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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 239768District 09Field 65280200GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.5 M
May 2007 – Jul 2011
Value, last 12 filed months
$41 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
51
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
GasProduction217,082 Mcf$1,506,384
Total$1,506,384

Every month this lease reported (51)

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

51 months

Jul 2011094.144.52$0
Jun 2011092.904.64$0
May 2011098.134.40$0
Apr 20110105.964.33$0
Mar 2011096.364.06$0
Feb 2011085.644.18$0
Jan 201145286.504.59$2,074
Dec 20102,69885.734.35$11,730
Nov 20102,48480.843.80$9,428
Oct 20101,43478.103.51$5,032
Sep 20101,56172.633.98$6,212
Aug 20101,50673.684.42$6,656
Jul 20102,06372.554.74$9,771
Jun 20101,95370.364.91$9,590
May 20101,99771.124.24$8,458
Apr 2010081.694.12$0
Mar 20101,36278.394.39$5,977
Feb 20102,58273.585.44$14,052
Jan 20102,65174.365.96$15,811
Dec 20093,39771.445.48$18,628
Nov 20092,97874.593.75$11,172
Oct 20093,48172.544.11$14,308
Sep 20093,04465.543.06$9,329
Aug 20092,10567.423.22$6,775
Jul 20092,70161.133.46$9,358
Jun 20092,70066.163.90$10,517
May 20092,93254.743.93$11,510
Apr 20093,50546.773.59$12,574
Mar 20093,70642.144.06$15,043
Feb 20093,57732.814.63$16,572
Jan 20092,04835.865.37$11,000
Dec 20083,42537.105.98$20,472
Nov 20083,65155.496.86$25,047
Oct 20084,00475.246.92$27,716
Sep 20083,573101.767.88$28,145
Aug 20084,838114.228.48$41,041
Jul 20085,140131.0811.39$58,542
Jun 20085,637131.3313.03$73,465
May 20085,266123.1711.57$60,950
Apr 20088,944110.3110.45$93,508
Mar 20088,906101.909.66$86,068
Feb 20085,06992.538.77$44,458
Jan 20088,90490.388.21$73,064
Dec 20076,65888.337.30$48,617
Nov 20075,08991.677.29$37,107
Oct 20079,54182.856.92$66,043
Sep 200713,34575.846.24$83,328
Aug 200714,71269.066.39$93,979
Jul 200716,99570.906.39$108,563
Jun 200724,46862.007.55$184,695
May 2007058.747.85$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.

Jan 2011 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                  452 Mcf  × $  4.59 =     $2,074

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Month total                                   $2,074

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/239768 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.