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BENTSEN TRACT IV

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

Gas lease lease 275926District 04Field 415372502 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$16.3 M
Jan 2015 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$302 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
137
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, gas

The HINDE (VICKSBURG CONSOLIDATED) 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 250 leases and 251 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
2000-01-25
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
0 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 2006-11-14.

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.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
High Cost Gas112015-12-10216607
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
CondensateDisposition86,085 bbl$4,060,489
GasProduction4,269,380 Mcf$12,263,794
Total$16,324,282

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 26.5265, -98.4810. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

26.52654, -98.48096 · 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
9,550 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 9,550 ft.

Completions filed
Jan 2015
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-4273471639,550 ftJan 2015——

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 (137)

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

137 months

May 2026166,282106.413.05$20,837
Apr 202686,04598.932.87$18,139
Mar 2026176,34989.753.15$21,522
Feb 202675,87863.503.75$22,489
Jan 202676,53159.138.00$52,648
Dec 2025176,75356.664.41$30,767
Nov 202566,39458.593.93$25,457
Oct 202566,62259.383.30$22,241
Sep 2025116,87762.743.08$21,850
Aug 2025117,19363.933.01$22,388
Jul 202566,70766.743.32$22,635
Jun 2025176,22566.483.13$20,606
May 202566,42460.553.23$21,128
Apr 2025116,37662.363.54$23,277
Mar 2025116,96767.704.27$30,482
Feb 2025116,65270.884.34$29,655
Jan 2025127,11274.324.28$31,322
Dec 2024126,87368.993.12$22,281
Nov 2024116,80469.052.20$15,718
Oct 202467,00071.372.28$16,398
Sep 2024176,87869.612.36$17,445
Aug 202467,22075.632.06$15,353
Jul 2024127,66179.932.15$17,404
Jun 2024197,49278.082.63$21,217
May 2024206,26278.812.20$15,343
Apr 2024577,39084.451.66$17,075
Mar 20241257,74280.301.55$22,000
Feb 20241186,00776.091.78$19,693
Jan 20242218,25573.023.30$43,360
Dec 2023578,32471.262.61$25,793
Nov 2023568,60377.892.81$28,515
Oct 20231158,62285.443.09$36,444
Sep 20231078,18389.042.74$31,908
Aug 20231648,83680.522.67$36,823
Jul 2023818,82174.852.64$29,366
Jun 20232328,37168.962.26$34,904
May 20232668,37370.622.23$37,435
Apr 20232788,61378.122.24$40,991
Mar 20231655,72472.852.39$25,719
Feb 20232697,40275.112.47$38,456
Jan 20232719,19876.533.39$51,900
Dec 20223199,31976.415.73$77,764
Nov 20222419,05385.005.65$71,600
Oct 20221889,00787.185.86$69,205
Sep 20221598,64584.888.16$84,071
Aug 2022968,74494.529.13$88,882
Jul 2022539,093101.587.54$73,964
Jun 2022339,033115.097.98$75,856
May 2022479,228109.378.43$82,960
Apr 2022338,947104.226.84$64,615
Mar 2022339,518108.885.08$51,910
Feb 2022609,27591.054.86$50,529
Jan 20224610,62481.844.54$51,973
Dec 20215611,10071.323.90$47,274
Nov 20214710,67777.435.24$59,553
Oct 202111311,25879.795.71$73,343
Sep 202111411,01669.865.35$66,910
Aug 202118611,50766.024.22$60,846
Jul 202126511,33470.783.98$63,890
Jun 202130311,28769.493.38$59,213
May 202122311,91063.483.02$50,096
Apr 202128711,83360.362.76$49,964
Mar 202134712,56561.302.72$55,409
Feb 202146811,19557.805.55$89,160
Jan 202123613,11850.412.81$48,762
Dec 202029613,64044.642.68$49,707
Nov 202025113,19838.772.71$45,453
Oct 202033812,96136.972.48$44,619
Sep 202031013,47037.091.99$38,317
Aug 202018214,49239.982.39$41,841
Jul 20209114,93538.371.83$30,750
Jun 202011115,03434.901.69$29,286
May 202011115,95016.921.81$30,823
Apr 20208116,62314.751.80$31,189
Mar 202024417,87730.341.86$40,587
Feb 202011115,95849.881.98$37,144
Jan 202013516,99657.252.09$43,331
Dec 201916517,60059.012.30$50,293
Nov 201914317,44855.302.75$55,902
Oct 201912119,73653.472.42$54,202
Sep 20191719,39855.052.66$52,482
Aug 20191622,26853.112.30$52,163
Jul 20191623,24556.272.46$58,084
Jun 20197522,05852.782.49$58,909
May 201936523,02058.482.74$84,427
Apr 201960322,92762.632.75$100,831
Mar 201935624,22356.803.06$94,394
Feb 201935624,65550.852.79$86,945
Jan 201957528,80246.033.23$119,445
Dec 201833227,61046.594.19$131,028
Nov 201831024,70552.934.24$121,089
Oct 201828626,66661.443.40$108,185
Sep 201844626,29959.543.11$108,292
Aug 201819130,48259.403.07$104,820
Jul 201836830,39365.142.93$113,080
Jun 201844631,01660.183.08$122,274
May 201858730,50265.382.90$126,858
Apr 201829233,41063.842.90$115,557
Mar 201822635,41361.222.79$112,526
Feb 201823431,90361.782.77$102,704
Jan 201860638,45662.874.01$192,282
Dec 201769345,01057.272.92$171,186
Nov 201768745,16455.423.12$178,911
Oct 201753048,04549.292.98$169,475
Sep 201771645,62247.523.09$174,872
Aug 201726845,63245.373.00$149,256
Jul 201757050,77943.873.09$181,775
Jun 201770150,78642.493.09$186,576
May 201756752,82745.373.26$198,120
Apr 201756852,35147.933.21$195,355
Mar 201740352,54546.772.98$175,626
Feb 201774152,98550.452.95$193,827
Jan 201749560,54649.413.42$231,453
Dec 201664550,45248.763.72$219,274
Nov 201678053,99742.492.64$175,929
Oct 201665759,06446.193.09$212,870
Sep 201651964,11741.553.10$220,368
Aug 201654374,03341.442.92$239,000
Jul 201673887,83641.622.92$287,578
Jun 201654295,82945.352.69$281,960
May 2016957104,34342.521.99$248,443
Apr 20161,437100,23336.561.99$252,105
Mar 20162,417113,27633.011.79$283,003
Feb 20162,390121,37326.472.06$313,732
Jan 20162,564122,54827.352.36$359,873
Dec 20152,822131,15632.362.00$353,817
Nov 20153,152133,61138.792.17$411,845
Oct 20154,143143,29243.552.43$528,137
Sep 20154,444140,21842.992.76$577,828
Aug 20154,315116,36440.162.87$507,545
Jul 20154,244117,14448.152.95$549,347
Jun 20154,197114,50056.152.88$565,749
May 20154,807119,46055.212.96$618,453
Apr 20154,745105,79949.822.71$522,748
Mar 20155,555123,63942.892.93$601,099
Feb 20155,5866,31644.662.98$268,268
Jan 20157369,79243.433.10$62,326

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            16 bbl  × $106.41 =     $1,703
Gas                6,282 Mcf  × $  3.05 =    $19,134

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Month total                                  $20,837

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/275926 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.