BALES GAS UNIT

Operated by MERIT ENERGY COMPANY (P-5 561136) in the MCALLEN-PHARR (CONSOLIDATED) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 140072District 04Field 58749500CondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$4.5 M
Jan 1993 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
401
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 99 leases and 99 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
2013-09-24
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
0 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 acres. The field rule took effect on 2013-09-24.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: TRANSFER IS 10/01/13.

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
CondensateDisposition88,781 bbl$1,468,930
GasProduction5,082,327 Mcf$3,046,564
Total$4,515,494

3,961,289 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 26.1718, -98.2328. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

26.17177, -98.23280 · 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
9,125 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 9,125 ft.

Completions filed
Aug 2005
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-2153200219,125 ftAug 2005

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 (401)

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

401 months

May 202600106.413.05$0
Apr 20260098.932.87$0
Mar 20260089.753.15$0
Feb 20260063.503.75$0
Jan 20260059.138.00$0
Dec 20250056.664.41$0
Nov 20250058.593.93$0
Oct 20250059.383.30$0
Sep 20250062.743.08$0
Aug 20250063.933.01$0
Jul 20250066.743.32$0
Jun 20250066.483.13$0
May 20250060.553.23$0
Apr 20250062.363.54$0
Mar 20250067.704.27$0
Feb 20250070.884.34$0
Jan 20250074.324.28$0
Dec 20240068.993.12$0
Nov 20240069.052.20$0
Oct 20240071.372.28$0
Sep 20240069.612.36$0
Aug 20240075.632.06$0
Jul 20240079.932.15$0
Jun 20240078.082.63$0
May 20240078.812.20$0
Apr 20240084.451.66$0
Mar 20240080.301.55$0
Feb 20240076.091.78$0
Jan 20240073.023.30$0
Dec 20230071.262.61$0
Nov 20230077.892.81$0
Oct 20230085.443.09$0
Sep 20230089.042.74$0
Aug 20230080.522.67$0
Jul 20230074.852.64$0
Jun 20230068.962.26$0
May 20230070.622.23$0
Apr 20230078.122.24$0
Mar 20230072.852.39$0
Feb 20230075.112.47$0
Jan 20230076.533.39$0
Dec 20220076.415.73$0
Nov 20220085.005.65$0
Oct 20220087.185.86$0
Sep 20220084.888.16$0
Aug 20220094.529.13$0
Jul 202200101.587.54$0
Jun 202200115.097.98$0
May 202200109.378.43$0
Apr 202200104.226.84$0
Mar 202200108.885.08$0
Feb 20220091.054.86$0
Jan 20220081.844.54$0
Dec 20210071.323.90$0
Nov 20210077.435.24$0
Oct 20210079.795.71$0
Sep 20210069.865.35$0
Aug 20210066.024.22$0
Jul 20210070.783.98$0
Jun 20210069.493.38$0
May 20210063.483.02$0
Apr 20210060.362.76$0
Mar 20210061.302.72$0
Feb 20210057.805.55$0
Jan 20210050.412.81$0
Dec 20200044.642.68$0
Nov 20200038.772.71$0
Oct 20200036.972.48$0
Sep 20200037.091.99$0
Aug 20200039.982.39$0
Jul 20200038.371.83$0
Jun 20200034.901.69$0
May 20200016.921.81$0
Apr 20200014.751.80$0
Mar 20200030.341.86$0
Feb 20200049.881.98$0
Jan 20200057.252.09$0
Dec 20190059.012.30$0
Nov 20190055.302.75$0
Oct 20190053.472.42$0
Sep 20190055.052.66$0
Aug 20190053.112.30$0
Jul 20190056.272.46$0
Jun 20190052.782.49$0
May 20190058.482.74$0
Apr 20190062.632.75$0
Mar 20190056.803.06$0
Feb 20190050.852.79$0
Jan 20190046.033.23$0
Dec 20180046.594.19$0
Nov 20180052.934.24$0
Oct 20180061.443.40$0
Sep 20180059.543.11$0
Aug 20180059.403.07$0
Jul 20180065.142.93$0
Jun 20180060.183.08$0
May 20180065.382.90$0
Apr 20180063.842.90$0
Mar 20180061.222.79$0
Feb 20180061.782.77$0
Jan 20180062.874.01$0
Dec 20170057.272.92$0
Nov 20170055.423.12$0
Oct 20170049.292.98$0
Sep 20170047.523.09$0
Aug 20170045.373.00$0
Jul 20170043.873.09$0
Jun 20170042.493.09$0
May 20170045.373.26$0
Apr 20170047.933.21$0
Mar 20170046.772.98$0
Feb 20170050.452.95$0
Jan 20170049.413.42$0
Dec 20160048.763.72$0
Nov 20160042.492.64$0
Oct 20160046.193.09$0
Sep 20160041.553.10$0
Aug 20160041.442.92$0
Jul 20160041.622.92$0
Jun 20160045.352.69$0
May 20160042.521.99$0
Apr 20160036.561.99$0
Mar 20160033.011.79$0
Feb 20160026.472.06$0
Jan 20160027.352.36$0
Dec 20150032.362.00$0
Nov 20150038.792.17$0
Oct 20150043.552.43$0
Sep 20150042.992.76$0
Aug 20150040.162.87$0
Jul 20150048.152.95$0
Jun 20150056.152.88$0
May 20150055.212.96$0
Apr 20150049.822.71$0
Mar 20150042.892.93$0
Feb 20150044.662.98$0
Jan 20150043.433.10$0
Dec 20140054.693.59$0
Nov 20140070.464.25$0
Oct 20140078.303.90$0
Sep 20140086.164.05$0
Aug 20140089.394.04$0
Jul 20140096.564.18$0
Jun 20140098.164.74$0
May 20140094.734.73$0
Apr 20140095.944.81$0
Mar 20140095.895.06$0
Feb 20140097.406.19$0
Jan 20140090.404.86$0
Dec 20130091.824.35$0
Nov 20130088.853.74$0
Oct 20130097.423.78$0
Sep 201300104.113.72$0
Aug 201300104.253.52$0
Jul 201300102.523.72$0
Jun 20130094.403.93$0
May 20130094.834.15$0
Apr 20130093.964.28$0
Mar 20130093.623.91$0
Feb 20130091.233.42$0
Jan 20130091.603.42$0
Dec 20120086.773.42$0
Nov 20120086.953.62$0
Oct 20120089.383.40$0
Sep 20120094.672.92$0
Aug 20120092.662.91$0
Jul 20120085.133.02$0
Jun 20120079.822.52$0
May 20120091.612.49$0
Apr 201200101.652.00$0
Mar 201200105.052.22$0
Feb 201200101.102.57$0
Jan 20120098.092.73$0
Dec 20110096.873.24$0
Nov 20110095.723.31$0
Oct 20110084.983.65$0
Sep 20110083.623.99$0
Aug 20110083.404.15$0
Jul 20110094.144.52$0
Jun 20110092.904.64$0
May 20110098.134.40$0
Apr 201100105.964.33$0
Mar 20110096.364.06$0
Feb 20110085.644.18$0
Jan 20110086.504.59$0
Dec 20100085.734.35$0
Nov 20100080.843.80$0
Oct 20100078.103.51$0
Sep 20100072.633.98$0
Aug 20100073.684.42$0
Jul 20100072.554.74$0
Jun 20100070.364.91$0
May 20100071.124.24$0
Apr 20100081.694.12$0
Mar 20100078.394.39$0
Feb 20100073.585.44$0
Jan 20100074.365.96$0
Dec 20090071.445.48$0
Nov 20090074.593.75$0
Oct 20090072.544.11$0
Sep 20090065.543.06$0
Aug 20090067.423.22$0
Jul 20090061.133.46$0
Jun 20090066.163.90$0
May 20090054.743.93$0
Apr 20090046.773.59$0
Mar 20090042.144.06$0
Feb 20090032.814.63$0
Jan 20090035.865.37$0
Dec 20080037.105.98$0
Nov 20080055.496.86$0
Oct 20080075.246.92$0
Sep 200800101.767.88$0
Aug 200800114.228.48$0
Jul 200800131.0811.39$0
Jun 200800131.3313.03$0
May 200800123.1711.57$0
Apr 200800110.3110.45$0
Mar 200800101.909.66$0
Feb 20080092.538.77$0
Jan 20080090.388.21$0
Dec 20070088.337.30$0
Nov 20070091.677.29$0
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 20070075.846.24$0
Aug 20070069.066.39$0
Jul 20070070.906.39$0
Jun 20070062.007.55$0
May 20070058.747.85$0
Apr 20070059.617.81$0
Mar 20070056.927.30$0
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060056.656.92$0
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 20060069.376.34$0
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 200202,68924.663.58$9,637
Apr 200274,59523.653.51$16,305
Mar 2002114,53122.003.10$14,300
Feb 2002263,37218.222.38$8,485
Jan 2002445,19317.172.38$13,092
Dec 2001365,47816.932.36$13,562
Nov 2001326,04618.072.41$15,122
Oct 2001346,04019.782.53$15,947
Sep 2001396,19424.262.25$14,891
Aug 200126,29324.873.05$19,263
Jul 200176,78523.933.20$21,860
Jun 2001326,20724.563.82$24,522
May 2001436,44925.524.31$28,875
Apr 2001436,62324.685.34$36,397
Mar 2001457,36224.545.38$40,686
Feb 2001317,09027.755.77$41,749
Jan 2001408,10827.478.40$69,196
Dec 2000667,75826.889.12$72,546
Nov 20001267,11432.215.66$44,309
Oct 20002197,09331.235.15$43,336
Sep 20001227,75731.875.19$44,120
Aug 2000799,40629.644.54$45,052
Jul 2000949,78428.534.09$42,696
Jun 2000909,08529.304.40$42,586
May 200013710,67727.263.68$43,023
Apr 200016810,37924.513.12$36,459
Mar 200017110,79528.422.86$35,731
Feb 200016410,17627.622.73$32,275
Jan 2000466,18525.272.48$16,504
Dec 1999208,82924.282.42$21,885
Nov 1999199,41823.192.43$23,364
Oct 1999128,02020.982.80$22,738
Sep 19993410,14521.752.62$27,308
Aug 19994510,70119.262.88$31,639
Jul 19993411,77817.892.37$28,550
Jun 19992310,75115.942.36$25,762
May 1999248,96915.792.32$21,196
Apr 19993311,78115.102.21$26,511
Mar 1999011,54812.471.84$21,229
Feb 19998511,2159.981.82$21,235
Jan 19996012,85610.381.90$25,049
Dec 19982612,8169.201.77$22,966
Nov 199810214,61110.892.19$33,046
Oct 19985719,39012.421.97$38,891
Sep 19987316,84412.592.08$35,999
Aug 19983820,31611.301.91$39,179
Jul 19983221,47111.742.24$48,412
Jun 199814221,66411.242.24$50,064
May 199825422,30912.622.21$52,427
Apr 199827121,72413.042.51$57,960
Mar 199819721,43312.802.31$52,020
Feb 199824226,68213.952.30$64,721
Jan 199825730,51114.702.15$69,523
Dec 199729331,23116.322.41$80,083
Nov 199725832,03718.193.09$103,632
Oct 199723432,39119.253.15$106,530
Sep 199719338,21417.742.95$116,342
Aug 199717042,54617.862.55$111,730
Jul 199720245,13017.582.25$104,956
Jun 199722053,71217.242.26$125,032
May 199732556,12818.972.31$135,737
Apr 199735548,97317.882.08$108,347
Mar 199742452,48618.951.94$109,813
Feb 199745252,15820.492.21$124,317
Jan 199746354,98623.483.54$205,505
Dec 199639658,80123.32$9,235
Nov 199664456,92521.97$14,149
Oct 199627963,24323.31$6,503
Sep 199654563,08822.22$12,110
Aug 199690874,59120.26$18,396
Jul 199689981,03519.55$17,575
Jun 199690684,08118.73$16,969
May 199690985,49219.43$17,662
Apr 19961,09586,28421.51$23,553
Mar 19961,26092,31619.38$24,419
Feb 19961,09790,20316.98$18,627
Jan 19961,471100,91617.07$25,110
Dec 19951,28699,42917.19$22,106
Nov 19951,46698,39916.00$23,456
Oct 19951,456100,44015.43$22,466
Sep 19951,26996,16316.18$20,532
Aug 19951,450100,03515.92$23,084
Jul 19951,62295,93315.24$24,719
Jun 19951,44790,22716.41$23,745
May 19951,60095,90017.56$28,096
Apr 19951,63592,37417.73$28,989
Mar 19951,84393,11016.44$30,299
Feb 19951,64485,95216.58$27,258
Jan 19952,00294,19315.92$31,872
Dec 19941,82496,53115.03$27,415
Nov 19942,18096,10415.90$34,662
Oct 19941,97997,40815.58$30,833
Sep 19941,99394,06615.29$30,473
Aug 19942,16194,10316.13$34,857
Jul 19942,17095,17817.56$38,105
Jun 19942,16688,73017.09$37,017
May 19942,16890,53615.88$34,428
Apr 19942,32489,47914.14$32,861
Mar 19942,53192,48312.46$31,536
Feb 19942,37382,93212.50$29,663
Jan 19942,56892,40112.66$32,511
Dec 19932,74686,96012.33$33,858
Nov 19931,82363,05914.49$26,415
Oct 19931,99965,76315.85$31,684
Sep 19931,98063,52115.03$29,759
Aug 19932,15866,21715.66$33,794
Jul 19931,60053,81115.46$24,736
Jun 19932,11461,35816.79$35,494
May 19931,60953,67417.68$28,447
Apr 19932,18657,87618.05$39,457
Mar 19932,38267,49318.14$43,209
Feb 19932,64163,36717.90$47,274
Jan 19932,35469,10916.93$39,853

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 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 24.66 =         $0
Gas                2,689 Mcf  × $  3.58 =     $9,637

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $9,637

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. 04/G/140072 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.