HICKMAN

Operated by XTO ENERGY INC. (P-5 945936) 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 220559District 09Field 65280200GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.3 M
Aug 2005 – Oct 2010
Value, last 12 filed months
$4 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
63
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
GasProduction158,242 Mcf$1,291,852
Total$1,291,852

Every month this lease reported (63)

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

63 months

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 201068174.365.96$4,062
Dec 2009071.445.48$0
Nov 2009074.593.75$0
Oct 2009172.544.11$4
Sep 200920765.543.06$634
Aug 20091,38267.423.22$4,448
Jul 2009061.133.46$0
Jun 20093,89166.163.90$15,155
May 20093,23854.743.93$12,712
Apr 2009046.773.59$0
Mar 200940342.144.06$1,636
Feb 20091,53232.814.63$7,098
Jan 20091,03935.865.37$5,580
Dec 200864437.105.98$3,849
Nov 200854455.496.86$3,732
Oct 20081775.246.92$118
Sep 2008766101.767.88$6,034
Aug 2008777114.228.48$6,591
Jul 20081,212131.0811.39$13,804
Jun 20081,868131.3313.03$24,345
May 20085,012123.1711.57$58,010
Apr 20086,996110.3110.45$73,142
Mar 20081,952101.909.66$18,864
Feb 20082,74092.538.77$24,031
Jan 20082,21790.388.21$18,192
Dec 20072,41988.337.30$17,663
Nov 20073,17091.677.29$23,115
Oct 20073,15482.856.92$21,832
Sep 20072,93575.846.24$18,327
Aug 20072,70869.066.39$17,299
Jul 20073,68570.906.39$23,540
Jun 20073,45162.007.55$26,050
May 20073,35058.747.85$26,285
Apr 20074,28959.617.81$33,477
Mar 20073,98956.927.30$29,128
Feb 20072,08455.108.22$17,122
Jan 20073,62050.306.73$24,351
Dec 20064,27856.656.92$29,597
Nov 20065,09854.207.62$38,834
Oct 20064,72354.906.01$28,403
Sep 20063,08060.085.04$15,515
Aug 20063,08568.717.34$22,644
Jul 20064,58369.376.34$29,069
Jun 20063,75566.286.38$23,971
May 20064,07166.016.42$26,156
Apr 20066,22264.397.36$45,797
Mar 20067,78656.707.08$55,148
Feb 20065,43457.597.75$42,120
Jan 20062,81660.598.93$25,156
Dec 20052,12454.9413.42$28,494
Nov 20053,63054.6910.59$38,436
Oct 20057,41158.3413.80$102,240
Sep 20059,28661.4512.08$112,166
Aug 20054,88761.519.80$47,877

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.

Jan 2010 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                  681 Mcf  × $  5.96 =     $4,062

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Month total                                   $4,062

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/220559 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.