RAILSBACK

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

Operated by LINN OPERATING, INC. (P-5 501545) in the LEVELLAND, NE. (STRAWN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 19075District 8AField 53414500Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$2.4 M

Jan 1993 – Apr 2017

Value, last 12 filed months

$3 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

292

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The LEVELLAND, NE. (STRAWN) 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 14 leases and 21 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1964-11-20

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

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.

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	62,315 bbl	$2,146,183
Casinghead gas	Production	60,438 Mcf	$212,581
Total			$2,358,764

15,639 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 (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 33.6047, -102.3184. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

33.60472, -102.31843 · 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

10,087 ft

2 wells filed one

Completion to plug

6.1 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 10,084 and 10,089 ft, median 10,087 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Mar 1984

1 of 2 wells; 1 filed none

Plug dates filed

Apr 1990 – Mar 2017

2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 6.1 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 6.1 years and 6.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells


42-21910007	1	10,084 ft	—	Mar 2017	Yes
42-21910008	2	10,089 ft	Mar 1984	Apr 1990	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 (292)

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

292 months


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	80	0	41.55	3.10	$3,324
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	0	0	36.56	1.99	$0
Mar 2016	186	0	33.01	1.79	$6,140
Feb 2016	190	0	26.47	2.06	$5,029
Jan 2016	0	0	27.35	2.36	$0
Dec 2015	0	0	32.36	2.00	$0
Nov 2015	0	0	38.79	2.17	$0
Oct 2015	0	0	43.55	2.43	$0
Sep 2015	0	0	42.99	2.76	$0
Aug 2015	189	0	40.16	2.87	$7,590
Jul 2015	0	0	48.15	2.95	$0
Jun 2015	182	0	56.15	2.88	$10,219
May 2015	178	0	55.21	2.96	$9,827
Apr 2015	0	0	49.82	2.71	$0
Mar 2015	190	0	42.89	2.93	$8,149
Feb 2015	0	0	44.66	2.98	$0
Jan 2015	194	0	43.43	3.10	$8,425
Dec 2014	0	0	54.69	3.59	$0
Nov 2014	179	0	70.46	4.25	$12,612
Oct 2014	189	0	78.30	3.90	$14,799
Sep 2014	0	0	86.16	4.05	$0
Aug 2014	189	0	89.39	4.04	$16,895
Jul 2014	0	0	96.56	4.18	$0
Jun 2014	0	0	98.16	4.74	$0
May 2014	182	0	94.73	4.73	$17,241
Apr 2014	0	0	95.94	4.81	$0
Mar 2014	190	0	95.89	5.06	$18,219
Feb 2014	0	0	97.40	6.19	$0
Jan 2014	187	0	90.40	4.86	$16,905
Dec 2013	194	0	91.82	4.35	$17,813
Nov 2013	0	0	88.85	3.74	$0
Oct 2013	169	0	97.42	3.78	$16,464
Sep 2013	0	0	104.11	3.72	$0
Aug 2013	187	0	104.25	3.52	$19,495
Jul 2013	0	0	102.52	3.72	$0
Jun 2013	189	0	94.40	3.93	$17,842
May 2013	192	0	94.83	4.15	$18,207
Apr 2013	0	0	93.96	4.28	$0
Mar 2013	187	0	93.62	3.91	$17,507
Feb 2013	0	0	91.23	3.42	$0
Jan 2013	191	0	91.60	3.42	$17,496
Dec 2012	193	0	86.77	3.42	$16,747
Nov 2012	0	0	86.95	3.62	$0
Oct 2012	191	0	89.38	3.40	$17,072
Sep 2012	195	0	94.67	2.92	$18,461
Aug 2012	0	0	92.66	2.91	$0
Jul 2012	187	0	85.13	3.02	$15,919
Jun 2012	0	0	79.82	2.52	$0
May 2012	188	0	91.61	2.49	$17,223
Apr 2012	188	0	101.65	2.00	$19,110
Mar 2012	0	0	105.05	2.22	$0
Feb 2012	188	0	101.10	2.57	$19,007
Jan 2012	190	0	98.09	2.73	$18,637
Dec 2011	0	0	96.87	3.24	$0
Nov 2011	184	0	95.72	3.31	$17,612
Oct 2011	190	0	84.98	3.65	$16,146
Sep 2011	0	0	83.62	3.99	$0
Aug 2011	190	0	83.40	4.15	$15,846
Jul 2011	187	0	94.14	4.52	$17,604
Jun 2011	0	0	92.90	4.64	$0
May 2011	189	0	98.13	4.40	$18,547
Apr 2011	0	0	105.96	4.33	$0
Mar 2011	186	0	96.36	4.06	$17,923
Feb 2011	188	0	85.64	4.18	$16,100
Jan 2011	0	0	86.50	4.59	$0
Dec 2010	192	0	85.73	4.35	$16,460
Nov 2010	0	0	80.84	3.80	$0
Oct 2010	191	0	78.10	3.51	$14,917
Sep 2010	188	0	72.63	3.98	$13,654
Aug 2010	0	0	73.68	4.42	$0
Jul 2010	189	0	72.55	4.74	$13,712
Jun 2010	189	0	70.36	4.91	$13,298
May 2010	191	0	71.12	4.24	$13,584
Apr 2010	0	0	81.69	4.12	$0
Mar 2010	193	0	78.39	4.39	$15,129
Feb 2010	193	0	73.58	5.44	$14,201
Jan 2010	0	0	74.36	5.96	$0
Dec 2009	192	0	71.44	5.48	$13,716
Nov 2009	192	0	74.59	3.75	$14,321
Oct 2009	0	0	72.54	4.11	$0
Sep 2009	191	0	65.54	3.06	$12,518
Aug 2009	183	0	67.42	3.22	$12,338
Jul 2009	187	0	61.13	3.46	$11,431
Jun 2009	0	0	66.16	3.90	$0
May 2009	187	0	54.74	3.93	$10,236
Apr 2009	190	0	46.77	3.59	$8,886
Mar 2009	0	0	42.14	4.06	$0
Feb 2009	184	0	32.81	4.63	$6,037
Jan 2009	193	0	35.86	5.37	$6,921
Dec 2008	195	0	37.10	5.98	$7,235
Nov 2008	0	0	55.49	6.86	$0
Oct 2008	192	0	75.24	6.92	$14,446
Sep 2008	0	0	101.76	7.88	$0
Aug 2008	377	0	114.22	8.48	$43,061
Jul 2008	0	0	131.08	11.39	$0
Jun 2008	0	0	131.33	13.03	$0
May 2008	382	0	123.17	11.57	$47,051
Apr 2008	0	0	110.31	10.45	$0
Mar 2008	190	0	101.90	9.66	$19,361
Feb 2008	0	0	92.53	8.77	$0
Jan 2008	195	0	90.38	8.21	$17,624
Dec 2007	188	0	88.33	7.30	$16,606
Nov 2007	0	0	91.67	7.29	$0
Oct 2007	190	0	82.85	6.92	$15,742
Sep 2007	189	0	75.84	6.24	$14,334
Aug 2007	187	0	69.06	6.39	$12,914
Jul 2007	0	0	70.90	6.39	$0
Jun 2007	192	0	62.00	7.55	$11,904
May 2007	197	5,028	58.74	7.85	$51,023
Apr 2007	186	4,419	59.61	7.81	$45,579
Mar 2007	187	7,663	56.92	7.30	$66,599
Feb 2007	177	0	55.10	8.22	$9,753
Jan 2007	186	0	50.30	6.73	$9,356
Dec 2006	0	0	56.65	6.92	$0
Nov 2006	189	0	54.20	7.62	$10,244
Oct 2006	174	0	54.90	6.01	$9,553
Sep 2006	164	0	60.08	5.04	$9,853
Aug 2006	190	0	68.71	7.34	$13,055
Jul 2006	176	0	69.37	6.34	$12,209
Jun 2006	158	0	66.28	6.38	$10,472
May 2006	192	0	66.01	6.42	$12,674
Apr 2006	188	0	64.39	7.36	$12,105
Mar 2006	0	0	56.70	7.08	$0
Feb 2006	193	0	57.59	7.75	$11,115
Jan 2006	191	0	60.59	8.93	$11,573
Dec 2005	201	0	54.94	13.42	$11,043
Nov 2005	0	0	54.69	10.59	$0
Oct 2005	195	0	58.34	13.80	$11,376
Sep 2005	189	0	61.45	12.08	$11,614
Aug 2005	0	0	61.51	9.80	$0
Jul 2005	172	0	55.69	7.84	$9,579
Jun 2005	184	0	52.33	7.38	$9,629
May 2005	186	0	45.22	6.65	$8,411
Apr 2005	0	0	49.20	7.36	$0
Mar 2005	169	0	50.37	7.15	$8,513
Feb 2005	347	0	45.22	6.31	$15,691
Jan 2005	0	0	43.16	6.32	$0
Dec 2004	348	0	39.86	6.75	$13,871
Nov 2004	176	0	45.28	6.33	$7,969
Oct 2004	174	0	49.70	6.52	$8,648
Sep 2004	0	0	43.24	5.28	$0
Aug 2004	179	0	42.37	5.55	$7,584
Jul 2004	176	0	38.28	6.08	$6,737
Jun 2004	179	0	36.10	6.43	$6,462
May 2004	178	0	37.48	6.49	$6,671
Apr 2004	182	0	34.47	5.86	$6,274
Mar 2004	180	0	34.36	5.53	$6,185
Feb 2004	0	0	32.45	5.51	$0
Jan 2004	0	0	32.03	6.30	$0
Dec 2003	0	0	30.26	6.30	$0
Nov 2003	161	0	28.80	4.60	$4,637
Oct 2003	180	0	28.17	4.76	$5,071
Sep 2003	180	0	26.31	4.75	$4,736
Aug 2003	361	0	29.76	5.13	$10,743
Jul 2003	175	0	29.41	5.17	$5,147
Jun 2003	179	0	28.56	5.98	$5,112
May 2003	332	0	26.59	5.97	$8,828
Apr 2003	180	0	26.67	5.41	$4,801
Mar 2003	359	0	31.14	6.10	$11,179
Feb 2003	178	0	33.48	7.93	$5,959
Jan 2003	180	0	30.31	5.58	$5,456
Dec 2002	524	0	26.91	4.85	$14,101
Nov 2002	358	0	24.66	4.14	$8,828
Oct 2002	0	0	26.46	4.23	$0
Sep 2002	527	0	27.44	3.64	$14,461
Aug 2002	175	155	25.96	3.16	$5,033
Jul 2002	351	135	24.58	3.06	$9,041
Jun 2002	182	450	23.73	3.34	$5,821
May 2002	360	520	24.66	3.58	$10,741
Apr 2002	0	506	23.65	3.51	$1,777
Mar 2002	161	463	22.00	3.10	$4,979
Feb 2002	365	305	18.22	2.38	$7,375
Jan 2002	185	160	17.17	2.38	$3,557
Dec 2001	377	200	16.93	2.36	$6,855
Nov 2001	0	241	18.07	2.41	$580
Oct 2001	186	354	19.78	2.53	$4,574
Sep 2001	183	373	24.26	2.25	$5,279
Aug 2001	180	134	24.87	3.05	$4,886
Jul 2001	180	366	23.93	3.20	$5,478
Jun 2001	183	385	24.56	3.82	$5,967
May 2001	181	373	25.52	4.31	$6,226
Apr 2001	183	362	24.68	5.34	$6,448
Mar 2001	364	364	24.54	5.38	$10,890
Feb 2001	180	323	27.75	5.77	$6,858
Jan 2001	364	349	27.47	8.40	$12,930
Dec 2000	183	304	26.88	9.12	$7,692
Nov 2000	179	333	32.21	5.66	$7,650
Oct 2000	359	251	31.23	5.15	$12,503
Sep 2000	354	343	31.87	5.19	$13,061
Aug 2000	182	381	29.64	4.54	$7,125
Jul 2000	528	324	28.53	4.09	$16,389
Jun 2000	0	377	29.30	4.40	$1,658
May 2000	357	427	27.26	3.68	$11,303
Apr 2000	370	426	24.51	3.12	$10,396
Mar 2000	376	408	28.42	2.86	$11,853
Feb 2000	192	393	27.62	2.73	$6,375
Jan 2000	375	407	25.27	2.48	$10,486
Dec 1999	377	382	24.28	2.42	$10,079
Nov 1999	191	395	23.19	2.43	$5,391
Oct 1999	619	373	20.98	2.80	$14,032
Sep 1999	188	389	21.75	2.62	$5,108
Aug 1999	351	499	19.26	2.88	$8,195
Jul 1999	549	518	17.89	2.37	$11,051
Jun 1999	364	477	15.94	2.36	$6,929
May 1999	0	197	15.79	2.32	$457
Apr 1999	183	229	15.10	2.21	$3,269
Mar 1999	361	365	12.47	1.84	$5,173
Feb 1999	536	141	9.98	1.82	$5,606
Jan 1999	377	419	10.38	1.90	$4,709
Dec 1998	378	554	9.20	1.77	$4,460
Nov 1998	370	459	10.89	2.19	$5,033
Oct 1998	377	572	12.42	1.97	$5,809
Sep 1998	621	377	12.59	2.08	$8,604
Aug 1998	348	345	11.30	1.91	$4,590
Jul 1998	693	837	11.74	2.24	$10,008
Jun 1998	527	947	11.24	2.24	$8,042
May 1998	526	703	12.62	2.21	$8,189
Apr 1998	716	719	13.04	2.51	$11,138
Mar 1998	546	659	12.80	2.31	$8,511
Feb 1998	356	626	13.95	2.30	$6,405
Jan 1998	718	688	14.70	2.15	$12,037
Dec 1997	361	441	16.32	2.41	$6,955
Nov 1997	866	492	18.19	3.09	$17,272
Oct 1997	535	213	19.25	3.15	$10,970
Sep 1997	532	319	17.74	2.95	$10,380
Aug 1997	530	311	17.86	2.55	$10,260
Jul 1997	878	303	17.58	2.25	$16,116
Jun 1997	530	264	17.24	2.26	$9,733
May 1997	706	359	18.97	2.31	$14,222
Apr 1997	534	536	17.88	2.08	$10,664
Mar 1997	707	556	18.95	1.94	$14,476
Feb 1997	537	519	20.49	2.21	$12,148
Jan 1997	909	614	23.48	3.54	$23,517
Dec 1996	548	504	23.32	—	$12,779
Nov 1996	738	565	21.97	—	$16,214
Oct 1996	716	520	23.31	—	$16,690
Sep 1996	520	524	22.22	—	$11,554
Aug 1996	534	496	20.26	—	$10,819
Jul 1996	716	496	19.55	—	$13,998
Jun 1996	0	300	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	685	496	19.43	—	$13,310
Apr 1996	327	300	21.51	—	$7,034
Mar 1996	548	310	19.38	—	$10,620
Feb 1996	180	290	16.98	—	$3,056
Jan 1996	552	310	17.07	—	$9,423
Dec 1995	372	310	17.19	—	$6,395
Nov 1995	541	300	16.00	—	$8,656
Oct 1995	179	300	15.43	—	$2,762
Sep 1995	0	120	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	154	248	15.92	—	$2,452
Jul 1995	234	310	15.24	—	$3,566
Jun 1995	180	300	16.41	—	$2,954
May 1995	123	298	17.56	—	$2,160
Apr 1995	182	300	17.73	—	$3,227
Mar 1995	317	196	16.44	—	$5,211
Feb 1995	170	110	16.58	—	$2,819
Jan 1995	221	185	15.92	—	$3,518
Dec 1994	182	814	15.03	—	$2,735
Nov 1994	171	310	15.90	—	$2,719
Oct 1994	339	620	15.58	—	$5,282
Sep 1994	149	600	15.29	—	$2,278
Aug 1994	334	620	16.13	—	$5,387
Jul 1994	157	580	17.56	—	$2,757
Jun 1994	181	866	17.09	—	$3,093
May 1994	199	118	15.88	—	$3,160
Apr 1994	184	625	14.14	—	$2,602
Mar 1994	188	444	12.46	—	$2,342
Feb 1994	357	245	12.50	—	$4,463
Jan 1994	368	540	12.66	—	$4,659
Dec 1993	179	229	12.33	—	$2,207
Nov 1993	181	357	14.49	—	$2,623
Oct 1993	358	86	15.85	—	$5,674
Sep 1993	248	90	15.03	—	$3,727
Aug 1993	370	54	15.66	—	$5,794
Jul 1993	364	35	15.46	—	$5,627
Jun 1993	732	68	16.79	—	$12,290
May 1993	0	22	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	0	5	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	0	2	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	175	9	17.90	—	$3,133
Jan 1993	83	212	16.93	—	$1,405

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.

Sep 2016 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   80 bbl  × $ 41.55 =     $3,324
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.10 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $3,324

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/19075 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.