HELTON, MELVIN

Name: HELTON, MELVIN lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by CHEVRON U. S. A. INC. (P-5 148113) in the BUFFALO WALLOW (MORROW) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 51512District 10Field 13147666Hydrogen sulphide fieldCondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$694 k

Jan 1993 – Jun 2013

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

246

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The BUFFALO WALLOW (MORROW) field

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 38 leases and 38 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1969-08-29

as the register files it

Field class

Gas

the register's own label

Between wells

3,735 ft

minimum

From a lease line

1,867 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 640 acres. The field rule took effect on 2006-05-16.

The register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “AND HORIZONTAL WELLS ON THE SAME LEASE OR POOLED UNIT.”

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Condensate	Disposition	25 bbl	$1,422
Gas	Production	466,818 Mcf	$692,834
Total			$694,256

312,697 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 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 35.6458, -100.2226. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

35.64580, -100.22263 · centre of the wells drawn, derived⌘ or Ctrl + scroll to zoom

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

14,140 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

41.8 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 14,140 ft.

Completions filed

Aug 1971

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Jun 2013

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 41.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 41.8 years and 41.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-21130090	2	14,140 ft	Aug 1971	Jun 2013	Yes

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 (246)

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

246 months


Jun 2013	0	0	94.40	3.93	$0
May 2013	0	0	94.83	4.15	$0
Apr 2013	0	0	93.96	4.28	$0
Mar 2013	0	0	93.62	3.91	$0
Feb 2013	0	0	91.23	3.42	$0
Jan 2013	0	0	91.60	3.42	$0
Dec 2012	0	0	86.77	3.42	$0
Nov 2012	0	0	86.95	3.62	$0
Oct 2012	0	0	89.38	3.40	$0
Sep 2012	0	0	94.67	2.92	$0
Aug 2012	0	0	92.66	2.91	$0
Jul 2012	0	0	85.13	3.02	$0
Jun 2012	0	0	79.82	2.52	$0
May 2012	0	0	91.61	2.49	$0
Apr 2012	0	0	101.65	2.00	$0
Mar 2012	0	0	105.05	2.22	$0
Feb 2012	0	0	101.10	2.57	$0
Jan 2012	0	0	98.09	2.73	$0
Dec 2011	0	0	96.87	3.24	$0
Nov 2011	0	0	95.72	3.31	$0
Oct 2011	0	0	84.98	3.65	$0
Sep 2011	0	0	83.62	3.99	$0
Aug 2011	0	0	83.40	4.15	$0
Jul 2011	0	0	94.14	4.52	$0
Jun 2011	0	0	92.90	4.64	$0
May 2011	0	0	98.13	4.40	$0
Apr 2011	0	0	105.96	4.33	$0
Mar 2011	0	0	96.36	4.06	$0
Feb 2011	0	0	85.64	4.18	$0
Jan 2011	0	0	86.50	4.59	$0
Dec 2010	0	0	85.73	4.35	$0
Nov 2010	0	0	80.84	3.80	$0
Oct 2010	0	0	78.10	3.51	$0
Sep 2010	0	0	72.63	3.98	$0
Aug 2010	0	0	73.68	4.42	$0
Jul 2010	0	283	72.55	4.74	$1,340
Jun 2010	2	698	70.36	4.91	$3,568
May 2010	0	688	71.12	4.24	$2,914
Apr 2010	0	571	81.69	4.12	$2,354
Mar 2010	0	605	78.39	4.39	$2,655
Feb 2010	0	535	73.58	5.44	$2,912
Jan 2010	0	471	74.36	5.96	$2,809
Dec 2009	0	550	71.44	5.48	$3,016
Nov 2009	0	605	74.59	3.75	$2,270
Oct 2009	0	634	72.54	4.11	$2,606
Sep 2009	0	606	65.54	3.06	$1,857
Aug 2009	0	687	67.42	3.22	$2,211
Jul 2009	0	663	61.13	3.46	$2,297
Jun 2009	0	601	66.16	3.90	$2,341
May 2009	0	661	54.74	3.93	$2,595
Apr 2009	0	637	46.77	3.59	$2,285
Mar 2009	0	663	42.14	4.06	$2,691
Feb 2009	0	512	32.81	4.63	$2,372
Jan 2009	0	632	35.86	5.37	$3,394
Dec 2008	0	687	37.10	5.98	$4,106
Nov 2008	0	645	55.49	6.86	$4,425
Oct 2008	0	788	75.24	6.92	$5,455
Sep 2008	0	696	101.76	7.88	$5,482
Aug 2008	0	640	114.22	8.48	$5,429
Jul 2008	0	727	131.08	11.39	$8,280
Jun 2008	0	705	131.33	13.03	$9,188
May 2008	0	650	123.17	11.57	$7,523
Apr 2008	0	629	110.31	10.45	$6,576
Mar 2008	0	672	101.90	9.66	$6,494
Feb 2008	0	713	92.53	8.77	$6,253
Jan 2008	0	644	90.38	8.21	$5,284
Dec 2007	0	676	88.33	7.30	$4,936
Nov 2007	0	705	91.67	7.29	$5,141
Oct 2007	0	705	82.85	6.92	$4,880
Sep 2007	0	696	75.84	6.24	$4,346
Aug 2007	0	746	69.06	6.39	$4,765
Jul 2007	0	735	70.90	6.39	$4,695
Jun 2007	0	700	62.00	7.55	$5,284
May 2007	0	642	58.74	7.85	$5,037
Apr 2007	0	637	59.61	7.81	$4,972
Mar 2007	0	627	56.92	7.30	$4,578
Feb 2007	0	548	55.10	8.22	$4,502
Jan 2007	0	626	50.30	6.73	$4,211
Dec 2006	0	645	56.65	6.92	$4,462
Nov 2006	0	622	54.20	7.62	$4,738
Oct 2006	0	666	54.90	6.01	$4,005
Sep 2006	0	727	60.08	5.04	$3,662
Aug 2006	0	707	68.71	7.34	$5,189
Jul 2006	0	752	69.37	6.34	$4,770
Jun 2006	0	699	66.28	6.38	$4,462
May 2006	0	691	66.01	6.42	$4,440
Apr 2006	0	671	64.39	7.36	$4,939
Mar 2006	0	760	56.70	7.08	$5,383
Feb 2006	0	687	57.59	7.75	$5,325
Jan 2006	0	773	60.59	8.93	$6,905
Dec 2005	0	838	54.94	13.42	$11,242
Nov 2005	0	999	54.69	10.59	$10,578
Oct 2005	0	0	58.34	13.80	$0
Sep 2005	0	261	61.45	12.08	$3,153
Aug 2005	0	769	61.51	9.80	$7,534
Jul 2005	23	788	55.69	7.84	$7,462
Jun 2005	0	717	52.33	7.38	$5,292
May 2005	0	869	45.22	6.65	$5,780
Apr 2005	0	732	49.20	7.36	$5,388
Mar 2005	0	779	50.37	7.15	$5,574
Feb 2005	0	699	45.22	6.31	$4,412
Jan 2005	0	757	43.16	6.32	$4,786
Dec 2004	0	832	39.86	6.75	$5,617
Nov 2004	0	765	45.28	6.33	$4,843
Oct 2004	0	746	49.70	6.52	$4,860
Sep 2004	0	749	43.24	5.28	$3,958
Aug 2004	0	994	42.37	5.55	$5,517
Jul 2004	0	753	38.28	6.08	$4,581
Jun 2004	0	771	36.10	6.43	$4,960
May 2004	0	745	37.48	6.49	$4,838
Apr 2004	0	724	34.47	5.86	$4,242
Mar 2004	0	751	34.36	5.53	$4,153
Feb 2004	0	724	32.45	5.51	$3,989
Jan 2004	0	1,041	32.03	6.30	$6,558
Dec 2003	0	733	30.26	6.30	$4,619
Nov 2003	0	744	28.80	4.60	$3,419
Oct 2003	0	830	28.17	4.76	$3,951
Sep 2003	0	843	26.31	4.75	$4,004
Aug 2003	0	713	29.76	5.13	$3,657
Jul 2003	0	474	29.41	5.17	$2,451
Jun 2003	0	751	28.56	5.98	$4,493
May 2003	0	782	26.59	5.97	$4,671
Apr 2003	0	725	26.67	5.41	$3,920
Mar 2003	0	880	31.14	6.10	$5,365
Feb 2003	0	747	33.48	7.93	$5,921
Jan 2003	0	791	30.31	5.58	$4,415
Dec 2002	0	767	26.91	4.85	$3,723
Nov 2002	0	770	24.66	4.14	$3,185
Oct 2002	0	751	26.46	4.23	$3,176
Sep 2002	0	776	27.44	3.64	$2,821
Aug 2002	0	1,007	25.96	3.16	$3,186
Jul 2002	0	880	24.58	3.06	$2,694
Jun 2002	0	779	23.73	3.34	$2,600
May 2002	0	750	24.66	3.58	$2,688
Apr 2002	0	746	23.65	3.51	$2,620
Mar 2002	0	880	22.00	3.10	$2,730
Feb 2002	0	676	18.22	2.38	$1,606
Jan 2002	0	923	17.17	2.38	$2,193
Dec 2001	0	789	16.93	2.36	$1,866
Nov 2001	0	783	18.07	2.41	$1,884
Oct 2001	0	977	19.78	2.53	$2,471
Sep 2001	0	1,019	24.26	2.25	$2,294
Aug 2001	0	828	24.87	3.05	$2,528
Jul 2001	0	1,088	23.93	3.20	$3,478
Jun 2001	0	944	24.56	3.82	$3,610
May 2001	0	911	25.52	4.31	$3,924
Apr 2001	0	1,082	24.68	5.34	$5,773
Mar 2001	0	996	24.54	5.38	$5,355
Feb 2001	0	989	27.75	5.77	$5,704
Jan 2001	0	1,070	27.47	8.40	$8,987
Dec 2000	0	1,109	26.88	9.12	$10,117
Nov 2000	0	1,016	32.21	5.66	$5,749
Oct 2000	0	1,216	31.23	5.15	$6,257
Sep 2000	0	1,275	31.87	5.19	$6,613
Aug 2000	0	1,370	29.64	4.54	$6,221
Jul 2000	0	1,230	28.53	4.09	$5,030
Jun 2000	0	1,085	29.30	4.40	$4,771
May 2000	0	1,072	27.26	3.68	$3,945
Apr 2000	0	1,045	24.51	3.12	$3,256
Mar 2000	0	1,229	28.42	2.86	$3,515
Feb 2000	0	1,129	27.62	2.73	$3,078
Jan 2000	0	1,178	25.27	2.48	$2,922
Dec 1999	0	1,522	24.28	2.42	$3,689
Nov 1999	0	1,211	23.19	2.43	$2,948
Oct 1999	0	1,248	20.98	2.80	$3,499
Sep 1999	0	1,305	21.75	2.62	$3,418
Aug 1999	0	1,584	19.26	2.88	$4,555
Jul 1999	0	1,161	17.89	2.37	$2,754
Jun 1999	0	1,006	15.94	2.36	$2,376
May 1999	0	987	15.79	2.32	$2,291
Apr 1999	0	1,441	15.10	2.21	$3,182
Mar 1999	0	1,263	12.47	1.84	$2,322
Feb 1999	0	1,171	9.98	1.82	$2,129
Jan 1999	0	1,383	10.38	1.90	$2,628
Dec 1998	0	1,441	9.20	1.77	$2,555
Nov 1998	0	1,591	10.89	2.19	$3,477
Oct 1998	0	1,801	12.42	1.97	$3,547
Sep 1998	0	1,033	12.59	2.08	$2,151
Aug 1998	0	1,457	11.30	1.91	$2,779
Jul 1998	0	1,934	11.74	2.24	$4,327
Jun 1998	0	1,997	11.24	2.24	$4,468
May 1998	0	1,970	12.62	2.21	$4,346
Apr 1998	0	1,831	13.04	2.51	$4,587
Mar 1998	0	1,996	12.80	2.31	$4,610
Feb 1998	0	1,248	13.95	2.30	$2,869
Jan 1998	0	1,713	14.70	2.15	$3,691
Dec 1997	0	1,786	16.32	2.41	$4,306
Nov 1997	0	1,679	18.19	3.09	$5,185
Oct 1997	0	1,802	19.25	3.15	$5,676
Sep 1997	0	2,093	17.74	2.95	$6,185
Aug 1997	0	1,190	17.86	2.55	$3,040
Jul 1997	0	1,705	17.58	2.25	$3,831
Jun 1997	0	1,782	17.24	2.26	$4,022
May 1997	0	2,029	18.97	2.31	$4,684
Apr 1997	0	1,789	17.88	2.08	$3,726
Mar 1997	0	1,907	18.95	1.94	$3,698
Feb 1997	0	1,433	20.49	2.21	$3,161
Jan 1997	0	1,740	23.48	3.54	$6,159
Dec 1996	0	2,299	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	0	1,838	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	0	2,362	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	0	2,186	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	0	2,388	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	0	2,012	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	0	1,921	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	0	2,506	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	0	2,898	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	0	2,718	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	0	832	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	0	2,845	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	0	3,627	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	0	2,576	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	0	4,141	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	0	3,526	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	0	4,678	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	0	5,348	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	0	5,529	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	0	4,718	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	0	4,165	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	0	5,504	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	0	6,802	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	0	4,747	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	0	4,401	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	0	6,818	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	0	5,765	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	0	6,600	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	0	6,148	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	0	10,652	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	0	8,886	17.09	—	$0
May 1994	0	8,587	15.88	—	$0
Apr 1994	0	9,195	14.14	—	$0
Mar 1994	0	11,162	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	0	11,427	12.50	—	$0
Jan 1994	0	12,081	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	0	11,340	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	0	13,705	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	0	7,367	15.85	—	$0
Sep 1993	0	12,602	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	0	10,796	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	0	12,615	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	0	11,263	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	0	11,711	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	0	7,622	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	0	10,139	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	0	10,980	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	0	8,669	16.93	—	$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.

Jul 2010 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 72.55 =         $0
Gas                  283 Mcf  × $  4.74 =     $1,340

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $1,340

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. 10/G/51512 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.