NICHOLSON, JOHN W. GAS UNIT

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

Gas lease lease 159652District 06Field 354153002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$5.0 M
Aug 1996 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
358
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 351 leases and 351 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1980-12-20
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
600 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 2017-12-05.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: BE FILED IF THE OPERATOR CHOOSES. THIS IS A UFT FIELD.

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 Gas111996-11-15135454
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
CondensateDisposition25,893 bbl$607,077
GasProduction1,420,009 Mcf$4,391,897
Total$4,998,975

165,768 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 5 months, carries no value here. No free Texas wellhead gas price exists before 1997, so those months are left out of the total rather than valued at zero. The total above is therefore a floor, not an estimate.

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 32.6110, -94.8007. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.61104, -94.80072 · 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
10,900 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 10,900 ft.

Completions filed
Aug 1996
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-18331228310,900 ftAug 1996

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 (358)

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

358 months

May 202600106.413.05$0
Apr 20260098.932.87$0
Mar 20260089.753.15$0
Feb 20260063.503.75$0
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 20250074.324.28$0
Dec 20240068.993.12$0
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 20240078.812.20$0
Apr 20240084.451.66$0
Mar 20240080.301.55$0
Feb 20240076.091.78$0
Jan 20240073.023.30$0
Dec 20230071.262.61$0
Nov 20230077.892.81$0
Oct 20230085.443.09$0
Sep 20230089.042.74$0
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 20230072.852.39$0
Feb 20230075.112.47$0
Jan 20230076.533.39$0
Dec 20220076.415.73$0
Nov 20220085.005.65$0
Oct 20220087.185.86$0
Sep 20220084.888.16$0
Aug 20220094.529.13$0
Jul 202200101.587.54$0
Jun 202200115.097.98$0
May 202200109.378.43$0
Apr 202200104.226.84$0
Mar 202200108.885.08$0
Feb 20220091.054.86$0
Jan 20220081.844.54$0
Dec 20210071.323.90$0
Nov 20210077.435.24$0
Oct 20210079.795.71$0
Sep 20210069.865.35$0
Aug 20210066.024.22$0
Jul 20210070.783.98$0
Jun 20210069.493.38$0
May 20210063.483.02$0
Apr 20210060.362.76$0
Mar 20210061.302.72$0
Feb 20210057.805.55$0
Jan 20210050.412.81$0
Dec 20200044.642.68$0
Nov 20200038.772.71$0
Oct 20200036.972.48$0
Sep 20200037.091.99$0
Aug 20200039.982.39$0
Jul 20200038.371.83$0
Jun 20200034.901.69$0
May 20200016.921.81$0
Apr 20200014.751.80$0
Mar 20200030.341.86$0
Feb 20200049.881.98$0
Jan 20200057.252.09$0
Dec 20190059.012.30$0
Nov 20190055.302.75$0
Oct 20190053.472.42$0
Sep 20190055.052.66$0
Aug 20190053.112.30$0
Jul 20190056.272.46$0
Jun 20190052.782.49$0
May 20190058.482.74$0
Apr 20190062.632.75$0
Mar 20190056.803.06$0
Feb 20190050.852.79$0
Jan 20190046.033.23$0
Dec 20180046.594.19$0
Nov 20180052.934.24$0
Oct 20180061.443.40$0
Sep 20180059.543.11$0
Aug 20180059.403.07$0
Jul 20180065.142.93$0
Jun 20180060.183.08$0
May 20180065.382.90$0
Apr 20180063.842.90$0
Mar 20180061.222.79$0
Feb 20180061.782.77$0
Jan 20180062.874.01$0
Dec 20170057.272.92$0
Nov 20170055.423.12$0
Oct 20170049.292.98$0
Sep 20170047.523.09$0
Aug 20170045.373.00$0
Jul 20170043.873.09$0
Jun 20170042.493.09$0
May 20170045.373.26$0
Apr 20170047.933.21$0
Mar 20170046.772.98$0
Feb 20170050.452.95$0
Jan 20170049.413.42$0
Dec 20160048.763.72$0
Nov 20160042.492.64$0
Oct 20160046.193.09$0
Sep 20160041.553.10$0
Aug 20160041.442.92$0
Jul 20160041.622.92$0
Jun 20160045.352.69$0
May 20160042.521.99$0
Apr 20160036.561.99$0
Mar 20160033.011.79$0
Feb 20160026.472.06$0
Jan 20160027.352.36$0
Dec 20150032.362.00$0
Nov 20150038.792.17$0
Oct 20150043.552.43$0
Sep 20150042.992.76$0
Aug 20150040.162.87$0
Jul 20150048.152.95$0
Jun 20150056.152.88$0
May 20150055.212.96$0
Apr 20150049.822.71$0
Mar 20150042.892.93$0
Feb 20150044.662.98$0
Jan 20150043.433.10$0
Dec 20140054.693.59$0
Nov 20140070.464.25$0
Oct 20140078.303.90$0
Sep 20140086.164.05$0
Aug 20140089.394.04$0
Jul 20140096.564.18$0
Jun 20140098.164.74$0
May 20140094.734.73$0
Apr 20140095.944.81$0
Mar 20140095.895.06$0
Feb 20140097.406.19$0
Jan 20140090.404.86$0
Dec 20130091.824.35$0
Nov 20130088.853.74$0
Oct 20130097.423.78$0
Sep 201300104.113.72$0
Aug 201300104.253.52$0
Jul 201300102.523.72$0
Jun 20130094.403.93$0
May 20130094.834.15$0
Apr 20130093.964.28$0
Mar 20130093.623.91$0
Feb 20130091.233.42$0
Jan 20130091.603.42$0
Dec 20120086.773.42$0
Nov 20120086.953.62$0
Oct 20120089.383.40$0
Sep 20120094.672.92$0
Aug 20120092.662.91$0
Jul 20120085.133.02$0
Jun 20120079.822.52$0
May 20120091.612.49$0
Apr 201200101.652.00$0
Mar 201200105.052.22$0
Feb 201200101.102.57$0
Jan 20120098.092.73$0
Dec 20110096.873.24$0
Nov 20110095.723.31$0
Oct 20110084.983.65$0
Sep 20110083.623.99$0
Aug 20110083.404.15$0
Jul 20110094.144.52$0
Jun 20110092.904.64$0
May 20110098.134.40$0
Apr 201100105.964.33$0
Mar 20110096.364.06$0
Feb 20110085.644.18$0
Jan 20110086.504.59$0
Dec 20100085.734.35$0
Nov 20100080.843.80$0
Oct 20100078.103.51$0
Sep 20100072.633.98$0
Aug 20100073.684.42$0
Jul 20100072.554.74$0
Jun 20100070.364.91$0
May 20100071.124.24$0
Apr 20100081.694.12$0
Mar 20100078.394.39$0
Feb 20100073.585.44$0
Jan 20100074.365.96$0
Dec 20090071.445.48$0
Nov 20090074.593.75$0
Oct 20090072.544.11$0
Sep 20090065.543.06$0
Aug 20090067.423.22$0
Jul 20090061.133.46$0
Jun 20090066.163.90$0
May 20090054.743.93$0
Apr 20091046.773.59$47
Mar 2009216542.144.06$754
Feb 20090032.814.63$0
Jan 200924635.865.37$319
Dec 20080037.105.98$0
Nov 20080055.496.86$0
Oct 20080075.246.92$0
Sep 200800101.767.88$0
Aug 200800114.228.48$0
Jul 2008130131.0811.39$1,704
Jun 2008461,747131.3313.03$28,809
May 2008652,564123.1711.57$37,683
Apr 2008632,492110.3110.45$33,003
Mar 2008812,751101.909.66$34,840
Feb 2008832,47692.538.77$29,396
Jan 2008852,77690.388.21$30,461
Dec 2007782,91088.337.30$28,138
Nov 2007511,88291.677.29$18,398
Oct 2007391,63982.856.92$14,576
Sep 2007471,82675.846.24$14,966
Aug 2007321,53769.066.39$12,028
Jul 2007341,49470.906.39$11,954
Jun 2007351,34362.007.55$12,308
May 2007341,35358.747.85$12,613
Apr 2007351,21659.617.81$11,577
Mar 2007481,86256.927.30$16,328
Feb 2007221,53955.108.22$13,857
Jan 2007321,98450.306.73$14,956
Dec 2006181,20656.656.92$9,363
Nov 2006211,11654.207.62$9,639
Oct 2006141,20054.906.01$7,985
Sep 2006738460.085.04$2,355
Aug 20061980568.717.34$7,214
Jul 2006371,43969.376.34$11,694
Jun 20063512066.286.38$3,086
May 2006078766.016.42$5,056
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 200501954.9413.42$255
Nov 200533254.6910.59$503
Oct 2005241,20458.3413.80$18,010
Sep 2005423,46361.4512.08$44,410
Aug 2005464,04661.519.80$42,467
Jul 2005434,59755.697.84$38,452
Jun 2005332,08252.337.38$17,094
May 2005363,66145.226.65$25,978
Apr 2005473,39549.207.36$27,301
Mar 2005664,03350.377.15$32,180
Feb 2005493,88845.226.31$26,757
Jan 2005694,59243.166.32$32,010
Dec 2004574,81939.866.75$34,805
Nov 2004494,78145.286.33$32,484
Oct 2004763,15049.706.52$24,300
Sep 2004683,00943.245.28$18,840
Aug 2004794,05442.375.55$25,850
Jul 2004614,34138.286.08$28,747
Jun 2004634,76836.106.43$32,947
May 2004664,86137.486.49$34,044
Apr 2004723,88034.475.86$25,213
Mar 20041004,11334.365.53$26,181
Feb 2004625,19932.455.51$30,656
Jan 2004695,92332.036.30$39,523
Dec 2003705,28030.266.30$35,391
Nov 2003394,65428.804.60$22,509
Oct 2003375,86128.174.76$28,939
Sep 2003795,69426.314.75$29,121
Aug 2003545,94829.765.13$32,119
Jul 2003795,75229.415.17$32,066
Jun 2003475,98428.565.98$37,144
May 2003696,30726.595.97$39,504
Apr 2003836,34926.675.41$36,544
Mar 2003856,35431.146.10$41,381
Feb 2003996,16633.487.93$52,186
Jan 20031057,63230.315.58$45,785
Dec 2002607,89626.914.85$39,940
Nov 20021077,50324.664.14$33,678
Oct 2002947,17226.464.23$32,818
Sep 2002426,44327.443.64$24,574
Aug 2002826,44525.963.16$22,522
Jul 2002846,17724.583.06$20,977
Jun 2002807,73323.733.34$27,713
May 2002767,22824.663.58$27,779
Apr 2002796,50123.653.51$24,702
Mar 20021018,27222.003.10$27,888
Feb 2002958,21918.222.38$21,257
Jan 20021649,82717.172.38$26,162
Dec 20011378,73016.932.36$22,961
Nov 20011357,97318.072.41$21,619
Oct 2001939,06219.782.53$24,756
Sep 20011286,36124.262.25$17,426
Aug 20011168,69024.873.05$29,417
Jul 20011149,59123.933.20$33,391
Jun 20011038,91224.563.82$36,611
May 200139,22425.524.31$39,807
Apr 20011289,12624.685.34$51,849
Mar 20011479,12924.545.38$52,689
Feb 20011629,16827.755.77$57,368
Jan 200116910,51027.478.40$92,913
Dec 20001729,85826.889.12$94,553
Nov 200011710,09732.215.66$60,897
Oct 200018210,83431.235.15$61,430
Sep 200011510,42131.875.19$57,714
Aug 200010610,71129.644.54$51,778
Jul 200016610,87728.534.09$49,220
Jun 200016711,09129.304.40$53,663
May 200015211,83227.263.68$47,682
Apr 200015711,02324.513.12$38,196
Mar 200018311,07728.422.86$36,878
Feb 200024711,40327.622.73$37,912
Jan 200018912,39525.272.48$35,522
Dec 199925913,14824.282.42$38,156
Nov 199925112,70723.192.43$36,749
Oct 199925613,36720.982.80$42,848
Sep 199918911,97221.752.62$35,464
Aug 199916513,99219.262.88$43,413
Jul 199930613,13317.892.37$36,631
Jun 199920214,90615.942.36$38,429
May 199927515,67815.792.32$40,731
Apr 199928215,86815.102.21$39,296
Mar 199934916,49512.471.84$34,675
Feb 199926516,2339.981.82$32,153
Jan 199938817,36310.381.90$37,016
Dec 199827317,0449.201.77$32,736
Nov 199833417,23910.892.19$41,317
Oct 199833117,72412.421.97$39,013
Sep 199830517,47712.592.08$40,238
Aug 199831018,26111.301.91$38,333
Jul 199829318,68411.742.24$45,241
Jun 199832319,01411.242.24$46,170
May 199839920,38512.622.21$50,012
Apr 199833920,92413.042.51$56,842
Mar 199845322,12712.802.31$56,899
Feb 199845121,40213.952.30$55,497
Jan 199848826,64314.702.15$64,584
Dec 199762828,58316.322.41$79,165
Nov 199763120,65518.193.09$75,266
Oct 199752024,59919.253.15$87,492
Sep 199749323,48417.742.95$78,138
Aug 199746621,13917.862.55$62,327
Jul 199743922,86817.582.25$59,101
Jun 199747624,52117.242.26$63,555
May 199755926,26118.972.31$71,228
Apr 199763027,99817.882.08$69,578
Mar 199771431,19718.951.94$74,026
Feb 199761128,85420.492.21$76,168
Jan 199777432,23523.483.54$132,276
Dec 199681135,46023.32$18,913
Nov 199679932,50821.97$17,554
Oct 199690738,69523.31$21,142
Sep 199669333,69022.22$15,398
Aug 199659925,41520.26$12,136

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             1 bbl  × $ 46.77 =        $47
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  3.59 =         $0

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Month total                                      $47

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. 06/G/159652 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.