BENTSEN BROS. - STATE

Name: BENTSEN BROS. - STATE lease production and value, Nov 2004 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

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

Gas lease lease 206391District 04Field 507006202 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$33.4 M

Nov 2004 – May 2026

Value, last 12 filed months

$345 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

259

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The LA COPITA (VICKSBURG CONS.) 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 118 leases and 118 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

600 ft

minimum

From a lease line

467 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 acres. The field rule took effect on 2006-03-28.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “TEST, THE PREVIOUS TEST MUST BE USED.”

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
High Cost Gas	1	1	2006-10-02	169613
NGPA	1	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	67,077 bbl	$4,439,720
Gas	Production	5,105,098 Mcf	$28,918,489
Total			$33,358,209

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 26.5677, -98.5099. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

26.56774, -98.50987 · 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

0.0%

0 of 1 wells

With a plug date

0.0%

0 of 1 wells

Median depth

9,378 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 9,378 ft.

Completions filed

Dec 2005

1 of 1 wells

1 well


42-42733752	10	9,378 ft	Dec 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 (259)

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

259 months


May 2026	45	6,379	106.41	3.05	$24,218
Apr 2026	51	6,424	98.93	2.87	$23,481
Mar 2026	70	6,571	89.75	3.15	$26,977
Feb 2026	60	6,113	63.50	3.75	$26,736
Jan 2026	71	6,376	59.13	8.00	$55,193
Dec 2025	66	6,618	56.66	4.41	$32,947
Nov 2025	65	6,554	58.59	3.93	$29,542
Oct 2025	71	6,721	59.38	3.30	$26,428
Sep 2025	53	6,492	62.74	3.08	$23,301
Aug 2025	60	6,835	63.93	3.01	$24,442
Jul 2025	57	7,027	66.74	3.32	$27,100
Jun 2025	48	6,860	66.48	3.13	$24,654
May 2025	63	6,983	60.55	3.23	$26,386
Apr 2025	44	6,946	62.36	3.54	$27,354
Mar 2025	45	7,050	67.70	4.27	$33,138
Feb 2025	40	6,649	70.88	4.34	$31,697
Jan 2025	44	7,448	74.32	4.28	$35,138
Dec 2024	54	8,251	68.99	3.12	$29,480
Nov 2024	41	8,610	69.05	2.20	$21,760
Oct 2024	44	8,141	71.37	2.28	$21,713
Sep 2024	48	7,449	69.61	2.36	$20,953
Aug 2024	50	7,395	75.63	2.06	$19,042
Jul 2024	49	7,278	79.93	2.15	$19,539
Jun 2024	57	7,198	78.08	2.63	$23,410
May 2024	58	7,364	78.81	2.20	$20,760
Apr 2024	68	8,298	84.45	1.66	$19,511
Mar 2024	63	9,020	80.30	1.55	$18,996
Feb 2024	15	276	76.09	1.78	$1,634
Jan 2024	56	2,348	73.02	3.30	$11,832
Dec 2023	50	4,667	71.26	2.61	$15,747
Nov 2023	48	4,924	77.89	2.81	$17,563
Oct 2023	44	3,828	85.44	3.09	$15,577
Sep 2023	45	3,968	89.04	2.74	$14,859
Aug 2023	51	3,896	80.52	2.67	$14,520
Jul 2023	63	4,121	74.85	2.64	$15,602
Jun 2023	78	4,265	68.96	2.26	$15,011
May 2023	73	4,501	70.62	2.23	$15,181
Apr 2023	78	4,710	78.12	2.24	$16,633
Mar 2023	90	5,044	72.85	2.39	$18,628
Feb 2023	74	4,522	75.11	2.47	$16,708
Jan 2023	102	5,177	76.53	3.39	$25,344
Dec 2022	81	5,033	76.41	5.73	$35,024
Nov 2022	39	4,731	85.00	5.65	$30,027
Oct 2022	28	4,986	87.18	5.86	$31,678
Sep 2022	19	5,079	84.88	8.16	$43,076
Aug 2022	18	5,249	94.52	9.13	$49,610
Jul 2022	21	5,458	101.58	7.54	$43,298
Jun 2022	19	5,538	115.09	7.98	$46,364
May 2022	26	6,037	109.37	8.43	$53,754
Apr 2022	29	5,339	104.22	6.84	$39,528
Mar 2022	32	4,678	108.88	5.08	$27,232
Feb 2022	26	4,822	91.05	4.86	$25,797
Jan 2022	31	5,283	81.84	4.54	$26,510
Dec 2021	32	5,625	71.32	3.90	$24,215
Nov 2021	37	4,922	77.43	5.24	$28,641
Oct 2021	65	5,515	79.79	5.71	$36,698
Sep 2021	88	5,410	69.86	5.35	$35,096
Aug 2021	90	5,714	66.02	4.22	$30,058
Jul 2021	91	5,975	70.78	3.98	$30,234
Jun 2021	117	5,553	69.49	3.38	$26,903
May 2021	120	5,941	63.48	3.02	$25,546
Apr 2021	104	4,926	60.36	2.76	$19,865
Mar 2021	117	5,854	61.30	2.72	$23,077
Feb 2021	82	4,470	57.80	5.55	$29,539
Jan 2021	105	5,557	50.41	2.81	$20,910
Dec 2020	56	5,487	44.64	2.68	$17,180
Nov 2020	8	5,537	38.77	2.71	$15,296
Oct 2020	8	5,670	36.97	2.48	$14,348
Sep 2020	8	5,363	37.09	1.99	$10,975
Aug 2020	8	6,173	39.98	2.39	$15,043
Jul 2020	8	5,800	38.37	1.83	$10,893
Jun 2020	7	5,777	34.90	1.69	$10,009
May 2020	10	5,837	16.92	1.81	$10,762
Apr 2020	8	5,721	14.75	1.80	$10,441
Mar 2020	9	5,974	30.34	1.86	$11,362
Feb 2020	10	5,683	49.88	1.98	$11,755
Jan 2020	11	5,985	57.25	2.09	$13,167
Dec 2019	12	6,050	59.01	2.30	$14,650
Nov 2019	13	5,871	55.30	2.75	$16,868
Oct 2019	13	6,436	53.47	2.42	$16,261
Sep 2019	14	6,395	55.05	2.66	$17,764
Aug 2019	16	6,749	53.11	2.30	$16,402
Jul 2019	17	6,894	56.27	2.46	$17,916
Jun 2019	21	6,671	52.78	2.49	$17,727
May 2019	279	7,013	58.48	2.74	$35,534
Apr 2019	226	7,258	62.63	2.75	$34,119
Mar 2019	228	8,231	56.80	3.06	$38,155
Feb 2019	211	10,168	50.85	2.79	$39,121
Jan 2019	256	10,899	46.03	3.23	$46,968
Dec 2018	246	10,967	46.59	4.19	$57,363
Nov 2018	114	10,785	52.93	4.24	$51,733
Oct 2018	124	11,179	61.44	3.40	$45,606
Sep 2018	120	10,845	59.54	3.11	$40,851
Aug 2018	125	11,395	59.40	3.07	$42,368
Jul 2018	130	11,691	65.14	2.93	$42,745
Jun 2018	125	11,197	60.18	3.08	$41,975
May 2018	100	11,479	65.38	2.90	$39,836
Apr 2018	89	11,164	63.84	2.90	$38,066
Mar 2018	89	11,521	61.22	2.79	$37,556
Feb 2018	83	10,649	61.78	2.77	$34,584
Jan 2018	87	12,302	62.87	4.01	$54,792
Dec 2017	85	11,909	57.27	2.92	$39,660
Nov 2017	69	12,045	55.42	3.12	$41,385
Oct 2017	6	12,021	49.29	2.98	$36,163
Sep 2017	79	12,770	47.52	3.09	$43,179
Aug 2017	118	11,421	45.37	3.00	$39,667
Jul 2017	137	13,464	43.87	3.09	$47,577
Jun 2017	126	13,520	42.49	3.09	$47,094
May 2017	141	13,861	45.37	3.26	$51,631
Apr 2017	206	12,082	47.93	3.21	$48,676
Mar 2017	154	13,682	46.77	2.98	$48,025
Feb 2017	131	11,563	50.45	2.95	$40,750
Jan 2017	242	14,171	49.41	3.42	$60,405
Dec 2016	191	12,741	48.76	3.72	$56,746
Nov 2016	152	11,946	42.49	2.64	$38,048
Oct 2016	85	13,462	46.19	3.09	$45,527
Sep 2016	81	13,355	41.55	3.10	$44,774
Aug 2016	82	13,702	41.44	2.92	$43,467
Jul 2016	80	14,026	41.62	2.92	$44,346
Jun 2016	76	12,944	45.35	2.69	$38,212
May 2016	98	14,930	42.52	1.99	$33,893
Apr 2016	109	11,925	36.56	1.99	$27,728
Mar 2016	138	13,568	33.01	1.79	$28,897
Feb 2016	64	5,665	26.47	2.06	$13,385
Jan 2016	137	13,463	27.35	2.36	$35,578
Dec 2015	130	13,537	32.36	2.00	$31,300
Nov 2015	131	12,286	38.79	2.17	$31,709
Oct 2015	158	15,037	43.55	2.43	$43,369
Sep 2015	175	16,252	42.99	2.76	$52,353
Aug 2015	169	16,115	40.16	2.87	$53,077
Jul 2015	186	14,379	48.15	2.95	$51,303
Jun 2015	258	15,584	56.15	2.88	$59,413
May 2015	266	17,656	55.21	2.96	$66,867
Apr 2015	226	14,784	49.82	2.71	$51,273
Mar 2015	252	15,788	42.89	2.93	$57,141
Feb 2015	234	14,323	44.66	2.98	$53,078
Jan 2015	299	18,317	43.43	3.10	$69,780
Dec 2014	283	16,628	54.69	3.59	$75,194
Nov 2014	285	18,472	70.46	4.25	$98,621
Oct 2014	285	18,625	78.30	3.90	$94,971
Sep 2014	216	14,942	86.16	4.05	$79,058
Aug 2014	0	2	89.39	4.04	$8
Jul 2014	0	0	96.56	4.18	$0
Jun 2014	2	94	98.16	4.74	$642
May 2014	24	1,471	94.73	4.73	$9,226
Apr 2014	42	2,507	95.94	4.81	$16,086
Mar 2014	52	3,023	95.89	5.06	$20,273
Feb 2014	80	4,681	97.40	6.19	$36,777
Jan 2014	104	6,087	90.40	4.86	$38,989
Dec 2013	109	6,274	91.82	4.35	$37,328
Nov 2013	102	7,090	88.85	3.74	$35,567
Oct 2013	115	7,604	97.42	3.78	$39,942
Sep 2013	113	7,808	104.11	3.72	$40,793
Aug 2013	122	8,559	104.25	3.52	$42,869
Jul 2013	131	8,942	102.52	3.72	$46,674
Jun 2013	122	9,145	94.40	3.93	$47,488
May 2013	155	10,188	94.83	4.15	$56,969
Apr 2013	155	10,005	93.96	4.28	$57,411
Mar 2013	171	10,560	93.62	3.91	$57,329
Feb 2013	155	9,844	91.23	3.42	$47,806
Jan 2013	190	11,124	91.60	3.42	$55,447
Dec 2012	183	10,817	86.77	3.42	$52,875
Nov 2012	196	11,101	86.95	3.62	$57,283
Oct 2012	223	13,983	89.38	3.40	$67,469
Sep 2012	219	13,351	94.67	2.92	$59,696
Aug 2012	242	14,734	92.66	2.91	$65,273
Jul 2012	276	16,277	85.13	3.02	$72,665
Jun 2012	280	17,414	79.82	2.52	$66,216
May 2012	295	18,648	91.61	2.49	$73,427
Apr 2012	288	18,982	101.65	2.00	$67,178
Mar 2012	96	14,160	105.05	2.22	$41,549
Feb 2012	324	20,104	101.10	2.57	$84,429
Jan 2012	305	18,177	98.09	2.73	$79,615
Dec 2011	304	17,479	96.87	3.24	$86,076
Nov 2011	280	17,811	95.72	3.31	$85,779
Oct 2011	315	20,362	84.98	3.65	$101,060
Sep 2011	323	22,015	83.62	3.99	$114,757
Aug 2011	328	23,285	83.40	4.15	$123,972
Jul 2011	347	25,182	94.14	4.52	$146,420
Jun 2011	355	22,979	92.90	4.64	$139,599
May 2011	374	25,384	98.13	4.40	$148,513
Apr 2011	11	27,476	105.96	4.33	$120,227
Mar 2011	12	27,870	96.36	4.06	$114,234
Feb 2011	13	26,302	85.64	4.18	$111,055
Jan 2011	14	29,114	86.50	4.59	$134,809
Dec 2010	15	28,965	85.73	4.35	$127,219
Nov 2010	23	29,333	80.84	3.80	$113,188
Oct 2010	442	31,967	78.10	3.51	$146,689
Sep 2010	261	27,080	72.63	3.98	$126,720
Aug 2010	320	32,975	73.68	4.42	$169,306
Jul 2010	256	27,736	72.55	4.74	$149,944
Jun 2010	290	30,884	70.36	4.91	$172,057
May 2010	380	36,444	71.12	4.24	$181,374
Apr 2010	460	36,888	81.69	4.12	$189,655
Mar 2010	777	38,862	78.39	4.39	$231,462
Feb 2010	626	36,150	73.58	5.44	$242,802
Jan 2010	740	42,393	74.36	5.96	$307,862
Dec 2009	761	44,616	71.44	5.48	$299,029
Nov 2009	700	45,434	74.59	3.75	$222,659
Oct 2009	391	26,708	72.54	4.11	$138,140
Sep 2009	205	28,020	65.54	3.06	$99,310
Aug 2009	275	30,768	67.42	3.22	$117,567
Jul 2009	321	34,278	61.13	3.46	$138,379
Jun 2009	337	33,191	66.16	3.90	$151,575
May 2009	407	33,832	54.74	3.93	$155,095
Apr 2009	87	36,378	46.77	3.59	$134,575
Mar 2009	58	30,970	42.14	4.06	$128,151
Feb 2009	62	30,647	32.81	4.63	$144,022
Jan 2009	93	44,082	35.86	5.37	$240,099
Dec 2008	59	35,959	37.10	5.98	$217,121
Nov 2008	45	32,931	55.49	6.86	$228,416
Oct 2008	43	31,597	75.24	6.92	$221,949
Sep 2008	227	30,347	101.76	7.88	$262,146
Aug 2008	354	34,547	114.22	8.48	$333,497
Jul 2008	484	36,825	131.08	11.39	$482,858
Jun 2008	535	39,750	131.33	13.03	$588,309
May 2008	631	44,034	123.17	11.57	$587,383
Apr 2008	610	38,186	110.31	10.45	$466,518
Mar 2008	687	43,555	101.90	9.66	$490,924
Feb 2008	649	42,993	92.53	8.77	$437,126
Jan 2008	431	41,500	90.38	8.21	$379,492
Dec 2007	663	45,232	88.33	7.30	$388,846
Nov 2007	953	42,131	91.67	7.29	$394,568
Oct 2007	711	48,869	82.85	6.92	$397,177
Sep 2007	641	48,566	75.84	6.24	$351,867
Aug 2007	801	53,071	69.06	6.39	$394,331
Jul 2007	442	42,461	70.90	6.39	$302,576
Jun 2007	593	39,610	62.00	7.55	$335,760
May 2007	628	43,292	58.74	7.85	$376,570
Apr 2007	429	36,979	59.61	7.81	$314,201
Mar 2007	562	42,517	56.92	7.30	$342,447
Feb 2007	550	40,735	55.10	8.22	$364,984
Jan 2007	834	43,284	50.30	6.73	$333,115
Dec 2006	613	29,586	56.65	6.92	$239,415
Nov 2006	703	40,431	54.20	7.62	$346,085
Oct 2006	668	45,238	54.90	6.01	$308,725
Sep 2006	584	40,078	60.08	5.04	$236,968
Aug 2006	702	49,462	68.71	7.34	$411,282
Jul 2006	652	50,479	69.37	6.34	$365,405
Jun 2006	666	53,864	66.28	6.38	$388,004
May 2006	770	57,796	66.01	6.42	$422,167
Apr 2006	609	42,905	64.39	7.36	$355,015
Mar 2006	449	28,633	56.70	7.08	$228,264
Feb 2006	448	29,859	57.59	7.75	$257,241
Jan 2006	456	32,241	60.59	8.93	$315,648
Dec 2005	446	36,615	54.94	13.42	$515,708
Nov 2005	564	47,817	54.69	10.59	$537,151
Oct 2005	593	51,282	58.34	13.80	$742,070
Sep 2005	559	49,440	61.45	12.08	$631,536
Aug 2005	501	37,912	61.51	9.80	$402,234
Jul 2005	1,125	70,228	55.69	7.84	$613,494
Jun 2005	1,230	73,306	52.33	7.38	$605,440
May 2005	1,573	88,510	45.22	6.65	$659,825
Apr 2005	2,011	101,648	49.20	7.36	$847,119
Mar 2005	2,144	119,132	50.37	7.15	$960,368
Feb 2005	2,234	113,838	45.22	6.31	$819,558
Jan 2005	2,808	127,862	43.16	6.32	$929,562
Dec 2004	2,114	47,973	39.86	6.75	$408,134
Nov 2004	461	16,607	45.28	6.33	$126,003

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            45 bbl  × $106.41 =     $4,788
Gas                6,379 Mcf  × $  3.05 =    $19,429

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Month total                                  $24,218

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

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A lease is not a well

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