BIG 3 MABERRY

Name: BIG 3 MABERRY lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by WESTICO ENERGY CO. (P-5 912910) in the ALKALI CREEK, SW (FLIPPEN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 17065District 7BField 01580500Hydrogen sulphide fieldNGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$475 k

Jan 1993 – Feb 2004

Value, last 12 filed months

$2 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

134

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The ALKALI CREEK, SW (FLIPPEN) 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 21 leases and 32 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1979-03-28

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

the register's own label

Between wells

933 ft

minimum

From a lease line

467 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres.

The register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.

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
Oil	Disposition	26,005 bbl	$464,949
Casinghead gas	Production	10,625 Mcf	$10,169
Total			$475,117

6,367 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 45 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 (2)

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 32.7501, -100.2602. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

32.75015, -100.26026 · 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%

2 of 2 wells

With a plug date

100.0%

2 of 2 wells

Median depth

3,520 ft

2 wells filed one

Completion to plug

22.6 years

median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

2100.0%

A plug date is filed

2100.0%

BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.

2100.0%

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

Between 3,510 and 3,530 ft, median 3,520 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Apr 1981

1 of 2 wells; 1 filed none

Plug dates filed

Jun 1995 – Nov 2003

2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 22.6 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 22.6 years and 22.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells


42-15131364	2	3,510 ft	—	Jun 1995	Yes
42-15131247	1	3,530 ft	Apr 1981	Nov 2003	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 (134)

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

134 months


Feb 2004	0	0	32.45	5.51	$0
Jan 2004	0	0	32.03	6.30	$0
Dec 2003	58	0	30.26	6.30	$1,755
Nov 2003	0	0	28.80	4.60	$0
Oct 2003	0	0	28.17	4.76	$0
Sep 2003	0	0	26.31	4.75	$0
Aug 2003	0	0	29.76	5.13	$0
Jul 2003	0	0	29.41	5.17	$0
Jun 2003	0	0	28.56	5.98	$0
May 2003	0	0	26.59	5.97	$0
Apr 2003	0	0	26.67	5.41	$0
Mar 2003	0	0	31.14	6.10	$0
Feb 2003	0	0	33.48	7.93	$0
Jan 2003	0	0	30.31	5.58	$0
Dec 2002	0	0	26.91	4.85	$0
Nov 2002	0	0	24.66	4.14	$0
Oct 2002	0	0	26.46	4.23	$0
Sep 2002	0	0	27.44	3.64	$0
Aug 2002	0	0	25.96	3.16	$0
Jul 2002	0	0	24.58	3.06	$0
Jun 2002	0	0	23.73	3.34	$0
May 2002	0	0	24.66	3.58	$0
Apr 2002	0	0	23.65	3.51	$0
Mar 2002	0	0	22.00	3.10	$0
Feb 2002	0	0	18.22	2.38	$0
Jan 2002	0	0	17.17	2.38	$0
Dec 2001	0	0	16.93	2.36	$0
Nov 2001	0	0	18.07	2.41	$0
Oct 2001	0	0	19.78	2.53	$0
Sep 2001	0	0	24.26	2.25	$0
Aug 2001	0	0	24.87	3.05	$0
Jul 2001	142	0	23.93	3.20	$3,398
Jun 2001	0	0	24.56	3.82	$0
May 2001	0	0	25.52	4.31	$0
Apr 2001	0	0	24.68	5.34	$0
Mar 2001	0	0	24.54	5.38	$0
Feb 2001	0	0	27.75	5.77	$0
Jan 2001	0	0	27.47	8.40	$0
Dec 2000	133	0	26.88	9.12	$3,575
Nov 2000	0	0	32.21	5.66	$0
Oct 2000	177	0	31.23	5.15	$5,528
Sep 2000	176	0	31.87	5.19	$5,609
Aug 2000	174	0	29.64	4.54	$5,157
Jul 2000	176	0	28.53	4.09	$5,021
Jun 2000	181	0	29.30	4.40	$5,303
May 2000	0	19	27.26	3.68	$70
Apr 2000	399	159	24.51	3.12	$10,275
Mar 2000	173	0	28.42	2.86	$4,917
Feb 2000	338	64	27.62	2.73	$9,510
Jan 2000	353	142	25.27	2.48	$9,273
Dec 1999	354	0	24.28	2.42	$8,595
Nov 1999	175	0	23.19	2.43	$4,058
Oct 1999	339	74	20.98	2.80	$7,320
Sep 1999	173	117	21.75	2.62	$4,069
Aug 1999	259	132	19.26	2.88	$5,368
Jul 1999	264	82	17.89	2.37	$4,917
Jun 1999	304	156	15.94	2.36	$5,214
May 1999	177	138	15.79	2.32	$3,115
Apr 1999	339	116	15.10	2.21	$5,375
Mar 1999	177	149	12.47	1.84	$2,481
Feb 1999	246	102	9.98	1.82	$2,640
Jan 1999	176	110	10.38	1.90	$2,036
Dec 1998	174	142	9.20	1.77	$1,853
Nov 1998	175	142	10.89	2.19	$2,216
Oct 1998	167	93	12.42	1.97	$2,257
Sep 1998	173	118	12.59	2.08	$2,424
Aug 1998	171	98	11.30	1.91	$2,119
Jul 1998	163	124	11.74	2.24	$2,191
Jun 1998	173	116	11.24	2.24	$2,204
May 1998	340	115	12.62	2.21	$4,545
Apr 1998	175	142	13.04	2.51	$2,638
Mar 1998	178	94	12.80	2.31	$2,495
Feb 1998	0	95	13.95	2.30	$218
Jan 1998	177	86	14.70	2.15	$2,787
Dec 1997	339	122	16.32	2.41	$5,827
Nov 1997	178	120	18.19	3.09	$3,608
Oct 1997	180	160	19.25	3.15	$3,969
Sep 1997	464	140	17.74	2.95	$8,645
Aug 1997	174	85	17.86	2.55	$3,325
Jul 1997	252	144	17.58	2.25	$4,754
Jun 1997	178	123	17.24	2.26	$3,346
May 1997	521	106	18.97	2.31	$10,128
Apr 1997	0	90	17.88	2.08	$187
Mar 1997	187	111	18.95	1.94	$3,759
Feb 1997	358	64	20.49	2.21	$7,477
Jan 1997	183	68	23.48	3.54	$4,538
Dec 1996	187	102	23.32	—	$4,361
Nov 1996	211	0	21.97	—	$4,636
Oct 1996	403	0	23.31	—	$9,394
Sep 1996	362	84	22.22	—	$8,044
Aug 1996	363	98	20.26	—	$7,354
Jul 1996	356	146	19.55	—	$6,960
Jun 1996	364	140	18.73	—	$6,818
May 1996	458	228	19.43	—	$8,899
Apr 1996	360	90	21.51	—	$7,744
Mar 1996	335	92	19.38	—	$6,492
Feb 1996	351	110	16.98	—	$5,960
Jan 1996	380	61	17.07	—	$6,487
Dec 1995	374	56	17.19	—	$6,429
Nov 1995	180	131	16.00	—	$2,880
Oct 1995	166	196	15.43	—	$2,561
Sep 1995	277	129	16.18	—	$4,482
Aug 1995	367	143	15.92	—	$5,843
Jul 1995	525	127	15.24	—	$8,001
Jun 1995	367	58	16.41	—	$6,022
May 1995	586	0	17.56	—	$10,290
Apr 1995	367	3	17.73	—	$6,507
Mar 1995	363	171	16.44	—	$5,968
Feb 1995	357	207	16.58	—	$5,919
Jan 1995	529	344	15.92	—	$8,422
Dec 1994	434	485	15.03	—	$6,523
Nov 1994	548	970	15.90	—	$8,713
Oct 1994	548	750	15.58	—	$8,538
Sep 1994	368	244	15.29	—	$5,627
Aug 1994	361	918	16.13	—	$5,823
Jul 1994	406	261	17.56	—	$7,129
Jun 1994	260	1	17.09	—	$4,443
May 1994	288	1	15.88	—	$4,573
Apr 1994	175	1	14.14	—	$2,475
Mar 1994	386	1	12.46	—	$4,810
Feb 1994	255	1	12.50	—	$3,188
Jan 1994	307	2	12.66	—	$3,887
Dec 1993	190	2	12.33	—	$2,343
Nov 1993	368	2	14.49	—	$5,332
Oct 1993	203	2	15.85	—	$3,218
Sep 1993	266	2	15.03	—	$3,998
Aug 1993	126	1	15.66	—	$1,973
Jul 1993	185	1	15.46	—	$2,860
Jun 1993	191	1	16.79	—	$3,207
May 1993	178	1	17.68	—	$3,147
Apr 1993	186	1	18.05	—	$3,357
Mar 1993	234	1	18.14	—	$4,245
Feb 1993	195	1	17.90	—	$3,491
Jan 1993	216	1	16.93	—	$3,657

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.

Dec 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   58 bbl  × $ 30.26 =     $1,755
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  6.30 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $1,755

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/O/17065 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.