BENSON

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

Operated by A.C.T. OPERATING COMPANY (P-5 194) in the LEVELLAND field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 64364District 8AField 53411001Hydrogen sulphide fieldNGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$2.6 M

Jan 1993 – Jul 2016

Value, last 12 filed months

$77 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

283

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The LEVELLAND 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 568 leases and 7,034 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1945-01-17

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

the register's own label

Between wells

880 ft

minimum

From a lease line

440 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 21.25 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: “ASSOCIATED GAS FIELD LEVELLAND (SAN ANDRES)”

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	5	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	53,779 bbl	$2,411,974
Casinghead gas	Production	50,899 Mcf	$154,920
Total			$2,566,894

16,623 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 (6)

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 33.6011, -102.8824. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.8 miles.

33.60223, -102.88178 · 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

16.7%

1 of 6 wells

With a plug date

16.7%

1 of 6 wells

Median depth

4,950 ft

6 wells filed one

Completion to plug

29.1 years

median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

116.7%

A plug date is filed

116.7%

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

116.7%

NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.

583.3%

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 4,900 and 4,950 ft, median 4,950 ft, over the 6 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

May 1983 – Jul 1984

6 of 6 wells

Plug dates filed

Sep 2012

1 of 6 wells; 5 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 29.1 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 29.1 years and 29.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

6 wells


42-07931695	6	4,950 ft	Jul 1984	—	—
42-07931696	5	4,950 ft	Aug 1983	Sep 2012	Yes
42-07931700	4	4,950 ft	Jul 1983	—	—
42-07931701	3	4,950 ft	Jul 1983	—	—
42-07931669	2	4,925 ft	May 1983	—	—
42-07931668	1	4,900 ft	May 1983	—	—

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 (283)

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

283 months


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	435	65	33.01	1.79	$14,476
Feb 2016	0	65	26.47	2.06	$134
Jan 2016	330	65	27.35	2.36	$9,179
Dec 2015	164	0	32.36	2.00	$5,307
Nov 2015	337	0	38.79	2.17	$13,072
Oct 2015	333	0	43.55	2.43	$14,502
Sep 2015	163	0	42.99	2.76	$7,007
Aug 2015	327	0	40.16	2.87	$13,132
Jul 2015	162	0	48.15	2.95	$7,800
Jun 2015	162	0	56.15	2.88	$9,096
May 2015	0	0	55.21	2.96	$0
Apr 2015	329	0	49.82	2.71	$16,391
Mar 2015	337	0	42.89	2.93	$14,454
Feb 2015	164	0	44.66	2.98	$7,324
Jan 2015	164	0	43.43	3.10	$7,123
Dec 2014	166	0	54.69	3.59	$9,079
Nov 2014	332	0	70.46	4.25	$23,393
Oct 2014	167	0	78.30	3.90	$13,076
Sep 2014	164	0	86.16	4.05	$14,130
Aug 2014	333	0	89.39	4.04	$29,767
Jul 2014	328	0	96.56	4.18	$31,672
Jun 2014	168	0	98.16	4.74	$16,491
May 2014	164	0	94.73	4.73	$15,536
Apr 2014	322	0	95.94	4.81	$30,893
Mar 2014	165	0	95.89	5.06	$15,822
Feb 2014	165	0	97.40	6.19	$16,071
Jan 2014	164	0	90.40	4.86	$14,826
Dec 2013	173	0	91.82	4.35	$15,885
Nov 2013	0	0	88.85	3.74	$0
Oct 2013	333	0	97.42	3.78	$32,441
Sep 2013	169	12	104.11	3.72	$17,639
Aug 2013	168	69	104.25	3.52	$17,757
Jul 2013	166	81	102.52	3.72	$17,319
Jun 2013	168	66	94.40	3.93	$16,119
May 2013	169	13	94.83	4.15	$16,080
Apr 2013	332	67	93.96	4.28	$31,482
Mar 2013	165	97	93.62	3.91	$15,827
Feb 2013	163	111	91.23	3.42	$15,250
Jan 2013	326	111	91.60	3.42	$30,241
Dec 2012	164	107	86.77	3.42	$14,596
Nov 2012	0	89	86.95	3.62	$323
Oct 2012	0	72	89.38	3.40	$245
Sep 2012	164	64	94.67	2.92	$15,713
Aug 2012	170	41	92.66	2.91	$15,871
Jul 2012	168	65	85.13	3.02	$14,498
Jun 2012	170	108	79.82	2.52	$13,841
May 2012	167	123	91.61	2.49	$15,605
Apr 2012	168	131	101.65	2.00	$17,339
Mar 2012	168	127	105.05	2.22	$17,931
Feb 2012	164	69	101.10	2.57	$16,758
Jan 2012	168	101	98.09	2.73	$16,755
Dec 2011	164	87	96.87	3.24	$16,169
Nov 2011	170	65	95.72	3.31	$16,488
Oct 2011	0	67	84.98	3.65	$244
Sep 2011	165	54	83.62	3.99	$14,013
Aug 2011	0	5	83.40	4.15	$21
Jul 2011	168	52	94.14	4.52	$16,050
Jun 2011	0	38	92.90	4.64	$176
May 2011	165	80	98.13	4.40	$16,544
Apr 2011	0	55	105.96	4.33	$238
Mar 2011	0	55	96.36	4.06	$223
Feb 2011	0	71	85.64	4.18	$297
Jan 2011	164	96	86.50	4.59	$14,627
Dec 2010	329	118	85.73	4.35	$28,718
Nov 2010	0	72	80.84	3.80	$273
Oct 2010	170	133	78.10	3.51	$13,744
Sep 2010	342	114	72.63	3.98	$25,293
Aug 2010	171	138	73.68	4.42	$13,209
Jul 2010	170	121	72.55	4.74	$12,907
Jun 2010	173	122	70.36	4.91	$12,771
May 2010	170	124	71.12	4.24	$12,616
Apr 2010	167	104	81.69	4.12	$14,071
Mar 2010	0	93	78.39	4.39	$408
Feb 2010	162	83	73.58	5.44	$12,372
Jan 2010	173	100	74.36	5.96	$13,461
Dec 2009	177	121	71.44	5.48	$13,308
Nov 2009	171	90	74.59	3.75	$13,093
Oct 2009	333	94	72.54	4.11	$24,542
Sep 2009	169	92	65.54	3.06	$11,358
Aug 2009	167	84	67.42	3.22	$11,529
Jul 2009	167	115	61.13	3.46	$10,607
Jun 2009	170	126	66.16	3.90	$11,738
May 2009	168	122	54.74	3.93	$9,675
Apr 2009	164	121	46.77	3.59	$8,104
Mar 2009	172	140	42.14	4.06	$7,816
Feb 2009	170	59	32.81	4.63	$5,851
Jan 2009	328	28	35.86	5.37	$11,912
Dec 2008	163	101	37.10	5.98	$6,651
Nov 2008	167	121	55.49	6.86	$10,097
Oct 2008	167	94	75.24	6.92	$13,216
Sep 2008	166	202	101.76	7.88	$18,483
Aug 2008	171	121	114.22	8.48	$20,558
Jul 2008	170	271	131.08	11.39	$25,370
Jun 2008	171	202	131.33	13.03	$25,090
May 2008	335	94	123.17	11.57	$42,350
Apr 2008	168	121	110.31	10.45	$19,797
Mar 2008	173	96	101.90	9.66	$18,556
Feb 2008	170	271	92.53	8.77	$18,107
Jan 2008	336	121	90.38	8.21	$31,361
Dec 2007	163	271	88.33	7.30	$16,377
Nov 2007	171	202	91.67	7.29	$17,148
Oct 2007	171	174	82.85	6.92	$15,372
Sep 2007	170	117	75.84	6.24	$13,623
Aug 2007	335	94	69.06	6.39	$23,736
Jul 2007	167	81	70.90	6.39	$12,358
Jun 2007	169	81	62.00	7.55	$11,089
May 2007	169	131	58.74	7.85	$10,955
Apr 2007	165	117	59.61	7.81	$10,749
Mar 2007	169	121	56.92	7.30	$10,503
Feb 2007	172	101	55.10	8.22	$10,307
Jan 2007	0	109	50.30	6.73	$733
Dec 2006	318	271	56.65	6.92	$19,890
Nov 2006	160	202	54.20	7.62	$10,211
Oct 2006	166	174	54.90	6.01	$10,160
Sep 2006	169	117	60.08	5.04	$10,743
Aug 2006	324	94	68.71	7.34	$22,952
Jul 2006	171	96	69.37	6.34	$12,471
Jun 2006	165	122	66.28	6.38	$11,715
May 2006	350	122	66.01	6.42	$23,887
Apr 2006	173	127	64.39	7.36	$12,074
Mar 2006	165	140	56.70	7.08	$10,347
Feb 2006	167	108	57.59	7.75	$10,455
Jan 2006	326	131	60.59	8.93	$20,923
Dec 2005	170	118	54.94	13.42	$10,923
Nov 2005	174	134	54.69	10.59	$10,935
Oct 2005	170	126	58.34	13.80	$11,656
Sep 2005	337	94	61.45	12.08	$21,844
Aug 2005	170	133	61.51	9.80	$11,760
Jul 2005	168	162	55.69	7.84	$10,627
Jun 2005	335	151	52.33	7.38	$18,645
May 2005	171	158	45.22	6.65	$8,784
Apr 2005	173	166	49.20	7.36	$9,733
Mar 2005	166	136	50.37	7.15	$9,334
Feb 2005	327	115	45.22	6.31	$15,513
Jan 2005	167	147	43.16	6.32	$8,137
Dec 2004	170	114	39.86	6.75	$7,546
Nov 2004	343	129	45.28	6.33	$16,348
Oct 2004	170	133	49.70	6.52	$9,316
Sep 2004	169	152	43.24	5.28	$8,111
Aug 2004	168	165	42.37	5.55	$8,034
Jul 2004	172	168	38.28	6.08	$7,606
Jun 2004	168	153	36.10	6.43	$7,049
May 2004	173	200	37.48	6.49	$7,783
Apr 2004	0	169	34.47	5.86	$990
Mar 2004	164	149	34.36	5.53	$6,459
Feb 2004	0	147	32.45	5.51	$810
Jan 2004	163	195	32.03	6.30	$6,449
Dec 2003	184	179	30.26	6.30	$6,696
Nov 2003	332	201	28.80	4.60	$10,485
Oct 2003	167	214	28.17	4.76	$5,723
Sep 2003	334	212	26.31	4.75	$9,794
Aug 2003	167	190	29.76	5.13	$5,945
Jul 2003	163	211	29.41	5.17	$5,885
Jun 2003	163	159	28.56	5.98	$5,607
May 2003	170	216	26.59	5.97	$5,810
Apr 2003	323	210	26.67	5.41	$9,750
Mar 2003	173	204	31.14	6.10	$6,631
Feb 2003	171	152	33.48	7.93	$6,930
Jan 2003	344	219	30.31	5.58	$11,649
Dec 2002	169	224	26.91	4.85	$5,635
Nov 2002	178	226	24.66	4.14	$5,324
Oct 2002	359	247	26.46	4.23	$10,544
Sep 2002	179	244	27.44	3.64	$5,799
Aug 2002	176	208	25.96	3.16	$5,227
Jul 2002	181	223	24.58	3.06	$5,132
Jun 2002	349	236	23.73	3.34	$9,070
May 2002	182	215	24.66	3.58	$5,259
Apr 2002	175	226	23.65	3.51	$4,933
Mar 2002	178	208	22.00	3.10	$4,561
Feb 2002	182	174	18.22	2.38	$3,729
Jan 2002	193	226	17.17	2.38	$3,851
Dec 2001	342	200	16.93	2.36	$6,263
Nov 2001	173	259	18.07	2.41	$3,749
Oct 2001	333	242	19.78	2.53	$7,199
Sep 2001	158	105	24.26	2.25	$4,069
Aug 2001	0	61	24.87	3.05	$186
Jul 2001	155	118	23.93	3.20	$4,086
Jun 2001	333	194	24.56	3.82	$8,920
May 2001	162	230	25.52	4.31	$5,125
Apr 2001	333	264	24.68	5.34	$9,627
Mar 2001	175	253	24.54	5.38	$5,655
Feb 2001	177	257	27.75	5.77	$6,394
Jan 2001	177	271	27.47	8.40	$7,138
Dec 2000	183	188	26.88	9.12	$6,634
Nov 2000	186	253	32.21	5.66	$7,423
Oct 2000	334	266	31.23	5.15	$11,800
Sep 2000	166	269	31.87	5.19	$6,686
Aug 2000	0	126	29.64	4.54	$572
Jul 2000	170	246	28.53	4.09	$5,856
Jun 2000	307	261	29.30	4.40	$10,143
May 2000	312	275	27.26	3.68	$9,517
Apr 2000	169	274	24.51	3.12	$4,996
Mar 2000	167	273	28.42	2.86	$5,527
Feb 2000	170	279	27.62	2.73	$5,456
Jan 2000	303	302	25.27	2.48	$8,406
Dec 1999	156	258	24.28	2.42	$4,413
Nov 1999	171	273	23.19	2.43	$4,630
Oct 1999	177	231	20.98	2.80	$4,361
Sep 1999	170	284	21.75	2.62	$4,441
Aug 1999	328	295	19.26	2.88	$7,166
Jul 1999	149	298	17.89	2.37	$3,373
Jun 1999	169	259	15.94	2.36	$3,306
May 1999	333	159	15.79	2.32	$5,627
Apr 1999	173	288	15.10	2.21	$3,248
Mar 1999	164	308	12.47	1.84	$2,611
Feb 1999	333	256	9.98	1.82	$3,789
Jan 1999	178	316	10.38	1.90	$2,448
Dec 1998	179	271	9.20	1.77	$2,127
Nov 1998	176	254	10.89	2.19	$2,472
Oct 1998	174	204	12.42	1.97	$2,563
Sep 1998	164	307	12.59	2.08	$2,704
Aug 1998	309	280	11.30	1.91	$4,026
Jul 1998	164	288	11.74	2.24	$2,570
Jun 1998	182	319	11.24	2.24	$2,759
May 1998	180	275	12.62	2.21	$2,878
Apr 1998	183	278	13.04	2.51	$3,083
Mar 1998	328	316	12.80	2.31	$4,928
Feb 1998	185	288	13.95	2.30	$3,243
Jan 1998	179	333	14.70	2.15	$3,349
Dec 1997	178	317	16.32	2.41	$3,669
Nov 1997	176	253	18.19	3.09	$3,983
Oct 1997	356	387	19.25	3.15	$8,072
Sep 1997	181	416	17.74	2.95	$4,440
Aug 1997	157	413	17.86	2.55	$3,859
Jul 1997	176	464	17.58	2.25	$4,137
Jun 1997	361	461	17.24	2.26	$7,264
May 1997	360	161	18.97	2.31	$7,201
Apr 1997	0	228	17.88	2.08	$475
Mar 1997	0	204	18.95	1.94	$396
Feb 1997	166	27	20.49	2.21	$3,461
Jan 1997	0	27	23.48	3.54	$96
Dec 1996	0	29	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	152	379	21.97	—	$3,339
Oct 1996	162	308	23.31	—	$3,776
Sep 1996	163	295	22.22	—	$3,622
Aug 1996	159	271	20.26	—	$3,221
Jul 1996	152	264	19.55	—	$2,972
Jun 1996	0	186	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	153	106	19.43	—	$2,973
Apr 1996	0	221	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	147	220	19.38	—	$2,849
Feb 1996	162	220	16.98	—	$2,751
Jan 1996	158	203	17.07	—	$2,697
Dec 1995	168	318	17.19	—	$2,888
Nov 1995	164	266	16.00	—	$2,624
Oct 1995	155	262	15.43	—	$2,392
Sep 1995	153	267	16.18	—	$2,476
Aug 1995	153	285	15.92	—	$2,436
Jul 1995	303	360	15.24	—	$4,618
Jun 1995	155	377	16.41	—	$2,544
May 1995	161	410	17.56	—	$2,827
Apr 1995	159	318	17.73	—	$2,819
Mar 1995	339	474	16.44	—	$5,573
Feb 1995	156	428	16.58	—	$2,586
Jan 1995	314	545	15.92	—	$4,999
Dec 1994	157	455	15.03	—	$2,360
Nov 1994	306	428	15.90	—	$4,865
Oct 1994	149	448	15.58	—	$2,321
Sep 1994	310	497	15.29	—	$4,740
Aug 1994	157	571	16.13	—	$2,532
Jul 1994	309	519	17.56	—	$5,426
Jun 1994	146	419	17.09	—	$2,495
May 1994	298	373	15.88	—	$4,732
Apr 1994	315	386	14.14	—	$4,454
Mar 1994	330	403	12.46	—	$4,112
Feb 1994	154	325	12.50	—	$1,925
Jan 1994	308	248	12.66	—	$3,899
Dec 1993	164	248	12.33	—	$2,022
Nov 1993	323	221	14.49	—	$4,680
Oct 1993	152	250	15.85	—	$2,409
Sep 1993	314	423	15.03	—	$4,719
Aug 1993	309	482	15.66	—	$4,839
Jul 1993	313	525	15.46	—	$4,839
Jun 1993	159	410	16.79	—	$2,670
May 1993	312	410	17.68	—	$5,516
Apr 1993	173	555	18.05	—	$3,123
Mar 1993	318	271	18.14	—	$5,769
Feb 1993	316	258	17.90	—	$5,656
Jan 1993	160	486	16.93	—	$2,709

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.

Mar 2016 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  435 bbl  × $ 33.01 =    $14,359
Casinghead gas        65 Mcf  × $  1.79 =       $117

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Month total                                  $14,476

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/64364 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.