CRAFT-WATERBOARD UNIT 12

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 98346District 09Field 10574520NGPA filingCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$326 k
Jan 1993 – Oct 2005
Value, last 12 filed months
$11 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
154
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
CondensateDisposition273 bbl$10,634
GasProduction113,074 Mcf$315,023
Total$325,656

12,874 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 33.1846, -97.8929. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.18458, -97.89287 · 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
5,689 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
23.3 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 5,689 ft.

Completions filed
Feb 1982
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
May 2005
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 23.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 23.3 years and 23.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-4973223925,689 ftFeb 1982May 2005Yes

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 (154)

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

154 months

Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 200527061.519.80$1,661
Jul 200572055.697.84$4,010
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 200506745.226.65$446
Apr 2005010549.207.36$773
Mar 2005027350.377.15$1,953
Feb 2005020845.226.31$1,313
Jan 2005012443.166.32$784
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 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 200307628.565.98$455
May 2003010126.595.97$603
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 2003013030.315.58$726
Dec 200201,16326.914.85$5,645
Nov 200201,07624.664.14$4,451
Oct 200201,60526.464.23$6,788
Sep 2002042927.443.64$1,560
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 2002077424.583.06$2,370
Jun 2002095923.733.34$3,201
May 200201,20524.663.58$4,319
Apr 200201,40323.653.51$4,928
Mar 200201,48622.003.10$4,611
Feb 200201,26818.222.38$3,012
Jan 200201,31617.172.38$3,126
Dec 200101,08316.932.36$2,561
Nov 2001013618.072.41$327
Oct 200101,33519.782.53$3,376
Sep 200101,32324.262.25$2,979
Aug 200101,45724.873.05$4,448
Jul 200101,39623.933.20$4,463
Jun 200101,12124.563.82$4,287
May 200101,42425.524.31$6,134
Apr 200101,19624.685.34$6,381
Mar 200101,34024.545.38$7,204
Feb 200101,35127.755.77$7,791
Jan 200101,36927.478.40$11,498
Dec 200001,73126.889.12$15,791
Nov 200001,32732.215.66$7,508
Oct 200001,46631.235.15$7,543
Sep 200001,40831.875.19$7,303
Aug 20001611,59029.644.54$11,992
Jul 200001,35528.534.09$5,542
Jun 200001,64129.304.40$7,216
May 200001,30327.263.68$4,795
Apr 200001,87524.513.12$5,843
Mar 200001,35428.422.86$3,872
Feb 200001,90027.622.73$5,180
Jan 200002,24725.272.48$5,574
Dec 199902,13224.282.42$5,167
Nov 199902,08823.192.43$5,082
Oct 199902,42920.982.80$6,810
Sep 199902,41321.752.62$6,319
Aug 199902,70119.262.88$7,767
Jul 199902,87017.892.37$6,809
Jun 199902,81615.942.36$6,652
May 199903,38315.792.32$7,852
Apr 199903,57415.102.21$7,892
Mar 199903,47612.471.84$6,390
Feb 199903,5519.981.82$6,455
Jan 199903,07610.381.90$5,844
Dec 199804,5199.201.77$8,014
Nov 199803,95810.892.19$8,651
Oct 1998047312.421.97$931
Sep 1998050312.592.08$1,048
Aug 1998044811.301.91$854
Jul 1998043011.742.24$962
Jun 1998039011.242.24$873
May 1998043012.622.21$949
Apr 1998053213.042.51$1,333
Mar 1998055212.802.31$1,275
Feb 1998041613.952.30$956
Jan 19981359314.702.15$1,469
Dec 1997059516.322.41$1,435
Nov 1997056818.193.09$1,754
Oct 1997062719.253.15$1,975
Sep 1997038917.742.95$1,149
Aug 1997034817.862.55$889
Jul 1997039217.582.25$881
Jun 1997041317.242.26$932
May 1997039918.972.31$921
Apr 1997023817.882.08$496
Mar 1997032518.951.94$630
Feb 1997031920.492.21$704
Jan 1997033823.483.54$1,196
Dec 1996036123.32$0
Nov 1996027821.97$0
Oct 1996034223.31$0
Sep 1996031222.22$0
Aug 1996031020.26$0
Jul 1996035019.55$0
Jun 1996032718.73$0
May 1996037119.43$0
Apr 1996031521.51$0
Mar 1996027519.38$0
Feb 1996025216.98$0
Jan 1996025117.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 1995021116.00$0
Oct 1995028915.43$0
Sep 1995024916.18$0
Aug 1995021615.92$0
Jul 1995026915.24$0
Jun 1995025316.41$0
May 1995027717.56$0
Apr 1995025017.73$0
Mar 1995027816.44$0
Feb 1995025316.58$0
Jan 1995033915.92$0
Dec 1994029015.03$0
Nov 1994034815.90$0
Oct 1994034115.58$0
Sep 1994027615.29$0
Aug 1994029516.13$0
Jul 1994034517.56$0
Jun 1994031217.09$0
May 1994029415.88$0
Apr 1994030914.14$0
Mar 1994027712.46$0
Feb 1994023812.50$0
Jan 1994027012.66$0
Dec 1993023812.33$0
Nov 1993016914.49$0
Oct 1993020315.85$0
Sep 1993020815.03$0
Aug 1993022815.66$0
Jul 1993023615.46$0
Jun 1993023616.79$0
May 1993021417.68$0
Apr 1993021918.05$0
Mar 1993023818.14$0
Feb 1993021417.90$0
Jan 1993024816.93$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.

Aug 2005 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            27 bbl  × $ 61.51 =     $1,661
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  9.80 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,661

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/98346 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.