LINKER (LOWER CLEARFORK) UNIT

Name: LINKER (LOWER CLEARFORK) UNIT lease production and value, Feb 2016 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by BASIN OIL & GAS OPERATING, LLC (P-5 54430) in the LINKER (CLEAR FORK) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 70429District 8AField 53759333Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$233.8 M

Feb 2016 – May 2026

Value, last 12 filed months

$19.0 M

at the published price for each month

Months reported

124

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The LINKER (CLEAR FORK) 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 56 leases and 187 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1961-04-06

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 field rule took effect on 1992-12-01.

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: “250 BBLS PER WELL. FIELD RULES STILL IN PLACE.”

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	3,632,439 bbl	$232,471,658
Casinghead gas	Production	412,228 Mcf	$1,336,847
Total			$233,808,505

Wells on this lease (32)

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 33.5513, -102.3621. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.7 miles.

33.55130, -102.35977 · 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

0.0%

0 of 32 wells

With a plug date

3.1%

1 of 32 wells

Median depth

7,660 ft

32 wells filed one

Completion to plug

—

1 well filed both, dated out of order

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

00.0%

A plug date is filed

13.1%

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

00.0%

NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.

3196.9%

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

Total depth in feet, 32 of 32 wells. Median 7,660 ft, with the middle half between 7,591 and 8,000 ft; the shallowest is 7,420 ft and the deepest 10,500 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

Last completion by decade, 32 of 32 wells, Apr 2004 – Nov 2019. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed

Apr 2004 – Nov 2019

32 of 32 wells

Plug dates filed

Jul 1985

1 of 32 wells; 31 filed none

Last completion to plug: no median is published. 1 well on this lease filed both dates, and on that one the last completion is dated after the plug date, so there is no interval to take a median of. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

32 wells


42-21937483	704	7,562 ft	Nov 2019	—	—
42-21937482	605W	7,511 ft	Nov 2019	—	—
42-21937480	508W	7,469 ft	Sep 2019	—	—
42-21937481	4104W	7,547 ft	Jul 2019	—	—
42-21934526	301AW	7,480 ft	Jun 2016	Jul 1985	—
42-21936774	4102W	8,100 ft	Jun 2016	—	—
42-21936816	507W	7,600 ft	Jun 2016	—	—
42-21936768	506W	8,100 ft	May 2016	—	—
42-21936820	702W	7,700 ft	May 2016	—	—
42-21936862	803W	7,600 ft	May 2016	—	—
42-21936980	804CW	7,600 ft	May 2016	—	—
42-21937365	607W	7,800 ft	Apr 2016	—	—
42-21937363	606W	7,800 ft	Apr 2016	—	—
42-21937361	503W	7,806 ft	Mar 2016	—	—
42-21937006	805B	7,624 ft	Dec 2007	—	—
42-21936987	101	7,656 ft	Sep 2007	—	—
42-21936933	4105	7,664 ft	Jun 2007	—	—
42-21936828	604	8,000 ft	May 2007	—	—
42-21936930	1901	7,800 ft	Aug 2006	—	—
42-21936883	509	7,420 ft	Apr 2006	—	—
42-21936835	802A	7,478 ft	Mar 2006	—	—
42-21936863	4103	7,700 ft	Mar 2006	—	—
42-21936817	201	7,607 ft	Jan 2006	—	—
42-21936819	801	7,600 ft	Nov 2005	—	—
42-21936815	602	7,600 ft	Sep 2005	—	—
42-21936767	4101	8,173 ft	Feb 2005	—	—
42-21936752	601	8,000 ft	Feb 2005	—	—
42-21936757	505	8,011 ft	Jan 2005	—	—
42-21936751	701	8,000 ft	Nov 2004	—	—
42-21936753	504	8,001 ft	Oct 2004	—	—
42-21936745	502	7,502 ft	Jun 2004	—	—
42-21936709	501A	10,500 ft	Apr 2004	—	—

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.

Leases whose centres are nearest (188)

Ranked by the distance between lease centres, within 5 miles. A lease has no coordinate the state files — each centre is the mean of that lease's own wells, so this measures how far apart two centres are and not whether the two leases touch.

Lease	Operator	Centres apart
MARCOM "12"	GREAT WESTERN DRILLING COMPANY	0.20 mi
AIRFIELD	GREAT WESTERN DRILLING COMPANY	0.21 mi
MITCHELL	WALKABOUT OPERATING, LLC	0.43 miSpans 73 mi
C&H "13"	GREAT WESTERN DRILLING COMPANY	0.57 mi
MONTGOMERY UNIT	STANOLIND PERMIAN LLC	0.66 mi
AIRFIELD	STANOLIND PERMIAN LLC	0.68 mi
C&H	GREAT WESTERN DRILLING COMPANY	0.72 mi
BROWN	SOUTHWEST ROYALTIES, INC.	0.81 mi
BROWN	ROGERS, S. K. OIL, INC.	0.82 mi
POST MONTGOMERY A	GREAT WESTERN DRILLING COMPANY	0.87 mi

The 10 nearest are listed. 188 leases in all have a centre within 5 miles of this one.

Operators who reported on those leases

Taken from the same 5-mile set above. This is who filed production, not who holds acreage — the state publishes no acreage register.

GREAT WESTERN DRILLING COMPANY 11 leases, nearest 0.20 mi
WALKABOUT OPERATING, LLC 1 lease, nearest 0.43 mi
STANOLIND PERMIAN LLC 2 leases, nearest 0.66 mi
SOUTHWEST ROYALTIES, INC. 1 lease, nearest 0.81 mi
ROGERS, S. K. OIL, INC. 50 leases, nearest 0.82 mi
SOCORRO EXPLORATION, INC. 2 leases, nearest 0.88 mi

Every month this lease reported (124)

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

124 months


May 2026	20,661	1,130	106.41	3.05	$2,201,979
Apr 2026	20,579	1,684	98.93	2.87	$2,040,713
Mar 2026	22,004	1,308	89.75	3.15	$1,978,978
Feb 2026	21,254	1,784	63.50	3.75	$1,356,320
Jan 2026	22,128	1,662	59.13	8.00	$1,321,721
Dec 2025	22,623	1,549	56.66	4.41	$1,288,655
Nov 2025	21,780	1,809	58.59	3.93	$1,283,193
Oct 2025	24,162	1,891	59.38	3.30	$1,440,989
Sep 2025	22,056	1,948	62.74	3.08	$1,389,787
Aug 2025	23,915	1,871	63.93	3.01	$1,534,527
Jul 2025	23,558	2,147	66.74	3.32	$1,579,379
Jun 2025	24,231	2,090	66.48	3.13	$1,617,416
May 2025	22,717	1,918	60.55	3.23	$1,381,714
Apr 2025	23,224	1,974	62.36	3.54	$1,455,243
Mar 2025	23,924	1,746	67.70	4.27	$1,627,107
Feb 2025	21,563	1,659	70.88	4.34	$1,535,587
Jan 2025	21,761	1,426	74.32	4.28	$1,623,379
Dec 2024	25,604	2,129	68.99	3.12	$1,773,065
Nov 2024	24,732	2,415	69.05	2.20	$1,713,054
Oct 2024	26,498	3,051	71.37	2.28	$1,898,123
Sep 2024	26,679	2,921	69.61	2.36	$1,864,031
Aug 2024	26,241	3,174	75.63	2.06	$1,991,157
Jul 2024	27,272	3,203	79.93	2.15	$2,186,726
Jun 2024	27,086	3,334	78.08	2.63	$2,123,657
May 2024	27,905	3,332	78.81	2.20	$2,206,518
Apr 2024	25,968	2,899	84.45	1.66	$2,197,808
Mar 2024	28,624	3,232	80.30	1.55	$2,303,501
Feb 2024	26,274	2,341	76.09	1.78	$2,003,364
Jan 2024	28,805	2,470	73.02	3.30	$2,111,486
Dec 2023	29,449	2,704	71.26	2.61	$2,105,595
Nov 2023	28,181	3,317	77.89	2.81	$2,204,331
Oct 2023	30,451	2,953	85.44	3.09	$2,610,850
Sep 2023	29,022	4,129	89.04	2.74	$2,595,412
Aug 2023	31,263	4,117	80.52	2.67	$2,528,301
Jul 2023	31,745	4,163	74.85	2.64	$2,387,111
Jun 2023	29,176	3,608	68.96	2.26	$2,020,126
May 2023	31,644	3,529	70.62	2.23	$2,242,560
Apr 2023	30,772	2,481	78.12	2.24	$2,409,461
Mar 2023	33,325	2,571	72.85	2.39	$2,433,879
Feb 2023	27,862	2,579	75.11	2.47	$2,099,074
Jan 2023	33,649	3,051	76.53	3.39	$2,585,494
Dec 2022	32,364	2,866	76.41	5.73	$2,489,353
Nov 2022	31,887	3,133	85.00	5.65	$2,728,085
Oct 2022	33,398	3,458	87.18	5.86	$2,931,915
Sep 2022	33,608	3,381	84.88	8.16	$2,880,248
Aug 2022	35,853	3,721	94.52	9.13	$3,422,788
Jul 2022	36,479	3,841	101.58	7.54	$3,734,506
Jun 2022	34,466	3,801	115.09	7.98	$3,997,013
May 2022	36,964	4,021	109.37	8.43	$4,076,662
Apr 2022	39,506	3,394	104.22	6.84	$4,140,522
Mar 2022	40,077	3,367	108.88	5.08	$4,380,676
Feb 2022	35,493	2,261	91.05	4.86	$3,242,623
Jan 2022	39,583	2,263	81.84	4.54	$3,249,741
Dec 2021	39,611	2,385	71.32	3.90	$2,834,356
Nov 2021	39,705	2,207	77.43	5.24	$3,085,916
Oct 2021	39,243	1,866	79.79	5.71	$3,141,861
Sep 2021	41,069	1,439	69.86	5.35	$2,876,780
Aug 2021	41,577	1,314	66.02	4.22	$2,750,459
Jul 2021	40,468	3,216	70.78	3.98	$2,877,131
Jun 2021	41,023	3,490	69.49	3.38	$2,862,487
May 2021	41,693	3,742	63.48	3.02	$2,657,964
Apr 2021	41,933	3,376	60.36	2.76	$2,540,388
Mar 2021	40,906	3,402	61.30	2.72	$2,516,781
Feb 2021	31,858	3,305	57.80	5.55	$1,859,728
Jan 2021	40,534	3,896	50.41	2.81	$2,054,268
Dec 2020	42,614	3,183	44.64	2.68	$1,910,805
Nov 2020	40,943	3,515	38.77	2.71	$1,596,874
Oct 2020	40,779	3,420	36.97	2.48	$1,516,076
Sep 2020	39,788	3,482	37.09	1.99	$1,482,670
Aug 2020	41,157	3,321	39.98	2.39	$1,653,378
Jul 2020	42,975	3,388	38.37	1.83	$1,655,134
Jun 2020	39,725	2,512	34.90	1.69	$1,390,649
May 2020	40,524	2,741	16.92	1.81	$690,640
Apr 2020	40,300	3,571	14.75	1.80	$600,868
Mar 2020	39,860	3,907	30.34	1.86	$1,216,605
Feb 2020	36,400	3,400	49.88	1.98	$1,822,366
Jan 2020	38,762	4,054	57.25	2.09	$2,227,617
Dec 2019	38,318	3,981	59.01	2.30	$2,270,319
Nov 2019	33,199	3,505	55.30	2.75	$1,845,546
Oct 2019	35,573	2,851	53.47	2.42	$1,908,984
Sep 2019	34,060	3,713	55.05	2.66	$1,884,869
Aug 2019	34,631	4,698	53.11	2.30	$1,850,078
Jul 2019	35,053	4,659	56.27	2.46	$1,983,894
Jun 2019	33,951	3,690	52.78	2.49	$1,801,126
May 2019	36,184	4,680	58.48	2.74	$2,128,865
Apr 2019	33,402	4,952	62.63	2.75	$2,105,589
Mar 2019	33,928	3,560	56.80	3.06	$1,938,011
Feb 2019	31,430	2,756	50.85	2.79	$1,605,911
Jan 2019	35,488	1,213	46.03	3.23	$1,637,428
Dec 2018	33,299	347	46.59	4.19	$1,552,853
Nov 2018	32,484	1,951	52.93	4.24	$1,727,645
Oct 2018	35,115	4,290	61.44	3.40	$2,172,043
Sep 2018	32,226	4,776	59.54	3.11	$1,933,580
Aug 2018	33,186	4,621	59.40	3.07	$1,985,419
Jul 2018	33,244	5,016	65.14	2.93	$2,180,220
Jun 2018	31,387	5,371	60.18	3.08	$1,905,396
May 2018	32,321	5,048	65.38	2.90	$2,127,790
Apr 2018	31,121	4,760	63.84	2.90	$2,000,572
Mar 2018	30,674	4,869	61.22	2.79	$1,891,431
Feb 2018	28,132	3,850	61.78	2.77	$1,748,645
Jan 2018	30,001	3,590	62.87	4.01	$1,900,556
Dec 2017	29,250	4,394	57.27	2.92	$1,687,985
Nov 2017	26,475	4,638	55.42	3.12	$1,481,707
Oct 2017	26,978	5,049	49.29	2.98	$1,344,810
Sep 2017	25,260	4,557	47.52	3.09	$1,214,424
Aug 2017	23,879	5,001	45.37	3.00	$1,098,415
Jul 2017	23,069	4,844	43.87	3.09	$1,026,992
Jun 2017	19,964	5,040	42.49	3.09	$863,830
May 2017	19,418	5,066	45.37	3.26	$897,527
Apr 2017	16,781	4,152	47.93	3.21	$817,648
Mar 2017	16,141	3,792	46.77	2.98	$766,229
Feb 2017	13,437	3,489	50.45	2.95	$688,198
Jan 2017	14,127	3,704	49.41	3.42	$710,678
Dec 2016	12,428	3,857	48.76	3.72	$620,348
Nov 2016	10,577	4,365	42.49	2.64	$460,959
Oct 2016	10,256	4,862	46.19	3.09	$488,749
Sep 2016	9,041	3,899	41.55	3.10	$387,743
Aug 2016	9,429	3,488	41.44	2.92	$400,938
Jul 2016	9,051	4,192	41.62	2.92	$388,961
Jun 2016	9,173	4,124	45.35	2.69	$427,072
May 2016	10,391	4,524	42.52	1.99	$450,833
Apr 2016	10,849	5,329	36.56	1.99	$407,250
Mar 2016	11,208	5,308	33.01	1.79	$379,499
Feb 2016	13,358	4,869	26.47	2.06	$363,634

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.

May 2026 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil               20,661 bbl  × $106.41 = $2,198,537
Casinghead gas     1,130 Mcf  × $  3.05 =     $3,442

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Month total                               $2,201,979

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/70429 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.