HOPKINS, M. A. GAS UNIT

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

Gas lease lease 166553District 04Field 458410502 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$29.3 M
Nov 1997 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$40 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
343
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 246 leases and 246 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1995-04-25
as the register files it
Field class
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 2009-09-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: WITH DUPLICATE IN APRIL.

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 Gas111998-04-17138258
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
CondensateDisposition125,025 bbl$3,888,011
GasProduction6,990,066 Mcf$25,370,458
Total$29,258,469

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 26.4673, -98.4045. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

26.46726, -98.40454 · 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
12,565 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 12,565 ft.

Completions filed
Feb 2021
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-215323921212,565 ftFeb 2021

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 (343)

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

343 months

May 20269676106.413.05$3,017
Apr 20261159998.932.87$2,807
Mar 20261048789.753.15$2,431
Feb 20261138263.503.75$2,131
Jan 20261042059.138.00$3,950
Dec 20252141756.664.41$3,030
Nov 20255255458.593.93$5,222
Oct 20251546859.383.30$2,437
Sep 20253333862.743.08$3,110
Aug 20252465463.933.01$3,506
Jul 20253990666.743.32$5,606
Jun 20251663366.483.13$3,044
May 2025745660.553.23$1,898
Apr 20252162262.363.54$3,513
Mar 20251752367.704.27$3,383
Feb 20251336870.884.34$2,519
Jan 20253672374.324.28$5,769
Dec 20243578868.993.12$4,874
Nov 20242751169.052.20$2,988
Oct 2024631,03571.372.28$6,858
Sep 20245055769.612.36$4,797
Aug 20243494975.632.06$4,530
Jul 20244283079.932.15$5,139
Jun 2024771,32678.082.63$9,505
May 20242392178.812.20$3,837
Apr 2024441,17384.451.66$5,662
Mar 2024318980.301.55$533
Feb 2024832876.091.78$1,194
Jan 2024431073.023.30$1,314
Dec 2023323071.262.61$814
Nov 2023423077.892.81$957
Oct 2023348385.443.09$1,747
Sep 202311189.042.74$119
Aug 20231117980.522.67$1,364
Jul 20233317174.852.64$2,922
Jun 20236753668.962.26$5,831
May 20235855670.622.23$5,334
Apr 20235239678.122.24$4,948
Mar 20233939072.852.39$3,774
Feb 202311728175.112.47$9,481
Jan 20232132876.533.39$2,718
Dec 20223941876.415.73$5,375
Nov 20223023985.005.65$3,899
Oct 20223126787.185.86$4,268
Sep 20224040584.888.16$6,701
Aug 20227828094.529.13$9,928
Jul 202280430101.587.54$11,369
Jun 2022162611115.097.98$23,519
May 20220108109.378.43$911
Apr 20220199104.226.84$1,361
Mar 20220295108.885.08$1,498
Feb 2022020091.054.86$972
Jan 2022037381.844.54$1,693
Dec 2021040471.323.90$1,575
Nov 2021033977.435.24$1,775
Oct 2021053179.795.71$3,034
Sep 2021020969.865.35$1,118
Aug 202101,03966.024.22$4,385
Jul 2021145070.783.98$1,863
Jun 2021342069.493.38$1,628
May 2021432763.483.02$1,241
Apr 2021498560.362.76$2,958
Mar 2021463161.302.72$1,960
Feb 2021337357.805.55$2,243
Jan 2021425650.412.81$921
Dec 2020428344.642.68$936
Nov 2020427938.772.71$910
Oct 2020424336.972.48$750
Sep 2020431837.091.99$782
Aug 2020529239.982.39$896
Jul 2020735538.371.83$917
Jun 20206836134.901.69$2,983
May 202015517016.921.81$2,931
Apr 202012520514.751.80$2,214
Mar 202016934030.341.86$5,759
Feb 202019726849.881.98$10,357
Jan 20201171,07357.252.09$8,946
Dec 20190059.012.30$0
Nov 20190055.302.75$0
Oct 20193353.472.42$168
Sep 20192055.052.66$110
Aug 20191161,52153.112.30$9,666
Jul 20191132,59256.272.46$12,735
Jun 20196783,55552.782.49$44,641
May 20197513,39458.482.74$53,219
Apr 20198803,76262.632.75$65,463
Mar 20199193,93056.803.06$64,233
Feb 20197163,78750.852.79$46,983
Jan 20192744,10846.033.23$25,874
Dec 201804,17846.594.19$17,487
Nov 201804,24752.934.24$17,996
Oct 201804,57561.443.40$15,546
Sep 201803,93259.543.11$12,221
Aug 201803,80159.403.07$11,656
Jul 201803,62565.142.93$10,628
Jun 201804,36660.183.08$13,434
May 201804,14765.382.90$12,030
Apr 201804,05263.842.90$11,754
Mar 201804,08861.222.79$11,393
Feb 2018153,80761.782.77$11,457
Jan 20187504,36662.874.01$64,657
Dec 20179507,23757.272.92$75,550
Nov 20178684,73255.423.12$62,861
Oct 201745139449.292.98$23,405
Sep 201719242147.523.09$10,424
Aug 2017326545.373.00$1,647
Jul 201726523543.873.09$12,351
Jun 20179998442.493.09$7,244
May 2017531,02645.373.26$5,753
Apr 20171261,18647.933.21$9,848
Mar 20171791,61046.772.98$13,176
Feb 201721223150.452.95$11,377
Jan 20171901,63349.413.42$14,971
Dec 20162121,82048.763.72$17,113
Nov 20161881,65042.492.64$12,351
Oct 20162111,93546.193.09$15,726
Sep 20162152,13041.553.10$15,538
Aug 20161282,13041.442.92$11,533
Jul 2016373,08141.622.92$10,550
Jun 2016806,27245.352.69$20,474
May 2016402,78742.521.99$7,250
Apr 2016412,66536.561.99$6,805
Mar 2016392,37933.011.79$5,555
Feb 2016652,72926.472.06$7,352
Jan 2016944,43227.352.36$13,050
Dec 20151396,10032.362.00$16,707
Nov 20151105,38138.792.17$15,929
Oct 2015955843.552.43$1,746
Sep 2015745342.992.76$1,550
Aug 2015181,09840.162.87$3,877
Jul 2015674,20348.152.95$15,604
Jun 2015402,43056.152.88$9,251
May 2015622,36655.212.96$10,416
Apr 2015744,42649.822.71$15,666
Mar 2015623,48042.892.93$12,872
Feb 2015724,15844.662.98$15,591
Jan 2015512,82843.433.10$10,984
Dec 2014794,67354.693.59$21,103
Nov 2014613,68570.464.25$19,966
Oct 20141006,47778.303.90$33,097
Sep 2014855,18486.164.05$28,295
Aug 2014835,00789.394.04$27,623
Jul 2014422,36696.564.18$13,944
Jun 2014673,70798.164.74$24,136
May 20141025,36194.734.73$35,002
Apr 2014964,92795.944.81$32,905
Mar 20141255,85895.895.06$41,609
Feb 2014964,39797.406.19$36,577
Jan 20141315,80390.404.86$40,049
Dec 20131456,70991.824.35$42,528
Nov 20131668,66288.853.74$47,130
Oct 20131196,35397.423.78$35,603
Sep 20131538,409104.113.72$47,191
Aug 20131528,531104.253.52$45,897
Jul 20131679,277102.523.72$51,610
Jun 20131769,48194.403.93$53,907
May 201320110,56994.834.15$62,912
Apr 201319510,95493.964.28$65,234
Mar 201318111,39193.623.91$61,517
Feb 201317810,98891.233.42$53,817
Jan 201320912,79191.603.42$62,888
Dec 201220213,15786.773.42$62,527
Nov 201219313,31586.953.62$65,048
Oct 201222714,96989.383.40$71,179
Sep 201222914,88294.672.92$65,111
Aug 201226416,82292.662.91$73,383
Jul 201228517,98185.133.02$78,579
Jun 201231619,93479.822.52$75,438
May 201236522,57991.612.49$89,621
Apr 201235323,057101.652.00$81,923
Mar 201254819,991105.052.22$101,989
Feb 201240425,037101.102.57$105,196
Jan 201245831,43798.092.73$130,876
Dec 201147033,41396.873.24$153,778
Nov 201154337,64895.723.31$176,639
Oct 201169447,67884.983.65$232,931
Sep 201177558,66583.623.99$298,632
Aug 201197679,88783.404.15$412,875
Jul 201117213,72394.144.52$78,182
Jun 20111292.904.64$102
May 2011201,52298.134.40$8,667
Apr 2011103,587105.964.33$16,603
Mar 201152,89096.364.06$12,208
Feb 201182,79885.644.18$12,381
Jan 2011101,78386.504.59$9,047
Dec 2010285,60885.734.35$26,783
Nov 2010203,55980.843.80$15,124
Oct 2010437,65878.103.51$30,229
Sep 2010387,15072.633.98$31,213
Aug 201008,29673.684.42$36,663
Jul 2010016,41572.554.74$77,749
Jun 201008,27970.364.91$40,653
May 2010011,45271.124.24$48,502
Apr 2010011,65181.694.12$48,033
Mar 2010111,49078.394.39$50,504
Feb 2010589,85173.585.44$57,880
Jan 20107012,58174.365.96$80,239
Dec 2009345,97171.445.48$35,172
Nov 2009479,61374.593.75$39,569
Oct 2009224,40072.544.11$19,681
Sep 2009349,05665.543.06$29,983
Aug 2009307,06367.423.22$24,755
Jul 20099012,50361.133.46$48,818
Jun 2009405,50966.163.90$24,104
May 2009618,11754.743.93$35,204
Apr 2009547,51146.773.59$29,471
Mar 2009202,55642.144.06$11,218
Feb 2009847,30332.814.63$36,591
Jan 20091179,63835.865.37$55,961
Dec 2008745,99837.105.98$38,596
Nov 200814011,97055.496.86$89,887
Oct 2008514,25575.246.92$33,290
Sep 200813210,375101.767.88$95,157
Aug 2008868,722114.228.48$83,812
Jul 200831,359131.0811.39$15,871
Jun 2008218,591131.3313.03$114,721
May 20082711,340123.1711.57$134,578
Apr 2008249,063110.3110.45$97,400
Mar 2008197,332101.909.66$72,793
Feb 2008177,35592.538.77$66,081
Jan 200810211,61590.388.21$104,528
Dec 200712913,87888.337.30$112,731
Nov 2007727,65791.677.29$62,433
Oct 2007657,43782.856.92$56,864
Sep 2007727,54975.846.24$52,598
Aug 20071119,68969.066.39$69,558
Jul 2007898,84570.906.39$62,811
Jun 200711811,47162.007.55$93,904
May 200714212,39858.747.85$105,619
Apr 20071098,44259.617.81$72,389
Mar 200723812,25756.927.30$103,047
Feb 200720912,85655.108.22$117,141
Jan 200721910,79050.306.73$83,598
Dec 20061387,20956.656.92$57,693
Nov 200624714,68754.207.62$125,265
Oct 20061589,29054.906.01$64,542
Sep 20066911,70460.085.04$63,101
Aug 2006528,66368.717.34$67,159
Jul 20067112,92769.376.34$86,918
Jun 20065511,11866.286.38$74,621
May 20068317,46266.016.42$117,672
Apr 200610214,74464.397.36$115,091
Mar 20066712,02156.707.08$88,943
Feb 200611318,59157.597.75$150,609
Jan 20069616,24660.598.93$150,947
Dec 20059013,87354.9413.42$191,056
Nov 200512720,94154.6910.59$228,677
Oct 200511318,16258.3413.80$257,151
Sep 20054515,28861.4512.08$187,429
Aug 20054415,00861.519.80$149,737
Jul 2005267,05155.697.84$56,753
Jun 20053512,91152.337.38$97,128
May 20053818,42645.226.65$124,273
Apr 20053617,98349.207.36$134,135
Mar 2005021,80250.377.15$155,991
Feb 2005018,19945.226.31$114,871
Jan 2005022,78643.166.32$144,058
Dec 2004016,21639.866.75$109,476
Nov 2004020,55245.286.33$130,103
Oct 2004123,06549.706.52$150,320
Sep 20043019,64543.245.28$105,099
Aug 20043725,75442.375.55$144,519
Jul 20042916,40338.286.08$100,909
Jun 20043623,13136.106.43$150,102
May 20043321,39937.486.49$140,214
Apr 20045127,14134.475.86$160,762
Mar 200423228,94534.365.53$168,041
Feb 200419124,45232.455.51$140,919
Jan 200421925,97332.036.30$170,635
Dec 200319823,71730.266.30$155,447
Nov 200316623,90128.804.60$114,610
Oct 200313619,66028.174.76$97,406
Sep 20036624,52026.314.75$118,191
Aug 20036325,49029.765.13$132,631
Jul 20035922,44929.415.17$117,815
Jun 20037327,19028.565.98$164,762
May 20039032,19526.595.97$194,684
Apr 20038629,77826.675.41$163,312
Mar 200311921,55831.146.10$135,124
Feb 200312122,80133.487.93$184,769
Jan 200317131,32830.315.58$180,057
Dec 200216226,51526.914.85$133,057
Nov 200218831,46024.664.14$134,785
Oct 200215127,75426.464.23$121,370
Sep 200218023,82827.443.64$91,559
Aug 200223531,94625.963.16$107,183
Jul 200224229,93824.583.06$97,611
Jun 200225935,80523.733.34$125,672
May 200225733,24724.663.58$125,495
Apr 200220224,79823.653.51$91,876
Mar 20023535,50222.003.10$110,923
Feb 20023638,91018.222.38$93,094
Jan 20023533,14517.172.38$79,343
Dec 20013833,97216.932.36$80,967
Nov 20011514,40318.072.41$34,918
Oct 20018034,20919.782.53$88,093
Sep 20011,2658,45224.262.25$49,717
Aug 20019185,13424.873.05$38,506
Jul 20015,68539,88823.933.20$263,567
Jun 20014,99237,54224.563.82$266,170
May 20016,53846,92225.524.31$368,958
Apr 20015,06737,45124.685.34$324,867
Mar 200188850,74624.545.38$294,624
Feb 200183249,05827.755.77$306,009
Jan 20011,10758,00327.478.40$517,563
Dec 20001,22960,32826.889.12$583,378
Nov 200085239,36432.215.66$250,164
Oct 20001,18856,09231.235.15$325,723
Sep 200069739,45931.875.19$226,867
Aug 200064140,64329.644.54$203,549
Jul 200096461,65628.534.09$279,661
Jun 20001,00562,48129.304.40$304,191
May 200099865,94427.263.68$269,863
Apr 20001,04268,42024.513.12$238,736
Mar 200060265,83328.422.86$205,375
Feb 200067368,35027.622.73$204,945
Jan 200094678,61825.272.48$218,917
Dec 199998786,75324.282.42$234,229
Nov 199993081,14723.192.43$219,078
Oct 199963856,82920.982.80$172,717
Sep 19991,47563,70321.752.62$198,910
Aug 19991,95880,81419.262.88$270,100
Jul 19992,21585,00017.892.37$241,278
Jun 19992,14484,11315.942.36$232,859
May 19992,25792,39915.792.32$250,098
Apr 19992,19094,74815.102.21$242,277
Mar 19991,644106,18212.471.84$215,698
Feb 19991,47994,8559.981.82$187,187
Jan 19991,916125,33110.381.90$258,011
Dec 19981,938140,0409.201.77$266,165
Nov 19981,861127,32610.892.19$298,565
Oct 19981,966158,81412.421.97$337,156
Sep 19982,353147,07512.592.08$335,926
Aug 19982,535178,38011.301.91$368,879
Jul 19982,902199,37511.742.24$480,125
Jun 19982,859197,64311.242.24$474,316
May 19982,895181,22012.622.21$436,368
Apr 19983,660206,39213.042.51$564,806
Mar 19984,089250,70412.802.31$631,325
Feb 19983,054217,09313.952.30$541,728
Jan 1998725101,04214.702.15$228,382
Dec 19972,08168,39416.322.41$198,867
Nov 199782018,74118.193.09$72,793

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             9 bbl  × $106.41 =       $958
Gas                  676 Mcf  × $  3.05 =     $2,059

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $3,017

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/166553 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.