NORTH CREEK I

Name: NORTH CREEK I lease production and value, Oct 2012 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by DISCOVERY NATURAL RESOURCES LLC (P-5 220855) in the SPRABERRY (TREND AREA) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 18052District 7CField 85279200OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$5.0 M

Oct 2012 – Jan 2019

Value, last 12 filed months

$243 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The SPRABERRY (TREND AREA) 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 7,461 leases and 22,481 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1904-12-31

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

0 ft

minimum

From a lease line

330 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 2016-03-08.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “AREA) 85279200.”

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	37,256 bbl	$2,637,378
Casinghead gas	Production	695,864 Mcf	$2,334,195
Total			$4,971,573

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 31.3591, -101.3794. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.6 miles.

31.35919, -101.37876 · 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

33.3%

1 of 3 wells

With a plug date

33.3%

1 of 3 wells

Median depth

9,354 ft

3 wells filed one

Completion to plug

5 months

median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

133.3%

A plug date is filed

133.3%

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

133.3%

NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.

266.7%

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 9,340 and 9,356 ft, median 9,354 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Feb 2013 – Apr 2017

3 of 3 wells

Plug dates filed

Sep 2017

1 of 3 wells; 2 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 5 months across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 5 months and 5 months. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells


42-38337981	68E	9,354 ft	Apr 2017	Sep 2017	Yes
42-38337975	68C	9,340 ft	Feb 2013	—	—
42-38337982	68M	9,356 ft	Feb 2013	—	—

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 (76)

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

76 months


Jan 2019	0	0	46.03	3.23	$0
Dec 2018	0	0	46.59	4.19	$0
Nov 2018	0	0	52.93	4.24	$0
Oct 2018	147	2,304	61.44	3.40	$16,861
Sep 2018	192	4,086	59.54	3.11	$24,131
Aug 2018	248	5,390	59.40	3.07	$31,260
Jul 2018	172	5,300	65.14	2.93	$26,743
Jun 2018	267	5,262	60.18	3.08	$32,259
May 2018	251	5,409	65.38	2.90	$32,101
Apr 2018	162	4,968	63.84	2.90	$24,753
Mar 2018	226	4,611	61.22	2.79	$26,686
Feb 2018	245	4,689	61.78	2.77	$28,106
Jan 2018	275	5,695	62.87	4.01	$40,122
Dec 2017	330	5,910	57.27	2.92	$36,165
Nov 2017	225	5,317	55.42	3.12	$29,050
Oct 2017	261	6,659	49.29	2.98	$32,733
Sep 2017	188	3,939	47.52	3.09	$21,095
Aug 2017	496	6,175	45.37	3.00	$41,056
Jul 2017	240	6,778	43.87	3.09	$31,454
Jun 2017	215	7,031	42.49	3.09	$30,842
May 2017	278	4,514	45.37	3.26	$27,344
Apr 2017	329	6,906	47.93	3.21	$37,948
Mar 2017	0	8,587	46.77	2.98	$25,621
Feb 2017	297	4,632	50.45	2.95	$28,660
Jan 2017	287	6,490	49.41	3.42	$36,369
Dec 2016	282	9,607	48.76	3.72	$49,516
Nov 2016	609	9,834	42.49	2.64	$51,881
Oct 2016	280	10,581	46.19	3.09	$45,631
Sep 2016	565	10,525	41.55	3.10	$56,110
Aug 2016	280	11,020	41.44	2.92	$43,829
Jul 2016	274	10,975	41.62	2.92	$43,499
Jun 2016	545	10,723	45.35	2.69	$53,516
May 2016	275	11,472	42.52	1.99	$34,534
Apr 2016	820	11,424	36.56	1.99	$52,725
Mar 2016	25	10,473	33.01	1.79	$19,614
Feb 2016	564	10,453	26.47	2.06	$36,500
Jan 2016	552	11,795	27.35	2.36	$42,985
Dec 2015	567	12,300	32.36	2.00	$42,965
Nov 2015	307	12,111	38.79	2.17	$38,157
Oct 2015	616	13,228	43.55	2.43	$58,926
Sep 2015	502	13,889	42.99	2.76	$59,893
Aug 2015	373	15,144	40.16	2.87	$58,481
Jul 2015	762	16,044	48.15	2.95	$83,941
Jun 2015	553	17,229	56.15	2.88	$80,720
May 2015	548	17,130	55.21	2.96	$80,882
Apr 2015	912	14,817	49.82	2.71	$85,539
Mar 2015	800	14,886	42.89	2.93	$77,998
Feb 2015	751	13,351	44.66	2.98	$73,275
Jan 2015	738	13,073	43.43	3.10	$72,586
Dec 2014	379	10,608	54.69	3.59	$58,825
Nov 2014	599	7,991	70.46	4.25	$76,182
Oct 2014	197	2,620	78.30	3.90	$25,646
Sep 2014	365	8,410	86.16	4.05	$65,471
Aug 2014	739	11,854	89.39	4.04	$113,892
Jul 2014	376	12,330	96.56	4.18	$87,841
Jun 2014	926	12,460	98.16	4.74	$149,918
May 2014	575	9,454	94.73	4.73	$99,155
Apr 2014	373	9,646	95.94	4.81	$82,174
Mar 2014	561	13,519	95.89	5.06	$122,157
Feb 2014	894	12,313	97.40	6.19	$163,318
Jan 2014	926	12,772	90.40	4.86	$145,792
Dec 2013	551	9,330	91.82	4.35	$91,220
Nov 2013	729	10,236	88.85	3.74	$103,037
Oct 2013	1,111	15,031	97.42	3.78	$165,041
Sep 2013	731	12,223	104.11	3.72	$121,546
Aug 2013	742	12,006	104.25	3.52	$119,646
Jul 2013	1,275	15,428	102.52	3.72	$188,070
Jun 2013	922	11,667	94.40	3.93	$132,928
May 2013	1,330	14,059	94.83	4.15	$184,456
Apr 2013	2,044	17,779	93.96	4.28	$268,194
Mar 2013	1,512	19,839	93.62	3.91	$219,181
Feb 2013	760	7,805	91.23	3.42	$96,027
Jan 2013	801	3,748	91.60	3.42	$86,189
Dec 2012	7	0	86.77	3.42	$607
Nov 2012	0	0	86.95	3.62	$0
Oct 2012	0	0	89.38	3.40	$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.

Oct 2018 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  147 bbl  × $ 61.44 =     $9,032
Casinghead gas     2,304 Mcf  × $  3.40 =     $7,829

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Month total                                  $16,861

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/18052 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.