MERTZ GAS UNIT NO. 2

Name: MERTZ GAS UNIT NO. 2 lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by PIONEER NATURAL RES. USA, INC. (P-5 665748) 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 78239District 02Field 98766142Hydrogen sulphide fieldNGPA filingCondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$1.8 M

Jan 1993 – Nov 2013

Value, last 12 filed months

$33 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

251

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The WORD (EDWARDS) 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 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.

Programme	Filings	With an approval date	Dated	Docket
NGPA	2	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	2,031 bbl	$65,967
Gas	Production	502,742 Mcf	$1,747,515
Total			$1,813,482

144,619 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 29.4989, -96.8823. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.49889, -96.88227 · 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

14,759 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

35.4 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 14,759 ft.

Completions filed

Jun 1978

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Nov 2013

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 35.4 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 35.4 years and 35.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-28531165	1	14,759 ft	Jun 1978	Nov 2013	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 (251)

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

251 months


Nov 2013	111	10	88.85	3.74	$9,900
Oct 2013	0	348	97.42	3.78	$1,315
Sep 2013	0	485	104.11	3.72	$1,803
Aug 2013	0	491	104.25	3.52	$1,730
Jul 2013	0	542	102.52	3.72	$2,015
Jun 2013	0	567	94.40	3.93	$2,230
May 2013	0	502	94.83	4.15	$2,083
Apr 2013	0	504	93.96	4.28	$2,158
Mar 2013	0	538	93.62	3.91	$2,105
Feb 2013	0	691	91.23	3.42	$2,363
Jan 2013	0	814	91.60	3.42	$2,784
Dec 2012	0	793	86.77	3.42	$2,712
Nov 2012	0	513	86.95	3.62	$1,860
Oct 2012	0	605	89.38	3.40	$2,057
Sep 2012	0	614	94.67	2.92	$1,792
Aug 2012	0	609	92.66	2.91	$1,771
Jul 2012	0	654	85.13	3.02	$1,976
Jun 2012	0	737	79.82	2.52	$1,857
May 2012	0	760	91.61	2.49	$1,891
Apr 2012	0	832	101.65	2.00	$1,661
Mar 2012	0	900	105.05	2.22	$2,000
Feb 2012	0	747	101.10	2.57	$1,920
Jan 2012	0	728	98.09	2.73	$1,990
Dec 2011	0	677	96.87	3.24	$2,193
Nov 2011	0	731	95.72	3.31	$2,421
Oct 2011	0	700	84.98	3.65	$2,554
Sep 2011	0	975	83.62	3.99	$3,886
Aug 2011	0	1,211	83.40	4.15	$5,025
Jul 2011	0	1,267	94.14	4.52	$5,723
Jun 2011	0	1,208	92.90	4.64	$5,605
May 2011	0	1,310	98.13	4.40	$5,770
Apr 2011	0	1,263	105.96	4.33	$5,473
Mar 2011	0	1,090	96.36	4.06	$4,423
Feb 2011	0	847	85.64	4.18	$3,540
Jan 2011	0	744	86.50	4.59	$3,414
Dec 2010	0	725	85.73	4.35	$3,152
Nov 2010	0	759	80.84	3.80	$2,881
Oct 2010	0	804	78.10	3.51	$2,821
Sep 2010	0	787	72.63	3.98	$3,132
Aug 2010	0	817	73.68	4.42	$3,611
Jul 2010	0	762	72.55	4.74	$3,609
Jun 2010	0	764	70.36	4.91	$3,752
May 2010	0	816	71.12	4.24	$3,456
Apr 2010	0	786	81.69	4.12	$3,240
Mar 2010	0	887	78.39	4.39	$3,893
Feb 2010	0	872	73.58	5.44	$4,746
Jan 2010	0	887	74.36	5.96	$5,290
Dec 2009	0	917	71.44	5.48	$5,029
Nov 2009	0	1,246	74.59	3.75	$4,674
Oct 2009	0	1,069	72.54	4.11	$4,394
Sep 2009	0	880	65.54	3.06	$2,697
Aug 2009	0	962	67.42	3.22	$3,096
Jul 2009	0	1,082	61.13	3.46	$3,749
Jun 2009	0	740	66.16	3.90	$2,882
May 2009	0	854	54.74	3.93	$3,353
Apr 2009	0	604	46.77	3.59	$2,167
Mar 2009	0	572	42.14	4.06	$2,322
Feb 2009	0	615	32.81	4.63	$2,849
Jan 2009	0	773	35.86	5.37	$4,152
Dec 2008	0	966	37.10	5.98	$5,774
Nov 2008	0	27	55.49	6.86	$185
Oct 2008	0	1,284	75.24	6.92	$8,888
Sep 2008	0	694	101.76	7.88	$5,467
Aug 2008	0	1,359	114.22	8.48	$11,528
Jul 2008	0	1,190	131.08	11.39	$13,553
Jun 2008	0	1,184	131.33	13.03	$15,431
May 2008	1	1,487	123.17	11.57	$17,334
Apr 2008	0	1,913	110.31	10.45	$20,000
Mar 2008	2	1,574	101.90	9.66	$15,415
Feb 2008	0	2,641	92.53	8.77	$23,163
Jan 2008	0	1,370	90.38	8.21	$11,242
Dec 2007	0	3,319	88.33	7.30	$24,235
Nov 2007	0	817	91.67	7.29	$5,957
Oct 2007	90	576	82.85	6.92	$11,444
Sep 2007	0	1,428	75.84	6.24	$8,917
Aug 2007	0	1,266	69.06	6.39	$8,087
Jul 2007	0	1,408	70.90	6.39	$8,994
Jun 2007	0	1,243	62.00	7.55	$9,383
May 2007	0	1,408	58.74	7.85	$11,048
Apr 2007	0	1,925	59.61	7.81	$15,025
Mar 2007	0	2,102	56.92	7.30	$15,349
Feb 2007	0	2,337	55.10	8.22	$19,201
Jan 2007	0	2,783	50.30	6.73	$18,721
Dec 2006	0	1,952	56.65	6.92	$13,505
Nov 2006	0	1,967	54.20	7.62	$14,984
Oct 2006	0	2,139	54.90	6.01	$12,864
Sep 2006	97	2,060	60.08	5.04	$16,204
Aug 2006	0	2,479	68.71	7.34	$18,196
Jul 2006	0	2,812	69.37	6.34	$17,836
Jun 2006	0	2,183	66.28	6.38	$13,936
May 2006	0	1,899	66.01	6.42	$12,201
Apr 2006	0	2,091	64.39	7.36	$15,391
Mar 2006	0	1,973	56.70	7.08	$13,975
Feb 2006	0	3,040	57.59	7.75	$23,563
Jan 2006	0	2,087	60.59	8.93	$18,644
Dec 2005	0	2,201	54.94	13.42	$29,527
Nov 2005	0	2,476	54.69	10.59	$26,217
Oct 2005	4	2,856	58.34	13.80	$39,634
Sep 2005	142	2,330	61.45	12.08	$36,870
Aug 2005	0	2,000	61.51	9.80	$19,594
Jul 2005	0	1,958	55.69	7.84	$15,358
Jun 2005	0	1,957	52.33	7.38	$14,445
May 2005	0	1,661	45.22	6.65	$11,048
Apr 2005	0	1,825	49.20	7.36	$13,433
Mar 2005	0	1,799	50.37	7.15	$12,872
Feb 2005	0	1,537	45.22	6.31	$9,701
Jan 2005	0	1,655	43.16	6.32	$10,463
Dec 2004	0	1,903	39.86	6.75	$12,847
Nov 2004	0	1,677	45.28	6.33	$10,616
Oct 2004	0	2,069	49.70	6.52	$13,480
Sep 2004	0	1,950	43.24	5.28	$10,304
Aug 2004	0	1,861	42.37	5.55	$10,330
Jul 2004	0	1,956	38.28	6.08	$11,901
Jun 2004	0	2,160	36.10	6.43	$13,895
May 2004	0	2,505	37.48	6.49	$16,269
Apr 2004	0	2,706	34.47	5.86	$15,853
Mar 2004	1	3,910	34.36	5.53	$21,657
Feb 2004	176	2,416	32.45	5.51	$19,022
Jan 2004	0	2,429	32.03	6.30	$15,302
Dec 2003	0	766	30.26	6.30	$4,827
Nov 2003	0	2,248	28.80	4.60	$10,330
Oct 2003	0	2,250	28.17	4.76	$10,709
Sep 2003	0	2,412	26.31	4.75	$11,455
Aug 2003	0	2,231	29.76	5.13	$11,444
Jul 2003	0	2,199	29.41	5.17	$11,371
Jun 2003	0	2,714	28.56	5.98	$16,238
May 2003	1	4,826	26.59	5.97	$28,851
Apr 2003	0	3,875	26.67	5.41	$20,953
Mar 2003	0	358	31.14	6.10	$2,182
Feb 2003	0	0	33.48	7.93	$0
Jan 2003	0	3,410	30.31	5.58	$19,035
Dec 2002	0	5,071	26.91	4.85	$24,613
Nov 2002	0	1,189	24.66	4.14	$4,919
Oct 2002	0	0	26.46	4.23	$0
Sep 2002	0	0	27.44	3.64	$0
Aug 2002	0	1,413	25.96	3.16	$4,471
Jul 2002	0	2,020	24.58	3.06	$6,185
Jun 2002	0	2,122	23.73	3.34	$7,084
May 2002	0	1,995	24.66	3.58	$7,150
Apr 2002	188	2,055	23.65	3.51	$11,664
Mar 2002	2	2,164	22.00	3.10	$6,758
Feb 2002	1	2,546	18.22	2.38	$6,067
Jan 2002	5	3,399	17.17	2.38	$8,161
Dec 2001	0	2,071	16.93	2.36	$4,897
Nov 2001	0	1,810	18.07	2.41	$4,354
Oct 2001	0	2,089	19.78	2.53	$5,283
Sep 2001	0	2,189	24.26	2.25	$4,928
Aug 2001	0	2,125	24.87	3.05	$6,488
Jul 2001	0	2,311	23.93	3.20	$7,388
Jun 2001	0	2,115	24.56	3.82	$8,088
May 2001	0	2,941	25.52	4.31	$12,668
Apr 2001	0	2,626	24.68	5.34	$14,011
Mar 2001	0	2,136	24.54	5.38	$11,484
Feb 2001	0	3,521	27.75	5.77	$20,306
Jan 2001	0	2,853	27.47	8.40	$23,962
Dec 2000	0	2,314	26.88	9.12	$21,109
Nov 2000	193	2,799	32.21	5.66	$22,053
Oct 2000	0	2,472	31.23	5.15	$12,720
Sep 2000	0	2,407	31.87	5.19	$12,484
Aug 2000	1	2,755	29.64	4.54	$12,539
Jul 2000	1	2,718	28.53	4.09	$11,144
Jun 2000	0	2,549	29.30	4.40	$11,209
May 2000	0	2,704	27.26	3.68	$9,950
Apr 2000	0	1,891	24.51	3.12	$5,892
Mar 2000	1	2,476	28.42	2.86	$7,109
Feb 2000	0	2,345	27.62	2.73	$6,394
Jan 2000	1	3,241	25.27	2.48	$8,065
Dec 1999	2	3,040	24.28	2.42	$7,417
Nov 1999	1	4,287	23.19	2.43	$10,458
Oct 1999	1	2,523	20.98	2.80	$7,095
Sep 1999	0	2,504	21.75	2.62	$6,558
Aug 1999	0	3,640	19.26	2.88	$10,467
Jul 1999	0	446	17.89	2.37	$1,058
Jun 1999	3	2,952	15.94	2.36	$7,021
May 1999	0	4,298	15.79	2.32	$9,976
Apr 1999	170	1,808	15.10	2.21	$6,559
Mar 1999	1	4,350	12.47	1.84	$8,009
Feb 1999	1	3,646	9.98	1.82	$6,638
Jan 1999	0	3,499	10.38	1.90	$6,648
Dec 1998	1	3,030	9.20	1.77	$5,382
Nov 1998	0	1,751	10.89	2.19	$3,827
Oct 1998	0	1,483	12.42	1.97	$2,920
Sep 1998	0	1,506	12.59	2.08	$3,136
Aug 1998	0	1,241	11.30	1.91	$2,367
Jul 1998	0	2,195	11.74	2.24	$4,911
Jun 1998	0	1,646	11.24	2.24	$3,683
May 1998	0	1,956	12.62	2.21	$4,316
Apr 1998	0	1,831	13.04	2.51	$4,587
Mar 1998	0	1,908	12.80	2.31	$4,406
Feb 1998	0	1,606	13.95	2.30	$3,692
Jan 1998	0	1,672	14.70	2.15	$3,603
Dec 1997	0	1,755	16.32	2.41	$4,231
Nov 1997	0	2,145	18.19	3.09	$6,624
Oct 1997	198	2,211	19.25	3.15	$10,776
Sep 1997	0	2,131	17.74	2.95	$6,297
Aug 1997	0	2,330	17.86	2.55	$5,953
Jul 1997	0	2,335	17.58	2.25	$5,247
Jun 1997	0	2,532	17.24	2.26	$5,715
May 1997	0	2,637	18.97	2.31	$6,088
Apr 1997	0	2,631	17.88	2.08	$5,480
Mar 1997	2	2,721	18.95	1.94	$5,314
Feb 1997	0	2,230	20.49	2.21	$4,919
Jan 1997	0	2,159	23.48	3.54	$7,642
Dec 1996	0	2,414	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	0	2,419	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	0	2,832	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	0	2,613	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	0	2,878	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	0	2,958	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	1	3,191	18.73	—	$19
May 1996	0	3,842	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	1	3,488	21.51	—	$22
Mar 1996	17	4,526	19.38	—	$329
Feb 1996	0	2,173	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	0	106	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	177	2,498	17.19	—	$3,043
Nov 1995	0	2,157	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	0	2,284	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	0	2,459	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	0	2,063	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	0	1,822	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	0	1,907	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	0	2,550	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	0	2,557	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	0	2,781	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	0	2,695	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	0	2,661	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	0	2,739	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	2	3,280	15.90	—	$32
Oct 1994	0	3,452	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	0	3,257	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	0	4,050	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	171	3,767	17.56	—	$3,003
Jun 1994	0	3,847	17.09	—	$0
May 1994	1	3,660	15.88	—	$16
Apr 1994	119	3,555	14.14	—	$1,683
Mar 1994	0	3,587	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	46	3,897	12.50	—	$575
Jan 1994	0	546	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	0	2,748	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	0	2,513	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	3	3,816	15.85	—	$48
Sep 1993	0	3,919	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	2	4,821	15.66	—	$31
Jul 1993	86	5,166	15.46	—	$1,330
Jun 1993	0	3,144	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	1	3,393	17.68	—	$18
Apr 1993	0	2,858	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	2	4,076	18.14	—	$36
Feb 1993	0	2,332	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	4	4,322	16.93	—	$68

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.

Nov 2013 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate           111 bbl  × $ 88.85 =     $9,862
Gas                   10 Mcf  × $  3.74 =        $37

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Month total                                   $9,900

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/78239 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.