201216894.672.92$490
Aug 201210492.662.91$302
Jul 201217285.133.02$520
Jun 201219579.822.52$491
May 201215191.612.49$376
Apr 2012172101.652.00$343
Mar 20120105.052.22$0
Feb 2012133101.102.57$342
Jan 201217898.092.73$487
Dec 201119196.873.24$619
Nov 201119095.723.31$629
Oct 201119084.983.65$693
Sep 20112483.623.99$96
Aug 201113283.404.15$548
Jul 20111694.144.52$72
Jun 201123292.904.64$1,076
May 201117098.134.40$749
Apr 2011128105.964.33$555
Mar 201120396.364.06$824
Feb 20116685.644.18$276
Jan 201113686.504.59$624
Dec 201019485.734.35$843
Nov 2010080.843.80$0
Oct 201026278.103.51$919
Sep 201022972.633.98$911
Aug 201025373.684.42$1,118
Jul 201018472.554.74$872
Jun 201013770.364.91$673
May 2010071.124.24$0
Apr 201012081.694.12$495
Mar 20107478.394.39$325
Feb 20102873.585.44$152
Jan 2010074.365.96$0
Dec 200911571.445.48$631
Nov 200916774.593.75$627
Oct 200931872.544.11$1,307
Sep 20092765.543.06$83
Aug 2009067.423.22$0
Jul 200929961.133.46$1,036
Jun 200928766.163.90$1,118
May 200940154.743.93$1,574
Apr 200933046.773.59$1,184
Mar 200939442.144.06$1,599
Feb 200939732.814.63$1,839
Jan 200939235.865.37$2,105
Dec 200825237.105.98$1,506
Nov 2008055.496.86$0
Oct 200833175.246.92$2,291
Sep 200890101.767.88$709
Aug 2008138114.228.48$1,171
Jul 2008174131.0811.39$1,982
Jun 20080131.3313.03$0
May 2008177123.1711.57$2,049
Apr 20080110.3110.45$0
Mar 2008486101.909.66$4,697
Feb 200817192.538.77$1,500
Jan 200817790.388.21$1,452
Dec 200728788.337.30$2,096
Nov 200741091.677.29$2,990
Oct 200735282.856.92$2,437
Sep 200735375.846.24$2,204
Aug 200737869.066.39$2,415
Jul 200744270.906.39$2,823
Jun 200743362.007.55$3,268
May 200742458.747.85$3,327
Apr 200758059.617.81$4,527
Mar 200738756.927.30$2,826
Feb 200720555.108.22$1,684
Jan 200720850.306.73$1,399
Dec 20065456.656.92$374
Nov 200612354.207.62$937
Oct 20069054.906.01$541
Sep 2006060.085.04$0
Aug 2006068.717.34$0
Jul 200627069.376.34$1,713
Jun 200632466.286.38$2,068
May 200644966.016.42$2,885
Apr 200648464.397.36$3,562
Mar 200653356.707.08$3,775
Feb 200643557.597.75$3,372
Jan 200632360.598.93$2,885
Dec 200553254.9413.42$7,137
Nov 200559654.6910.59$6,311
Oct 200562958.3413.80$8,678
Sep 200541461.4512.08$5,001
Aug 200566861.519.80$6,544
Jul 200570255.697.84$5,506
Jun 200561952.337.38$4,569
May 200552545.226.65$3,492
Apr 200558549.207.36$4,306
Mar 200568450.377.15$4,894
Feb 200577645.226.31$4,898
Jan 200569843.166.32$4,413
Dec 200465239.866.75$4,402
Nov 200466245.286.33$4,191
Oct 200467849.706.52$4,417
Sep 200471043.245.28$3,752
Aug 200473942.375.55$4,102
Jul 200476838.286.08$4,673
Jun 200461936.106.43$3,982
May 200463737.486.49$4,137
Apr 200464034.475.86$3,749
Mar 200475634.365.53$4,181
Feb 200476232.455.51$4,198
Jan 200471932.036.30$4,529
Dec 200369430.266.30$4,373
Nov 200382928.804.60$3,809
Oct 200382828.174.76$3,941
Sep 200376326.314.75$3,624
Aug 200380729.765.13$4,140
Jul 200364029.415.17$3,309
Jun 200378828.565.98$4,715
May 200378426.595.97$4,683
Apr 200380226.675.41$4,337
Mar 200380131.146.10$4,883
Feb 200374533.487.93$5,905
Jan 200384030.315.58$4,689
Dec 200277726.914.85$3,771
Nov 200244924.664.14$1,858
Oct 200294826.464.23$4,009
Sep 20021,13627.443.64$4,130
Aug 20021,18525.963.16$3,750
Jul 20021,14024.583.06$3,490
Jun 20021,12123.733.34$3,742
May 20021,02424.663.58$3,670
Apr 200297823.653.51$3,435
Mar 20021,11022.003.10$3,444
Feb 200299518.222.38$2,364
Jan 20021,19617.172.38$2,841
Dec 20011,24716.932.36$2,948
Nov 20011,23518.072.41$2,971
Oct 20011,12919.782.53$2,855
Sep 20011,22824.262.25$2,765
Aug 20011,26624.873.05$3,865
Jul 20011,21123.933.20$3,872
Jun 20011,20424.563.82$4,604
May 20011,21125.524.31$5,216
Apr 20011,16924.685.34$6,237
Mar 20011,14924.545.38$6,178
Feb 20011,07327.755.77$6,188
Jan 20011,23027.478.40$10,330
Dec 20001,15726.889.12$10,555
Nov 20001,13532.215.66$6,422
Oct 20001,27331.235.15$6,550
Sep 20001,38731.875.19$7,194
Aug 20001,43429.644.54$6,511
Jul 20001,43428.534.09$5,865
Jun 20001,25729.304.40$5,527
May 20001,34527.263.68$4,949
Apr 20001,16124.513.12$3,618
Mar 20001,43428.422.86$4,101
Feb 20001,13027.622.73$3,081
Jan 20001,34725.272.48$3,341
Dec 19991,33624.282.42$3,238
Nov 19991,17923.192.43$2,870
Oct 19991,25220.982.80$3,510
Sep 19991,41321.752.62$3,700
Aug 19991,22719.262.88$3,528
Jul 19991,19817.892.37$2,842
Jun 199998515.942.36$2,327
May 19991,11115.792.32$2,579
Apr 19991,12115.102.21$2,475
Mar 19991,15712.471.84$2,127
Feb 19991,0049.981.82$1,825
Jan 19991,19410.381.90$2,269
Dec 19981,0869.201.77$1,926
Nov 19981,41610.892.19$3,095
Oct 19981,29812.421.97$2,556
Sep 19981,18012.592.08$2,457
Aug 19981,05411.301.91$2,010
Jul 19981,24211.742.24$2,779
Jun 199892311.242.24$2,065
May 19981,11812.622.21$2,467
Apr 199887113.042.51$2,182
Mar 199865012.802.31$1,501
Feb 199816813.952.30$386
Jan 199886714.702.15$1,868
Dec 19971,31716.322.41$3,175
Nov 199764518.193.09$1,992
Oct 19971,53819.253.15$4,844
Sep 19971,51817.742.95$4,486
Aug 19971,49817.862.55$3,827
Jul 19971,38417.582.25$3,110
Jun 19971,38417.242.26$3,124
May 19971,64618.972.31$3,800
Apr 19971,35217.882.08$2,816
Mar 19972,11918.951.94$4,109
Feb 19972,11920.492.21$4,674
Jan 19972,11923.483.54$7,501
Dec 19961,72423.32$0
Nov 19961,64821.97$0
Oct 19961,85623.31$0
Sep 19961,60522.22$0
Aug 19961,76820.26$0
Jul 19961,67219.55$0
Jun 19961,93118.73$0
May 19961,34119.43$0
Apr 19961,93521.51$0
Mar 19962,06319.38$0
Feb 19961,74316.98$0
Jan 19961,99117.07$0
Dec 19952,30017.19$0
Nov 19952,23316.00$0
Oct 1995015.43$0
Sep 19951,59516.18$0
Aug 19952,08515.92$0
Jul 19951,91515.24$0
Jun 19952,08916.41$0
May 199539917.56$0
Apr 19951,37117.73$0
Mar 19952,04916.44$0
Feb 19951,83616.58$0
Jan 19951,27515.92$0
Dec 19941,88815.03$0
Nov 19942,03215.90$0
Oct 19942,17315.58$0
Sep 19942,27515.29$0
Aug 19942,20116.13$0
Jul 19942,32217.56$0
Jun 19942,34917.09$0
May 19942,18815.88$0
Apr 19942,27214.14$0
Mar 19942,30512.46$0
Feb 19942,22212.50$0
Jan 19942,25612.66$0
Dec 19932,47912.33$0
Nov 19932,11414.49$0
Oct 19932,21515.85$0
Sep 19932,44715.03$0
Aug 19932,86815.66$0
Jul 19932,64015.46$0
Jun 19932,71816.79$0
May 19932,54817.68$0
Apr 19932,47518.05$0
Mar 19932,59118.14$0
Feb 19932,29917.90$0
Jan 19932,58316.93$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.

Apr 2020 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                   59 Mcf  × $  1.80 =       $106

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Month total                                     $106

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/134385 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.