BLACK RANCH

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 137624District 7BField 192807002 tax incentive programmesGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$206 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 2020
Value, last 12 filed months
$2
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 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.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
High Cost Gas111993-10-12128576
NGPA1none

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
GasProduction99,787 Mcf$205,859
Total$205,859

52,576 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 32.5098, -97.9564. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.50981, -97.95637 · 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
3,001 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 3,001 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

42-2213091518M3,001 ftMar 1991Aug 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 2020116.921.81$2
Apr 2020014.751.80$0
Mar 2020030.341.86$0
Feb 2020049.881.98$0
Jan 2020057.252.09$0
Dec 2019059.012.30$0
Nov 2019055.302.75$0
Oct 2019053.472.42$0
Sep 2019055.052.66$0
Aug 2019053.112.30$0
Jul 2019056.272.46$0
Jun 2019052.782.49$0
May 2019058.482.74$0
Apr 2019062.632.75$0
Mar 2019056.803.06$0
Feb 2019050.852.79$0
Jan 2019046.033.23$0
Dec 201823946.594.19$1,000
Nov 2018052.934.24$0
Oct 2018161.443.40$3
Sep 2018059.543.11$0
Aug 20182659.403.07$80
Jul 20182565.142.93$73
Jun 20183460.183.08$105
May 20182065.382.90$58
Apr 2018163.842.90$3
Mar 2018061.222.79$0
Feb 2018061.782.77$0
Jan 2018362.874.01$12
Dec 2017057.272.92$0
Nov 2017055.423.12$0
Oct 2017049.292.98$0
Sep 2017047.523.09$0
Aug 20171845.373.00$54
Jul 2017043.873.09$0
Jun 20178242.493.09$253
May 2017045.373.26$0
Apr 2017047.933.21$0
Mar 201711846.772.98$352
Feb 201713650.452.95$402
Jan 201714349.413.42$489
Dec 201621648.763.72$804
Nov 201611642.492.64$307
Oct 20168446.193.09$260
Sep 20169741.553.10$301
Aug 201612441.442.92$363
Jul 20168241.622.92$240
Jun 2016145.352.69$3
May 20164842.521.99$96
Apr 20162136.561.99$42
Mar 20165733.011.79$102
Feb 20167926.472.06$163
Jan 20166627.352.36$156
Dec 20156632.362.00$132
Nov 20154638.792.17$100
Oct 20155443.552.43$131
Sep 2015542.992.76$14
Aug 2015440.162.87$11
Jul 2015648.152.95$18
Jun 20153656.152.88$104
May 2015455.212.96$12
Apr 20151249.822.71$32
Mar 20155542.892.93$161
Feb 20154844.662.98$143
Jan 20156943.433.10$214
Dec 20146654.693.59$237
Nov 20141170.464.25$47
Oct 20149378.303.90$363
Sep 201412886.164.05$518
Aug 20149789.394.04$391
Jul 20148996.564.18$372
Jun 20145398.164.74$251
May 2014094.734.73$0
Apr 2014095.944.81$0
Mar 20146695.895.06$334
Feb 20147097.406.19$433
Jan 20148190.404.86$394
Dec 20137691.824.35$331
Nov 2013088.853.74$0
Oct 2013097.423.78$0
Sep 20130104.113.72$0
Aug 20130104.253.52$0
Jul 20130102.523.72$0
Jun 2013594.403.93$20
May 2013094.834.15$0
Apr 2013093.964.28$0
Mar 20137793.623.91$301
Feb 20137091.233.42$239
Jan 20137391.603.42$250
Dec 20127286.773.42$246
Nov 20127686.953.62$276
Oct 20123989.383.40$133
Sep 20126594.672.92$190
Aug 20128992.662.91$259
Jul 20125485.133.02$163
Jun 20125679.822.52$141
May 20126491.612.49$159
Apr 201266101.652.00$132
Mar 201260105.052.22$133
Feb 201244101.102.57$113
Jan 20122998.092.73$79
Dec 20111996.873.24$62
Nov 2011095.723.31$0
Oct 2011084.983.65$0
Sep 20113283.623.99$128
Aug 20115583.404.15$228
Jul 20117694.144.52$343
Jun 20112192.904.64$97
May 20112598.134.40$110
Apr 201133105.964.33$143
Mar 20115996.364.06$239
Feb 2011085.644.18$0
Jan 2011086.504.59$0
Dec 2010085.734.35$0
Nov 2010080.843.80$0
Oct 2010278.103.51$7
Sep 2010272.633.98$8
Aug 2010473.684.42$18
Jul 2010072.554.74$0
Jun 20104270.364.91$206
May 201026171.124.24$1,105
Apr 20106381.694.12$260
Mar 2010078.394.39$0
Feb 2010073.585.44$0
Jan 2010074.365.96$0
Dec 20094971.445.48$269
Nov 200921574.593.75$807
Oct 200926072.544.11$1,069
Sep 200921965.543.06$671
Aug 20094467.423.22$142
Jul 200912061.133.46$416
Jun 20098766.163.90$339
May 200921754.743.93$852
Apr 200940846.773.59$1,464
Mar 200915342.144.06$621
Feb 20097732.814.63$357
Jan 2009035.865.37$0
Dec 200859637.105.98$3,562
Nov 200825955.496.86$1,777
Oct 200826475.246.92$1,827
Sep 2008241101.767.88$1,898
Aug 200873114.228.48$619
Jul 2008182131.0811.39$2,073
Jun 2008158131.3313.03$2,059
May 2008137123.1711.57$1,586
Apr 20080110.3110.45$0
Mar 2008122101.909.66$1,179
Feb 200814592.538.77$1,272
Jan 20087390.388.21$599
Dec 200712188.337.30$884
Nov 200711891.677.29$860
Oct 200716482.856.92$1,135
Sep 200714275.846.24$887
Aug 200716069.066.39$1,022
Jul 200715670.906.39$997
Jun 200712662.007.55$951
May 200718358.747.85$1,436
Apr 200717559.617.81$1,366
Mar 200716256.927.30$1,183
Feb 200713455.108.22$1,101
Jan 200718050.306.73$1,211
Dec 200618156.656.92$1,252
Nov 200618954.207.62$1,440
Oct 200620054.906.01$1,203
Sep 200622160.085.04$1,113
Aug 200612368.717.34$903
Jul 200617269.376.34$1,091
Jun 200622766.286.38$1,449
May 200623566.016.42$1,510
Apr 200622464.397.36$1,649
Mar 200622056.707.08$1,558
Feb 200624057.597.75$1,860
Jan 200631760.598.93$2,832
Dec 200524154.9413.42$3,233
Nov 200524354.6910.59$2,573
Oct 200527458.3413.80$3,780
Sep 200517961.4512.08$2,162
Aug 200516261.519.80$1,587
Jul 200520455.697.84$1,600
Jun 200519352.337.38$1,425
May 200521645.226.65$1,437
Apr 200524049.207.36$1,767
Mar 200523450.377.15$1,674
Feb 200524345.226.31$1,534
Jan 200521443.166.32$1,353
Dec 200420239.866.75$1,364
Nov 200420945.286.33$1,323
Oct 200428649.706.52$1,863
Sep 200426043.245.28$1,374
Aug 200422742.375.55$1,260
Jul 200424238.286.08$1,472
Jun 200423536.106.43$1,512
May 200423337.486.49$1,513
Apr 200425634.475.86$1,500
Mar 200427134.365.53$1,499
Feb 200423232.455.51$1,278
Jan 200427032.036.30$1,701
Dec 200326330.266.30$1,657
Nov 200324628.804.60$1,130
Oct 200323328.174.76$1,109
Sep 200323326.314.75$1,107
Aug 200320929.765.13$1,072
Jul 200321229.415.17$1,096
Jun 200321628.565.98$1,292
May 200321626.595.97$1,290
Apr 200327526.675.41$1,487
Mar 200326631.146.10$1,622
Feb 200321233.487.93$1,680
Jan 200327630.315.58$1,541
Dec 200230926.914.85$1,500
Nov 200224624.664.14$1,018
Oct 200224626.464.23$1,040
Sep 200224027.443.64$872
Aug 200221525.963.16$680
Jul 200223624.583.06$723
Jun 200226823.733.34$895
May 200227524.663.58$986
Apr 200215323.653.51$537
Mar 200222822.003.10$707
Feb 200227918.222.38$663
Jan 200228517.172.38$677
Dec 200128616.932.36$676
Nov 200128818.072.41$693
Oct 200127919.782.53$706
Sep 200124024.262.25$540
Aug 200125024.873.05$763
Jul 200126323.933.20$841
Jun 200125624.563.82$979
May 200129925.524.31$1,288
Apr 200127024.685.34$1,441
Mar 200130324.545.38$1,629
Feb 200114827.755.77$854
Jan 200118027.478.40$1,512
Dec 200022826.889.12$2,080
Nov 200032132.215.66$1,816
Oct 200027331.235.15$1,405
Sep 200022331.875.19$1,157
Aug 200025429.644.54$1,153
Jul 200030328.534.09$1,239
Jun 200029829.304.40$1,310
May 200025527.263.68$938
Apr 200024224.513.12$754
Mar 200024228.422.86$692
Feb 200028627.622.73$780
Jan 200035225.272.48$873
Dec 199938424.282.42$931
Nov 199934023.192.43$828
Oct 199940620.982.80$1,138
Sep 199921821.752.62$571
Aug 199936919.262.88$1,061
Jul 199972917.892.37$1,729
Jun 199924315.942.36$574
May 199920015.792.32$464
Apr 199923615.102.21$521
Mar 199924912.471.84$458
Feb 19992349.981.82$425
Jan 199927310.381.90$519
Dec 19982659.201.77$470
Nov 199836710.892.19$802
Oct 199838212.421.97$752
Sep 199839112.592.08$814
Aug 199842911.301.91$818
Jul 199852011.742.24$1,163
Jun 199839711.242.24$888
May 199846712.622.21$1,030
Apr 199838013.042.51$952
Mar 199851112.802.31$1,180
Feb 199840613.952.30$933
Jan 199849414.702.15$1,064
Dec 199752116.322.41$1,256
Nov 199755018.193.09$1,699
Oct 199761919.253.15$1,950
Sep 199757817.742.95$1,708
Aug 199763917.862.55$1,632
Jul 199762117.582.25$1,395
Jun 199762117.242.26$1,402
May 199762618.972.31$1,445
Apr 199769717.882.08$1,452
Mar 199764418.951.94$1,249
Feb 199764420.492.21$1,421
Jan 199764423.483.54$2,280
Dec 199645923.32$0
Nov 199656521.97$0
Oct 199637823.31$0
Sep 199677522.22$0
Aug 199671320.26$0
Jul 199690419.55$0
Jun 199685618.73$0
May 199686819.43$0
Apr 199689621.51$0
Mar 199695819.38$0
Feb 199684216.98$0
Jan 199689417.07$0
Dec 19951,18917.19$0
Nov 199598916.00$0
Oct 199589715.43$0
Sep 199597116.18$0
Aug 199594115.92$0
Jul 19951,10315.24$0
Jun 19951,03016.41$0
May 19951,06217.56$0
Apr 199597117.73$0
Mar 199599516.44$0
Feb 199585316.58$0
Jan 199595915.92$0
Dec 19941,06015.03$0
Nov 19941,00815.90$0
Oct 19941,05415.58$0
Sep 19941,10715.29$0
Aug 19941,16116.13$0
Jul 19941,20317.56$0
Jun 19941,08817.09$0
May 19941,28615.88$0
Apr 19941,02614.14$0
Mar 19941,37012.46$0
Feb 19941,20512.50$0
Jan 19941,43812.66$0
Dec 19931,58012.33$0
Nov 19931,20914.49$0
Oct 19931,54515.85$0
Sep 19931,28615.03$0
Aug 19931,30115.66$0
Jul 19931,44915.46$0
Jun 19931,43616.79$0
May 19931,44617.68$0
Apr 19931,39318.05$0
Mar 19931,50818.14$0
Feb 19931,56617.90$0
Jan 19931,78316.93$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                    1 Mcf  × $  1.81 =         $2

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Month total                                       $2

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/137624 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.