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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 249164District 09Field 65280200GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$2.3 M
Dec 2008 – Mar 2014
Value, last 12 filed months
$4 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
64
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
GasProduction578,244 Mcf$2,302,411
Total$2,302,411

Every month this lease reported (64)

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

64 months

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 201381893.964.28$3,503
Mar 20135,87893.623.91$23,000
Feb 20138,68291.233.42$29,692
Jan 20138,38491.603.42$28,673
Dec 20129,69286.773.42$33,148
Nov 201213,93386.953.62$50,507
Oct 201212,48289.383.40$42,435
Sep 20128,54094.672.92$24,923
Aug 20126,22292.662.91$18,095
Jul 20123,63785.133.02$10,987
Jun 20122,43579.822.52$6,134
May 20127,54591.612.49$18,774
Apr 20126,308101.652.00$12,596
Mar 20126,905105.052.22$15,343
Feb 201210,985101.102.57$28,234
Jan 201215,85398.092.73$43,343
Dec 201115,60696.873.24$50,559
Nov 201116,04295.723.31$53,120
Oct 20117,30884.983.65$26,664
Sep 201115,63783.623.99$62,326
Aug 20115,19683.404.15$21,560
Jul 201114,44594.144.52$65,252
Jun 201115,88292.904.64$73,691
May 201118,67998.134.40$82,278
Apr 201117,684105.964.33$76,630
Mar 201124,50996.364.06$99,441
Feb 201114,36185.644.18$60,029
Jan 201123,33586.504.59$107,079
Dec 201025,65885.734.35$111,555
Nov 201034,48380.843.80$130,874
Oct 201028,54978.103.51$100,175
Sep 201031,53672.633.98$125,497
Aug 201037,41373.684.42$165,342
Jul 201045,25272.554.74$214,336
Jun 201058,37070.364.91$286,620
May 2010071.124.24$0
Apr 2010081.694.12$0
Mar 2010078.394.39$0
Feb 2010073.585.44$0
Jan 2010074.365.96$0
Dec 2009071.445.48$0
Nov 2009074.593.75$0
Oct 2009072.544.11$0
Sep 2009065.543.06$0
Aug 2009067.423.22$0
Jul 2009061.133.46$0
Jun 2009066.163.90$0
May 2009054.743.93$0
Apr 2009046.773.59$0
Mar 2009042.144.06$0
Feb 2009032.814.63$0
Jan 2009035.865.37$0
Dec 2008037.105.98$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.

Apr 2013 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                  818 Mcf  × $  4.28 =     $3,503

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Month total                                   $3,503

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/249164 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.