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 137622District 7BField 192807002 tax incentive programmesGasSave Export

Value, all time

$196 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
High Cost Gas	1	1	1993-10-13	128574
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	77,542 Mcf	$195,683
Total			$195,683

29,542 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 32.5247, -97.9312. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.52470, -97.93124 · 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

2,852 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

29.4 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 2,852 ft.

Completions filed

Mar 1991

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Aug 2020

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 29.4 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 29.4 years and 29.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-22130902	16 M	2,852 ft	Mar 1991	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	111	16.92	1.81	$201
Apr 2020	128	14.75	1.80	$231
Mar 2020	205	30.34	1.86	$381
Feb 2020	193	49.88	1.98	$382
Jan 2020	219	57.25	2.09	$459
Dec 2019	204	59.01	2.30	$470
Nov 2019	224	55.30	2.75	$616
Oct 2019	80	53.47	2.42	$193
Sep 2019	181	55.05	2.66	$481
Aug 2019	215	53.11	2.30	$495
Jul 2019	128	56.27	2.46	$315
Jun 2019	81	52.78	2.49	$202
May 2019	14	58.48	2.74	$38
Apr 2019	104	62.63	2.75	$286
Mar 2019	101	56.80	3.06	$309
Feb 2019	23	50.85	2.79	$64
Jan 2019	51	46.03	3.23	$165
Dec 2018	109	46.59	4.19	$456
Nov 2018	42	52.93	4.24	$178
Oct 2018	15	61.44	3.40	$51
Sep 2018	0	59.54	3.11	$0
Aug 2018	14	59.40	3.07	$43
Jul 2018	16	65.14	2.93	$47
Jun 2018	29	60.18	3.08	$89
May 2018	35	65.38	2.90	$102
Apr 2018	16	63.84	2.90	$46
Mar 2018	29	61.22	2.79	$81
Feb 2018	19	61.78	2.77	$53
Jan 2018	29	62.87	4.01	$116
Dec 2017	26	57.27	2.92	$76
Nov 2017	30	55.42	3.12	$94
Oct 2017	0	49.29	2.98	$0
Sep 2017	0	47.52	3.09	$0
Aug 2017	21	45.37	3.00	$63
Jul 2017	19	43.87	3.09	$59
Jun 2017	35	42.49	3.09	$108
May 2017	23	45.37	3.26	$75
Apr 2017	27	47.93	3.21	$87
Mar 2017	420	46.77	2.98	$1,253
Feb 2017	415	50.45	2.95	$1,225
Jan 2017	21	49.41	3.42	$72
Dec 2016	9	48.76	3.72	$34
Nov 2016	25	42.49	2.64	$66
Oct 2016	15	46.19	3.09	$46
Sep 2016	23	41.55	3.10	$71
Aug 2016	29	41.44	2.92	$85
Jul 2016	21	41.62	2.92	$61
Jun 2016	16	45.35	2.69	$43
May 2016	24	42.52	1.99	$48
Apr 2016	0	36.56	1.99	$0
Mar 2016	45	33.01	1.79	$81
Feb 2016	64	26.47	2.06	$132
Jan 2016	79	27.35	2.36	$187
Dec 2015	60	32.36	2.00	$120
Nov 2015	13	38.79	2.17	$28
Oct 2015	55	43.55	2.43	$133
Sep 2015	56	42.99	2.76	$154
Aug 2015	51	40.16	2.87	$147
Jul 2015	74	48.15	2.95	$218
Jun 2015	2	56.15	2.88	$6
May 2015	21	55.21	2.96	$62
Apr 2015	31	49.82	2.71	$84
Mar 2015	28	42.89	2.93	$82
Feb 2015	16	44.66	2.98	$48
Jan 2015	14	43.43	3.10	$43
Dec 2014	21	54.69	3.59	$75
Nov 2014	15	70.46	4.25	$64
Oct 2014	33	78.30	3.90	$129
Sep 2014	34	86.16	4.05	$138
Aug 2014	15	89.39	4.04	$61
Jul 2014	21	96.56	4.18	$88
Jun 2014	22	98.16	4.74	$104
May 2014	0	94.73	4.73	$0
Apr 2014	32	95.94	4.81	$154
Mar 2014	0	95.89	5.06	$0
Feb 2014	0	97.40	6.19	$0
Jan 2014	0	90.40	4.86	$0
Dec 2013	0	91.82	4.35	$0
Nov 2013	0	88.85	3.74	$0
Oct 2013	18	97.42	3.78	$68
Sep 2013	6	104.11	3.72	$22
Aug 2013	270	104.25	3.52	$951
Jul 2013	206	102.52	3.72	$766
Jun 2013	122	94.40	3.93	$480
May 2013	125	94.83	4.15	$519
Apr 2013	148	93.96	4.28	$634
Mar 2013	161	93.62	3.91	$630
Feb 2013	144	91.23	3.42	$492
Jan 2013	148	91.60	3.42	$506
Dec 2012	164	86.77	3.42	$561
Nov 2012	172	86.95	3.62	$623
Oct 2012	84	89.38	3.40	$286
Sep 2012	206	94.67	2.92	$601
Aug 2012	303	92.66	2.91	$881
Jul 2012	217	85.13	3.02	$656
Jun 2012	224	79.82	2.52	$564
May 2012	132	91.61	2.49	$328
Apr 2012	71	101.65	2.00	$142
Mar 2012	98	105.05	2.22	$218
Feb 2012	50	101.10	2.57	$129
Jan 2012	64	98.09	2.73	$175
Dec 2011	32	96.87	3.24	$104
Nov 2011	0	95.72	3.31	$0
Oct 2011	339	84.98	3.65	$1,237
Sep 2011	251	83.62	3.99	$1,000
Aug 2011	244	83.40	4.15	$1,012
Jul 2011	315	94.14	4.52	$1,423
Jun 2011	173	92.90	4.64	$803
May 2011	222	98.13	4.40	$978
Apr 2011	0	105.96	4.33	$0
Mar 2011	290	96.36	4.06	$1,177
Feb 2011	160	85.64	4.18	$669
Jan 2011	291	86.50	4.59	$1,335
Dec 2010	300	85.73	4.35	$1,304
Nov 2010	0	80.84	3.80	$0
Oct 2010	0	78.10	3.51	$0
Sep 2010	270	72.63	3.98	$1,074
Aug 2010	549	73.68	4.42	$2,426
Jul 2010	151	72.55	4.74	$715
Jun 2010	177	70.36	4.91	$869
May 2010	256	71.12	4.24	$1,084
Apr 2010	185	81.69	4.12	$763
Mar 2010	0	78.39	4.39	$0
Feb 2010	243	73.58	5.44	$1,322
Jan 2010	0	74.36	5.96	$0
Dec 2009	258	71.44	5.48	$1,415
Nov 2009	294	74.59	3.75	$1,103
Oct 2009	0	72.54	4.11	$0
Sep 2009	268	65.54	3.06	$821
Aug 2009	112	67.42	3.22	$360
Jul 2009	130	61.13	3.46	$450
Jun 2009	128	66.16	3.90	$499
May 2009	533	54.74	3.93	$2,092
Apr 2009	152	46.77	3.59	$545
Mar 2009	47	42.14	4.06	$191
Feb 2009	32	32.81	4.63	$148
Jan 2009	0	35.86	5.37	$0
Dec 2008	265	37.10	5.98	$1,584
Nov 2008	103	55.49	6.86	$707
Oct 2008	108	75.24	6.92	$748
Sep 2008	108	101.76	7.88	$851
Aug 2008	91	114.22	8.48	$772
Jul 2008	134	131.08	11.39	$1,526
Jun 2008	233	131.33	13.03	$3,037
May 2008	170	123.17	11.57	$1,968
Apr 2008	0	110.31	10.45	$0
Mar 2008	332	101.90	9.66	$3,208
Feb 2008	0	92.53	8.77	$0
Jan 2008	0	90.38	8.21	$0
Dec 2007	0	88.33	7.30	$0
Nov 2007	1	91.67	7.29	$7
Oct 2007	5	82.85	6.92	$35
Sep 2007	0	75.84	6.24	$0
Aug 2007	0	69.06	6.39	$0
Jul 2007	95	70.90	6.39	$607
Jun 2007	0	62.00	7.55	$0
May 2007	143	58.74	7.85	$1,122
Apr 2007	94	59.61	7.81	$734
Mar 2007	87	56.92	7.30	$635
Feb 2007	41	55.10	8.22	$337
Jan 2007	52	50.30	6.73	$350
Dec 2006	115	56.65	6.92	$796
Nov 2006	112	54.20	7.62	$853
Oct 2006	100	54.90	6.01	$601
Sep 2006	115	60.08	5.04	$579
Aug 2006	66	68.71	7.34	$484
Jul 2006	94	69.37	6.34	$596
Jun 2006	122	66.28	6.38	$779
May 2006	122	66.01	6.42	$784
Apr 2006	132	64.39	7.36	$972
Mar 2006	110	56.70	7.08	$779
Feb 2006	118	57.59	7.75	$915
Jan 2006	113	60.59	8.93	$1,009
Dec 2005	126	54.94	13.42	$1,690
Nov 2005	129	54.69	10.59	$1,366
Oct 2005	164	58.34	13.80	$2,263
Sep 2005	126	61.45	12.08	$1,522
Aug 2005	124	61.51	9.80	$1,215
Jul 2005	143	55.69	7.84	$1,122
Jun 2005	145	52.33	7.38	$1,070
May 2005	166	45.22	6.65	$1,104
Apr 2005	156	49.20	7.36	$1,148
Mar 2005	183	50.37	7.15	$1,309
Feb 2005	137	45.22	6.31	$865
Jan 2005	199	43.16	6.32	$1,258
Dec 2004	155	39.86	6.75	$1,046
Nov 2004	128	45.28	6.33	$810
Oct 2004	206	49.70	6.52	$1,342
Sep 2004	214	43.24	5.28	$1,131
Aug 2004	156	42.37	5.55	$866
Jul 2004	203	38.28	6.08	$1,235
Jun 2004	168	36.10	6.43	$1,081
May 2004	165	37.48	6.49	$1,072
Apr 2004	204	34.47	5.86	$1,195
Mar 2004	205	34.36	5.53	$1,134
Feb 2004	186	32.45	5.51	$1,025
Jan 2004	211	32.03	6.30	$1,329
Dec 2003	225	30.26	6.30	$1,418
Nov 2003	191	28.80	4.60	$878
Oct 2003	196	28.17	4.76	$933
Sep 2003	214	26.31	4.75	$1,016
Aug 2003	201	29.76	5.13	$1,031
Jul 2003	209	29.41	5.17	$1,081
Jun 2003	156	28.56	5.98	$933
May 2003	198	26.59	5.97	$1,183
Apr 2003	226	26.67	5.41	$1,222
Mar 2003	219	31.14	6.10	$1,335
Feb 2003	182	33.48	7.93	$1,443
Jan 2003	235	30.31	5.58	$1,312
Dec 2002	222	26.91	4.85	$1,078
Nov 2002	233	24.66	4.14	$964
Oct 2002	219	26.46	4.23	$926
Sep 2002	230	27.44	3.64	$836
Aug 2002	227	25.96	3.16	$718
Jul 2002	241	24.58	3.06	$738
Jun 2002	238	23.73	3.34	$795
May 2002	263	24.66	3.58	$943
Apr 2002	216	23.65	3.51	$759
Mar 2002	224	22.00	3.10	$695
Feb 2002	211	18.22	2.38	$501
Jan 2002	252	17.17	2.38	$599
Dec 2001	265	16.93	2.36	$627
Nov 2001	238	18.07	2.41	$573
Oct 2001	257	19.78	2.53	$650
Sep 2001	243	24.26	2.25	$547
Aug 2001	236	24.87	3.05	$721
Jul 2001	290	23.93	3.20	$927
Jun 2001	243	24.56	3.82	$929
May 2001	310	25.52	4.31	$1,335
Apr 2001	285	24.68	5.34	$1,521
Mar 2001	308	24.54	5.38	$1,656
Feb 2001	293	27.75	5.77	$1,690
Jan 2001	333	27.47	8.40	$2,797
Dec 2000	357	26.88	9.12	$3,257
Nov 2000	395	32.21	5.66	$2,235
Oct 2000	361	31.23	5.15	$1,858
Sep 2000	333	31.87	5.19	$1,727
Aug 2000	382	29.64	4.54	$1,735
Jul 2000	397	28.53	4.09	$1,624
Jun 2000	425	29.30	4.40	$1,869
May 2000	474	27.26	3.68	$1,744
Apr 2000	331	24.51	3.12	$1,031
Mar 2000	444	28.42	2.86	$1,270
Feb 2000	433	27.62	2.73	$1,181
Jan 2000	445	25.27	2.48	$1,104
Dec 1999	440	24.28	2.42	$1,066
Nov 1999	459	23.19	2.43	$1,117
Oct 1999	1,006	20.98	2.80	$2,821
Sep 1999	256	21.75	2.62	$670
Aug 1999	238	19.26	2.88	$684
Jul 1999	494	17.89	2.37	$1,172
Jun 1999	264	15.94	2.36	$624
May 1999	286	15.79	2.32	$664
Apr 1999	283	15.10	2.21	$625
Mar 1999	266	12.47	1.84	$489
Feb 1999	263	9.98	1.82	$478
Jan 1999	297	10.38	1.90	$564
Dec 1998	260	9.20	1.77	$461
Nov 1998	283	10.89	2.19	$619
Oct 1998	273	12.42	1.97	$538
Sep 1998	306	12.59	2.08	$637
Aug 1998	285	11.30	1.91	$544
Jul 1998	268	11.74	2.24	$600
Jun 1998	277	11.24	2.24	$620
May 1998	274	12.62	2.21	$605
Apr 1998	280	13.04	2.51	$701
Mar 1998	449	12.80	2.31	$1,037
Feb 1998	480	13.95	2.30	$1,104
Jan 1998	410	14.70	2.15	$883
Dec 1997	350	16.32	2.41	$844
Nov 1997	384	18.19	3.09	$1,186
Oct 1997	391	19.25	3.15	$1,232
Sep 1997	390	17.74	2.95	$1,152
Aug 1997	389	17.86	2.55	$994
Jul 1997	386	17.58	2.25	$867
Jun 1997	386	17.24	2.26	$871
May 1997	366	18.97	2.31	$845
Apr 1997	341	17.88	2.08	$710
Mar 1997	461	18.95	1.94	$894
Feb 1997	461	20.49	2.21	$1,017
Jan 1997	461	23.48	3.54	$1,632
Dec 1996	471	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	509	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	565	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	530	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	569	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	594	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	624	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	655	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	452	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	521	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	525	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	486	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	527	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	598	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	507	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	578	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	536	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	445	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	493	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	538	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	549	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	581	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	477	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	597	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	672	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	688	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	765	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	849	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	655	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	597	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	576	17.09	—	$0
May 1994	609	15.88	—	$0
Apr 1994	425	14.14	—	$0
Mar 1994	649	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	691	12.50	—	$0
Jan 1994	831	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	486	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	385	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	803	15.85	—	$0
Sep 1993	544	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	621	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	807	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	774	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	864	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	845	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	809	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	796	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	874	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                  111 Mcf  × $  1.81 =       $201

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Month total                                     $201

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/137622 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.