MELNAR, FRED ESTATE

Operated by CAPITAL STAR OIL & GAS, INC. (P-5 130426) in the WORD (EDWARDS) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 220953District 02Field 98766142Hydrogen sulphide field2 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$5.4 M
Apr 2006 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$128 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
242
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, gas

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 17 leases and 17 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1960-03-18
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

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: ALLOCATION FORMULA SUSPENDED ADMINISTRATIVELY 3/2/93

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.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
High Cost Gas112008-04-30180946
NGPA1none

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.

StreamBasisVolumeValue
CondensateDisposition8,735 bbl$584,228
GasProduction1,012,304 Mcf$4,844,480
Total$5,428,708

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 29.3718, -97.0218. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.37185, -97.02179 · centre of the wells drawn, derived

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 1 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
14,000 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
00.0%
A plug date is filed
00.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
00.0%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
1100.0%

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 14,000 ft.

Completions filed
Apr 2006
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-28533232514,000 ftApr 2006

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 (242)

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

242 months

May 2026302,456106.413.05$10,673
Apr 202602,46298.932.87$7,065
Mar 2026362,52689.753.15$11,186
Feb 2026322,11763.503.75$9,971
Jan 202602,20859.138.00$17,659
Dec 2025392,63256.664.41$13,826
Nov 2025342,62858.593.93$12,311
Oct 202502,15159.383.30$7,109
Sep 2025382,51062.743.08$10,107
Aug 2025252,80963.933.01$10,067
Jul 2025391,72666.743.32$8,325
Jun 2025661,79366.483.13$9,997
May 202502,38360.553.23$7,703
Apr 2025352,05462.363.54$9,460
Mar 2025372,24167.704.27$12,070
Feb 202502,23070.884.34$9,680
Jan 2025372,69574.324.28$14,281
Dec 2024392,86468.993.12$11,630
Nov 2024922,98869.052.20$12,922
Oct 2024643,23171.372.28$11,939
Sep 202403,61669.612.36$8,550
Aug 20246651775.632.06$6,058
Jul 2024051779.932.15$1,110
Jun 2024092378.082.63$2,431
May 2024651,50178.812.20$8,423
Apr 202402,85984.451.66$4,744
Mar 2024432,32280.301.55$7,041
Feb 202401,67176.091.78$2,980
Jan 2024361,33573.023.30$7,031
Dec 20230071.262.61$0
Nov 202301,65877.892.81$4,655
Oct 2023561,30085.443.09$8,798
Sep 202302,62389.042.74$7,174
Aug 2023422,11380.522.67$9,030
Jul 2023351,75474.852.64$7,253
Jun 202301,72668.962.26$3,898
May 202301,94170.622.23$4,323
Apr 2023022778.122.24$508
Mar 2023742,34172.852.39$10,993
Feb 202301,67975.112.47$4,140
Jan 2023502,72576.533.39$13,058
Dec 2022411,74676.415.73$13,136
Nov 202201,99685.005.65$11,270
Oct 2022442,06687.185.86$15,950
Sep 202202,42884.888.16$19,821
Aug 2022552,81494.529.13$30,882
Jul 202204,482101.587.54$33,804
Jun 202200115.097.98$0
May 2022332,254109.378.43$22,617
Apr 2022392,147104.226.84$18,745
Mar 202201,300108.885.08$6,599
Feb 20221159091.054.86$3,868
Jan 202201,52281.844.54$6,906
Dec 20211176771.323.90$3,775
Nov 2021316177.435.24$1,075
Oct 2021084579.795.71$4,828
Sep 2021974769.865.35$4,626
Aug 202101,41966.024.22$5,989
Jul 2021372,25470.783.98$11,594
Jun 202102,25769.493.38$7,630
May 2021422,81363.483.02$11,155
Apr 2021271,40060.362.76$5,492
Mar 2021052761.302.72$1,432
Feb 2021271,20357.805.55$8,235
Jan 202102,92650.412.81$8,223
Dec 2020601,14544.642.68$5,742
Nov 2020632,00638.772.71$7,872
Oct 2020631,79136.972.48$6,768
Sep 2020631,68737.091.99$5,696
Aug 202002,53539.982.39$6,046
Jul 2020601,78538.371.83$5,560
Jun 202011854634.901.69$5,041
May 202001,00816.921.81$1,829
Apr 202001,22914.751.80$2,218
Mar 2020632,13330.341.86$5,871
Feb 20206025249.881.98$3,492
Jan 2020654,00457.252.09$12,109
Dec 20190059.012.30$0
Nov 2019657055.302.75$3,787
Oct 2019582,03353.472.42$8,018
Sep 2019621,90055.052.66$8,462
Aug 201902,23253.112.30$5,143
Jul 20191223,51356.272.46$15,507
Jun 201902,17352.782.49$5,413
May 2019541,96858.482.74$8,551
Apr 2019682,25962.632.75$10,473
Mar 2019673,01056.803.06$13,023
Feb 2019713,17050.852.79$12,462
Jan 2019722,72646.033.23$12,114
Dec 201802,01146.594.19$8,417
Nov 2018691,59252.934.24$10,398
Oct 2018613,02261.443.40$14,017
Sep 201802,98959.543.11$9,290
Aug 2018801,80259.403.07$10,278
Jul 2018193,48965.142.93$11,467
Jun 2018432,80160.183.08$11,206
May 2018052065.382.90$1,508
Apr 2018591,56763.842.90$8,312
Mar 2018601,69561.222.79$8,397
Feb 2018094661.782.77$2,617
Jan 2018991,17362.874.01$10,927
Dec 20171632,04157.272.92$15,298
Nov 20171685,53055.423.12$26,555
Oct 20172365,62349.292.98$28,410
Sep 20175935147.523.09$3,887
Aug 20175115645.373.00$2,783
Jul 201701,73943.873.09$5,369
Jun 2017632,77942.493.09$11,256
May 20170045.373.26$0
Apr 2017040547.933.21$1,301
Mar 2017585,52346.772.98$19,192
Feb 2017584,91550.452.95$17,438
Jan 2017566,25349.413.42$24,145
Dec 2016585,61748.763.72$23,739
Nov 2016576,54042.492.64$19,716
Oct 2016666,99646.193.09$24,668
Sep 2016766,80541.553.10$24,258
Aug 201608,09841.442.92$23,681
Jul 20161539,13541.622.92$33,082
Jun 201608,56545.352.69$23,004
May 2016677,49642.521.99$17,774
Apr 2016757,54436.561.99$17,762
Mar 2016588,35933.011.79$16,911
Feb 2016977,98026.472.06$19,035
Jan 201607,23327.352.36$17,101
Dec 2015577,63932.362.00$17,133
Nov 2015215,43338.792.17$12,590
Oct 2015422,96443.552.43$9,021
Sep 2015602,34442.992.76$9,045
Aug 20151502,88540.162.87$14,311
Jul 201503,46948.152.95$10,216
Jun 20152292,92756.152.88$21,296
May 20156061555.212.96$5,130
Apr 2015612,35949.822.71$9,424
Mar 2015683,35542.892.93$12,762
Feb 20151002,86044.662.98$12,978
Jan 20151233,48643.433.10$16,151
Dec 20141243,63354.693.59$19,829
Nov 20141304,28770.464.25$27,387
Oct 20141033,95678.303.90$23,497
Sep 2014305,07086.164.05$23,095
Aug 20149340089.394.04$9,927
Jul 2014801,95196.564.18$15,879
Jun 2014712,94798.164.74$20,929
May 2014883,05594.734.73$22,776
Apr 20141742,47195.944.81$28,577
Mar 2014631,96195.895.06$15,957
Feb 2014554,79797.406.19$35,060
Jan 201410456590.404.86$12,148
Dec 2013581,60891.824.35$12,328
Nov 20131133,49188.853.74$23,090
Oct 201303,88997.423.78$14,698
Sep 2013603,919104.113.72$20,816
Aug 2013614,592104.253.52$22,535
Jul 2013434,465102.523.72$21,008
Jun 2013353,64594.403.93$17,641
May 2013393,72494.834.15$19,150
Apr 2013153,89393.964.28$18,082
Mar 2013164,39593.623.91$18,695
Feb 2013292,22291.233.42$10,245
Jan 2013154,01491.603.42$15,102
Dec 2012314,15086.773.42$16,884
Nov 2012154,11886.953.62$16,232
Oct 2012334,19289.383.40$17,201
Sep 2012194,45694.672.92$14,803
Aug 20121254,81792.662.91$25,591
Jul 2012564,62285.133.02$18,729
Jun 2012453,91479.822.52$13,451
May 2012304,14691.612.49$13,065
Apr 2012574,686101.652.00$15,151
Mar 2012394,411105.052.22$13,899
Feb 2012454,909101.102.57$17,167
Jan 2012484,74398.092.73$17,676
Dec 2011455,12196.873.24$20,950
Nov 20111065,70095.723.31$29,021
Oct 2011575,21084.983.65$23,853
Sep 2011745,26783.623.99$27,181
Aug 2011645,46383.404.15$28,005
Jul 20111596,17094.144.52$42,840
Jun 20111285,98392.904.64$39,652
May 2011176,18698.134.40$28,916
Apr 2011226,358105.964.33$29,882
Mar 2011885,12496.364.06$29,269
Feb 201175,62285.644.18$24,099
Jan 201136,52686.504.59$30,206
Dec 201003,61385.734.35$15,708
Nov 201003,96180.843.80$15,033
Oct 201002,96078.103.51$10,386
Sep 201004,22372.633.98$16,805
Aug 201005,65373.684.42$24,983
Jul 201006,62572.554.74$31,379
Jun 201004,25470.364.91$20,889
May 201004,49271.124.24$19,025
Apr 201005,69481.694.12$23,475
Mar 201005,46778.394.39$23,993
Feb 201004,60873.585.44$25,078
Jan 201004,65474.365.96$27,757
Dec 200903,99671.445.48$21,913
Nov 200903,95874.593.75$14,848
Oct 200904,38172.544.11$18,007
Sep 200904,39965.543.06$13,482
Aug 200903,87367.423.22$12,465
Jul 200904,20761.133.46$14,575
Jun 200903,93966.163.90$15,342
May 200903,68954.743.93$14,482
Apr 200903,73346.773.59$13,392
Mar 200903,55542.144.06$14,430
Feb 200904,37232.814.63$20,255
Jan 200904,80235.865.37$25,792
Dec 200806,83537.105.98$40,854
Nov 200806,08055.496.86$41,711
Oct 200805,87875.246.92$40,687
Sep 200805,446101.767.88$42,899
Aug 200806,410114.228.48$54,376
Jul 200805,152131.0811.39$58,678
Jun 200805,208131.3313.03$67,874
May 200804,895123.1711.57$56,656
Apr 200806,252110.3110.45$65,364
Mar 200806,709101.909.66$64,836
Feb 200805,94792.538.77$52,159
Jan 200807,09490.388.21$58,211
Dec 200707,30288.337.30$53,319
Nov 200707,02291.677.29$51,202
Oct 200707,04782.856.92$48,779
Sep 200705,49375.846.24$34,299
Aug 200707,37069.066.39$47,079
Jul 200709,89170.906.39$63,183
Jun 200707,27262.007.55$54,892
May 200707,86958.747.85$61,742
Apr 200706,58559.617.81$51,397
Mar 200708,49256.927.30$62,008
Feb 200708,68155.108.22$71,323
Jan 200707,39850.306.73$49,765
Dec 2006011,15656.656.92$77,182
Nov 2006015,26954.207.62$116,311
Oct 2006016,93154.906.01$101,820
Sep 2006020,69060.085.04$104,220
Aug 2006015,72068.717.34$115,384
Jul 2006021,40769.376.34$135,779
Jun 2006022,86466.286.38$145,961
May 2006025,96466.016.42$166,819
Apr 2006034,50664.397.36$253,981

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
Condensate            30 bbl  × $106.41 =     $3,192
Gas                2,456 Mcf  × $  3.05 =     $7,481

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Month total                                  $10,673

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/220953 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.