MERRELL GAS UNIT

Name: MERRELL GAS UNIT lease production and value, Feb 2002 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by J-W OPERATING CO. (P-5 427960) 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 189357District 09Field 652802002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$2.7 M

Feb 2002 – Nov 2014

Value, last 12 filed months

$60 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

154

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	2003-01-07	149475
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	1 bbl	$85
Gas	Production	482,936 Mcf	$2,689,700
Total			$2,689,785

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 33.0985, -97.2576. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.09852, -97.25756 · 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

8,210 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

12.8 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 8,210 ft.

Completions filed

Feb 2002

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Nov 2014

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 12.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 12.8 years and 12.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-12131368	5	8,210 ft	Feb 2002	Nov 2014	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 (154)

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

154 months


Nov 2014	0	0	70.46	4.25	$0
Oct 2014	0	205	78.30	3.90	$800
Sep 2014	0	428	86.16	4.05	$1,731
Aug 2014	0	405	89.39	4.04	$1,634
Jul 2014	0	663	96.56	4.18	$2,771
Jun 2014	0	1,032	98.16	4.74	$4,888
May 2014	0	1,433	94.73	4.73	$6,773
Apr 2014	0	1,396	95.94	4.81	$6,714
Mar 2014	0	1,503	95.89	5.06	$7,600
Feb 2014	0	1,654	97.40	6.19	$10,242
Jan 2014	0	1,802	90.40	4.86	$8,759
Dec 2013	0	1,898	91.82	4.35	$8,265
Nov 2013	0	1,870	88.85	3.74	$6,991
Oct 2013	0	1,245	97.42	3.78	$4,705
Sep 2013	0	1,061	104.11	3.72	$3,945
Aug 2013	0	1,088	104.25	3.52	$3,833
Jul 2013	0	1,474	102.52	3.72	$5,480
Jun 2013	0	1,671	94.40	3.93	$6,573
May 2013	0	1,758	94.83	4.15	$7,294
Apr 2013	0	865	93.96	4.28	$3,704
Mar 2013	0	129	93.62	3.91	$505
Feb 2013	0	1,146	91.23	3.42	$3,919
Jan 2013	0	1,575	91.60	3.42	$5,386
Dec 2012	0	1,670	86.77	3.42	$5,712
Nov 2012	0	1,755	86.95	3.62	$6,362
Oct 2012	0	904	89.38	3.40	$3,073
Sep 2012	0	1,669	94.67	2.92	$4,871
Aug 2012	0	1,762	92.66	2.91	$5,124
Jul 2012	0	1,766	85.13	3.02	$5,335
Jun 2012	0	1,710	79.82	2.52	$4,308
May 2012	0	1,790	91.61	2.49	$4,454
Apr 2012	0	1,802	101.65	2.00	$3,598
Mar 2012	0	1,750	105.05	2.22	$3,889
Feb 2012	0	1,637	101.10	2.57	$4,207
Jan 2012	0	1,882	98.09	2.73	$5,146
Dec 2011	0	1,801	96.87	3.24	$5,835
Nov 2011	0	1,664	95.72	3.31	$5,510
Oct 2011	1	1,692	84.98	3.65	$6,258
Sep 2011	0	1,584	83.62	3.99	$6,314
Aug 2011	0	1,365	83.40	4.15	$5,664
Jul 2011	0	1,855	94.14	4.52	$8,379
Jun 2011	0	1,680	92.90	4.64	$7,795
May 2011	0	1,810	98.13	4.40	$7,973
Apr 2011	0	1,800	105.96	4.33	$7,800
Mar 2011	0	1,558	96.36	4.06	$6,321
Feb 2011	0	1,432	85.64	4.18	$5,986
Jan 2011	0	1,683	86.50	4.59	$7,723
Dec 2010	0	1,901	85.73	4.35	$8,265
Nov 2010	0	1,789	80.84	3.80	$6,790
Oct 2010	0	2,028	78.10	3.51	$7,116
Sep 2010	0	2,111	72.63	3.98	$8,401
Aug 2010	0	2,291	73.68	4.42	$10,125
Jul 2010	0	2,420	72.55	4.74	$11,462
Jun 2010	0	2,423	70.36	4.91	$11,898
May 2010	0	2,634	71.12	4.24	$11,156
Apr 2010	0	2,815	81.69	4.12	$11,605
Mar 2010	0	2,043	78.39	4.39	$8,966
Feb 2010	0	1,319	73.58	5.44	$7,178
Jan 2010	0	2,545	74.36	5.96	$15,179
Dec 2009	0	2,525	71.44	5.48	$13,846
Nov 2009	0	2,450	74.59	3.75	$9,191
Oct 2009	0	2,909	72.54	4.11	$11,957
Sep 2009	0	3,617	65.54	3.06	$11,085
Aug 2009	0	2,214	67.42	3.22	$7,126
Jul 2009	0	1,926	61.13	3.46	$6,673
Jun 2009	0	2,702	66.16	3.90	$10,524
May 2009	0	925	54.74	3.93	$3,631
Apr 2009	0	2,624	46.77	3.59	$9,414
Mar 2009	0	2,866	42.14	4.06	$11,633
Feb 2009	0	1,792	32.81	4.63	$8,302
Jan 2009	0	3,787	35.86	5.37	$20,340
Dec 2008	0	1,613	37.10	5.98	$9,641
Nov 2008	0	3,327	55.49	6.86	$22,824
Oct 2008	0	3,456	75.24	6.92	$23,922
Sep 2008	0	3,525	101.76	7.88	$27,767
Aug 2008	0	3,882	114.22	8.48	$32,931
Jul 2008	0	2,759	131.08	11.39	$31,423
Jun 2008	0	3,214	131.33	13.03	$41,887
May 2008	0	2,881	123.17	11.57	$33,346
Apr 2008	0	3,159	110.31	10.45	$33,027
Mar 2008	0	3,741	101.90	9.66	$36,153
Feb 2008	0	3,943	92.53	8.77	$34,582
Jan 2008	0	3,952	90.38	8.21	$32,429
Dec 2007	0	4,745	88.33	7.30	$34,648
Nov 2007	0	5,061	91.67	7.29	$36,903
Oct 2007	0	2,816	82.85	6.92	$19,492
Sep 2007	0	1,666	75.84	6.24	$10,403
Aug 2007	0	2,297	69.06	6.39	$14,673
Jul 2007	0	3,584	70.90	6.39	$22,894
Jun 2007	0	1,943	62.00	7.55	$14,667
May 2007	0	2,560	58.74	7.85	$20,086
Apr 2007	0	3,070	59.61	7.81	$23,962
Mar 2007	0	3,190	56.92	7.30	$23,293
Feb 2007	0	2,823	55.10	8.22	$23,194
Jan 2007	0	3,030	50.30	6.73	$20,382
Dec 2006	0	2,918	56.65	6.92	$20,188
Nov 2006	0	2,852	54.20	7.62	$21,725
Oct 2006	0	2,913	54.90	6.01	$17,518
Sep 2006	0	2,829	60.08	5.04	$14,250
Aug 2006	0	2,900	68.71	7.34	$21,286
Jul 2006	0	2,950	69.37	6.34	$18,711
Jun 2006	0	2,571	66.28	6.38	$16,413
May 2006	0	2,786	66.01	6.42	$17,900
Apr 2006	0	2,882	64.39	7.36	$21,213
Mar 2006	0	3,027	56.70	7.08	$21,440
Feb 2006	0	2,870	57.59	7.75	$22,246
Jan 2006	0	2,496	60.59	8.93	$22,298
Dec 2005	0	2,916	54.94	13.42	$39,119
Nov 2005	0	3,412	54.69	10.59	$36,128
Oct 2005	0	3,537	58.34	13.80	$48,796
Sep 2005	0	1,141	61.45	12.08	$13,782
Aug 2005	0	3,287	61.51	9.80	$32,202
Jul 2005	0	3,500	55.69	7.84	$27,453
Jun 2005	0	3,310	52.33	7.38	$24,431
May 2005	0	3,497	45.22	6.65	$23,259
Apr 2005	0	3,394	49.20	7.36	$24,981
Mar 2005	0	3,655	50.37	7.15	$26,151
Feb 2005	0	3,184	45.22	6.31	$20,097
Jan 2005	0	3,717	43.16	6.32	$23,500
Dec 2004	0	3,815	39.86	6.75	$25,755
Nov 2004	0	3,747	45.28	6.33	$23,720
Oct 2004	0	3,974	49.70	6.52	$25,891
Sep 2004	0	3,886	43.24	5.28	$20,533
Aug 2004	0	4,094	42.37	5.55	$22,724
Jul 2004	0	4,247	38.28	6.08	$25,840
Jun 2004	0	4,243	36.10	6.43	$27,295
May 2004	0	4,522	37.48	6.49	$29,368
Apr 2004	0	4,653	34.47	5.86	$27,259
Mar 2004	0	4,168	34.36	5.53	$23,050
Feb 2004	0	3,892	32.45	5.51	$21,443
Jan 2004	0	5,942	32.03	6.30	$37,432
Dec 2003	0	4,549	30.26	6.30	$28,666
Nov 2003	0	4,641	28.80	4.60	$21,326
Oct 2003	0	4,409	28.17	4.76	$20,985
Sep 2003	0	4,501	26.31	4.75	$21,377
Aug 2003	0	4,382	29.76	5.13	$22,478
Jul 2003	0	4,890	29.41	5.17	$25,285
Jun 2003	0	4,951	28.56	5.98	$29,622
May 2003	0	4,731	26.59	5.97	$28,257
Apr 2003	0	5,659	26.67	5.41	$30,600
Mar 2003	0	5,259	31.14	6.10	$32,059
Feb 2003	0	5,281	33.48	7.93	$41,857
Jan 2003	0	6,058	30.31	5.58	$33,816
Dec 2002	0	6,741	26.91	4.85	$32,719
Nov 2002	0	5,763	24.66	4.14	$23,841
Oct 2002	0	7,783	26.46	4.23	$32,915
Sep 2002	0	7,092	27.44	3.64	$25,781
Aug 2002	0	8,664	25.96	3.16	$27,414
Jul 2002	0	9,071	24.58	3.06	$27,773
Jun 2002	0	9,443	23.73	3.34	$31,523
May 2002	0	12,060	24.66	3.58	$43,223
Apr 2002	0	12,379	23.65	3.51	$43,479
Mar 2002	0	15,577	22.00	3.10	$48,331
Feb 2002	0	6,110	18.22	2.38	$14,515

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.

Oct 2014 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 78.30 =         $0
Gas                  205 Mcf  × $  3.90 =       $800

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                     $800

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/189357 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.