BARNETT "A"

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

Operated by MERIT ENERGY COMPANY (P-5 561136) in the LEE HARRISON field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 11977District 8AField 52872001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$761 k

Jan 1993 – Mar 2007

Value, last 12 filed months

$68 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

171

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The LEE HARRISON 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 97 leases and 321 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1941-08-20

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

the register's own label

Between wells

660 ft

minimum

From a lease line

330 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 acres. The field rule took effect on 2008-12-16.

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: “5162',AMENDED SPACING,ADOPTED 20 ACRE OPTION WITH 1500'DIAGONAL.”

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	29,596 bbl	$761,036
Casinghead gas	Production	506 Mcf	$216
Total			$761,252

414 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 33.5764, -101.6987. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.5 miles.

33.57635, -101.69861 · 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

4,859 ft

2 wells filed one

Completion to plug

12.2 years

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 4,857 and 4,860 ft, median 4,859 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Nov 1981 – Jun 2007

2 of 3 wells; 1 filed none

Plug dates filed

Aug 2019

1 of 3 wells; 2 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 12.2 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 12.2 years and 12.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells


42-30300045	1	—	—	—	—
42-30310141	2	4,860 ft	Jun 2007	Aug 2019	Yes
42-30330390	3	4,857 ft	Nov 1981	—	—

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 (171)

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

171 months


Mar 2007	0	0	56.92	7.30	$0
Feb 2007	0	0	55.10	8.22	$0
Jan 2007	0	0	50.30	6.73	$0
Dec 2006	0	0	56.65	6.92	$0
Nov 2006	0	0	54.20	7.62	$0
Oct 2006	0	0	54.90	6.01	$0
Sep 2006	0	0	60.08	5.04	$0
Aug 2006	0	0	68.71	7.34	$0
Jul 2006	349	0	69.37	6.34	$24,210
Jun 2006	168	0	66.28	6.38	$11,135
May 2006	330	0	66.01	6.42	$21,783
Apr 2006	169	0	64.39	7.36	$10,882
Mar 2006	338	0	56.70	7.08	$19,165
Feb 2006	0	0	57.59	7.75	$0
Jan 2006	172	0	60.59	8.93	$10,421
Dec 2005	341	0	54.94	13.42	$18,735
Nov 2005	0	0	54.69	10.59	$0
Oct 2005	305	0	58.34	13.80	$17,794
Sep 2005	150	0	61.45	12.08	$9,218
Aug 2005	170	0	61.51	9.80	$10,457
Jul 2005	161	0	55.69	7.84	$8,966
Jun 2005	173	0	52.33	7.38	$9,053
May 2005	155	0	45.22	6.65	$7,009
Apr 2005	148	0	49.20	7.36	$7,282
Mar 2005	162	0	50.37	7.15	$8,160
Feb 2005	168	0	45.22	6.31	$7,597
Jan 2005	174	0	43.16	6.32	$7,510
Dec 2004	150	0	39.86	6.75	$5,979
Nov 2004	169	0	45.28	6.33	$7,652
Oct 2004	163	0	49.70	6.52	$8,101
Sep 2004	158	0	43.24	5.28	$6,832
Aug 2004	168	0	42.37	5.55	$7,118
Jul 2004	159	0	38.28	6.08	$6,087
Jun 2004	170	0	36.10	6.43	$6,137
May 2004	169	0	37.48	6.49	$6,334
Apr 2004	161	0	34.47	5.86	$5,550
Mar 2004	180	0	34.36	5.53	$6,185
Feb 2004	172	0	32.45	5.51	$5,581
Jan 2004	164	0	32.03	6.30	$5,253
Dec 2003	156	0	30.26	6.30	$4,721
Nov 2003	174	0	28.80	4.60	$5,011
Oct 2003	171	0	28.17	4.76	$4,817
Sep 2003	172	0	26.31	4.75	$4,525
Aug 2003	164	0	29.76	5.13	$4,881
Jul 2003	169	0	29.41	5.17	$4,970
Jun 2003	164	0	28.56	5.98	$4,684
May 2003	166	0	26.59	5.97	$4,414
Apr 2003	169	0	26.67	5.41	$4,507
Mar 2003	168	0	31.14	6.10	$5,232
Feb 2003	167	0	33.48	7.93	$5,591
Jan 2003	166	0	30.31	5.58	$5,031
Dec 2002	336	0	26.91	4.85	$9,042
Nov 2002	0	0	24.66	4.14	$0
Oct 2002	325	0	26.46	4.23	$8,600
Sep 2002	176	0	27.44	3.64	$4,829
Aug 2002	0	0	25.96	3.16	$0
Jul 2002	175	0	24.58	3.06	$4,302
Jun 2002	172	0	23.73	3.34	$4,082
May 2002	163	0	24.66	3.58	$4,020
Apr 2002	347	0	23.65	3.51	$8,207
Mar 2002	167	0	22.00	3.10	$3,674
Feb 2002	168	0	18.22	2.38	$3,061
Jan 2002	175	0	17.17	2.38	$3,005
Dec 2001	0	0	16.93	2.36	$0
Nov 2001	174	0	18.07	2.41	$3,144
Oct 2001	169	0	19.78	2.53	$3,343
Sep 2001	158	0	24.26	2.25	$3,833
Aug 2001	163	0	24.87	3.05	$4,054
Jul 2001	152	0	23.93	3.20	$3,637
Jun 2001	159	0	24.56	3.82	$3,905
May 2001	167	0	25.52	4.31	$4,262
Apr 2001	165	0	24.68	5.34	$4,072
Mar 2001	320	0	24.54	5.38	$7,853
Feb 2001	160	0	27.75	5.77	$4,440
Jan 2001	0	0	27.47	8.40	$0
Dec 2000	164	0	26.88	9.12	$4,408
Nov 2000	162	0	32.21	5.66	$5,218
Oct 2000	0	0	31.23	5.15	$0
Sep 2000	155	0	31.87	5.19	$4,940
Aug 2000	177	0	29.64	4.54	$5,246
Jul 2000	332	0	28.53	4.09	$9,472
Jun 2000	0	0	29.30	4.40	$0
May 2000	314	0	27.26	3.68	$8,560
Apr 2000	160	1	24.51	3.12	$3,925
Mar 2000	160	1	28.42	2.86	$4,550
Feb 2000	156	1	27.62	2.73	$4,311
Jan 2000	179	1	25.27	2.48	$4,526
Dec 1999	159	1	24.28	2.42	$3,863
Nov 1999	166	1	23.19	2.43	$3,852
Oct 1999	162	1	20.98	2.80	$3,402
Sep 1999	162	1	21.75	2.62	$3,526
Aug 1999	169	1	19.26	2.88	$3,258
Jul 1999	179	1	17.89	2.37	$3,205
Jun 1999	174	1	15.94	2.36	$2,776
May 1999	155	1	15.79	2.32	$2,450
Apr 1999	162	1	15.10	2.21	$2,448
Mar 1999	349	1	12.47	1.84	$4,354
Feb 1999	165	3	9.98	1.82	$1,652
Jan 1999	174	3	10.38	1.90	$1,812
Dec 1998	165	3	9.20	1.77	$1,523
Nov 1998	180	3	10.89	2.19	$1,967
Oct 1998	160	3	12.42	1.97	$1,993
Sep 1998	160	3	12.59	2.08	$2,021
Aug 1998	158	3	11.30	1.91	$1,791
Jul 1998	164	3	11.74	2.24	$1,932
Jun 1998	158	3	11.24	2.24	$1,783
May 1998	163	3	12.62	2.21	$2,064
Apr 1998	178	3	13.04	2.51	$2,329
Mar 1998	175	3	12.80	2.31	$2,247
Feb 1998	161	3	13.95	2.30	$2,253
Jan 1998	164	3	14.70	2.15	$2,417
Dec 1997	163	3	16.32	2.41	$2,667
Nov 1997	180	3	18.19	3.09	$3,283
Oct 1997	170	3	19.25	3.15	$3,282
Sep 1997	175	3	17.74	2.95	$3,113
Aug 1997	174	3	17.86	2.55	$3,115
Jul 1997	159	3	17.58	2.25	$2,802
Jun 1997	178	3	17.24	2.26	$3,075
May 1997	181	3	18.97	2.31	$3,441
Apr 1997	171	3	17.88	2.08	$3,064
Mar 1997	181	3	18.95	1.94	$3,436
Feb 1997	178	3	20.49	2.21	$3,654
Jan 1997	183	3	23.48	3.54	$4,307
Dec 1996	189	3	23.32	—	$4,407
Nov 1996	183	3	21.97	—	$4,021
Oct 1996	178	3	23.31	—	$4,149
Sep 1996	178	3	22.22	—	$3,955
Aug 1996	187	3	20.26	—	$3,789
Jul 1996	184	3	19.55	—	$3,597
Jun 1996	172	3	18.73	—	$3,222
May 1996	179	3	19.43	—	$3,478
Apr 1996	352	3	21.51	—	$7,572
Mar 1996	174	3	19.38	—	$3,372
Feb 1996	180	3	16.98	—	$3,056
Jan 1996	180	3	17.07	—	$3,073
Dec 1995	171	3	17.19	—	$2,939
Nov 1995	177	3	16.00	—	$2,832
Oct 1995	362	3	15.43	—	$5,586
Sep 1995	180	3	16.18	—	$2,912
Aug 1995	170	3	15.92	—	$2,706
Jul 1995	177	3	15.24	—	$2,697
Jun 1995	331	3	16.41	—	$5,432
May 1995	170	3	17.56	—	$2,985
Apr 1995	170	3	17.73	—	$3,014
Mar 1995	177	3	16.44	—	$2,910
Feb 1995	345	3	16.58	—	$5,720
Jan 1995	166	3	15.92	—	$2,643
Dec 1994	166	3	15.03	—	$2,495
Nov 1994	166	1	15.90	—	$2,639
Oct 1994	165	1	15.58	—	$2,571
Sep 1994	174	1	15.29	—	$2,660
Aug 1994	166	1	16.13	—	$2,678
Jul 1994	172	3	17.56	—	$3,020
Jun 1994	319	3	17.09	—	$5,452
May 1994	166	3	15.88	—	$2,636
Apr 1994	169	3	14.14	—	$2,390
Mar 1994	177	3	12.46	—	$2,205
Feb 1994	330	3	12.50	—	$4,125
Jan 1994	169	3	12.66	—	$2,140
Dec 1993	167	3	12.33	—	$2,059
Nov 1993	171	3	14.49	—	$2,478
Oct 1993	333	3	15.85	—	$5,278
Sep 1993	169	3	15.03	—	$2,540
Aug 1993	168	3	15.66	—	$2,631
Jul 1993	167	3	15.46	—	$2,582
Jun 1993	168	3	16.79	—	$2,821
May 1993	337	1	17.68	—	$5,958
Apr 1993	159	20	18.05	—	$2,870
Mar 1993	328	94	18.14	—	$5,950
Feb 1993	165	84	17.90	—	$2,954
Jan 1993	166	94	16.93	—	$2,810

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.

Jul 2006 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  349 bbl  × $ 69.37 =    $24,210
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  6.34 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                  $24,210

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. 8A/O/11977 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.