MEL K.

Name: MEL K. lease production and value, May 1997 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by PRIME OPERATING COMPANY (P-5 677770) in the BON WEIR (11,100) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 23255District 03Field 10385852OilCasinghead gasSave

Value, all time

$8.7 M

May 1997 – Sep 2020

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

281

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

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	143,781 bbl	$6,538,650
Casinghead gas	Production	425,443 Mcf	$2,133,370
Total			$8,672,020

Wells on this lease (2)

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 30.7195, -93.6235. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.1 miles.

30.71948, -93.62348 · 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%

2 of 2 wells

With a plug date

100.0%

2 of 2 wells

Median depth

11,663 ft

2 wells filed one

Completion to plug

19.8 years

median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

2100.0%

A plug date is filed

2100.0%

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

2100.0%

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

Between 11,438 and 11,888 ft, median 11,663 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Jan 2000 – Feb 2000

2 of 2 wells

Plug dates filed

Jun 2019 – May 2020

2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 19.8 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 19.6 years and 20.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells


42-35100503	1A	11,438 ft	Feb 2000	Jun 2019	Yes
42-35100179	1	11,888 ft	Jan 2000	May 2020	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 (281)

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

281 months


Sep 2020	0	0	37.09	1.99	$0
Aug 2020	0	0	39.98	2.39	$0
Jul 2020	0	0	38.37	1.83	$0
Jun 2020	0	0	34.90	1.69	$0
May 2020	0	0	16.92	1.81	$0
Apr 2020	0	0	14.75	1.80	$0
Mar 2020	0	0	30.34	1.86	$0
Feb 2020	0	0	49.88	1.98	$0
Jan 2020	0	0	57.25	2.09	$0
Dec 2019	0	0	59.01	2.30	$0
Nov 2019	0	0	55.30	2.75	$0
Oct 2019	0	0	53.47	2.42	$0
Sep 2019	0	0	55.05	2.66	$0
Aug 2019	0	0	53.11	2.30	$0
Jul 2019	0	0	56.27	2.46	$0
Jun 2019	0	0	52.78	2.49	$0
May 2019	0	0	58.48	2.74	$0
Apr 2019	102	0	62.63	2.75	$6,388
Mar 2019	0	0	56.80	3.06	$0
Feb 2019	0	0	50.85	2.79	$0
Jan 2019	0	0	46.03	3.23	$0
Dec 2018	0	0	46.59	4.19	$0
Nov 2018	0	0	52.93	4.24	$0
Oct 2018	161	0	61.44	3.40	$9,892
Sep 2018	0	0	59.54	3.11	$0
Aug 2018	0	0	59.40	3.07	$0
Jul 2018	0	0	65.14	2.93	$0
Jun 2018	0	0	60.18	3.08	$0
May 2018	0	0	65.38	2.90	$0
Apr 2018	0	0	63.84	2.90	$0
Mar 2018	0	0	61.22	2.79	$0
Feb 2018	0	0	61.78	2.77	$0
Jan 2018	0	0	62.87	4.01	$0
Dec 2017	0	0	57.27	2.92	$0
Nov 2017	0	0	55.42	3.12	$0
Oct 2017	0	0	49.29	2.98	$0
Sep 2017	0	0	47.52	3.09	$0
Aug 2017	0	0	45.37	3.00	$0
Jul 2017	0	0	43.87	3.09	$0
Jun 2017	0	0	42.49	3.09	$0
May 2017	189	0	45.37	3.26	$8,575
Apr 2017	160	213	47.93	3.21	$8,353
Mar 2017	165	247	46.77	2.98	$8,454
Feb 2017	0	0	50.45	2.95	$0
Jan 2017	164	38	49.41	3.42	$8,233
Dec 2016	171	10	48.76	3.72	$8,375
Nov 2016	159	36	42.49	2.64	$6,851
Oct 2016	162	11	46.19	3.09	$7,517
Sep 2016	165	11	41.55	3.10	$6,890
Aug 2016	164	327	41.44	2.92	$7,752
Jul 2016	167	95	41.62	2.92	$7,228
Jun 2016	157	114	45.35	2.69	$7,426
May 2016	374	511	42.52	1.99	$16,920
Apr 2016	178	752	36.56	1.99	$8,005
Mar 2016	0	795	33.01	1.79	$1,426
Feb 2016	0	604	26.47	2.06	$1,246
Jan 2016	170	1,569	27.35	2.36	$8,359
Dec 2015	181	732	32.36	2.00	$7,322
Nov 2015	330	976	38.79	2.17	$14,916
Oct 2015	177	961	43.55	2.43	$10,040
Sep 2015	540	833	42.99	2.76	$25,512
Aug 2015	372	508	40.16	2.87	$16,399
Jul 2015	535	1,725	48.15	2.95	$30,841
Jun 2015	362	262	56.15	2.88	$21,082
May 2015	555	444	55.21	2.96	$31,954
Apr 2015	536	814	49.82	2.71	$28,907
Mar 2015	544	433	42.89	2.93	$24,603
Feb 2015	368	1,080	44.66	2.98	$19,649
Jan 2015	555	1,079	43.43	3.10	$27,449
Dec 2014	362	569	54.69	3.59	$21,841
Nov 2014	726	910	70.46	4.25	$55,023
Oct 2014	186	883	78.30	3.90	$18,008
Sep 2014	553	1,014	86.16	4.05	$51,749
Aug 2014	538	945	89.39	4.04	$51,905
Jul 2014	525	355	96.56	4.18	$52,178
Jun 2014	528	1,220	98.16	4.74	$57,607
May 2014	736	634	94.73	4.73	$72,718
Apr 2014	721	1,119	95.94	4.81	$74,554
Mar 2014	550	1,090	95.89	5.06	$58,251
Feb 2014	541	2,405	97.40	6.19	$67,585
Jan 2014	736	4,540	90.40	4.86	$88,602
Dec 2013	728	1,440	91.82	4.35	$73,115
Nov 2013	719	4,030	88.85	3.74	$78,948
Oct 2013	1,093	3,268	97.42	3.78	$118,831
Sep 2013	725	2,040	104.11	3.72	$83,064
Aug 2013	719	775	104.25	3.52	$77,686
Jul 2013	912	775	102.52	3.72	$96,379
Jun 2013	704	0	94.40	3.93	$66,458
May 2013	910	0	94.83	4.15	$86,295
Apr 2013	1,087	3,928	93.96	4.28	$118,957
Mar 2013	715	239	93.62	3.91	$67,873
Feb 2013	902	234	91.23	3.42	$83,090
Jan 2013	736	921	91.60	3.42	$70,567
Dec 2012	1,083	649	86.77	3.42	$96,192
Nov 2012	1,083	827	86.95	3.62	$97,165
Oct 2012	887	381	89.38	3.40	$80,575
Sep 2012	183	609	94.67	2.92	$19,102
Aug 2012	371	84	92.66	2.91	$34,621
Jul 2012	707	254	85.13	3.02	$60,954
Jun 2012	1,069	162	79.82	2.52	$85,736
May 2012	705	311	91.61	2.49	$65,359
Apr 2012	0	4	101.65	2.00	$8
Mar 2012	0	16	105.05	2.22	$36
Feb 2012	729	249	101.10	2.57	$74,342
Jan 2012	371	16	98.09	2.73	$36,435
Dec 2011	0	156	96.87	3.24	$505
Nov 2011	0	16	95.72	3.31	$53
Oct 2011	173	1	84.98	3.65	$14,705
Sep 2011	0	0	83.62	3.99	$0
Aug 2011	360	17	83.40	4.15	$30,095
Jul 2011	0	108	94.14	4.52	$488
Jun 2011	182	1	92.90	4.64	$16,912
May 2011	0	9	98.13	4.40	$40
Apr 2011	186	0	105.96	4.33	$19,709
Mar 2011	0	33	96.36	4.06	$134
Feb 2011	187	9	85.64	4.18	$16,052
Jan 2011	0	77	86.50	4.59	$353
Dec 2010	180	391	85.73	4.35	$17,131
Nov 2010	0	40	80.84	3.80	$152
Oct 2010	181	62	78.10	3.51	$14,354
Sep 2010	0	20	72.63	3.98	$80
Aug 2010	378	9	73.68	4.42	$27,891
Jul 2010	0	62	72.55	4.74	$294
Jun 2010	177	40	70.36	4.91	$12,650
May 2010	341	0	71.12	4.24	$24,252
Apr 2010	0	0	81.69	4.12	$0
Mar 2010	0	0	78.39	4.39	$0
Feb 2010	0	0	73.58	5.44	$0
Jan 2010	0	0	74.36	5.96	$0
Dec 2009	182	0	71.44	5.48	$13,002
Nov 2009	0	0	74.59	3.75	$0
Oct 2009	343	63	72.54	4.11	$25,140
Sep 2009	183	48	65.54	3.06	$12,141
Aug 2009	187	81	67.42	3.22	$12,868
Jul 2009	0	70	61.13	3.46	$243
Jun 2009	194	0	66.16	3.90	$12,835
May 2009	195	0	54.74	3.93	$10,674
Apr 2009	195	145	46.77	3.59	$9,640
Mar 2009	0	179	42.14	4.06	$727
Feb 2009	345	58	32.81	4.63	$11,588
Jan 2009	0	33	35.86	5.37	$177
Dec 2008	160	22	37.10	5.98	$6,068
Nov 2008	192	694	55.49	6.86	$15,415
Oct 2008	177	258	75.24	6.92	$15,103
Sep 2008	0	179	101.76	7.88	$1,410
Aug 2008	362	53	114.22	8.48	$41,797
Jul 2008	190	0	131.08	11.39	$24,905
Jun 2008	195	0	131.33	13.03	$25,609
May 2008	192	0	123.17	11.57	$23,649
Apr 2008	371	66	110.31	10.45	$41,615
Mar 2008	158	63	101.90	9.66	$16,709
Feb 2008	355	98	92.53	8.77	$33,708
Jan 2008	183	0	90.38	8.21	$16,540
Dec 2007	370	134	88.33	7.30	$33,661
Nov 2007	1,077	168	91.67	7.29	$99,954
Oct 2007	744	163	82.85	6.92	$62,769
Sep 2007	0	1,445	75.84	6.24	$9,023
Aug 2007	196	1,786	69.06	6.39	$24,945
Jul 2007	583	1,971	70.90	6.39	$53,925
Jun 2007	734	1,786	62.00	7.55	$58,990
May 2007	934	1,313	58.74	7.85	$65,165
Apr 2007	386	1,070	59.61	7.81	$31,361
Mar 2007	535	1,984	56.92	7.30	$44,939
Feb 2007	569	2,238	55.10	8.22	$49,739
Jan 2007	564	1,691	50.30	6.73	$39,744
Dec 2006	552	1,297	56.65	6.92	$40,244
Nov 2006	752	377	54.20	7.62	$43,630
Oct 2006	555	621	54.90	6.01	$34,204
Sep 2006	740	1,720	60.08	5.04	$53,123
Aug 2006	612	4,252	68.71	7.34	$73,260
Jul 2006	719	3,649	69.37	6.34	$73,022
Jun 2006	944	3,276	66.28	6.38	$83,482
May 2006	544	2,782	66.01	6.42	$53,784
Apr 2006	788	3,516	64.39	7.36	$76,619
Mar 2006	731	2,485	56.70	7.08	$59,049
Feb 2006	744	2,368	57.59	7.75	$61,202
Jan 2006	744	3,785	60.59	8.93	$78,892
Dec 2005	937	3,427	54.94	13.42	$97,453
Nov 2005	921	2,693	54.69	10.59	$78,884
Oct 2005	915	4,016	58.34	13.80	$108,785
Sep 2005	971	4,396	61.45	12.08	$112,767
Aug 2005	1,109	6,422	61.51	9.80	$131,130
Jul 2005	557	5,228	55.69	7.84	$72,026
Jun 2005	1,269	4,813	52.33	7.38	$101,932
May 2005	1,284	4,404	45.22	6.65	$87,354
Apr 2005	1,295	3,543	49.20	7.36	$89,792
Mar 2005	949	1,579	50.37	7.15	$59,099
Feb 2005	331	0	45.22	6.31	$14,968
Jan 2005	0	0	43.16	6.32	$0
Dec 2004	0	0	39.86	6.75	$0
Nov 2004	187	0	45.28	6.33	$8,467
Oct 2004	165	0	49.70	6.52	$8,201
Sep 2004	368	1,854	43.24	5.28	$25,709
Aug 2004	184	7,409	42.37	5.55	$48,921
Jul 2004	371	8,640	38.28	6.08	$66,769
Jun 2004	365	7,955	36.10	6.43	$64,351
May 2004	367	10,629	37.48	6.49	$82,786
Apr 2004	536	5,037	34.47	5.86	$47,985
Mar 2004	367	4,953	34.36	5.53	$40,001
Feb 2004	357	2,742	32.45	5.51	$26,692
Jan 2004	380	787	32.03	6.30	$17,129
Dec 2003	331	1,942	30.26	6.30	$22,254
Nov 2003	371	958	28.80	4.60	$15,087
Oct 2003	552	2,177	28.17	4.76	$25,912
Sep 2003	367	4,697	26.31	4.75	$31,964
Aug 2003	373	5,428	29.76	5.13	$38,945
Jul 2003	364	5,950	29.41	5.17	$41,472
Jun 2003	362	4,360	28.56	5.98	$36,424
May 2003	423	6,201	26.59	5.97	$48,284
Apr 2003	252	7,238	26.67	5.41	$45,859
Mar 2003	699	5,185	31.14	6.10	$53,375
Feb 2003	178	5,790	33.48	7.93	$51,850
Jan 2003	526	5,187	30.31	5.58	$44,897
Dec 2002	567	5,662	26.91	4.85	$42,740
Nov 2002	383	6,146	24.66	4.14	$34,871
Oct 2002	722	6,075	26.46	4.23	$44,796
Sep 2002	546	6,553	27.44	3.64	$38,804
Aug 2002	945	4,938	25.96	3.16	$40,157
Jul 2002	0	4,384	24.58	3.06	$13,423
Jun 2002	675	2,285	23.73	3.34	$23,646
May 2002	716	2,605	24.66	3.58	$26,993
Apr 2002	864	2,880	23.65	3.51	$30,549
Mar 2002	1,112	1,885	22.00	3.10	$30,313
Feb 2002	1,260	1,699	18.22	2.38	$26,993
Jan 2002	361	332	17.17	2.38	$6,987
Dec 2001	1,241	2,597	16.93	2.36	$27,150
Nov 2001	1,415	2,512	18.07	2.41	$31,612
Oct 2001	1,243	3,126	19.78	2.53	$32,492
Sep 2001	1,785	2,965	24.26	2.25	$49,979
Aug 2001	1,578	2,230	24.87	3.05	$46,053
Jul 2001	1,287	3,360	23.93	3.20	$41,540
Jun 2001	728	2,585	24.56	3.82	$27,765
May 2001	1,106	3,585	25.52	4.31	$43,667
Apr 2001	1,449	3,582	24.68	5.34	$54,872
Mar 2001	1,091	1,584	24.54	5.38	$35,289
Feb 2001	725	780	27.75	5.77	$24,617
Jan 2001	1,444	1,745	27.47	8.40	$54,323
Dec 2000	1,428	2,420	26.88	9.12	$60,461
Nov 2000	2,069	1,304	32.21	5.66	$74,021
Oct 2000	1,128	1,933	31.23	5.15	$45,174
Sep 2000	1,101	2,132	31.87	5.19	$46,146
Aug 2000	1,827	2,603	29.64	4.54	$65,972
Jul 2000	2,497	3,311	28.53	4.09	$84,781
Jun 2000	2,547	3,419	29.30	4.40	$89,661
May 2000	3,350	4,512	27.26	3.68	$107,924
Apr 2000	2,781	5,651	24.51	3.12	$85,771
Mar 2000	4,460	7,856	28.42	2.86	$149,219
Feb 2000	3,587	7,850	27.62	2.73	$120,476
Jan 2000	0	0	25.27	2.48	$0
Dec 1999	121	0	24.28	2.42	$2,938
Nov 1999	196	0	23.19	2.43	$4,545
Oct 1999	346	664	20.98	2.80	$9,121
Sep 1999	523	969	21.75	2.62	$13,913
Aug 1999	187	852	19.26	2.88	$6,052
Jul 1999	536	1,099	17.89	2.37	$12,196
Jun 1999	377	1,996	15.94	2.36	$10,724
May 1999	357	1,725	15.79	2.32	$9,641
Apr 1999	383	2,505	15.10	2.21	$11,314
Mar 1999	554	1,311	12.47	1.84	$9,318
Feb 1999	540	1,534	9.98	1.82	$8,178
Jan 1999	177	1,644	10.38	1.90	$4,961
Dec 1998	989	2,466	9.20	1.77	$13,472
Nov 1998	370	140	10.89	2.19	$4,335
Oct 1998	932	1,600	12.42	1.97	$14,726
Sep 1998	585	5,695	12.59	2.08	$19,226
Aug 1998	554	1,660	11.30	1.91	$9,426
Jul 1998	366	2,633	11.74	2.24	$10,188
Jun 1998	1,095	2,187	11.24	2.24	$17,201
May 1998	727	4,906	12.62	2.21	$19,999
Apr 1998	1,261	5,761	13.04	2.51	$30,877
Mar 1998	1,367	6,915	12.80	2.31	$33,467
Feb 1998	1,267	2,428	13.95	2.30	$23,257
Jan 1998	173	0	14.70	2.15	$2,543
Dec 1997	296	0	16.32	2.41	$4,831
Nov 1997	770	0	18.19	3.09	$14,006
Oct 1997	1,081	882	19.25	3.15	$23,587
Sep 1997	679	1,402	17.74	2.95	$16,188
Aug 1997	868	970	17.86	2.55	$17,981
Jul 1997	1,257	1,452	17.58	2.25	$25,361
Jun 1997	1,422	2,389	17.24	2.26	$29,908
May 1997	900	1,818	18.97	2.31	$21,270

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.

Apr 2019 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  102 bbl  × $ 62.63 =     $6,388
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.75 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $6,388

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. 03/O/23255 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.