MERRELL GAS UNIT

Name: MERRELL GAS UNIT lease production and value, Feb 1997 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by AETHON ENERGY OPERATING LLC (P-5 8555) in the NEWARK, EAST (BARNETT SHALE) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 166694District 09Field 652802002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$5.6 M

Feb 1997 – Sep 2018

Value, last 12 filed months

$34 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

260

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The NEWARK, EAST (BARNETT SHALE) 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 21,881 leases and 22,468 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1981-10-15

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and 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 2009-09-29.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “DESIGNATED AS UFT FIELD PER DOCKET 01-0299858”

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	1998-08-24	138962
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	98 bbl	$2,756
Gas	Production	1,076,424 Mcf	$5,602,406
Total			$5,605,162

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 33.0931, -97.2612. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.09311, -97.26118 · 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

8,117 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

20.5 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 8,117 ft.

Completions filed

Mar 1998

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Sep 2018

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 20.5 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 20.5 years and 20.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-12130592	1	8,117 ft	Mar 1998	Sep 2018	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 (260)

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

260 months


Sep 2018	0	0	59.54	3.11	$0
Aug 2018	0	0	59.40	3.07	$0
Jul 2018	0	0	65.14	2.93	$0
Jun 2018	0	0	60.18	3.08	$0
May 2018	0	0	65.38	2.90	$0
Apr 2018	0	1,207	63.84	2.90	$3,501
Mar 2018	0	44	61.22	2.79	$123
Feb 2018	0	17	61.78	2.77	$47
Jan 2018	0	2,798	62.87	4.01	$11,218
Dec 2017	0	1,814	57.27	2.92	$5,300
Nov 2017	0	2,023	55.42	3.12	$6,308
Oct 2017	0	2,570	49.29	2.98	$7,668
Sep 2017	0	2,114	47.52	3.09	$6,527
Aug 2017	0	2,023	45.37	3.00	$6,078
Jul 2017	0	1,804	43.87	3.09	$5,569
Jun 2017	0	1,627	42.49	3.09	$5,023
May 2017	0	1,705	45.37	3.26	$5,564
Apr 2017	0	1,302	47.93	3.21	$4,182
Mar 2017	0	1,746	46.77	2.98	$5,210
Feb 2017	0	1,747	50.45	2.95	$5,158
Jan 2017	0	2,349	49.41	3.42	$8,031
Dec 2016	0	2,410	48.76	3.72	$8,972
Nov 2016	0	3,083	42.49	2.64	$8,153
Oct 2016	0	3,108	46.19	3.09	$9,605
Sep 2016	0	2,866	41.55	3.10	$8,886
Aug 2016	0	3,341	41.44	2.92	$9,770
Jul 2016	0	3,129	41.62	2.92	$9,150
Jun 2016	0	2,968	45.35	2.69	$7,972
May 2016	0	2,891	42.52	1.99	$5,756
Apr 2016	0	2,693	36.56	1.99	$5,362
Mar 2016	0	3,411	33.01	1.79	$6,119
Feb 2016	0	2,787	26.47	2.06	$5,751
Jan 2016	0	2,973	27.35	2.36	$7,029
Dec 2015	0	2,857	32.36	2.00	$5,718
Nov 2015	0	2,852	38.79	2.17	$6,181
Oct 2015	0	2,791	43.55	2.43	$6,773
Sep 2015	0	2,459	42.99	2.76	$6,783
Aug 2015	0	2,723	40.16	2.87	$7,822
Jul 2015	0	2,412	48.15	2.95	$7,104
Jun 2015	0	2,787	56.15	2.88	$8,035
May 2015	0	2,870	55.21	2.96	$8,482
Apr 2015	0	2,867	49.82	2.71	$7,760
Mar 2015	0	2,878	42.89	2.93	$8,446
Feb 2015	0	2,729	44.66	2.98	$8,122
Jan 2015	0	2,984	43.43	3.10	$9,252
Dec 2014	0	2,930	54.69	3.59	$10,523
Nov 2014	0	2,818	70.46	4.25	$11,982
Oct 2014	0	3,063	78.30	3.90	$11,949
Sep 2014	0	2,657	86.16	4.05	$10,749
Aug 2014	0	2,427	89.39	4.04	$9,793
Jul 2014	0	2,619	96.56	4.18	$10,946
Jun 2014	0	2,054	98.16	4.74	$9,730
May 2014	0	2,613	94.73	4.73	$12,351
Apr 2014	0	2,817	95.94	4.81	$13,547
Mar 2014	0	2,474	95.89	5.06	$12,511
Feb 2014	0	2,800	97.40	6.19	$17,338
Jan 2014	0	2,683	90.40	4.86	$13,041
Dec 2013	0	2,743	91.82	4.35	$11,944
Nov 2013	0	2,503	88.85	3.74	$9,357
Oct 2013	0	2,438	97.42	3.78	$9,214
Sep 2013	0	2,371	104.11	3.72	$8,815
Aug 2013	0	2,462	104.25	3.52	$8,673
Jul 2013	0	2,494	102.52	3.72	$9,272
Jun 2013	0	2,544	94.40	3.93	$10,007
May 2013	0	2,654	94.83	4.15	$11,012
Apr 2013	0	2,660	93.96	4.28	$11,392
Mar 2013	0	2,883	93.62	3.91	$11,281
Feb 2013	0	2,619	91.23	3.42	$8,957
Jan 2013	0	2,811	91.60	3.42	$9,613
Dec 2012	0	3,031	86.77	3.42	$10,367
Nov 2012	0	2,868	86.95	3.62	$10,396
Oct 2012	0	2,942	89.38	3.40	$10,002
Sep 2012	0	2,885	94.67	2.92	$8,420
Aug 2012	0	3,076	92.66	2.91	$8,946
Jul 2012	0	3,124	85.13	3.02	$9,437
Jun 2012	0	3,200	79.82	2.52	$8,061
May 2012	0	3,349	91.61	2.49	$8,333
Apr 2012	0	3,126	101.65	2.00	$6,242
Mar 2012	0	3,175	105.05	2.22	$7,055
Feb 2012	0	3,054	101.10	2.57	$7,850
Jan 2012	0	3,709	98.09	2.73	$10,141
Dec 2011	0	3,653	96.87	3.24	$11,835
Nov 2011	0	3,675	95.72	3.31	$12,169
Oct 2011	0	4,187	84.98	3.65	$15,276
Sep 2011	0	4,045	83.62	3.99	$16,123
Aug 2011	0	4,104	83.40	4.15	$17,029
Jul 2011	0	4,321	94.14	4.52	$19,519
Jun 2011	0	4,106	92.90	4.64	$19,051
May 2011	0	4,126	98.13	4.40	$18,174
Apr 2011	0	4,342	105.96	4.33	$18,815
Mar 2011	0	4,748	96.36	4.06	$19,264
Feb 2011	0	4,393	85.64	4.18	$18,363
Jan 2011	0	4,629	86.50	4.59	$21,241
Dec 2010	0	4,479	85.73	4.35	$19,474
Nov 2010	0	4,345	80.84	3.80	$16,491
Oct 2010	0	5,178	78.10	3.51	$18,169
Sep 2010	0	5,632	72.63	3.98	$22,412
Aug 2010	0	5,117	73.68	4.42	$22,614
Jul 2010	0	5,487	72.55	4.74	$25,989
Jun 2010	0	5,183	70.36	4.91	$25,451
May 2010	0	5,502	71.12	4.24	$23,302
Apr 2010	0	4,721	81.69	4.12	$19,463
Mar 2010	0	3,399	78.39	4.39	$14,917
Feb 2010	0	1,515	73.58	5.44	$8,245
Jan 2010	0	3,089	74.36	5.96	$18,423
Dec 2009	0	879	71.44	5.48	$4,820
Nov 2009	0	3,579	74.59	3.75	$13,427
Oct 2009	0	4,222	72.54	4.11	$17,353
Sep 2009	0	2,217	65.54	3.06	$6,795
Aug 2009	0	2,595	67.42	3.22	$8,352
Jul 2009	0	2,327	61.13	3.46	$8,062
Jun 2009	0	2,381	66.16	3.90	$9,274
May 2009	0	2,328	54.74	3.93	$9,139
Apr 2009	0	5,617	46.77	3.59	$20,151
Mar 2009	0	14,241	42.14	4.06	$57,804
Feb 2009	0	15,528	32.81	4.63	$71,941
Jan 2009	0	10,101	35.86	5.37	$54,252
Dec 2008	0	8,643	37.10	5.98	$51,660
Nov 2008	0	15,231	55.49	6.86	$104,490
Oct 2008	0	11,663	75.24	6.92	$80,731
Sep 2008	0	5,069	101.76	7.88	$39,929
Aug 2008	0	7,634	114.22	8.48	$64,759
Jul 2008	0	13,284	131.08	11.39	$151,297
Jun 2008	0	16,631	131.33	13.03	$216,746
May 2008	0	13,515	123.17	11.57	$156,427
Apr 2008	0	16,678	110.31	10.45	$174,366
Mar 2008	0	1,859	101.90	9.66	$17,966
Feb 2008	0	2,463	92.53	8.77	$21,602
Jan 2008	0	2,168	90.38	8.21	$17,790
Dec 2007	0	3,349	88.33	7.30	$24,454
Nov 2007	0	3,087	91.67	7.29	$22,509
Oct 2007	0	3,268	82.85	6.92	$22,621
Sep 2007	0	2,973	75.84	6.24	$18,564
Aug 2007	0	2,825	69.06	6.39	$18,046
Jul 2007	0	4,215	70.90	6.39	$26,925
Jun 2007	0	2,913	62.00	7.55	$21,989
May 2007	0	3,291	58.74	7.85	$25,822
Apr 2007	0	3,014	59.61	7.81	$23,525
Mar 2007	0	3,253	56.92	7.30	$23,753
Feb 2007	0	2,646	55.10	8.22	$21,740
Jan 2007	0	3,127	50.30	6.73	$21,035
Dec 2006	0	3,146	56.65	6.92	$21,765
Nov 2006	0	3,134	54.20	7.62	$23,873
Oct 2006	0	3,113	54.90	6.01	$18,721
Sep 2006	0	3,492	60.08	5.04	$17,590
Aug 2006	0	3,312	68.71	7.34	$24,310
Jul 2006	0	4,475	69.37	6.34	$28,384
Jun 2006	0	4,110	66.28	6.38	$26,238
May 2006	0	4,228	66.01	6.42	$27,165
Apr 2006	0	3,651	64.39	7.36	$26,873
Mar 2006	0	3,680	56.70	7.08	$26,065
Feb 2006	0	3,379	57.59	7.75	$26,191
Jan 2006	0	4,400	60.59	8.93	$39,307
Dec 2005	0	5,302	54.94	13.42	$71,128
Nov 2005	0	5,229	54.69	10.59	$55,367
Oct 2005	0	5,727	58.34	13.80	$79,008
Sep 2005	0	596	61.45	12.08	$7,199
Aug 2005	0	4,682	61.51	9.80	$45,869
Jul 2005	0	4,526	55.69	7.84	$35,500
Jun 2005	0	4,598	52.33	7.38	$33,938
May 2005	0	4,547	45.22	6.65	$30,243
Apr 2005	0	4,566	49.20	7.36	$33,608
Mar 2005	0	5,194	50.37	7.15	$37,162
Feb 2005	0	4,899	45.22	6.31	$30,922
Jan 2005	0	5,408	43.16	6.32	$34,190
Dec 2004	0	5,914	39.86	6.75	$39,926
Nov 2004	0	5,404	45.28	6.33	$34,210
Oct 2004	0	6,147	49.70	6.52	$40,048
Sep 2004	0	7,046	43.24	5.28	$37,230
Aug 2004	0	7,119	42.37	5.55	$39,515
Jul 2004	0	6,613	38.28	6.08	$40,235
Jun 2004	0	6,641	36.10	6.43	$42,722
May 2004	2	4,897	37.48	6.49	$31,879
Apr 2004	0	4,180	34.47	5.86	$24,488
Mar 2004	0	3,616	34.36	5.53	$19,997
Feb 2004	0	4,382	32.45	5.51	$24,143
Jan 2004	0	3,714	32.03	6.30	$23,397
Dec 2003	0	5,198	30.26	6.30	$32,756
Nov 2003	0	5,010	28.80	4.60	$23,022
Oct 2003	0	4,557	28.17	4.76	$21,690
Sep 2003	0	4,129	26.31	4.75	$19,610
Aug 2003	0	4,279	29.76	5.13	$21,950
Jul 2003	0	5,309	29.41	5.17	$27,452
Jun 2003	0	5,190	28.56	5.98	$31,052
May 2003	0	4,945	26.59	5.97	$29,535
Apr 2003	0	5,383	26.67	5.41	$29,107
Mar 2003	0	5,746	31.14	6.10	$35,028
Feb 2003	0	4,788	33.48	7.93	$37,949
Jan 2003	0	5,991	30.31	5.58	$33,442
Dec 2002	0	5,203	26.91	4.85	$25,254
Nov 2002	0	3,824	24.66	4.14	$15,820
Oct 2002	0	5,657	26.46	4.23	$23,924
Sep 2002	0	5,218	27.44	3.64	$18,968
Aug 2002	0	6,706	25.96	3.16	$21,219
Jul 2002	0	6,612	24.58	3.06	$20,244
Jun 2002	0	6,610	23.73	3.34	$22,066
May 2002	0	7,401	24.66	3.58	$26,525
Apr 2002	0	5,246	23.65	3.51	$18,426
Mar 2002	0	5,848	22.00	3.10	$18,145
Feb 2002	0	2,812	18.22	2.38	$6,680
Jan 2002	0	7,226	17.17	2.38	$17,167
Dec 2001	0	8,558	16.93	2.36	$20,235
Nov 2001	0	5,926	18.07	2.41	$14,255
Oct 2001	1	5,366	19.78	2.53	$13,590
Sep 2001	8	7,580	24.26	2.25	$17,259
Aug 2001	4	8,592	24.87	3.05	$26,332
Jul 2001	1	7,563	23.93	3.20	$24,203
Jun 2001	2	7,095	24.56	3.82	$27,182
May 2001	0	10,518	25.52	4.31	$45,304
Apr 2001	5	10,840	24.68	5.34	$57,958
Mar 2001	0	11,829	24.54	5.38	$63,598
Feb 2001	0	11,922	27.75	5.77	$68,755
Jan 2001	15	13,914	27.47	8.40	$117,272
Dec 2000	26	16,471	26.88	9.12	$150,956
Nov 2000	18	18,801	32.21	5.66	$106,956
Oct 2000	9	23,003	31.23	5.15	$118,643
Sep 2000	0	412	31.87	5.19	$2,137
Aug 2000	0	915	29.64	4.54	$4,155
Jul 2000	7	1,523	28.53	4.09	$6,428
Jun 2000	0	1,238	29.30	4.40	$5,444
May 2000	0	1,346	27.26	3.68	$4,953
Apr 2000	0	1,340	24.51	3.12	$4,175
Mar 2000	0	1,447	28.42	2.86	$4,138
Feb 2000	0	1,587	27.62	2.73	$4,327
Jan 2000	0	1,552	25.27	2.48	$3,850
Dec 1999	0	1,664	24.28	2.42	$4,033
Nov 1999	0	1,659	23.19	2.43	$4,038
Oct 1999	0	1,776	20.98	2.80	$4,979
Sep 1999	0	1,885	21.75	2.62	$4,937
Aug 1999	0	2,190	19.26	2.88	$6,298
Jul 1999	0	2,548	17.89	2.37	$6,045
Jun 1999	0	2,670	15.94	2.36	$6,307
May 1999	0	3,281	15.79	2.32	$7,615
Apr 1999	0	4,662	15.10	2.21	$10,294
Mar 1999	0	1,632	12.47	1.84	$3,000
Feb 1999	0	1,741	9.98	1.82	$3,165
Jan 1999	0	2,809	10.38	1.90	$5,337
Dec 1998	0	2,181	9.20	1.77	$3,868
Nov 1998	0	2,812	10.89	2.19	$6,146
Oct 1998	0	3,874	12.42	1.97	$7,629
Sep 1998	0	6,070	12.59	2.08	$12,642
Aug 1998	0	6,857	11.30	1.91	$13,079
Jul 1998	0	3,787	11.74	2.24	$8,473
Jun 1998	0	7,121	11.24	2.24	$15,932
May 1998	0	9,064	12.62	2.21	$19,998
Apr 1998	0	13,623	13.04	2.51	$34,130
Mar 1998	0	0	12.80	2.31	$0
Feb 1998	0	0	13.95	2.30	$0
Jan 1998	0	0	14.70	2.15	$0
Dec 1997	0	0	16.32	2.41	$0
Nov 1997	0	0	18.19	3.09	$0
Oct 1997	0	0	19.25	3.15	$0
Sep 1997	0	0	17.74	2.95	$0
Aug 1997	0	0	17.86	2.55	$0
Jul 1997	0	0	17.58	2.25	$0
Jun 1997	0	0	17.24	2.26	$0
May 1997	0	0	18.97	2.31	$0
Apr 1997	0	0	17.88	2.08	$0
Mar 1997	0	0	18.95	1.94	$0
Feb 1997	0	0	20.49	2.21	$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.

Apr 2018 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 63.84 =         $0
Gas                1,207 Mcf  × $  2.90 =     $3,501

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Month total                                   $3,501

The volumes are the state's, unchanged

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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.

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