CHRISTIAN, D.

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

Gas lease lease 145311District 09Field 10574520CondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$24 k
Apr 1993 – Jan 2007
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
166
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 3,438 leases and 3,443 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1945-05-01
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 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 1991-06-10.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: AMOUNT HAD BEEN CALCULATED FOR 5/1/97.

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
CondensateDisposition15 bbl$299
GasProduction79,119 Mcf$23,769
Total$24,068

69,815 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 44 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 33.1220, -97.9434. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.12201, -97.94339 · 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
5,700 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
6.1 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 5,700 ft.

Completions filed
Dec 2000
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jan 2007
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 6.1 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 6.1 years and 6.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-2373803245,700 ftDec 2000Jan 2007Yes

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 (166)

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

166 months

Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060056.656.92$0
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 20060069.376.34$0
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
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 20040034.365.53$0
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 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20023018.222.38$55
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 200006132.215.66$345
Oct 200009231.235.15$473
Sep 200006031.875.19$311
Aug 200006029.644.54$272
Jul 200005728.534.09$233
Jun 200008929.304.40$391
May 2000011927.263.68$438
Apr 200009024.513.12$280
Mar 200005928.422.86$169
Feb 200006027.622.73$164
Jan 200006225.272.48$154
Dec 1999012724.282.42$308
Nov 1999012423.192.43$302
Oct 1999015020.982.80$421
Sep 199996021.752.62$353
Aug 199909719.262.88$279
Jul 199906217.892.37$147
Jun 199905815.942.36$137
May 199906215.792.32$144
Apr 199903215.102.21$71
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 19980329.201.77$57
Nov 1998012610.892.19$275
Oct 1998014112.421.97$278
Sep 1998017412.592.08$362
Aug 1998031911.301.91$608
Jul 199806411.742.24$143
Jun 1998031711.242.24$709
May 1998027112.622.21$598
Apr 1998029813.042.51$747
Mar 1998025712.802.31$594
Feb 1998039713.952.30$913
Jan 1998036014.702.15$776
Dec 1997340116.322.41$1,016
Nov 1997026518.193.09$818
Oct 1997039319.253.15$1,238
Sep 1997037617.742.95$1,111
Aug 1997037917.862.55$968
Jul 1997036217.582.25$813
Jun 1997029817.242.26$673
May 1997039618.972.31$914
Apr 1997054217.882.08$1,129
Mar 1997061318.951.94$1,189
Feb 1997048120.492.21$1,061
Jan 1997046123.483.54$1,632
Dec 1996040823.32$0
Nov 1996034621.97$0
Oct 1996052023.31$0
Sep 1996047122.22$0
Aug 1996050720.26$0
Jul 1996051719.55$0
Jun 1996059118.73$0
May 1996071419.43$0
Apr 1996064421.51$0
Mar 1996076719.38$0
Feb 1996069916.98$0
Jan 1996053717.07$0
Dec 1995092517.19$0
Nov 1995064716.00$0
Oct 1995076315.43$0
Sep 1995062816.18$0
Aug 1995099715.92$0
Jul 1995080515.24$0
Jun 199501,15116.41$0
May 199501,13117.56$0
Apr 199501,11717.73$0
Mar 1995098816.44$0
Feb 199501,02916.58$0
Jan 199501,44115.92$0
Dec 199401,30115.03$0
Nov 199401,42015.90$0
Oct 199401,63215.58$0
Sep 199401,78015.29$0
Aug 199401,87316.13$0
Jul 199401,81317.56$0
Jun 199401,88317.09$0
May 199402,12915.88$0
Apr 199402,49014.14$0
Mar 199402,74312.46$0
Feb 199402,69912.50$0
Jan 199402,67312.66$0
Dec 199302,99212.33$0
Nov 199303,25114.49$0
Oct 199303,59515.85$0
Sep 199303,67915.03$0
Aug 199303,91215.66$0
Jul 199303,53115.46$0
Jun 199301,63416.79$0
May 199304,44217.68$0
Apr 19930018.05$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.

Feb 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             3 bbl  × $ 18.22 =        $55
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  2.38 =         $0

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Month total                                      $55

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/145311 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.