MERRYMAN GAS UNIT NO.1

Name: MERRYMAN GAS UNIT NO.1 lease production and value, Jan 1998 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by XTO ENERGY INC. (P-5 945936) in the BALD PRAIRIE (CV CONSOLIDATED) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 167388District 05Field 05189550Hydrogen sulphide field2 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$509 k

Jan 1998 – Apr 2010

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

148

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The BALD PRAIRIE (CV 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 868 leases and 868 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

2001-02-22

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 2011-03-08.

The register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “PER DOCKET 05-0268631 EFFECTIVE 03/08/2011, AMENDED RULE 2 TO”

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	2000-11-30	142760
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	22 bbl	$643
Gas	Production	118,639 Mcf	$508,269
Total			$508,911

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 31.1695, -96.4731. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.16951, -96.47308 · 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

100.0%

1 of 1 wells

With a plug date

100.0%

1 of 1 wells

Median depth

13,400 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

12.3 years

median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

1100.0%

A plug date is filed

1100.0%

BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.

1100.0%

NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.

00.0%

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 13,400 ft.

Completions filed

Jan 1998

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Apr 2010

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 12.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 12.3 years and 12.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-39530301	2	13,400 ft	Jan 1998	Apr 2010	Yes

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 (148)

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

148 months


Apr 2010	0	0	81.69	4.12	$0
Mar 2010	0	0	78.39	4.39	$0
Feb 2010	0	0	73.58	5.44	$0
Jan 2010	0	0	74.36	5.96	$0
Dec 2009	0	0	71.44	5.48	$0
Nov 2009	0	0	74.59	3.75	$0
Oct 2009	0	0	72.54	4.11	$0
Sep 2009	0	0	65.54	3.06	$0
Aug 2009	0	0	67.42	3.22	$0
Jul 2009	0	0	61.13	3.46	$0
Jun 2009	0	0	66.16	3.90	$0
May 2009	0	0	54.74	3.93	$0
Apr 2009	0	68	46.77	3.59	$244
Mar 2009	0	62	42.14	4.06	$252
Feb 2009	0	51	32.81	4.63	$236
Jan 2009	0	49	35.86	5.37	$263
Dec 2008	0	34	37.10	5.98	$203
Nov 2008	0	43	55.49	6.86	$295
Oct 2008	0	38	75.24	6.92	$263
Sep 2008	0	46	101.76	7.88	$362
Aug 2008	0	218	114.22	8.48	$1,849
Jul 2008	0	322	131.08	11.39	$3,667
Jun 2008	0	368	131.33	13.03	$4,796
May 2008	0	392	123.17	11.57	$4,537
Apr 2008	0	450	110.31	10.45	$4,705
Mar 2008	0	451	101.90	9.66	$4,359
Feb 2008	0	499	92.53	8.77	$4,377
Jan 2008	0	341	90.38	8.21	$2,798
Dec 2007	0	485	88.33	7.30	$3,541
Nov 2007	0	251	91.67	7.29	$1,830
Oct 2007	0	226	82.85	6.92	$1,564
Sep 2007	0	252	75.84	6.24	$1,574
Aug 2007	0	366	69.06	6.39	$2,338
Jul 2007	0	486	70.90	6.39	$3,105
Jun 2007	0	462	62.00	7.55	$3,487
May 2007	0	434	58.74	7.85	$3,405
Apr 2007	0	337	59.61	7.81	$2,630
Mar 2007	0	392	56.92	7.30	$2,862
Feb 2007	0	488	55.10	8.22	$4,009
Jan 2007	0	294	50.30	6.73	$1,978
Dec 2006	0	264	56.65	6.92	$1,826
Nov 2006	0	318	54.20	7.62	$2,422
Oct 2006	0	109	54.90	6.01	$656
Sep 2006	0	309	60.08	5.04	$1,556
Aug 2006	0	147	68.71	7.34	$1,079
Jul 2006	0	102	69.37	6.34	$647
Jun 2006	0	148	66.28	6.38	$945
May 2006	0	75	66.01	6.42	$482
Apr 2006	0	44	64.39	7.36	$324
Mar 2006	0	23	56.70	7.08	$163
Feb 2006	0	53	57.59	7.75	$411
Jan 2006	0	89	60.59	8.93	$795
Dec 2005	0	199	54.94	13.42	$2,670
Nov 2005	0	67	54.69	10.59	$709
Oct 2005	0	65	58.34	13.80	$897
Sep 2005	0	107	61.45	12.08	$1,292
Aug 2005	0	108	61.51	9.80	$1,058
Jul 2005	0	91	55.69	7.84	$714
Jun 2005	0	77	52.33	7.38	$568
May 2005	0	38	45.22	6.65	$253
Apr 2005	0	387	49.20	7.36	$2,849
Mar 2005	0	321	50.37	7.15	$2,297
Feb 2005	0	191	45.22	6.31	$1,206
Jan 2005	0	438	43.16	6.32	$2,769
Dec 2004	0	496	39.86	6.75	$3,349
Nov 2004	0	421	45.28	6.33	$2,665
Oct 2004	0	406	49.70	6.52	$2,645
Sep 2004	0	667	43.24	5.28	$3,524
Aug 2004	0	624	42.37	5.55	$3,464
Jul 2004	0	812	38.28	6.08	$4,940
Jun 2004	0	721	36.10	6.43	$4,638
May 2004	0	729	37.48	6.49	$4,735
Apr 2004	0	742	34.47	5.86	$4,347
Mar 2004	7	820	34.36	5.53	$4,775
Feb 2004	8	778	32.45	5.51	$4,546
Jan 2004	0	1,020	32.03	6.30	$6,426
Dec 2003	0	1,031	30.26	6.30	$6,497
Nov 2003	0	925	28.80	4.60	$4,251
Oct 2003	2	783	28.17	4.76	$3,783
Sep 2003	0	760	26.31	4.75	$3,610
Aug 2003	0	1,008	29.76	5.13	$5,171
Jul 2003	0	1,297	29.41	5.17	$6,707
Jun 2003	0	1,257	28.56	5.98	$7,521
May 2003	0	1,227	26.59	5.97	$7,328
Apr 2003	0	1,052	26.67	5.41	$5,688
Mar 2003	0	905	31.14	6.10	$5,517
Feb 2003	0	858	33.48	7.93	$6,800
Jan 2003	1	803	30.31	5.58	$4,513
Dec 2002	0	898	26.91	4.85	$4,359
Nov 2002	0	1,117	24.66	4.14	$4,621
Oct 2002	0	1,496	26.46	4.23	$6,327
Sep 2002	0	1,437	27.44	3.64	$5,224
Aug 2002	0	1,283	25.96	3.16	$4,060
Jul 2002	0	1,692	24.58	3.06	$5,181
Jun 2002	0	1,741	23.73	3.34	$5,812
May 2002	0	1,645	24.66	3.58	$5,896
Apr 2002	0	1,929	23.65	3.51	$6,775
Mar 2002	0	1,457	22.00	3.10	$4,521
Feb 2002	0	1,662	18.22	2.38	$3,948
Jan 2002	0	2,083	17.17	2.38	$4,949
Dec 2001	0	1,538	16.93	2.36	$3,636
Nov 2001	0	2,022	18.07	2.41	$4,864
Oct 2001	0	2,067	19.78	2.53	$5,227
Sep 2001	0	2,087	24.26	2.25	$4,699
Aug 2001	0	1,791	24.87	3.05	$5,468
Jul 2001	0	1,895	23.93	3.20	$6,058
Jun 2001	0	1,592	24.56	3.82	$6,088
May 2001	0	1,760	25.52	4.31	$7,581
Apr 2001	0	1,454	24.68	5.34	$7,758
Mar 2001	0	1,288	24.54	5.38	$6,925
Feb 2001	0	1,447	27.75	5.77	$8,345
Jan 2001	0	2,213	27.47	8.40	$18,586
Dec 2000	0	2,400	26.88	9.12	$21,894
Nov 2000	0	1,844	32.21	5.66	$10,433
Oct 2000	0	2,002	31.23	5.15	$10,301
Sep 2000	0	1,465	31.87	5.19	$7,598
Aug 2000	0	235	29.64	4.54	$1,067
Jul 2000	0	1,724	28.53	4.09	$7,051
Jun 2000	0	1,920	29.30	4.40	$8,443
May 2000	0	1,573	27.26	3.68	$5,788
Apr 2000	0	1,170	24.51	3.12	$3,646
Mar 2000	0	776	28.42	2.86	$2,219
Feb 2000	0	880	27.62	2.73	$2,399
Jan 2000	0	798	25.27	2.48	$1,979
Dec 1999	0	728	24.28	2.42	$1,764
Nov 1999	0	926	23.19	2.43	$2,254
Oct 1999	0	1,224	20.98	2.80	$3,432
Sep 1999	0	90	21.75	2.62	$236
Aug 1999	0	555	19.26	2.88	$1,596
Jul 1999	0	1,216	17.89	2.37	$2,885
Jun 1999	0	1,352	15.94	2.36	$3,194
May 1999	0	1,397	15.79	2.32	$3,242
Apr 1999	0	1,726	15.10	2.21	$3,811
Mar 1999	0	1,456	12.47	1.84	$2,677
Feb 1999	0	1,998	9.98	1.82	$3,632
Jan 1999	0	1,739	10.38	1.90	$3,304
Dec 1998	0	0	9.20	1.77	$0
Nov 1998	0	1,152	10.89	2.19	$2,518
Oct 1998	0	1,067	12.42	1.97	$2,101
Sep 1998	0	1,056	12.59	2.08	$2,199
Aug 1998	0	1,125	11.30	1.91	$2,146
Jul 1998	0	1,517	11.74	2.24	$3,394
Jun 1998	0	1,203	11.24	2.24	$2,691
May 1998	0	1,433	12.62	2.21	$3,162
Apr 1998	0	1,483	13.04	2.51	$3,715
Mar 1998	0	2,159	12.80	2.31	$4,986
Feb 1998	4	2,507	13.95	2.30	$5,820
Jan 1998	0	1,332	14.70	2.15	$2,870

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.

Apr 2009 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 46.77 =         $0
Gas                   68 Mcf  × $  3.59 =       $244

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Month total                                     $244

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. 05/G/167388 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.