MANUEL LABOR

Operated by CHESAPEAKE OPERATING, INC. (P-5 147715) 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 203880District 09Field 65280200GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.4 M
Aug 2004 – Apr 2013
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
105
no gaps in the span
Streams
1
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 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

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
GasProduction186,438 Mcf$1,362,113
Total$1,362,113

Every month this lease reported (105)

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

105 months

Apr 2013093.964.28$0
Mar 2013093.623.91$0
Feb 2013091.233.42$0
Jan 2013091.603.42$0
Dec 2012086.773.42$0
Nov 2012086.953.62$0
Oct 2012089.383.40$0
Sep 2012094.672.92$0
Aug 2012092.662.91$0
Jul 2012085.133.02$0
Jun 2012079.822.52$0
May 2012091.612.49$0
Apr 20120101.652.00$0
Mar 20120105.052.22$0
Feb 20120101.102.57$0
Jan 2012098.092.73$0
Dec 2011096.873.24$0
Nov 2011095.723.31$0
Oct 2011084.983.65$0
Sep 2011083.623.99$0
Aug 2011083.404.15$0
Jul 2011094.144.52$0
Jun 2011092.904.64$0
May 2011098.134.40$0
Apr 20110105.964.33$0
Mar 2011096.364.06$0
Feb 2011085.644.18$0
Jan 2011086.504.59$0
Dec 2010085.734.35$0
Nov 2010080.843.80$0
Oct 2010078.103.51$0
Sep 2010072.633.98$0
Aug 2010073.684.42$0
Jul 2010072.554.74$0
Jun 2010070.364.91$0
May 2010071.124.24$0
Apr 2010081.694.12$0
Mar 2010078.394.39$0
Feb 2010073.585.44$0
Jan 2010074.365.96$0
Dec 2009071.445.48$0
Nov 2009074.593.75$0
Oct 2009072.544.11$0
Sep 2009065.543.06$0
Aug 2009067.423.22$0
Jul 2009061.133.46$0
Jun 2009066.163.90$0
May 2009054.743.93$0
Apr 2009046.773.59$0
Mar 2009042.144.06$0
Feb 2009032.814.63$0
Jan 2009035.865.37$0
Dec 2008037.105.98$0
Nov 20081155.496.86$75
Oct 2008075.246.92$0
Sep 20080101.767.88$0
Aug 20080114.228.48$0
Jul 20080131.0811.39$0
Jun 20080131.3313.03$0
May 20080123.1711.57$0
Apr 20080110.3110.45$0
Mar 20080101.909.66$0
Feb 2008092.538.77$0
Jan 20084090.388.21$328
Dec 200722088.337.30$1,606
Nov 200738791.677.29$2,822
Oct 20071,15582.856.92$7,995
Sep 20071,28075.846.24$7,993
Aug 20071,41169.066.39$9,013
Jul 20071,48470.906.39$9,480
Jun 20071,58062.007.55$11,927
May 20072,00258.747.85$15,708
Apr 20071,68459.617.81$13,144
Mar 20071,78556.927.30$13,034
Feb 20071,60655.108.22$13,195
Jan 20072,04350.306.73$13,743
Dec 20062,21856.656.92$15,345
Nov 20062,32354.207.62$17,695
Oct 20062,39254.906.01$14,385
Sep 20063,13760.085.04$15,802
Aug 20063,03368.717.34$22,262
Jul 20063,24669.376.34$20,589
Jun 20063,33366.286.38$21,277
May 20063,54366.016.42$22,764
Apr 20063,85664.397.36$28,382
Mar 20064,32356.707.08$30,619
Feb 20064,06057.597.75$31,470
Jan 20064,68460.598.93$41,844
Dec 20054,54154.9413.42$60,919
Nov 20054,70254.6910.59$49,787
Oct 20055,29558.3413.80$73,049
Sep 20055,32661.4512.08$64,333
Aug 20053,58361.519.80$35,102
Jul 20055,50355.697.84$43,164
Jun 20054,71952.337.38$34,831
May 20052,68045.226.65$17,825
Apr 20052,33949.207.36$17,216
Mar 20054,50250.377.15$32,211
Feb 20055,75245.226.31$36,306
Jan 20058,14243.166.32$51,475
Dec 200410,94239.866.75$73,870
Nov 200414,78045.286.33$93,564
Oct 200420,65549.706.52$134,569
Sep 200413,88843.245.28$73,383
Aug 200412,25342.375.55$68,012

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.

Nov 2008 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                   11 Mcf  × $  6.86 =        $75

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Month total                                      $75

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/203880 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.