HINTON-MELVIN UNIT
Operated by CHIEF OIL & GAS LLC (P-5 148216) 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.
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.
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.
| Stream | Basis | Volume | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gas | Production | 21,361 Mcf | $125,422 |
| Total | $125,422 | ||
Every month this lease reported (20)
Volume × price = value, one row per cycle. The price columns are the same series published on the prices page — nothing here is modelled.
20 months
| Dec 2007 | 0 | 88.33 | 7.30 | $0 |
| Nov 2007 | 0 | 91.67 | 7.29 | $0 |
| Oct 2007 | 0 | 82.85 | 6.92 | $0 |
| Sep 2007 | 0 | 75.84 | 6.24 | $0 |
| Aug 2007 | 0 | 69.06 | 6.39 | $0 |
| Jul 2007 | 0 | 70.90 | 6.39 | $0 |
| Jun 2007 | 0 | 62.00 | 7.55 | $0 |
| May 2007 | 0 | 58.74 | 7.85 | $0 |
| Apr 2007 | 0 | 59.61 | 7.81 | $0 |
| Mar 2007 | 16 | 56.92 | 7.30 | $117 |
| Feb 2007 | 7 | 55.10 | 8.22 | $58 |
| Jan 2007 | 179 | 50.30 | 6.73 | $1,204 |
| Dec 2006 | 2,044 | 56.65 | 6.92 | $14,141 |
| Nov 2006 | 2,598 | 54.20 | 7.62 | $19,790 |
| Oct 2006 | 6,027 | 54.90 | 6.01 | $36,245 |
| Sep 2006 | 10,044 | 60.08 | 5.04 | $50,594 |
| Aug 2006 | 446 | 68.71 | 7.34 | $3,274 |
| Jul 2006 | 0 | 69.37 | 6.34 | $0 |
| Jun 2006 | 0 | 66.28 | 6.38 | $0 |
| May 2006 | 0 | 66.01 | 6.42 | $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.
Gas 16 Mcf × $ 7.30 = $117 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── Month total $117
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/217686 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.