BENEDUM

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

Operated by CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY (P-5 172232) in the BENEDUM (FUSSELMAN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 11127District 7CField 07109500Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$1.4 M

Jan 1993 – May 2019

Value, last 12 filed months

$875

at the published price for each month

Months reported

317

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The BENEDUM (FUSSELMAN) 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 119 leases and 139 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1948-08-30

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

1,320 ft

minimum

From a lease line

660 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 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.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “PER DOCKET 7C-0239112 EFF 7/22/04, ALLOCATION FORMULA SUSPENDED.”

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	19,174 bbl	$511,316
Casinghead gas	Production	280,221 Mcf	$929,074
Total			$1,440,390

77,872 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 (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 31.3483, -101.8536. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.6 miles.

31.34833, -101.85363 · 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

11,510 ft

2 wells filed one

Completion to plug

40.1 years

median over 2 wells

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 11,440 and 11,580 ft, median 11,510 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Nov 1950 – Apr 1982

2 of 2 wells

Plug dates filed

Apr 1994 – Jan 2019

2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 40.1 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 38.4 years and 41.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells


42-46131878	5	11,580 ft	Apr 1982	Jan 2019	Yes
42-46101153	1	11,440 ft	Nov 1950	Apr 1994	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 (317)

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

317 months


May 2019	0	0	58.48	2.74	$0
Apr 2019	0	0	62.63	2.75	$0
Mar 2019	0	0	56.80	3.06	$0
Feb 2019	0	0	50.85	2.79	$0
Jan 2019	19	0	46.03	3.23	$875
Dec 2018	0	0	46.59	4.19	$0
Nov 2018	0	0	52.93	4.24	$0
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	0	0	60.18	3.08	$0
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	0	0	47.52	3.09	$0
Aug 2017	0	0	45.37	3.00	$0
Jul 2017	0	0	43.87	3.09	$0
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	0	0	46.77	2.98	$0
Feb 2017	0	0	50.45	2.95	$0
Jan 2017	0	0	49.41	3.42	$0
Dec 2016	0	0	48.76	3.72	$0
Nov 2016	0	0	42.49	2.64	$0
Oct 2016	0	0	46.19	3.09	$0
Sep 2016	0	0	41.55	3.10	$0
Aug 2016	0	0	41.44	2.92	$0
Jul 2016	0	0	41.62	2.92	$0
Jun 2016	0	0	45.35	2.69	$0
May 2016	0	0	42.52	1.99	$0
Apr 2016	116	0	36.56	1.99	$4,241
Mar 2016	0	0	33.01	1.79	$0
Feb 2016	0	17	26.47	2.06	$35
Jan 2016	0	32	27.35	2.36	$76
Dec 2015	0	336	32.36	2.00	$672
Nov 2015	0	526	38.79	2.17	$1,140
Oct 2015	0	601	43.55	2.43	$1,458
Sep 2015	0	376	42.99	2.76	$1,037
Aug 2015	0	554	40.16	2.87	$1,591
Jul 2015	0	526	48.15	2.95	$1,549
Jun 2015	0	0	56.15	2.88	$0
May 2015	0	719	55.21	2.96	$2,125
Apr 2015	0	0	49.82	2.71	$0
Mar 2015	0	0	42.89	2.93	$0
Feb 2015	0	0	44.66	2.98	$0
Jan 2015	154	0	43.43	3.10	$6,688
Dec 2014	0	0	54.69	3.59	$0
Nov 2014	120	0	70.46	4.25	$8,455
Oct 2014	0	0	78.30	3.90	$0
Sep 2014	0	0	86.16	4.05	$0
Aug 2014	0	0	89.39	4.04	$0
Jul 2014	0	0	96.56	4.18	$0
Jun 2014	0	209	98.16	4.74	$990
May 2014	0	191	94.73	4.73	$903
Apr 2014	0	186	95.94	4.81	$895
Mar 2014	0	182	95.89	5.06	$920
Feb 2014	0	153	97.40	6.19	$947
Jan 2014	0	173	90.40	4.86	$841
Dec 2013	0	200	91.82	4.35	$871
Nov 2013	0	191	88.85	3.74	$714
Oct 2013	0	211	97.42	3.78	$797
Sep 2013	0	211	104.11	3.72	$784
Aug 2013	0	182	104.25	3.52	$641
Jul 2013	0	220	102.52	3.72	$818
Jun 2013	0	216	94.40	3.93	$850
May 2013	0	256	94.83	4.15	$1,062
Apr 2013	0	253	93.96	4.28	$1,084
Mar 2013	0	308	93.62	3.91	$1,205
Feb 2013	0	296	91.23	3.42	$1,012
Jan 2013	0	369	91.60	3.42	$1,262
Dec 2012	0	407	86.77	3.42	$1,392
Nov 2012	0	705	86.95	3.62	$2,556
Oct 2012	160	622	89.38	3.40	$16,415
Sep 2012	0	496	94.67	2.92	$1,448
Aug 2012	0	571	92.66	2.91	$1,661
Jul 2012	0	521	85.13	3.02	$1,574
Jun 2012	0	512	79.82	2.52	$1,290
May 2012	339	469	91.61	2.49	$32,223
Apr 2012	0	619	101.65	2.00	$1,236
Mar 2012	0	1,211	105.05	2.22	$2,691
Feb 2012	174	861	101.10	2.57	$19,804
Jan 2012	0	395	98.09	2.73	$1,080
Dec 2011	0	346	96.87	3.24	$1,121
Nov 2011	0	418	95.72	3.31	$1,384
Oct 2011	0	450	84.98	3.65	$1,642
Sep 2011	5	436	83.62	3.99	$2,156
Aug 2011	0	294	83.40	4.15	$1,220
Jul 2011	0	629	94.14	4.52	$2,841
Jun 2011	0	528	92.90	4.64	$2,450
May 2011	0	507	98.13	4.40	$2,233
Apr 2011	0	510	105.96	4.33	$2,210
Mar 2011	0	682	96.36	4.06	$2,767
Feb 2011	0	456	85.64	4.18	$1,906
Jan 2011	0	575	86.50	4.59	$2,639
Dec 2010	0	586	85.73	4.35	$2,548
Nov 2010	154	545	80.84	3.80	$14,518
Oct 2010	0	552	78.10	3.51	$1,937
Sep 2010	0	600	72.63	3.98	$2,388
Aug 2010	0	936	73.68	4.42	$4,137
Jul 2010	161	1,258	72.55	4.74	$17,639
Jun 2010	0	494	70.36	4.91	$2,426
May 2010	0	537	71.12	4.24	$2,274
Apr 2010	0	437	81.69	4.12	$1,802
Mar 2010	0	523	78.39	4.39	$2,295
Feb 2010	0	515	73.58	5.44	$2,803
Jan 2010	0	939	74.36	5.96	$5,600
Dec 2009	0	597	71.44	5.48	$3,274
Nov 2009	0	621	74.59	3.75	$2,330
Oct 2009	0	555	72.54	4.11	$2,281
Sep 2009	0	688	65.54	3.06	$2,109
Aug 2009	0	451	67.42	3.22	$1,452
Jul 2009	0	725	61.13	3.46	$2,512
Jun 2009	0	683	66.16	3.90	$2,660
May 2009	0	638	54.74	3.93	$2,505
Apr 2009	0	499	46.77	3.59	$1,790
Mar 2009	143	790	42.14	4.06	$9,233
Feb 2009	0	640	32.81	4.63	$2,965
Jan 2009	0	628	35.86	5.37	$3,373
Dec 2008	0	653	37.10	5.98	$3,903
Nov 2008	0	662	55.49	6.86	$4,542
Oct 2008	0	757	75.24	6.92	$5,240
Sep 2008	0	505	101.76	7.88	$3,978
Aug 2008	0	708	114.22	8.48	$6,006
Jul 2008	153	696	131.08	11.39	$27,982
Jun 2008	0	608	131.33	13.03	$7,924
May 2008	0	895	123.17	11.57	$10,359
Apr 2008	0	787	110.31	10.45	$8,228
Mar 2008	0	1,105	101.90	9.66	$10,679
Feb 2008	163	0	92.53	8.77	$15,082
Jan 2008	0	1,150	90.38	8.21	$9,437
Dec 2007	0	741	88.33	7.30	$5,411
Nov 2007	0	741	91.67	7.29	$5,403
Oct 2007	0	785	82.85	6.92	$5,434
Sep 2007	0	736	75.84	6.24	$4,596
Aug 2007	0	820	69.06	6.39	$5,238
Jul 2007	0	856	70.90	6.39	$5,468
Jun 2007	160	416	62.00	7.55	$13,060
May 2007	0	959	58.74	7.85	$7,525
Apr 2007	0	725	59.61	7.81	$5,659
Mar 2007	0	883	56.92	7.30	$6,448
Feb 2007	160	963	55.10	8.22	$16,728
Jan 2007	0	405	50.30	6.73	$2,724
Dec 2006	0	753	56.65	6.92	$5,210
Nov 2006	0	675	54.20	7.62	$5,142
Oct 2006	0	708	54.90	6.01	$4,258
Sep 2006	166	835	60.08	5.04	$14,179
Aug 2006	0	1,039	68.71	7.34	$7,626
Jul 2006	0	747	69.37	6.34	$4,738
Jun 2006	0	763	66.28	6.38	$4,871
May 2006	0	891	66.01	6.42	$5,725
Apr 2006	0	941	64.39	7.36	$6,926
Mar 2006	0	855	56.70	7.08	$6,056
Feb 2006	0	891	57.59	7.75	$6,906
Jan 2006	157	894	60.59	8.93	$17,499
Dec 2005	0	889	54.94	13.42	$11,926
Nov 2005	0	968	54.69	10.59	$10,250
Oct 2005	0	879	58.34	13.80	$12,126
Sep 2005	0	886	61.45	12.08	$10,702
Aug 2005	0	799	61.51	9.80	$7,828
Jul 2005	0	927	55.69	7.84	$7,271
Jun 2005	164	814	52.33	7.38	$14,590
May 2005	0	873	45.22	6.65	$5,806
Apr 2005	0	1,042	49.20	7.36	$7,670
Mar 2005	0	1,051	50.37	7.15	$7,520
Feb 2005	0	870	45.22	6.31	$5,491
Jan 2005	0	978	43.16	6.32	$6,183
Dec 2004	0	986	39.86	6.75	$6,657
Nov 2004	0	930	45.28	6.33	$5,887
Oct 2004	0	997	49.70	6.52	$6,496
Sep 2004	0	955	43.24	5.28	$5,046
Aug 2004	0	1,072	42.37	5.55	$5,950
Jul 2004	163	1,137	38.28	6.08	$13,157
Jun 2004	0	902	36.10	6.43	$5,803
May 2004	0	1,007	37.48	6.49	$6,540
Apr 2004	0	1,048	34.47	5.86	$6,140
Mar 2004	0	895	34.36	5.53	$4,949
Feb 2004	0	645	32.45	5.51	$3,554
Jan 2004	0	1,087	32.03	6.30	$6,848
Dec 2003	162	1,137	30.26	6.30	$12,067
Nov 2003	0	1,294	28.80	4.60	$5,946
Oct 2003	0	1,331	28.17	4.76	$6,335
Sep 2003	0	1,259	26.31	4.75	$5,979
Aug 2003	151	1,378	29.76	5.13	$11,563
Jul 2003	0	1,450	29.41	5.17	$7,498
Jun 2003	0	1,308	28.56	5.98	$7,826
May 2003	167	1,449	26.59	5.97	$13,095
Apr 2003	0	1,313	26.67	5.41	$7,100
Mar 2003	0	1,362	31.14	6.10	$8,303
Feb 2003	0	1,264	33.48	7.93	$10,018
Jan 2003	164	1,334	30.31	5.58	$12,417
Dec 2002	0	1,205	26.91	4.85	$5,849
Nov 2002	153	1,274	24.66	4.14	$9,043
Oct 2002	0	1,546	26.46	4.23	$6,538
Sep 2002	142	1,500	27.44	3.64	$9,349
Aug 2002	0	1,531	25.96	3.16	$4,844
Jul 2002	143	1,497	24.58	3.06	$8,098
Jun 2002	0	1,438	23.73	3.34	$4,800
May 2002	138	1,358	24.66	3.58	$8,270
Apr 2002	0	1,544	23.65	3.51	$5,423
Mar 2002	147	1,795	22.00	3.10	$8,803
Feb 2002	159	1,755	18.22	2.38	$7,066
Jan 2002	144	1,805	17.17	2.38	$6,761
Dec 2001	141	1,375	16.93	2.36	$5,638
Nov 2001	0	1,457	18.07	2.41	$3,505
Oct 2001	138	1,485	19.78	2.53	$6,485
Sep 2001	146	1,389	24.26	2.25	$6,669
Aug 2001	0	1,500	24.87	3.05	$4,580
Jul 2001	159	1,414	23.93	3.20	$8,326
Jun 2001	0	1,284	24.56	3.82	$4,910
May 2001	154	1,431	25.52	4.31	$10,094
Apr 2001	160	1,369	24.68	5.34	$11,253
Mar 2001	0	1,360	24.54	5.38	$7,312
Feb 2001	0	1,296	27.75	5.77	$7,474
Jan 2001	165	1,431	27.47	8.40	$16,551
Dec 2000	0	1,413	26.88	9.12	$12,890
Nov 2000	154	1,300	32.21	5.66	$12,316
Oct 2000	0	1,459	31.23	5.15	$7,507
Sep 2000	161	1,572	31.87	5.19	$13,284
Aug 2000	163	1,639	29.64	4.54	$12,274
Jul 2000	0	1,622	28.53	4.09	$6,634
Jun 2000	166	1,511	29.30	4.40	$11,508
May 2000	0	1,555	27.26	3.68	$5,722
Apr 2000	143	1,576	24.51	3.12	$8,416
Mar 2000	0	1,853	28.42	2.86	$5,299
Feb 2000	178	1,640	27.62	2.73	$9,388
Jan 2000	164	1,818	25.27	2.48	$8,654
Dec 1999	139	2,082	24.28	2.42	$8,421
Nov 1999	138	1,568	23.19	2.43	$7,017
Oct 1999	155	1,664	20.98	2.80	$7,917
Sep 1999	165	1,396	21.75	2.62	$7,245
Aug 1999	148	1,304	19.26	2.88	$6,600
Jul 1999	389	1,356	17.89	2.37	$10,176
Jun 1999	0	1,249	15.94	2.36	$2,950
May 1999	2	971	15.79	2.32	$2,285
Apr 1999	4	1,048	15.10	2.21	$2,374
Mar 1999	393	1,165	12.47	1.84	$7,042
Feb 1999	0	946	9.98	1.82	$1,720
Jan 1999	0	1,039	10.38	1.90	$1,974
Dec 1998	387	1,288	9.20	1.77	$5,844
Nov 1998	0	983	10.89	2.19	$2,149
Oct 1998	0	1,224	12.42	1.97	$2,410
Sep 1998	0	1,355	12.59	2.08	$2,822
Aug 1998	387	1,270	11.30	1.91	$6,795
Jul 1998	0	1,379	11.74	2.24	$3,085
Jun 1998	0	1,255	11.24	2.24	$2,808
May 1998	0	1,431	12.62	2.21	$3,157
Apr 1998	578	1,296	13.04	2.51	$10,784
Mar 1998	0	1,108	12.80	2.31	$2,559
Feb 1998	0	953	13.95	2.30	$2,191
Jan 1998	387	1,173	14.70	2.15	$8,216
Dec 1997	0	1,271	16.32	2.41	$3,065
Nov 1997	394	1,282	18.19	3.09	$11,126
Oct 1997	0	1,195	19.25	3.15	$3,764
Sep 1997	0	1,310	17.74	2.95	$3,871
Aug 1997	0	1,604	17.86	2.55	$4,098
Jul 1997	0	1,408	17.58	2.25	$3,164
Jun 1997	372	1,392	17.24	2.26	$9,555
May 1997	0	1,177	18.97	2.31	$2,717
Apr 1997	0	1,256	17.88	2.08	$2,616
Mar 1997	193	1,235	18.95	1.94	$6,052
Feb 1997	0	1,075	20.49	2.21	$2,371
Jan 1997	369	1,229	23.48	3.54	$13,014
Dec 1996	0	1,003	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	0	1,125	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	347	1,197	23.31	—	$8,089
Sep 1996	379	1,185	22.22	—	$8,421
Aug 1996	0	1,560	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	0	2,223	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	351	1,791	18.73	—	$6,574
May 1996	370	2,492	19.43	—	$7,189
Apr 1996	390	1,675	21.51	—	$8,389
Mar 1996	0	0	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	0	1,256	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	0	1,356	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	0	1,563	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	383	1,402	16.00	—	$6,128
Oct 1995	0	1,484	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	0	1,414	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	0	1,583	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	390	1,634	15.24	—	$5,944
Jun 1995	0	1,517	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	373	1,596	17.56	—	$6,550
Apr 1995	0	1,669	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	0	1,247	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	360	1,334	16.58	—	$5,969
Jan 1995	0	1,537	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	384	1,572	15.03	—	$5,772
Nov 1994	0	1,506	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	0	1,624	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	382	1,609	15.29	—	$5,841
Aug 1994	0	1,701	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	356	1,761	17.56	—	$6,251
Jun 1994	0	1,596	17.09	—	$0
May 1994	372	1,697	15.88	—	$5,907
Apr 1994	0	1,584	14.14	—	$0
Mar 1994	0	1,802	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	389	1,666	12.50	—	$4,863
Jan 1994	0	1,865	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	395	1,888	12.33	—	$4,870
Nov 1993	0	1,823	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	387	1,954	15.85	—	$6,134
Sep 1993	0	1,832	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	357	2,208	15.66	—	$5,591
Jul 1993	0	2,066	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	372	1,877	16.79	—	$6,246
May 1993	393	2,368	17.68	—	$6,948
Apr 1993	0	1,372	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	380	2,006	18.14	—	$6,893
Feb 1993	0	1,745	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	371	1,907	16.93	—	$6,281

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.

Jan 2019 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   19 bbl  × $ 46.03 =       $875
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.23 =         $0

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Month total                                     $875

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/11127 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.