CRAFT-WATER BOARD UNIT 22

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

Gas lease lease 142478District 09Field 62970700CondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$112 k
Jan 1993 – Oct 2004
Value, last 12 filed months
$2 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
142
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 432 leases and 514 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1974-07-01
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,320 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: SAME.

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
CondensateDisposition338 bbl$6,824
GasProduction85,076 Mcf$105,524
Total$112,348

47,214 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 47 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 33.1606, -97.8650. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.16059, -97.86505 · 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
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
5,974 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
16.8 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 5,974 ft.

Completions filed
Jun 1986
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Apr 2003
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 16.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 16.8 years and 16.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-4973316725,974 ftJun 1986Apr 2003Yes

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 (142)

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

142 months

Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 200462034.365.53$2,130
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 200305926.675.41$319
Mar 2003015331.146.10$933
Feb 2003012633.487.93$999
Jan 2003015130.315.58$843
Dec 2002016226.914.85$786
Nov 2002021124.664.14$873
Oct 2002030326.464.23$1,281
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 200203124.663.58$111
Apr 2002016223.653.51$569
Mar 2002020722.003.10$642
Feb 2002020718.222.38$492
Jan 2002047417.172.38$1,126
Dec 2001038616.932.36$913
Nov 2001025618.072.41$616
Oct 2001025919.782.53$655
Sep 2001025224.262.25$567
Aug 2001028324.873.05$864
Jul 2001028323.933.20$905
Jun 2001027424.563.82$1,048
May 2001026825.524.31$1,154
Apr 2001028824.685.34$1,537
Mar 2001018724.545.38$1,005
Feb 2001025227.755.77$1,453
Jan 2001028427.478.40$2,385
Dec 2000033526.889.12$3,056
Nov 2000028432.215.66$1,607
Oct 2000029631.235.15$1,523
Sep 2000029831.875.19$1,546
Aug 2000032629.644.54$1,480
Jul 2000032928.534.09$1,346
Jun 2000032429.304.40$1,425
May 2000032627.263.68$1,200
Apr 2000032624.513.12$1,016
Mar 2000010528.422.86$300
Feb 2000034127.622.73$930
Jan 2000038625.272.48$957
Dec 1999035524.282.42$860
Nov 1999039823.192.43$969
Oct 1999051420.982.80$1,441
Sep 1999049221.752.62$1,288
Aug 1999041319.262.88$1,188
Jul 19991052917.892.37$1,434
Jun 1999055515.942.36$1,311
May 1999056415.792.32$1,309
Apr 1999051515.102.21$1,137
Mar 1999056312.471.84$1,035
Feb 199906079.981.82$1,103
Jan 1999086310.381.90$1,640
Dec 199809179.201.77$1,626
Nov 199801,10910.892.19$2,424
Oct 199801,00112.421.97$1,971
Sep 1998090612.592.08$1,887
Aug 1998093711.301.91$1,787
Jul 1998091311.742.24$2,043
Jun 1998071911.242.24$1,609
May 1998095212.622.21$2,100
Apr 1998092113.042.51$2,307
Mar 1998099312.802.31$2,293
Feb 1998090213.952.30$2,074
Jan 1998191014.702.15$1,976
Dec 1997078316.322.41$1,888
Nov 1997058218.193.09$1,797
Oct 199711581619.253.15$4,784
Sep 1997098017.742.95$2,896
Aug 1997095817.862.55$2,447
Jul 1997093017.582.25$2,090
Jun 1997095617.242.26$2,158
May 199701,04818.972.31$2,419
Apr 199701,00517.882.08$2,093
Mar 1997088618.951.94$1,718
Feb 199701,00120.492.21$2,208
Jan 199701,17523.483.54$4,159
Dec 1996058623.32$0
Nov 199601,11921.97$0
Oct 199601,17723.31$0
Sep 199601,30422.22$0
Aug 199601,27720.26$0
Jul 199601,31919.55$0
Jun 199601,26418.73$0
May 1996091919.43$0
Apr 1996099121.51$0
Mar 1996092819.38$0
Feb 199601,12816.98$0
Jan 1996098917.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 199501,42616.00$0
Oct 199501,45215.43$0
Sep 199501,46916.18$0
Aug 199501,29315.92$0
Jul 19951501,29015.24$2,286
Jun 199501,56016.41$0
May 199501,43917.56$0
Apr 199501,15317.73$0
Mar 199501,03116.44$0
Feb 1995057416.58$0
Jan 1995015315.92$0
Dec 199401215.03$0
Nov 199401,54715.90$0
Oct 199401,59215.58$0
Sep 199401,79815.29$0
Aug 199401,79716.13$0
Jul 199401,58217.56$0
Jun 199401,34117.09$0
May 199401,42915.88$0
Apr 199401,10714.14$0
Mar 199401,60512.46$0
Feb 1994065812.50$0
Jan 199401,35812.66$0
Dec 199301,14012.33$0
Nov 1993042214.49$0
Oct 1993039715.85$0
Sep 1993021815.03$0
Aug 1993025815.66$0
Jul 1993044515.46$0
Jun 1993036616.79$0
May 1993039617.68$0
Apr 1993038918.05$0
Mar 1993041518.14$0
Feb 1993050017.90$0
Jan 1993060116.93$0

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.

Mar 2004 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            62 bbl  × $ 34.36 =     $2,130
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  5.53 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,130

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. 09/G/142478 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.