NORTH ELDER

Operated by HARDING COMPANY (P-5 356430) 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 211422District 09Field 65280200GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$718 k
May 2005 – Apr 2007
Value, last 12 filed months
$150 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
24
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
GasProduction77,767 Mcf$717,571
Total$717,571

Every month this lease reported (24)

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

24 months

Apr 2007059.617.81$0
Mar 2007056.927.30$0
Feb 2007055.108.22$0
Jan 2007050.306.73$0
Dec 2006056.656.92$0
Nov 2006054.207.62$0
Oct 2006054.906.01$0
Sep 20062,36960.085.04$11,933
Aug 20064,99068.717.34$36,626
Jul 20065,49469.376.34$34,847
Jun 20064,61466.286.38$29,455
May 20065,80966.016.42$37,323
Apr 20066,98064.397.36$51,376
Mar 20066,52356.707.08$46,202
Feb 20064,01457.597.75$31,113
Jan 20064,80460.598.93$42,916
Dec 20055,14054.9413.42$68,955
Nov 20055,14054.6910.59$54,424
Oct 20059,76558.3413.80$134,716
Sep 20059,32461.4512.08$112,625
Aug 20051,58261.519.80$15,499
Jul 20051,21955.697.84$9,561
Jun 2005052.337.38$0
May 2005045.226.65$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.

Sep 2006 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                2,369 Mcf  × $  5.04 =    $11,933

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Month total                                  $11,933

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/211422 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.