SPARKS, O. B.

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

Operated by IRION CORPORATION, THE (P-5 426299) in the BROOKS (CANYON K) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 10817District 7CField 12244075NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$2.0 M

Jan 1993 – Oct 2018

Value, last 12 filed months

$9 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

310

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The BROOKS (CANYON K) 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 65 leases and 102 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1973-09-09

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

1,200 ft

minimum

From a lease line

467 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 1983-12-12.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “PER DOCKET #7C-81,406.”

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	42,905 bbl	$1,590,237
Casinghead gas	Production	106,003 Mcf	$383,407
Total			$1,973,644

20,382 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 (3)

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 31.2969, -100.2534. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

31.29645, -100.25320 · 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%

3 of 3 wells

With a plug date

100.0%

3 of 3 wells

Median depth

4,728 ft

3 wells filed one

Completion to plug

25.0 years

median over 3 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

3100.0%

A plug date is filed

3100.0%

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

3100.0%

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 4,708 and 4,800 ft, median 4,728 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Mar 1984 – Dec 1995

3 of 3 wells

Plug dates filed

Mar 2009 – Jul 2018

3 of 3 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 25.0 years across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 23.8 years and 28.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells


42-45132340	3	4,800 ft	Dec 1995	Jul 2018	Yes
42-45131605	2	4,728 ft	Aug 1985	Oct 2017	Yes
42-45100522	1	4,708 ft	Mar 1984	Mar 2009	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 (310)

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

310 months


Oct 2018	0	0	61.44	3.40	$0
Sep 2018	0	0	59.54	3.11	$0
Aug 2018	0	0	59.40	3.07	$0
Jul 2018	0	0	65.14	2.93	$0
Jun 2018	150	0	60.18	3.08	$9,027
May 2018	0	0	65.38	2.90	$0
Apr 2018	0	0	63.84	2.90	$0
Mar 2018	0	0	61.22	2.79	$0
Feb 2018	0	0	61.78	2.77	$0
Jan 2018	0	0	62.87	4.01	$0
Dec 2017	0	0	57.27	2.92	$0
Nov 2017	0	0	55.42	3.12	$0
Oct 2017	0	0	49.29	2.98	$0
Sep 2017	170	0	47.52	3.09	$8,078
Aug 2017	0	0	45.37	3.00	$0
Jul 2017	6	0	43.87	3.09	$263
Jun 2017	0	0	42.49	3.09	$0
May 2017	0	0	45.37	3.26	$0
Apr 2017	0	0	47.93	3.21	$0
Mar 2017	167	0	46.77	2.98	$7,811
Feb 2017	0	0	50.45	2.95	$0
Jan 2017	0	0	49.41	3.42	$0
Dec 2016	4	0	48.76	3.72	$195
Nov 2016	0	0	42.49	2.64	$0
Oct 2016	172	0	46.19	3.09	$7,945
Sep 2016	0	0	41.55	3.10	$0
Aug 2016	0	0	41.44	2.92	$0
Jul 2016	7	0	41.62	2.92	$291
Jun 2016	4	0	45.35	2.69	$181
May 2016	183	0	42.52	1.99	$7,781
Apr 2016	3	0	36.56	1.99	$110
Mar 2016	0	29	33.01	1.79	$52
Feb 2016	6	27	26.47	2.06	$215
Jan 2016	0	79	27.35	2.36	$187
Dec 2015	186	74	32.36	2.00	$6,167
Nov 2015	0	4	38.79	2.17	$9
Oct 2015	0	8	43.55	2.43	$19
Sep 2015	3	24	42.99	2.76	$195
Aug 2015	0	265	40.16	2.87	$761
Jul 2015	0	260	48.15	2.95	$766
Jun 2015	9	381	56.15	2.88	$1,604
May 2015	185	444	55.21	2.96	$11,526
Apr 2015	9	462	49.82	2.71	$1,699
Mar 2015	14	459	42.89	2.93	$1,947
Feb 2015	5	297	44.66	2.98	$1,107
Jan 2015	179	132	43.43	3.10	$8,183
Dec 2014	5	133	54.69	3.59	$751
Nov 2014	172	132	70.46	4.25	$12,680
Oct 2014	7	231	78.30	3.90	$1,449
Sep 2014	110	111	86.16	4.05	$9,927
Aug 2014	184	304	89.39	4.04	$17,674
Jul 2014	2	343	96.56	4.18	$1,627
Jun 2014	2	382	98.16	4.74	$2,006
May 2014	179	403	94.73	4.73	$18,861
Apr 2014	1	388	95.94	4.81	$1,962
Mar 2014	186	253	95.89	5.06	$19,115
Feb 2014	0	323	97.40	6.19	$2,000
Jan 2014	174	330	90.40	4.86	$17,334
Dec 2013	0	317	91.82	4.35	$1,380
Nov 2013	185	347	88.85	3.74	$17,734
Oct 2013	0	343	97.42	3.78	$1,296
Sep 2013	185	267	104.11	3.72	$20,253
Aug 2013	0	41	104.25	3.52	$144
Jul 2013	184	278	102.52	3.72	$19,897
Jun 2013	0	252	94.40	3.93	$991
May 2013	170	267	94.83	4.15	$17,229
Apr 2013	0	304	93.96	4.28	$1,302
Mar 2013	183	100	93.62	3.91	$17,524
Feb 2013	0	180	91.23	3.42	$616
Jan 2013	180	281	91.60	3.42	$17,449
Dec 2012	0	360	86.77	3.42	$1,231
Nov 2012	185	181	86.95	3.62	$16,742
Oct 2012	0	262	89.38	3.40	$891
Sep 2012	178	285	94.67	2.92	$17,683
Aug 2012	0	300	92.66	2.91	$872
Jul 2012	174	308	85.13	3.02	$15,743
Jun 2012	0	297	79.82	2.52	$748
May 2012	168	333	91.61	2.49	$16,219
Apr 2012	0	347	101.65	2.00	$693
Mar 2012	166	302	105.05	2.22	$18,109
Feb 2012	0	297	101.10	2.57	$763
Jan 2012	0	266	98.09	2.73	$727
Dec 2011	180	332	96.87	3.24	$18,512
Nov 2011	1	395	95.72	3.31	$1,404
Oct 2011	169	214	84.98	3.65	$15,142
Sep 2011	0	116	83.62	3.99	$462
Aug 2011	0	204	83.40	4.15	$846
Jul 2011	360	295	94.14	4.52	$35,223
Jun 2011	0	260	92.90	4.64	$1,206
May 2011	0	266	98.13	4.40	$1,172
Apr 2011	166	230	105.96	4.33	$18,586
Mar 2011	180	343	96.36	4.06	$18,736
Feb 2011	0	109	85.64	4.18	$456
Jan 2011	176	365	86.50	4.59	$16,899
Dec 2010	178	361	85.73	4.35	$16,829
Nov 2010	0	299	80.84	3.80	$1,135
Oct 2010	172	367	78.10	3.51	$14,721
Sep 2010	173	277	72.63	3.98	$13,667
Aug 2010	0	192	73.68	4.42	$849
Jul 2010	183	207	72.55	4.74	$14,257
Jun 2010	179	292	70.36	4.91	$14,028
May 2010	0	332	71.12	4.24	$1,406
Apr 2010	177	315	81.69	4.12	$15,758
Mar 2010	175	406	78.39	4.39	$15,500
Feb 2010	0	249	73.58	5.44	$1,355
Jan 2010	175	120	74.36	5.96	$13,729
Dec 2009	0	285	71.44	5.48	$1,563
Nov 2009	183	300	74.59	3.75	$14,775
Oct 2009	0	268	72.54	4.11	$1,102
Sep 2009	177	216	65.54	3.06	$12,263
Aug 2009	175	476	67.42	3.22	$13,331
Jul 2009	0	664	61.13	3.46	$2,300
Jun 2009	158	345	66.16	3.90	$11,797
May 2009	150	352	54.74	3.93	$9,593
Apr 2009	0	303	46.77	3.59	$1,087
Mar 2009	355	277	42.14	4.06	$16,084
Feb 2009	4	300	32.81	4.63	$1,521
Jan 2009	173	207	35.86	5.37	$7,316
Dec 2008	3	233	37.10	5.98	$1,504
Nov 2008	176	258	55.49	6.86	$11,536
Oct 2008	182	75	75.24	6.92	$14,213
Sep 2008	0	140	101.76	7.88	$1,103
Aug 2008	176	0	114.22	8.48	$20,103
Jul 2008	0	257	131.08	11.39	$2,927
Jun 2008	168	336	131.33	13.03	$26,442
May 2008	175	404	123.17	11.57	$26,231
Apr 2008	0	200	110.31	10.45	$2,091
Mar 2008	172	62	101.90	9.66	$18,126
Feb 2008	2	303	92.53	8.77	$2,843
Jan 2008	175	367	90.38	8.21	$18,828
Dec 2007	0	395	88.33	7.30	$2,884
Nov 2007	176	389	91.67	7.29	$18,970
Oct 2007	166	338	82.85	6.92	$16,093
Sep 2007	0	473	75.84	6.24	$2,953
Aug 2007	180	42	69.06	6.39	$12,699
Jul 2007	0	193	70.90	6.39	$1,233
Jun 2007	174	103	62.00	7.55	$11,565
May 2007	0	400	58.74	7.85	$3,139
Apr 2007	182	295	59.61	7.81	$13,152
Mar 2007	179	350	56.92	7.30	$12,744
Feb 2007	0	239	55.10	8.22	$1,964
Jan 2007	0	310	50.30	6.73	$2,085
Dec 2006	172	329	56.65	6.92	$12,020
Nov 2006	0	296	54.20	7.62	$2,255
Oct 2006	173	347	54.90	6.01	$11,584
Sep 2006	0	313	60.08	5.04	$1,577
Aug 2006	168	378	68.71	7.34	$14,318
Jul 2006	0	436	69.37	6.34	$2,765
Jun 2006	171	451	66.28	6.38	$14,213
May 2006	0	378	66.01	6.42	$2,429
Apr 2006	175	312	64.39	7.36	$13,565
Mar 2006	0	372	56.70	7.08	$2,635
Feb 2006	169	269	57.59	7.75	$11,818
Jan 2006	167	322	60.59	8.93	$12,995
Dec 2005	0	332	54.94	13.42	$4,454
Nov 2005	194	354	54.69	10.59	$14,358
Oct 2005	0	404	58.34	13.80	$5,573
Sep 2005	171	366	61.45	12.08	$14,929
Aug 2005	175	363	61.51	9.80	$14,321
Jul 2005	173	165	55.69	7.84	$10,929
Jun 2005	180	68	52.33	7.38	$9,921
May 2005	0	2	45.22	6.65	$13
Apr 2005	0	13	49.20	7.36	$96
Mar 2005	179	233	50.37	7.15	$10,683
Feb 2005	0	199	45.22	6.31	$1,256
Jan 2005	173	284	43.16	6.32	$9,262
Dec 2004	177	345	39.86	6.75	$9,384
Nov 2004	0	352	45.28	6.33	$2,228
Oct 2004	173	384	49.70	6.52	$11,100
Sep 2004	180	437	43.24	5.28	$10,092
Aug 2004	167	413	42.37	5.55	$9,368
Jul 2004	3	508	38.28	6.08	$3,206
Jun 2004	178	434	36.10	6.43	$9,218
May 2004	9	675	37.48	6.49	$4,721
Apr 2004	136	273	34.47	5.86	$6,287
Mar 2004	180	75	34.36	5.53	$6,600
Feb 2004	183	377	32.45	5.51	$8,015
Jan 2004	0	441	32.03	6.30	$2,778
Dec 2003	186	511	30.26	6.30	$8,849
Nov 2003	181	525	28.80	4.60	$7,625
Oct 2003	180	431	28.17	4.76	$7,122
Sep 2003	1	525	26.31	4.75	$2,520
Aug 2003	158	532	29.76	5.13	$7,431
Jul 2003	179	567	29.41	5.17	$8,196
Jun 2003	179	500	28.56	5.98	$8,104
May 2003	168	535	26.59	5.97	$7,663
Apr 2003	174	547	26.67	5.41	$7,598
Mar 2003	178	438	31.14	6.10	$8,213
Feb 2003	0	320	33.48	7.93	$2,536
Jan 2003	172	550	30.31	5.58	$8,283
Dec 2002	174	531	26.91	4.85	$7,260
Nov 2002	158	510	24.66	4.14	$6,006
Oct 2002	168	527	26.46	4.23	$6,674
Sep 2002	166	545	27.44	3.64	$6,536
Aug 2002	165	579	25.96	3.16	$6,115
Jul 2002	170	566	24.58	3.06	$5,912
Jun 2002	181	587	23.73	3.34	$6,255
May 2002	175	582	24.66	3.58	$6,401
Apr 2002	175	544	23.65	3.51	$6,049
Mar 2002	177	548	22.00	3.10	$5,594
Feb 2002	182	470	18.22	2.38	$4,433
Jan 2002	179	434	17.17	2.38	$4,104
Dec 2001	185	551	16.93	2.36	$4,435
Nov 2001	172	551	18.07	2.41	$4,433
Oct 2001	175	622	19.78	2.53	$5,034
Sep 2001	184	602	24.26	2.25	$5,819
Aug 2001	162	640	24.87	3.05	$5,983
Jul 2001	179	657	23.93	3.20	$6,384
Jun 2001	174	627	24.56	3.82	$6,671
May 2001	163	679	25.52	4.31	$7,084
Apr 2001	179	628	24.68	5.34	$7,768
Mar 2001	183	631	24.54	5.38	$7,883
Feb 2001	170	587	27.75	5.77	$8,103
Jan 2001	364	560	27.47	8.40	$14,702
Dec 2000	186	619	26.88	9.12	$10,647
Nov 2000	180	605	32.21	5.66	$9,221
Oct 2000	169	605	31.23	5.15	$8,391
Sep 2000	175	594	31.87	5.19	$8,658
Aug 2000	181	656	29.64	4.54	$8,344
Jul 2000	344	707	28.53	4.09	$12,706
Jun 2000	0	585	29.30	4.40	$2,572
May 2000	173	556	27.26	3.68	$6,762
Apr 2000	354	616	24.51	3.12	$10,596
Mar 2000	181	278	28.42	2.86	$5,939
Feb 2000	178	230	27.62	2.73	$5,543
Jan 2000	173	325	25.27	2.48	$5,178
Dec 1999	363	315	24.28	2.42	$9,577
Nov 1999	180	333	23.19	2.43	$4,985
Oct 1999	182	429	20.98	2.80	$5,021
Sep 1999	179	529	21.75	2.62	$5,279
Aug 1999	179	577	19.26	2.88	$5,107
Jul 1999	338	571	17.89	2.37	$7,401
Jun 1999	178	540	15.94	2.36	$4,113
May 1999	179	490	15.79	2.32	$3,964
Apr 1999	349	549	15.10	2.21	$6,482
Mar 1999	178	535	12.47	1.84	$3,203
Feb 1999	306	470	9.98	1.82	$3,908
Jan 1999	360	469	10.38	1.90	$4,628
Dec 1998	182	441	9.20	1.77	$2,456
Nov 1998	360	512	10.89	2.19	$5,039
Oct 1998	180	571	12.42	1.97	$3,360
Sep 1998	361	548	12.59	2.08	$5,686
Aug 1998	343	508	11.30	1.91	$4,845
Jul 1998	318	520	11.74	2.24	$4,897
Jun 1998	175	539	11.24	2.24	$3,173
May 1998	178	445	12.62	2.21	$3,228
Apr 1998	170	566	13.04	2.51	$3,635
Mar 1998	168	390	12.80	2.31	$3,051
Feb 1998	176	324	13.95	2.30	$3,200
Jan 1998	177	333	14.70	2.15	$3,319
Dec 1997	167	462	16.32	2.41	$3,839
Nov 1997	0	475	18.19	3.09	$1,467
Oct 1997	351	534	19.25	3.15	$8,439
Sep 1997	343	645	17.74	2.95	$7,991
Aug 1997	326	568	17.86	2.55	$7,273
Jul 1997	176	688	17.58	2.25	$4,640
Jun 1997	172	741	17.24	2.26	$4,638
May 1997	355	693	18.97	2.31	$8,334
Apr 1997	354	528	17.88	2.08	$7,429
Mar 1997	342	525	18.95	1.94	$7,499
Feb 1997	329	483	20.49	2.21	$7,807
Jan 1997	338	466	23.48	3.54	$9,586
Dec 1996	173	586	23.32	—	$4,034
Nov 1996	349	673	21.97	—	$7,668
Oct 1996	342	709	23.31	—	$7,972
Sep 1996	347	564	22.22	—	$7,710
Aug 1996	362	659	20.26	—	$7,334
Jul 1996	457	621	19.55	—	$8,934
Jun 1996	342	766	18.73	—	$6,406
May 1996	480	643	19.43	—	$9,326
Apr 1996	326	690	21.51	—	$7,012
Mar 1996	331	450	19.38	—	$6,415
Feb 1996	352	628	16.98	—	$5,977
Jan 1996	447	653	17.07	—	$7,630
Dec 1995	834	1,335	17.19	—	$14,336
Nov 1995	0	449	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	174	511	15.43	—	$2,685
Sep 1995	155	370	16.18	—	$2,508
Aug 1995	163	460	15.92	—	$2,595
Jul 1995	117	481	15.24	—	$1,783
Jun 1995	150	397	16.41	—	$2,462
May 1995	140	295	17.56	—	$2,458
Apr 1995	154	336	17.73	—	$2,730
Mar 1995	152	340	16.44	—	$2,499
Feb 1995	146	308	16.58	—	$2,421
Jan 1995	161	369	15.92	—	$2,563
Dec 1994	165	329	15.03	—	$2,480
Nov 1994	148	267	15.90	—	$2,353
Oct 1994	158	334	15.58	—	$2,462
Sep 1994	158	305	15.29	—	$2,416
Aug 1994	173	367	16.13	—	$2,790
Jul 1994	165	392	17.56	—	$2,897
Jun 1994	225	261	17.09	—	$3,845
May 1994	167	264	15.88	—	$2,652
Apr 1994	173	203	14.14	—	$2,446
Mar 1994	167	277	12.46	—	$2,081
Feb 1994	174	225	12.50	—	$2,175
Jan 1994	169	285	12.66	—	$2,140
Dec 1993	166	286	12.33	—	$2,047
Nov 1993	159	271	14.49	—	$2,304
Oct 1993	152	318	15.85	—	$2,409
Sep 1993	168	303	15.03	—	$2,525
Aug 1993	321	338	15.66	—	$5,027
Jul 1993	146	208	15.46	—	$2,257
Jun 1993	157	464	16.79	—	$2,636
May 1993	160	305	17.68	—	$2,829
Apr 1993	151	199	18.05	—	$2,726
Mar 1993	172	265	18.14	—	$3,120
Feb 1993	165	267	17.90	—	$2,954
Jan 1993	297	356	16.93	—	$5,028

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.

Jun 2018 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  150 bbl  × $ 60.18 =     $9,027
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.08 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $9,027

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. 7C/O/10817 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.