MELTON UNIT

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

Operated by KEN PETROLEUM CORPORATION (P-5 455775) in the KENLON (MALIBU SAND) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 128290District 02Field 48901500NGPA filingCondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$2.9 M

Jan 1993 – Jul 2007

Value, last 12 filed months

$2 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

175

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The KENLON (MALIBU SAND) 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 1 leases and 1 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1988-07-20

as the register files it

Field class

Gas

the register's own label

Between wells

—

no field rule filed

From a lease line

—

no field rule filed

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	1	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
Condensate	Disposition	9,853 bbl	$203,832
Gas	Production	1,225,756 Mcf	$2,675,184
Total			$2,879,015

506,014 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 (1)

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 29.0030, -96.6893. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.00301, -96.68933 · 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%

1 of 1 wells

With a plug date

100.0%

1 of 1 wells

Median depth

9,727 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

18.4 years

median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

1100.0%

A plug date is filed

1100.0%

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

1100.0%

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

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 9,727 ft.

Completions filed

Jul 1988

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Dec 2006

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 18.4 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 18.4 years and 18.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-23932413	1	9,727 ft	Jul 1988	Dec 2006	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 (175)

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

175 months


Jul 2007	0	0	70.90	6.39	$0
Jun 2007	0	0	62.00	7.55	$0
May 2007	40	0	58.74	7.85	$2,350
Apr 2007	0	0	59.61	7.81	$0
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	0	0	69.37	6.34	$0
Jun 2006	0	0	66.28	6.38	$0
May 2006	0	0	66.01	6.42	$0
Apr 2006	0	0	64.39	7.36	$0
Mar 2006	0	0	56.70	7.08	$0
Feb 2006	0	0	57.59	7.75	$0
Jan 2006	0	0	60.59	8.93	$0
Dec 2005	0	0	54.94	13.42	$0
Nov 2005	0	0	54.69	10.59	$0
Oct 2005	0	165	58.34	13.80	$2,276
Sep 2005	0	165	61.45	12.08	$1,993
Aug 2005	0	0	61.51	9.80	$0
Jul 2005	0	101	55.69	7.84	$792
Jun 2005	0	137	52.33	7.38	$1,011
May 2005	0	301	45.22	6.65	$2,002
Apr 2005	0	676	49.20	7.36	$4,976
Mar 2005	0	165	50.37	7.15	$1,181
Feb 2005	0	0	45.22	6.31	$0
Jan 2005	0	0	43.16	6.32	$0
Dec 2004	4	50	39.86	6.75	$497
Nov 2004	5	645	45.28	6.33	$4,310
Oct 2004	0	0	49.70	6.52	$0
Sep 2004	0	0	43.24	5.28	$0
Aug 2004	175	0	42.37	5.55	$7,415
Jul 2004	11	3,343	38.28	6.08	$20,760
Jun 2004	5	4,871	36.10	6.43	$31,516
May 2004	9	5,554	37.48	6.49	$36,408
Apr 2004	6	5,599	34.47	5.86	$33,008
Mar 2004	203	6,166	34.36	5.53	$41,074
Feb 2004	14	5,221	32.45	5.51	$29,220
Jan 2004	13	5,658	32.03	6.30	$36,060
Dec 2003	5	6,774	30.26	6.30	$42,839
Nov 2003	182	6,614	28.80	4.60	$35,634
Oct 2003	3	6,934	28.17	4.76	$33,088
Sep 2003	0	7,011	26.31	4.75	$33,298
Aug 2003	197	7,220	29.76	5.13	$42,899
Jul 2003	13	7,370	29.41	5.17	$38,491
Jun 2003	5	7,198	28.56	5.98	$43,208
May 2003	203	8,013	26.59	5.97	$53,257
Apr 2003	5	7,982	26.67	5.41	$43,294
Mar 2003	11	8,563	31.14	6.10	$52,543
Feb 2003	189	8,143	33.48	7.93	$70,868
Jan 2003	1	8,835	30.31	5.58	$49,348
Dec 2002	10	9,355	26.91	4.85	$45,676
Nov 2002	195	9,141	24.66	4.14	$42,625
Oct 2002	5	9,643	26.46	4.23	$40,914
Sep 2002	0	8,923	27.44	3.64	$32,437
Aug 2002	201	9,240	25.96	3.16	$34,455
Jul 2002	17	9,126	24.58	3.06	$28,359
Jun 2002	197	8,950	23.73	3.34	$34,552
May 2002	11	9,394	24.66	3.58	$33,939
Apr 2002	6	9,240	23.65	3.51	$32,596
Mar 2002	210	9,913	22.00	3.10	$35,377
Feb 2002	13	7,683	18.22	2.38	$18,489
Jan 2002	13	7,683	17.17	2.38	$18,476
Dec 2001	198	2,744	16.93	2.36	$9,840
Nov 2001	12	8,766	18.07	2.41	$21,304
Oct 2001	8	9,567	19.78	2.53	$24,352
Sep 2001	191	10,328	24.26	2.25	$27,885
Aug 2001	4	9,899	24.87	3.05	$30,323
Jul 2001	9	10,020	23.93	3.20	$32,250
Jun 2001	174	9,983	24.56	3.82	$42,450
May 2001	0	9,386	25.52	4.31	$40,429
Apr 2001	0	9,710	24.68	5.34	$51,806
Mar 2001	176	9,859	24.54	5.38	$57,325
Feb 2001	0	8,666	27.75	5.77	$49,978
Jan 2001	178	9,864	27.47	8.40	$87,735
Dec 2000	0	9,235	26.88	9.12	$84,246
Nov 2000	0	9,322	32.21	5.66	$52,744
Oct 2000	0	8,999	31.23	5.15	$46,304
Sep 2000	182	8,496	31.87	5.19	$49,865
Aug 2000	0	8,839	29.64	4.54	$40,136
Jul 2000	0	8,339	28.53	4.09	$34,104
Jun 2000	183	8,601	29.30	4.40	$43,183
May 2000	0	8,471	27.26	3.68	$31,171
Apr 2000	0	7,561	24.51	3.12	$23,560
Mar 2000	177	7,640	28.42	2.86	$26,879
Feb 2000	0	7,230	27.62	2.73	$19,713
Jan 2000	0	7,562	25.27	2.48	$18,758
Dec 1999	0	7,500	24.28	2.42	$18,178
Nov 1999	181	7,348	23.19	2.43	$22,082
Oct 1999	0	7,449	20.98	2.80	$20,885
Sep 1999	0	8,222	21.75	2.62	$21,532
Aug 1999	181	8,794	19.26	2.88	$28,774
Jul 1999	5	7,906	17.89	2.37	$18,845
Jun 1999	2	8,607	15.94	2.36	$20,362
May 1999	193	8,893	15.79	2.32	$23,688
Apr 1999	8	8,675	15.10	2.21	$19,276
Mar 1999	4	8,869	12.47	1.84	$16,354
Feb 1999	190	8,430	9.98	1.82	$17,220
Jan 1999	7	8,599	10.38	1.90	$16,410
Dec 1998	9	9,044	9.20	1.77	$16,121
Nov 1998	369	7,919	10.89	2.19	$21,327
Oct 1998	0	7,870	12.42	1.97	$15,498
Sep 1998	12	7,627	12.59	2.08	$16,035
Aug 1998	12	7,614	11.30	1.91	$14,658
Jul 1998	5	7,707	11.74	2.24	$17,301
Jun 1998	5	7,074	11.24	2.24	$15,883
May 1998	8	7,570	12.62	2.21	$16,803
Apr 1998	181	7,191	13.04	2.51	$20,376
Mar 1998	15	5,233	12.80	2.31	$12,277
Feb 1998	10	6,010	13.95	2.30	$13,957
Jan 1998	186	7,275	14.70	2.15	$18,410
Dec 1997	4	6,325	16.32	2.41	$15,315
Nov 1997	0	6,947	18.19	3.09	$21,454
Oct 1997	25	6,781	19.25	3.15	$21,840
Sep 1997	154	5,985	17.74	2.95	$20,417
Aug 1997	0	6,966	17.86	2.55	$17,796
Jul 1997	0	7,543	17.58	2.25	$16,949
Jun 1997	183	6,801	17.24	2.26	$18,506
May 1997	8	8,020	18.97	2.31	$18,666
Apr 1997	12	7,297	17.88	2.08	$15,413
Mar 1997	196	8,051	18.95	1.94	$19,326
Feb 1997	8	6,498	20.49	2.21	$14,498
Jan 1997	10	8,250	23.48	3.54	$29,437
Dec 1996	197	7,183	23.32	—	$4,594
Nov 1996	10	7,892	21.97	—	$220
Oct 1996	10	7,866	23.31	—	$233
Sep 1996	193	7,898	22.22	—	$4,288
Aug 1996	1	8,249	20.26	—	$20
Jul 1996	1	6,499	19.55	—	$20
Jun 1996	1	7,618	18.73	—	$19
May 1996	196	7,667	19.43	—	$3,808
Apr 1996	9	7,471	21.51	—	$194
Mar 1996	8	7,974	19.38	—	$155
Feb 1996	6	7,402	16.98	—	$102
Jan 1996	6	6,641	17.07	—	$102
Dec 1995	186	6,058	17.19	—	$3,197
Nov 1995	7	6,501	16.00	—	$112
Oct 1995	6	6,543	15.43	—	$93
Sep 1995	174	5,147	16.18	—	$2,815
Aug 1995	8	5,565	15.92	—	$127
Jul 1995	10	6,293	15.24	—	$152
Jun 1995	2	5,847	16.41	—	$33
May 1995	173	5,972	17.56	—	$3,038
Apr 1995	1	6,247	17.73	—	$18
Mar 1995	1	6,545	16.44	—	$16
Feb 1995	176	5,916	16.58	—	$2,918
Jan 1995	5	6,316	15.92	—	$80
Dec 1994	2	6,232	15.03	—	$30
Nov 1994	5	4,981	15.90	—	$80
Oct 1994	169	6,236	15.58	—	$2,633
Sep 1994	2	3,188	15.29	—	$31
Aug 1994	3	11,594	16.13	—	$48
Jul 1994	183	12,546	17.56	—	$3,213
Jun 1994	7	11,687	17.09	—	$120
May 1994	197	13,373	15.88	—	$3,128
Apr 1994	15	13,700	14.14	—	$212
Mar 1994	197	14,010	12.46	—	$2,455
Feb 1994	15	13,246	12.50	—	$188
Jan 1994	203	15,320	12.66	—	$2,570
Dec 1993	181	15,524	12.33	—	$2,232
Nov 1993	0	16,830	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	173	16,540	15.85	—	$2,742
Sep 1993	180	18,052	15.03	—	$2,705
Aug 1993	0	19,750	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	177	18,002	15.46	—	$2,736
Jun 1993	179	17,717	16.79	—	$3,005
May 1993	181	18,054	17.68	—	$3,200
Apr 1993	191	18,611	18.05	—	$3,448
Mar 1993	0	19,554	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	176	17,687	17.90	—	$3,150
Jan 1993	178	20,270	16.93	—	$3,014

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 2007 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate            40 bbl  × $ 58.74 =     $2,350
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  7.85 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,350

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. 02/G/128290 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.