DURHAM, MILDRED ET AL

Operated by MERIT ENERGY COMPANY (P-5 561136) in the BOONSVILLE (BEND CONGL., GAS) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 28991District 09Field 10574520NGPA filingCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$75 k
Jan 1993 – Feb 2008
Value, last 12 filed months
$2 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
182
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, 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 3,438 leases and 3,443 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1945-05-01
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 1991-06-10.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: AMOUNT HAD BEEN CALCULATED FOR 5/1/97.

Severance-tax incentive filings

Applications the operator filed to have this lease's gas taxed at a reduced state rate. A filing is an application, and this page never calls one a reduction that was granted.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
NGPA1none

This says nothing about a royalty. A severance tax is charged to the operator. Whether a reduced rate reaches a royalty owner depends on the wording of the lease instrument, which is a private contract this site does not hold.

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
CondensateDisposition184 bbl$5,185
GasProduction33,009 Mcf$69,694
Total$74,879

9,751 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 47 months, carries no value here. No free Texas wellhead gas price exists before 1997, so those months are left out of the total rather than valued at zero. The total above is therefore a floor, not an estimate.

Wells on this lease (1)

Every wellbore the Railroad Commission records against this lease key, with the depth, the last completion and the plug date exactly as filed. A well with no plug date is not stated to be producing — the state files no such flag.

These wells centre on 33.2529, -97.9668. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.25289, -97.96679 · centre of the wells drawn, derived

What these wells add up to

Every figure below is counted over all of this lease's wells, not over the rows listed above. The Railroad Commission files two facts about a well's state — a plug date and a proration-schedule flag — and a well can carry both, so they are published as separate counts and never merged into a status.

On the schedule
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
5,792 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
45.1 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
1100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1100.0%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
00.0%

A plug date is the date the Commission recorded the wellbore as sealed with cement and abandoned. It is the only end-of-life fact Texas files. There is no "active" flag on a well, so this page does not print one — a well with no plug date is not stated to be producing.

How deep they were drilled

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 5,792 ft.

Completions filed
Jan 1962
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Feb 2007
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 45.1 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 45.1 years and 45.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-2370211295,792 ftJan 1962Feb 2007Yes

The API number is the state's, prefixed 42 for Texas. A well is matched to this lease by the lease key the Commission files on the wellbore record, so a well that has moved between leases appears under each one it was filed against.

Every month this lease reported (182)

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

182 months

Feb 20080092.538.77$0
Jan 20080090.388.21$0
Dec 200719088.337.30$1,678
Nov 20070091.677.29$0
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 20070075.846.24$0
Aug 20070069.066.39$0
Jul 20070070.906.39$0
Jun 20070062.007.55$0
May 20070058.747.85$0
Apr 20070059.617.81$0
Mar 20070056.927.30$0
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060056.656.92$0
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 20060069.376.34$0
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040137.486.49$6
Apr 200403034.475.86$176
Mar 200402734.365.53$149
Feb 20040232.455.51$11
Jan 20040332.036.30$19
Dec 20030430.266.30$25
Nov 20030828.804.60$37
Oct 200306628.174.76$314
Sep 200305126.314.75$242
Aug 200308929.765.13$457
Jul 2003012029.415.17$621
Jun 2003014328.565.98$856
May 2003011626.595.97$693
Apr 2003012326.675.41$665
Mar 2003012831.146.10$780
Feb 2003011133.487.93$880
Jan 2003011630.315.58$648
Dec 2002011626.914.85$563
Nov 2002011624.664.14$480
Oct 2002014726.464.23$622
Sep 2002012627.443.64$458
Aug 2002011725.963.16$370
Jul 2002014624.583.06$447
Jun 2002014823.733.34$494
May 200207624.663.58$272
Apr 2002015023.653.51$527
Mar 2002014222.003.10$441
Feb 2002014318.222.38$340
Jan 2002017917.172.38$425
Dec 2001016716.932.36$395
Nov 200109218.072.41$221
Oct 2001016719.782.53$422
Sep 2001016724.262.25$376
Aug 2001016024.873.05$489
Jul 2001019423.933.20$620
Jun 2001018524.563.82$707
May 2001017825.524.31$767
Apr 2001019624.685.34$1,046
Mar 2001019324.545.38$1,038
Feb 2001019227.755.77$1,107
Jan 2001020427.478.40$1,713
Dec 2000017826.889.12$1,624
Nov 2000010932.215.66$617
Oct 2000017931.235.15$921
Sep 2000012131.875.19$628
Aug 20006632129.644.54$3,414
Jul 2000020428.534.09$834
Jun 2000019929.304.40$875
May 2000021327.263.68$784
Apr 2000020424.513.12$636
Mar 2000020228.422.86$578
Feb 2000018827.622.73$513
Jan 2000023925.272.48$593
Dec 1999023124.282.42$560
Nov 1999021523.192.43$523
Oct 1999023520.982.80$659
Sep 1999024121.752.62$631
Aug 1999073119.262.88$2,102
Jul 1999085517.892.37$2,028
Jun 1999083915.942.36$1,982
May 1999089215.792.32$2,070
Apr 1999026415.102.21$583
Mar 1999023912.471.84$439
Feb 199902049.981.82$371
Jan 1999021410.381.90$407
Dec 199802639.201.77$466
Nov 1998032110.892.19$702
Oct 1998059712.421.97$1,176
Sep 1998076512.592.08$1,593
Aug 1998019211.301.91$366
Jul 1998025611.742.24$573
Jun 1998033511.242.24$749
May 1998025212.622.21$556
Apr 1998024213.042.51$606
Mar 1998028012.802.31$647
Feb 1998024713.952.30$568
Jan 1998039914.702.15$860
Dec 1997032416.322.41$781
Nov 1997035218.193.09$1,087
Oct 1997061619.253.15$1,940
Sep 1997075917.742.95$2,243
Aug 1997054517.862.55$1,392
Jul 1997014417.582.25$324
Jun 1997062917.242.26$1,420
May 1997068818.972.31$1,588
Apr 1997085517.882.08$1,781
Mar 1997052418.951.94$1,016
Feb 1997055020.492.21$1,213
Jan 1997076723.483.54$2,715
Dec 1996013923.32$0
Nov 1996012221.97$0
Oct 1996011023.31$0
Sep 199606122.22$0
Aug 1996021420.26$0
Jul 1996014519.55$0
Jun 1996018618.73$0
May 1996025719.43$0
Apr 1996020021.51$0
Mar 1996023619.38$0
Feb 1996020816.98$0
Jan 1996020617.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 1995034416.00$0
Oct 1995013015.43$0
Sep 1995025516.18$0
Aug 1995031415.92$0
Jul 1995027515.24$0
Jun 1995026216.41$0
May 1995029017.56$0
Apr 1995017917.73$0
Mar 1995025616.44$0
Feb 1995015016.58$0
Jan 199509415.92$0
Dec 1994013715.03$0
Nov 1994019415.90$0
Oct 1994018815.58$0
Sep 1994019915.29$0
Aug 1994036616.13$0
Jul 1994017617.56$0
Jun 1994032317.09$0
May 1994015715.88$0
Apr 1994032314.14$0
Mar 1994035912.46$0
Feb 1994035512.50$0
Jan 1994015812.66$0
Dec 19930212.33$0
Nov 199305614.49$0
Oct 1993029315.85$0
Sep 1993010015.03$0
Aug 19939923615.66$1,550
Jul 1993028315.46$0
Jun 1993019716.79$0
May 1993015617.68$0
Apr 1993019918.05$0
Mar 1993027018.14$0
Feb 1993018617.90$0
Jan 1993020516.93$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.

Dec 2007 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            19 bbl  × $ 88.33 =     $1,678
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  7.30 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,678

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/28991 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.