BENTSEN-WHITTINGTON GU1

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

Gas lease lease 180445District 04Field 021006252 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$28.1 M
Dec 2000 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$153 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
306
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 90 leases and 90 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1993-06-15
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 2001-11-06.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: AS A SINGLE RESERVOIR.

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 Gas112001-05-09143554
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
CondensateDisposition59,838 bbl$2,339,902
GasProduction5,223,129 Mcf$25,742,412
Total$28,082,314

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 26.7084, -98.4063. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

26.70845, -98.40629 · 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
10,360 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 10,360 ft.

1 well

42-42733285310,360 ft

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 (306)

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

306 months

May 20261232,612106.413.05$21,044
Apr 202602,03598.932.87$5,840
Mar 202602,82989.753.15$8,910
Feb 202602,55763.503.75$9,590
Jan 202603,05159.138.00$24,402
Dec 202502,65056.664.41$11,695
Nov 202503,86958.593.93$15,191
Oct 202504,14459.383.30$13,695
Sep 202504,15362.743.08$12,778
Aug 202503,13863.933.01$9,460
Jul 202503,28766.743.32$10,897
Jun 202503,13666.483.13$9,812
May 202503,80260.553.23$12,289
Apr 202504,05562.363.54$14,367
Mar 202502,68367.704.27$11,452
Feb 20251762,16570.884.34$21,873
Jan 202502,45674.324.28$10,508
Dec 202403,37568.993.12$10,535
Nov 202406,93869.052.20$15,253
Oct 20241787,22771.372.28$29,192
Sep 202407,32269.612.36$17,312
Aug 202408,08275.632.06$16,678
Jul 202407,15579.932.15$15,359
Jun 202407,67978.082.63$20,226
May 20241786,38178.812.20$28,056
Apr 202407,83484.451.66$12,998
Mar 202408,32680.301.55$12,865
Feb 20241847,98176.091.78$28,236
Jan 202409,32673.023.30$30,754
Dec 202306,48571.262.61$16,931
Nov 202304,26077.892.81$11,960
Oct 202308,38385.443.09$25,881
Sep 20231666,14989.042.74$31,598
Aug 202308,37180.522.67$22,375
Jul 202309,19174.852.64$24,281
Jun 202307,64768.962.26$17,271
May 202306,86270.622.23$15,284
Apr 20231837,98978.122.24$32,173
Mar 202308,63672.852.39$20,667
Feb 202307,61775.112.47$18,781
Jan 202308,14476.533.39$27,590
Dec 202208,59876.415.73$49,259
Nov 20221849,56985.005.65$69,668
Oct 2022010,17687.185.86$59,670
Sep 202205,30084.888.16$43,268
Aug 202209,56494.529.13$87,292
Jul 20221828,943101.587.54$85,936
Jun 2022010,143115.097.98$80,913
May 202209,958109.378.43$83,976
Apr 202206,013104.226.84$41,114
Mar 202207,929108.885.08$40,251
Feb 20221765,43191.054.86$42,413
Jan 202207,56981.844.54$34,346
Dec 202106,38171.323.90$24,880
Nov 202106,81677.435.24$35,694
Oct 202106,96779.795.71$39,809
Sep 20211717,31369.865.35$51,077
Aug 202106,94566.024.22$29,312
Jul 202109,07270.783.98$36,125
Jun 202106,36669.493.38$21,521
May 202106,82263.483.02$20,587
Apr 20211837,30360.362.76$31,191
Mar 202108,03361.302.72$21,825
Feb 202107,56057.805.55$41,943
Jan 202108,17050.412.81$22,960
Dec 20201857,97244.642.68$29,587
Nov 202007,81338.772.71$21,146
Oct 202008,01136.972.48$19,855
Sep 202007,93937.091.99$15,807
Aug 202008,60539.982.39$20,524
Jul 20201917,04438.371.83$20,185
Jun 202007,79734.901.69$13,179
May 202008,37816.921.81$15,204
Apr 202008,00814.751.80$14,449
Mar 20201858,62030.341.86$21,614
Feb 202007,84349.881.98$15,534
Jan 202008,75557.252.09$18,339
Dec 201907,75659.012.30$17,873
Nov 201907,65755.302.75$21,062
Oct 20191898,63653.472.42$30,992
Sep 201908,54955.052.66$22,717
Aug 201909,11953.112.30$21,013
Jul 201909,35556.272.46$23,014
Jun 201909,37152.782.49$23,345
May 201909,71558.482.74$26,622
Apr 201909,30062.632.75$25,582
Mar 20191829,88456.803.06$40,603
Feb 201907,55550.852.79$21,095
Jan 201909,07846.033.23$29,305
Dec 20181719,82646.594.19$49,093
Nov 201809,34552.934.24$39,597
Oct 2018010,12161.443.40$34,392
Sep 201809,38259.543.11$29,159
Aug 20181779,36759.403.07$39,238
Jul 201809,44865.142.93$27,700
Jun 201809,63760.183.08$29,652
May 201818710,38965.382.90$42,362
Apr 201809,94263.842.90$28,840
Mar 2018010,34261.222.79$28,822
Feb 201809,02461.782.77$24,961
Jan 201818211,97962.874.01$59,470
Dec 2017712,40557.272.92$36,642
Nov 2017012,90055.423.12$40,227
Oct 201719215,02149.292.98$54,282
Sep 2017018,84947.523.09$58,192
Aug 201702,67845.373.00$8,046
Jul 201702,22843.873.09$6,878
Jun 201701,94842.493.09$6,014
May 201701,56845.373.26$5,117
Apr 2017046547.933.21$1,493
Mar 2017050446.772.98$1,504
Feb 2017067250.452.95$1,984
Jan 201701,34549.413.42$4,598
Dec 201601,53948.763.72$5,729
Nov 2016059242.492.64$1,565
Oct 2016080746.193.09$2,494
Sep 201601,33741.553.10$4,146
Aug 201601,25241.442.92$3,661
Jul 201601,16141.622.92$3,395
Jun 201601,46045.352.69$3,921
May 201601,16342.521.99$2,316
Apr 2016094036.561.99$1,872
Mar 2016601,22933.011.79$4,185
Feb 201601,56726.472.06$3,234
Jan 20161843,76827.352.36$13,941
Dec 201509,68232.362.00$19,378
Nov 201509,81638.792.17$21,275
Oct 2015809,81143.552.43$27,291
Sep 201509,61342.992.76$26,517
Aug 20157810,25940.162.87$32,601
Jul 20151799,58048.152.95$36,833
Jun 201508,75556.152.88$25,239
May 201507,63555.212.96$22,565
Apr 201507,02349.822.71$19,008
Mar 201519010,06242.892.93$37,678
Feb 201509,36444.662.98$27,869
Jan 201519110,43443.433.10$40,647
Dec 2014010,39754.693.59$37,339
Nov 201409,60370.464.25$40,830
Oct 2014010,94578.303.90$42,696
Sep 201409,26886.164.05$37,493
Aug 201409,72189.394.04$39,225
Jul 201419210,80796.564.18$63,708
Jun 201419,97098.164.74$47,325
May 2014011,47094.734.73$54,214
Apr 201419410,31495.944.81$68,214
Mar 2014110,97395.895.06$55,584
Feb 201408,08297.406.19$50,044
Jan 201408,64490.404.86$42,016
Dec 201319210,25691.824.35$62,289
Nov 201308,95988.853.74$33,491
Oct 201306,13697.423.78$23,190
Sep 2013010,735104.113.72$39,910
Aug 20131758,482104.253.52$48,123
Jul 201309,396102.523.72$34,932
Jun 201309,72294.403.93$38,241
May 2013010,35694.834.15$42,968
Apr 20131739,99493.964.28$59,055
Mar 2013010,57793.623.91$41,386
Feb 201309,52391.233.42$32,568
Jan 20131909,65991.603.42$50,437
Dec 2012010,13586.773.42$34,663
Nov 2012010,92286.953.62$39,592
Oct 201219211,00789.383.40$54,581
Sep 2012011,18994.672.92$32,654
Aug 2012011,76092.662.91$34,200
Jul 2012010,01285.133.02$30,244
Jun 201217511079.822.52$14,246
May 2012010,56991.612.49$26,299
Apr 2012010,330101.652.00$20,627
Mar 201219310,803105.052.22$44,280
Feb 2012011,345101.102.57$29,159
Jan 201205,05198.092.73$13,810
Dec 201117912,53296.873.24$57,940
Nov 201109,53295.723.31$31,563
Oct 2011011,09284.983.65$40,470
Sep 2011010,60183.623.99$42,253
Aug 201118412,09783.404.15$65,540
Jul 2011012,17694.144.52$55,002
Jun 201119111,75392.904.64$72,276
May 2011312,34698.134.40$54,676
Apr 2011011,757105.964.33$50,946
Mar 201119412,44496.364.06$69,183
Feb 2011011,40185.644.18$47,656
Jan 201118213,21686.504.59$76,388
Dec 2010012,72985.734.35$55,343
Nov 201018612,26880.843.80$61,597
Oct 2010012,70978.103.51$44,594
Sep 2010012,73572.633.98$50,679
Aug 201017513,11473.684.42$70,849
Jul 2010013,00272.554.74$61,584
Jun 201018212,89770.364.91$76,135
May 2010012,88871.124.24$54,584
Apr 201018012,68181.694.12$66,984
Mar 201019413,81078.394.39$75,815
Feb 2010012,91373.585.44$70,277
Jan 20101874,77674.365.96$42,390
Dec 200904,92071.445.48$26,980
Nov 200904,90074.593.75$18,382
Oct 20091745,14472.544.11$33,765
Sep 200904,81965.543.06$14,769
Aug 200904,93067.423.22$15,867
Jul 20091765,02361.133.46$28,161
Jun 200905,09666.163.90$19,849
May 20091775,29154.743.93$30,460
Apr 200905,71946.773.59$20,517
Mar 20091906,00842.144.06$32,393
Feb 20091955,60432.814.63$32,361
Jan 200926,04135.865.37$32,518
Dec 20082014,77037.105.98$35,968
Nov 200825,20755.496.86$35,833
Oct 20081935,18675.246.92$50,419
Sep 200825,702101.767.88$45,119
Aug 200825,682114.228.48$48,429
Jul 20081755,578131.0811.39$86,469
Jun 20081915,228131.3313.03$93,219
May 200815,588123.1711.57$64,800
Apr 20083735,557110.3110.45$99,243
Mar 20082026,252101.909.66$81,004
Feb 20081956,18292.538.77$72,263
Jan 200806,53790.388.21$53,641
Dec 200720019,53788.337.30$160,325
Nov 200719918,92191.677.29$156,209
Oct 200719718,55782.856.92$144,773
Sep 200719218,94075.846.24$132,826
Aug 200719218,44969.066.39$131,111
Jul 2007020,23470.906.39$129,254
Jun 200719218,78862.007.55$153,724
May 200719420,62958.747.85$173,256
Apr 200719720,42259.617.81$171,141
Mar 200719822,88456.927.30$178,368
Feb 200719519,87955.108.22$174,070
Jan 200720320,84350.306.73$150,419
Dec 200620520,65356.656.92$154,500
Nov 20066819,80354.207.62$154,535
Oct 200619219,87854.906.01$130,083
Sep 200619422,54060.085.04$125,194
Aug 200619022,53068.717.34$178,423
Jul 2006021,48869.376.34$136,293
Jun 200622424,24366.286.38$169,611
May 200620026,04266.016.42$180,522
Apr 2006021,87064.397.36$160,974
Mar 200619024,07156.707.08$181,266
Feb 200620120,59257.597.75$171,187
Jan 200619523,72060.598.93$223,713
Dec 200520323,32754.9413.42$324,094
Nov 200519820,18154.6910.59$224,513
Oct 2005022,90558.3413.80$315,992
Sep 200519523,26761.4512.08$293,025
Aug 200539526,04161.519.80$279,416
Jul 200519829,10455.697.84$239,308
Jun 200519826,84352.337.38$208,491
May 200519231,18645.226.65$216,105
Apr 200519829,46449.207.36$226,611
Mar 200539731,12550.377.15$242,693
Feb 200519529,73345.226.31$196,490
Jan 200538935,78943.166.32$243,054
Dec 200420132,35639.866.75$226,450
Nov 200439437,03145.286.33$252,262
Oct 200439742,05049.706.52$293,691
Sep 200419324,84143.245.28$139,603
Aug 200439328,28742.375.55$173,663
Jul 200438735,63038.286.08$231,594
Jun 200419424,62336.106.43$165,404
May 200439031,25537.486.49$217,605
Apr 200439525,38734.475.86$162,344
Mar 200439332,59134.365.53$193,736
Feb 200437722,84332.455.51$138,090
Jan 200419832,58932.036.30$211,641
Dec 200339433,50430.266.30$223,053
Nov 200359335,06528.804.60$178,208
Oct 200339742,30028.174.76$212,516
Sep 200339245,48226.314.75$226,324
Aug 200357847,81729.765.13$262,489
Jul 200339154,45629.415.17$293,083
Jun 200338353,37628.565.98$330,285
May 200377266,28526.595.97$416,427
Apr 200378363,03226.675.41$361,714
Mar 200377967,81731.146.10$437,673
Feb 200378760,85033.487.93$508,639
Jan 200399773,05630.315.58$438,021
Dec 200299087,32926.914.85$450,515
Nov 20021,59399,99724.664.14$452,967
Oct 20022,100134,33326.464.23$623,676
Sep 200239742,27927.443.64$164,586
Aug 200258644,49925.963.16$156,015
Jul 200239049,15824.583.06$160,096
Jun 200252547,56323.733.34$171,235
May 200270646,03524.663.58$182,399
Apr 200272953,52123.653.51$205,224
Mar 200288967,37722.003.10$228,610
Feb 20021,05469,64418.222.38$184,656
Jan 200273049,38617.172.38$129,859
Dec 20011,46368,19716.932.36$186,014
Nov 20011,46381,52118.072.41$222,537
Oct 20011,11540,85119.782.53$125,362
Sep 20011,10446,18524.262.25$130,760
Aug 200190854,10624.873.05$187,776
Jul 20011,45763,99523.933.20$239,463
Jun 20011,27863,94124.563.82$275,908
May 2001079,11025.524.31$340,752
Apr 20011,83075,80724.685.34$449,619
Mar 20012,57392,93024.545.38$562,774
Feb 20012,77584,47627.755.77$564,186
Jan 20013,10988,63727.478.40$829,845
Dec 20001,08041,67926.889.12$409,247

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           123 bbl  × $106.41 =    $13,088
Gas                2,612 Mcf  × $  3.05 =     $7,956

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Month total                                  $21,044

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/180445 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.