BRIGHT & SCHIFF HAMMAN GAS UNIT

Operated by MERIT ENERGY COMPANY (P-5 561136) in the MONTE CHRISTO (VX-ECKART-EE CNS) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 223568District 04Field 625560882 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$5.6 M
Jan 2006 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$103
at the published price for each month
Months reported
245
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 58 leases and 58 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
2005-12-01
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
933 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 2006-05-16.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: ALLOCATION FORMULA SUSPENDED.

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 Gas112007-05-07173784
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
CondensateDisposition1,771 bbl$115,827
GasProduction920,513 Mcf$5,490,192
Total$5,606,019

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 26.4413, -98.3173. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

26.44127, -98.31726 · 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
10,350 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 10,350 ft.

Completions filed
Mar 2006
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-215334001910,350 ftMar 2006

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 (245)

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

245 months

May 202601106.413.05$3
Apr 20260198.932.87$3
Mar 20260089.753.15$0
Feb 202602663.503.75$98
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 202501074.324.28$43
Dec 202401368.993.12$41
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 20240278.812.20$4
Apr 20240284.451.66$3
Mar 20240380.301.55$5
Feb 20240076.091.78$0
Jan 20240073.023.30$0
Dec 20230271.262.61$5
Nov 20230177.892.81$3
Oct 20230185.443.09$3
Sep 20230789.042.74$19
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 202302772.852.39$65
Feb 20230075.112.47$0
Jan 20230076.533.39$0
Dec 20220076.415.73$0
Nov 20221085.005.65$85
Oct 20220087.185.86$0
Sep 20220084.888.16$0
Aug 20220094.529.13$0
Jul 202200101.587.54$0
Jun 202206115.097.98$48
May 2022015109.378.43$127
Apr 2022021104.226.84$144
Mar 2022055108.885.08$279
Feb 2022011791.054.86$568
Jan 202202681.844.54$118
Dec 202106671.323.90$257
Nov 2021115777.435.24$900
Oct 202105779.795.71$326
Sep 2021022469.865.35$1,199
Aug 2021027166.024.22$1,144
Jul 2021150770.783.98$2,090
Jun 2021055169.493.38$1,863
May 2021060263.483.02$1,817
Apr 2021055460.362.76$1,528
Mar 20212457861.302.72$3,042
Feb 2021053657.805.55$2,974
Jan 2021057450.412.81$1,613
Dec 2020262344.642.68$1,756
Nov 2020056638.772.71$1,532
Oct 2020061736.972.48$1,529
Sep 2020063537.091.99$1,264
Aug 2020168339.982.39$1,669
Jul 2020070638.371.83$1,289
Jun 2020068134.901.69$1,151
May 2020070516.921.81$1,279
Apr 2020066614.751.80$1,202
Mar 2020069830.341.86$1,296
Feb 2020268349.881.98$1,453
Jan 2020075357.252.09$1,577
Dec 2019076659.012.30$1,765
Nov 2019170555.302.75$1,995
Oct 201918670253.472.42$11,643
Sep 2019168955.052.66$1,886
Aug 2019077153.112.30$1,777
Jul 2019077856.272.46$1,914
Jun 2019272952.782.49$1,922
May 2019177658.482.74$2,185
Apr 2019276262.632.75$2,221
Mar 2019075956.803.06$2,324
Feb 2019269450.852.79$2,040
Jan 2019073746.033.23$2,379
Dec 2018073446.594.19$3,072
Nov 2018176052.934.24$3,273
Oct 20182674061.443.40$4,112
Sep 2018074459.543.11$2,312
Aug 2018283659.403.07$2,682
Jul 2018086565.142.93$2,536
Jun 2018183760.183.08$2,636
May 2018072165.382.90$2,091
Apr 2018081563.842.90$2,364
Mar 2018273861.222.79$2,179
Feb 2018050461.782.77$1,394
Jan 2018079162.874.01$3,171
Dec 20173279457.272.92$4,152
Nov 2017067655.423.12$2,108
Oct 2017162749.292.98$1,920
Sep 2017156947.523.09$1,804
Aug 2017264345.373.00$2,023
Jul 2017076543.873.09$2,362
Jun 2017078542.493.09$2,424
May 2017086945.373.26$2,836
Apr 2017267647.933.21$2,267
Mar 201701,06446.772.98$3,175
Feb 2017160750.452.95$1,843
Jan 2017078249.413.42$2,674
Dec 2016075348.763.72$2,803
Nov 2016072442.492.64$1,915
Oct 2016181846.193.09$2,574
Sep 2016178141.553.10$2,463
Aug 2016073541.442.92$2,149
Jul 2016278741.622.92$2,385
Jun 2016278845.352.69$2,207
May 2016067942.521.99$1,352
Apr 2016173636.561.99$1,502
Mar 201607733.011.79$138
Feb 2016076326.472.06$1,575
Jan 2016389227.352.36$2,191
Dec 2015295032.362.00$1,966
Nov 2015168138.792.17$1,515
Oct 2015226243.552.43$723
Sep 2015054242.992.76$1,495
Aug 201514276740.162.87$7,906
Jul 201541,79248.152.95$5,470
Jun 201501,54956.152.88$4,466
May 201501,25455.212.96$3,706
Apr 201511,42849.822.71$3,915
Mar 201511,63842.892.93$4,850
Feb 201561,77644.662.98$5,554
Jan 201502,26643.433.10$7,026
Dec 201401,13354.693.59$4,069
Nov 2014039170.464.25$1,662
Oct 2014270678.303.90$2,911
Sep 2014050086.164.05$2,023
Aug 2014042489.394.04$1,711
Jul 2014160296.564.18$2,613
Jun 2014142998.164.74$2,130
May 2014038094.734.73$1,796
Apr 2014038995.944.81$1,871
Mar 2014145595.895.06$2,397
Feb 201405197.406.19$316
Jan 2014014090.404.86$681
Dec 201308791.824.35$379
Nov 2013025688.853.74$957
Oct 2013025597.423.78$964
Sep 20130294104.113.72$1,093
Aug 20130315104.253.52$1,110
Jul 20130323102.523.72$1,201
Jun 2013064694.403.93$2,541
May 2013272394.834.15$3,189
Apr 201304,22993.964.28$18,111
Mar 201304,90893.623.91$19,204
Feb 201314,38191.233.42$15,074
Jan 2013284,32591.603.42$17,356
Dec 201204,58986.773.42$15,695
Nov 201213,55686.953.62$12,977
Oct 201205,00789.383.40$17,022
Sep 201205,90094.672.92$17,219
Aug 201214,95892.662.91$14,511
Jul 201224,94785.133.02$15,114
Jun 201232,95679.822.52$7,686
May 201225,65591.612.49$14,255
Apr 201205,856101.652.00$11,693
Mar 201205,536105.052.22$12,301
Feb 201205,659101.102.57$14,545
Jan 201205,90998.092.73$16,156
Dec 2011296,35096.873.24$23,382
Nov 201116,18495.723.31$20,573
Oct 201106,47884.983.65$23,635
Sep 201106,21183.623.99$24,756
Aug 201106,35683.404.15$26,373
Jul 201116,74194.144.52$30,545
Jun 201116,21392.904.64$28,920
May 201116,46498.134.40$28,571
Apr 201116,625105.964.33$28,814
Mar 2011106,59296.364.06$27,710
Feb 201136,30285.644.18$26,599
Jan 201106,64086.504.59$30,470
Dec 201017,13985.734.35$31,124
Nov 201006,60380.843.80$25,061
Oct 201007,05178.103.51$24,741
Sep 201006,77872.633.98$26,973
Aug 2010306,96173.684.42$32,974
Jul 201006,63072.554.74$31,403
Jun 201036,44570.364.91$31,859
May 201006,64571.124.24$28,143
Apr 201006,25581.694.12$25,787
Mar 201006,73578.394.39$29,558
Feb 201005,87673.585.44$31,979
Jan 201036,51674.365.96$39,085
Dec 200916,74971.445.48$37,081
Nov 200926,91574.593.75$26,091
Oct 2009287,20172.544.11$31,629
Sep 200926,99165.543.06$21,557
Aug 200907,28367.423.22$23,440
Jul 200917,42461.133.46$25,782
Jun 200937,32966.163.90$28,745
May 200927,30854.743.93$28,799
Apr 200957,45446.773.59$26,975
Mar 2009328,36442.144.06$35,298
Feb 200947,03032.814.63$32,701
Jan 200956,85035.865.37$36,971
Dec 200897,48137.105.98$45,049
Nov 2008367,62455.496.86$54,301
Oct 200808,31475.246.92$57,549
Sep 2008337,287101.767.88$60,758
Aug 200808,530114.228.48$72,360
Jul 200808,526131.0811.39$97,106
Jun 200808,317131.3313.03$108,392
May 2008378,717123.1711.57$105,450
Apr 200858,975110.3110.45$94,384
Mar 200859,587101.909.66$93,159
Feb 2008329,85892.538.77$89,421
Jan 2008010,28090.388.21$84,355
Dec 2007310,75088.337.30$78,761
Nov 20071010,54191.677.29$77,779
Oct 200717811,12382.856.92$91,740
Sep 2007610,79975.846.24$67,886
Aug 2007511,62069.066.39$74,573
Jul 2007011,92670.906.39$76,183
Jun 2007011,85362.007.55$89,472
May 2007012,40158.747.85$97,302
Apr 2007012,48459.617.81$97,440
Mar 200717713,02556.927.30$105,183
Feb 2007312,11855.108.22$99,727
Jan 2007013,87450.306.73$93,328
Dec 2006013,51956.656.92$93,530
Nov 2006014,27354.207.62$108,724
Oct 2006014,72354.906.01$88,541
Sep 2006014,76760.085.04$74,384
Aug 2006017,08168.717.34$125,373
Jul 200616916,44169.376.34$116,005
Jun 2006017,24566.286.38$110,090
May 200618821,48666.016.42$150,457
Apr 2006023,76564.397.36$174,922
Mar 2006031,07956.707.08$220,130
Feb 200619444,40857.597.75$355,384
Jan 2006051,88160.598.93$463,470

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             0 bbl  × $106.41 =         $0
Gas                    1 Mcf  × $  3.05 =         $3

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                       $3

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/223568 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.