BENNETT

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 216226District 09Field 65280200GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.6 M
Feb 2006 – Jun 2011
Value, last 12 filed months
$14 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
65
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
GasProduction234,702 Mcf$1,592,233
Total$1,592,233

Every month this lease reported (65)

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

65 months

Jun 2011092.904.64$0
May 2011098.134.40$0
Apr 201162105.964.33$269
Mar 20114596.364.06$183
Feb 201122485.644.18$936
Jan 201117586.504.59$803
Dec 201023985.734.35$1,039
Nov 201029480.843.80$1,116
Oct 201040978.103.51$1,435
Sep 201052072.633.98$2,069
Aug 201070573.684.42$3,116
Jul 201071872.554.74$3,401
Jun 201060970.364.91$2,990
May 201051571.124.24$2,181
Apr 201078281.694.12$3,224
Mar 201023778.394.39$1,040
Feb 201035473.585.44$1,927
Jan 201088174.365.96$5,254
Dec 20091,00671.445.48$5,517
Nov 20091,17074.593.75$4,389
Oct 20091,26272.544.11$5,187
Sep 20091,64565.543.06$5,042
Aug 20091,60867.423.22$5,175
Jul 2009061.133.46$0
Jun 200933266.163.90$1,293
May 20091,40854.743.93$5,527
Apr 20091,09046.773.59$3,910
Mar 20091,44942.144.06$5,881
Feb 200937332.814.63$1,728
Jan 200959735.865.37$3,206
Dec 200862437.105.98$3,730
Nov 20081,34055.496.86$9,193
Oct 200831175.246.92$2,153
Sep 20081,311101.767.88$10,327
Aug 20081,415114.228.48$12,003
Jul 20081,609131.0811.39$18,326
Jun 20081,593131.3313.03$20,761
May 20081,832123.1711.57$21,204
Apr 20081,753110.3110.45$18,327
Mar 20082,065101.909.66$19,956
Feb 20081,23292.538.77$10,805
Jan 20081,52890.388.21$12,538
Dec 20072,08488.337.30$15,217
Nov 2007091.677.29$0
Oct 2007082.856.92$0
Sep 200778975.846.24$4,927
Aug 20071,67169.066.39$10,674
Jul 20071,52170.906.39$9,716
Jun 200771562.007.55$5,397
May 20072,83058.747.85$22,205
Apr 20072,05559.617.81$16,040
Mar 20071,28756.927.30$9,398
Feb 20072,46855.108.22$20,277
Jan 200711,15050.306.73$75,004
Dec 200613,63356.656.92$94,319
Nov 200612,91854.207.62$98,403
Oct 200616,67754.906.01$100,292
Sep 200613,56860.085.04$68,345
Aug 200614,97768.717.34$109,930
Jul 200614,99369.376.34$95,097
Jun 200616,62466.286.38$106,126
May 200618,17966.016.42$116,800
Apr 200617,79764.397.36$130,994
Mar 200619,93456.707.08$141,191
Feb 200613,51057.597.75$104,718

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 2011 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                   62 Mcf  × $  4.33 =       $269

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Month total                                     $269

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/216226 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.