ARTHUR SMITH GAS UNIT
Operated by BUCKHORN OPERATING LLC (P-5 102367) in the BRACHFIELD, S.E. (COTTON VALLEY) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.
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 382 leases and 382 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.
A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 acres. The field rule took effect on 2014-10-14.
The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “API NO. 401-34011.”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NGPA | 1 | none | — | — |
| ST-1 | 1 | 1 | 2024-05-24 | 234374 |
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 | 9,680 bbl | $724,134 |
| Gas | Production | 5,569,121 Mcf | $15,785,643 |
| Total | $16,509,777 | ||
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 32.1152, -94.5911. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.
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.
What the state filed about each well
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 10,167 ft.
1 well
| 42-36538857 | 2H | 10,167 ft | Sep 2023 | — | — |
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.
Leases whose centres are nearest (405)
Ranked by the distance between lease centres, within 5 miles. A lease has no coordinate the state files — each centre is the mean of that lease's own wells, so this measures how far apart two centres are and not whether the two leases touch.
| Lease | Operator | Centres apart |
|---|---|---|
| SMITH ESTATE | CONQUEST ENERGY, INC. | 0.48 mi |
| SEALEY | CONQUEST ENERGY, INC. | 0.62 mi |
| HILLIN ESTATE | ETOPSI OIL AND GAS, L.L.C. | 0.73 mi |
| SEALEY, JESSIE UNIT | RODESSA MANAGEMENT, INC. | 0.96 mi |
| HILLIN SE | BUCKHORN OPERATING LLC | 1.06 mi |
| COCHRAN, VIVIAN ESTATE | PHILLIPS, JACK L. CO. | 1.08 mi |
| DURAN | CONQUEST ENERGY, INC. | 1.13 mi |
| HILLIN, JOE BAILEY | TGNR EAST TEXAS II LLC | 1.21 mi |
| TODD GAS UNIT | BUCKHORN OPERATING LLC | 1.23 mi |
| JOE BAILEY HILLIN GAS UNIT | BUCKHORN OPERATING LLC | 1.25 mi |
The 10 nearest are listed. 405 leases in all have a centre within 5 miles of this one.
Operators who reported on those leases
Taken from the same 5-mile set above. This is who filed production, not who holds acreage — the state publishes no acreage register.
- CONQUEST ENERGY, INC. 22 leases, nearest 0.48 mi
- ETOPSI OIL AND GAS, L.L.C. 1 lease, nearest 0.73 mi
- RODESSA MANAGEMENT, INC. 2 leases, nearest 0.96 mi
- BUCKHORN OPERATING LLC 75 leases, nearest 1.06 mi
- PHILLIPS, JACK L. CO. 33 leases, nearest 1.08 mi
- TGNR EAST TEXAS II LLC 51 leases, nearest 1.21 mi
Every month this lease reported (33)
Volume × price = value, one row per cycle. The price columns are the same series published on the prices page — nothing here is modelled.
33 months
| May 2026 | 28 | 57,888 | 106.41 | 3.05 | $179,297 |
| Apr 2026 | 5 | 61,918 | 98.93 | 2.87 | $178,182 |
| Mar 2026 | 8 | 67,301 | 89.75 | 3.15 | $212,678 |
| Feb 2026 | 8 | 60,801 | 63.50 | 3.75 | $228,531 |
| Jan 2026 | 4 | 70,837 | 59.13 | 8.00 | $566,785 |
| Dec 2025 | 40 | 80,184 | 56.66 | 4.41 | $356,147 |
| Nov 2025 | 5 | 45,665 | 58.59 | 3.93 | $179,594 |
| Oct 2025 | 14 | 79,204 | 59.38 | 3.30 | $262,588 |
| Sep 2025 | 48 | 80,385 | 62.74 | 3.08 | $250,350 |
| Aug 2025 | 6 | 87,983 | 63.93 | 3.01 | $265,631 |
| Jul 2025 | 124 | 93,937 | 66.74 | 3.32 | $319,696 |
| Jun 2025 | 0 | 89,148 | 66.48 | 3.13 | $278,919 |
| May 2025 | 342 | 94,015 | 60.55 | 3.23 | $324,595 |
| Apr 2025 | 267 | 95,454 | 62.36 | 3.54 | $354,855 |
| Mar 2025 | 200 | 104,474 | 67.70 | 4.27 | $459,468 |
| Feb 2025 | 912 | 96,717 | 70.88 | 4.34 | $484,476 |
| Jan 2025 | 387 | 115,485 | 74.32 | 4.28 | $522,885 |
| Dec 2024 | 396 | 124,416 | 68.99 | 3.12 | $415,668 |
| Nov 2024 | 333 | 131,057 | 69.05 | 2.20 | $311,115 |
| Oct 2024 | 458 | 145,885 | 71.37 | 2.28 | $365,510 |
| Sep 2024 | 301 | 147,745 | 69.61 | 2.36 | $370,275 |
| Aug 2024 | 339 | 163,007 | 75.63 | 2.06 | $362,025 |
| Jul 2024 | 204 | 178,230 | 79.93 | 2.15 | $398,892 |
| Jun 2024 | 470 | 180,905 | 78.08 | 2.63 | $513,198 |
| May 2024 | 394 | 212,663 | 78.81 | 2.20 | $498,578 |
| Apr 2024 | 470 | 228,484 | 84.45 | 1.66 | $418,792 |
| Mar 2024 | 391 | 264,568 | 80.30 | 1.55 | $440,189 |
| Feb 2024 | 628 | 271,665 | 76.09 | 1.78 | $532,337 |
| Jan 2024 | 831 | 344,978 | 73.02 | 3.30 | $1,198,300 |
| Dec 2023 | 473 | 394,364 | 71.26 | 2.61 | $1,063,280 |
| Nov 2023 | 635 | 461,659 | 77.89 | 2.81 | $1,345,595 |
| Oct 2023 | 534 | 573,870 | 85.44 | 3.09 | $1,817,322 |
| Sep 2023 | 425 | 364,229 | 89.04 | 2.74 | $1,034,023 |
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.
Condensate 28 bbl × $106.41 = $2,979 Gas 57,888 Mcf × $ 3.05 = $176,318 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── Month total $179,297
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/296888 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.