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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 238684District 09Field 65280200GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$2.9 M
Nov 2007 – Apr 2014
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
78
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
GasProduction429,081 Mcf$2,870,798
Total$2,870,798

Every month this lease reported (78)

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

78 months

Apr 2014095.944.81$0
Mar 2014095.895.06$0
Feb 2014097.406.19$0
Jan 2014090.404.86$0
Dec 2013091.824.35$0
Nov 2013088.853.74$0
Oct 2013097.423.78$0
Sep 20130104.113.72$0
Aug 20130104.253.52$0
Jul 20130102.523.72$0
Jun 2013094.403.93$0
May 2013094.834.15$0
Apr 2013093.964.28$0
Mar 2013093.623.91$0
Feb 2013091.233.42$0
Jan 2013091.603.42$0
Dec 2012086.773.42$0
Nov 2012086.953.62$0
Oct 2012089.383.40$0
Sep 2012094.672.92$0
Aug 2012092.662.91$0
Jul 20121,54785.133.02$4,673
Jun 20122,41679.822.52$6,086
May 20122,79291.612.49$6,947
Apr 20122,486101.652.00$4,964
Mar 20122,790105.052.22$6,200
Feb 20122,404101.102.57$6,179
Jan 20121,55998.092.73$4,262
Dec 20112,33796.873.24$7,571
Nov 20112,09895.723.31$6,947
Oct 20112,82084.983.65$10,289
Sep 20111,93283.623.99$7,701
Aug 20113,34183.404.15$13,863
Jul 20112,70094.144.52$12,197
Jun 20112,58692.904.64$11,999
May 20112,23298.134.40$9,832
Apr 20111,931105.964.33$8,368
Mar 20112,69396.364.06$10,926
Feb 20112,56085.644.18$10,701
Jan 20112,55286.504.59$11,711
Dec 20102,97885.734.35$12,948
Nov 20103,21180.843.80$12,187
Oct 20103,11878.103.51$10,941
Sep 20103,37772.633.98$13,439
Aug 20102,61073.684.42$11,535
Jul 20103,88272.554.74$18,387
Jun 20103,93170.364.91$19,303
May 20106,35271.124.24$26,902
Apr 20104,53681.694.12$18,701
Mar 20104,34378.394.39$19,060
Feb 20104,34773.585.44$23,658
Jan 20104,99574.365.96$29,791
Dec 20094,66971.445.48$25,604
Nov 20095,44874.593.75$20,438
Oct 20096,51472.544.11$26,774
Sep 20095,26565.543.06$16,136
Aug 20095,76667.423.22$18,558
Jul 20096,69661.133.46$23,198
Jun 200910,31966.163.90$40,193
May 20099,07154.743.93$35,610
Apr 20099,43946.773.59$33,862
Mar 200911,55242.144.06$46,890
Feb 20098,75632.814.63$40,567
Jan 20094,72935.865.37$25,399
Dec 20089,13137.105.98$54,577
Nov 200811,94555.496.86$81,947
Oct 200810,52675.246.92$72,861
Sep 20087,012101.767.88$55,234
Aug 200810,774114.228.48$91,396
Jul 20087,865131.0811.39$89,578
Jun 200812,712131.3313.03$165,671
May 200817,574123.1711.57$203,407
Apr 200817,599110.3110.45$183,995
Mar 200820,352101.909.66$196,683
Feb 200820,76592.538.77$182,121
Jan 200826,22190.388.21$215,162
Dec 200733,30088.337.30$243,156
Nov 200741,62591.677.29$303,517

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 2012 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                1,547 Mcf  × $  3.02 =     $4,673

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Month total                                   $4,673

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/238684 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.