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Operated by SHELL WESTERN E&P (P-5 774719) 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 217171District 09Field 65280200CondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$289 k
Apr 2006 – Jan 2008
Value, last 12 filed months
$2 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
22
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, 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
CondensateDisposition137 bbl$8,404
GasProduction42,079 Mcf$280,905
Total$289,309

Every month this lease reported (22)

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

22 months

Jan 20080090.388.21$0
Dec 20070088.337.30$0
Nov 20070091.677.29$0
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 20070075.846.24$0
Aug 20070069.066.39$0
Jul 200728070.906.39$1,985
Jun 20070062.007.55$0
May 20070058.747.85$0
Apr 20070059.617.81$0
Mar 20070056.927.30$0
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20064739156.656.92$5,368
Nov 2006054954.207.62$4,182
Oct 200603,75654.906.01$22,588
Sep 2006573,32360.085.04$20,163
Aug 200604,02168.717.34$29,514
Jul 200605,55969.376.34$35,259
Jun 200651,39966.286.38$9,262
May 200609,51466.016.42$61,127
Apr 2006013,56764.397.36$99,860

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.

Jul 2007 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            28 bbl  × $ 70.90 =     $1,985
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  6.39 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,985

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/217171 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.