HELTON

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

Operated by LINN OPERATING, INC. (P-5 501545) in the BRISCOE (MORROW) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 98752District 10Field 12007500NGPA filingCondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$830 k

Jan 1993 – May 2008

Value, last 12 filed months

$385 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

185

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The BRISCOE (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 26 leases and 26 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1978-07-24

as the register files it

Field class

Gas

the register's own label

Between wells

2,640 ft

minimum

From a lease line

1,320 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 640 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “ALLOCATION FORMULA SUSPENDED EFF. 5/1/94”

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.

Programme	Filings	With an approval date	Dated	Docket
NGPA	1	none	—	—

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Condensate	Disposition	1,485 bbl	$128,000
Gas	Production	198,945 Mcf	$702,422
Total			$830,422

63,224 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 35.6067, -100.3281. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

35.60667, -100.32807 · 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

0.0%

0 of 1 wells

Median depth

14,800 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

—

no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

1100.0%

A plug date is filed

00.0%

BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.

00.0%

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 14,800 ft.

Completions filed

Nov 2007

1 of 1 wells

1 well


42-48330959	1	14,800 ft	Nov 2007	—	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 (185)

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

185 months


May 2008	0	0	123.17	11.57	$0
Apr 2008	0	0	110.31	10.45	$0
Mar 2008	0	0	101.90	9.66	$0
Feb 2008	202	0	92.53	8.77	$18,691
Jan 2008	397	3,738	90.38	8.21	$66,554
Dec 2007	406	6,322	88.33	7.30	$82,025
Nov 2007	391	18,183	91.67	7.29	$168,428
Oct 2007	0	5,754	82.85	6.92	$39,829
Sep 2007	0	295	75.84	6.24	$1,842
Aug 2007	0	130	69.06	6.39	$830
Jul 2007	0	412	70.90	6.39	$2,632
Jun 2007	0	610	62.00	7.55	$4,605
May 2007	0	0	58.74	7.85	$0
Apr 2007	0	0	59.61	7.81	$0
Mar 2007	0	719	56.92	7.30	$5,250
Feb 2007	0	1,012	55.10	8.22	$8,315
Jan 2007	0	767	50.30	6.73	$5,159
Dec 2006	0	768	56.65	6.92	$5,313
Nov 2006	0	714	54.20	7.62	$5,439
Oct 2006	0	973	54.90	6.01	$5,851
Sep 2006	0	701	60.08	5.04	$3,531
Aug 2006	0	565	68.71	7.34	$4,147
Jul 2006	0	491	69.37	6.34	$3,114
Jun 2006	0	406	66.28	6.38	$2,592
May 2006	0	542	66.01	6.42	$3,482
Apr 2006	0	137	64.39	7.36	$1,008
Mar 2006	0	241	56.70	7.08	$1,707
Feb 2006	0	471	57.59	7.75	$3,651
Jan 2006	0	635	60.59	8.93	$5,673
Dec 2005	0	565	54.94	13.42	$7,580
Nov 2005	0	632	54.69	10.59	$6,692
Oct 2005	0	1,144	58.34	13.80	$15,782
Sep 2005	0	486	61.45	12.08	$5,870
Aug 2005	0	348	61.51	9.80	$3,409
Jul 2005	0	529	55.69	7.84	$4,149
Jun 2005	0	591	52.33	7.38	$4,362
May 2005	0	680	45.22	6.65	$4,523
Apr 2005	0	709	49.20	7.36	$5,219
Mar 2005	0	758	50.37	7.15	$5,423
Feb 2005	0	732	45.22	6.31	$4,620
Jan 2005	0	801	43.16	6.32	$5,064
Dec 2004	0	767	39.86	6.75	$5,178
Nov 2004	0	731	45.28	6.33	$4,628
Oct 2004	0	786	49.70	6.52	$5,121
Sep 2004	0	969	43.24	5.28	$5,120
Aug 2004	0	602	42.37	5.55	$3,342
Jul 2004	0	373	38.28	6.08	$2,269
Jun 2004	10	658	36.10	6.43	$4,594
May 2004	0	352	37.48	6.49	$2,286
Apr 2004	0	301	34.47	5.86	$1,763
Mar 2004	0	617	34.36	5.53	$3,412
Feb 2004	0	1,178	32.45	5.51	$6,490
Jan 2004	0	1,178	32.03	6.30	$7,421
Dec 2003	0	768	30.26	6.30	$4,840
Nov 2003	0	804	28.80	4.60	$3,695
Oct 2003	0	993	28.17	4.76	$4,726
Sep 2003	0	630	26.31	4.75	$2,992
Aug 2003	0	631	29.76	5.13	$3,237
Jul 2003	0	618	29.41	5.17	$3,196
Jun 2003	0	738	28.56	5.98	$4,415
May 2003	0	1,006	26.59	5.97	$6,009
Apr 2003	0	873	26.67	5.41	$4,721
Mar 2003	0	784	31.14	6.10	$4,779
Feb 2003	0	948	33.48	7.93	$7,514
Jan 2003	0	1,402	30.31	5.58	$7,826
Dec 2002	0	570	26.91	4.85	$2,767
Nov 2002	0	734	24.66	4.14	$3,037
Oct 2002	0	909	26.46	4.23	$3,844
Sep 2002	0	909	27.44	3.64	$3,304
Aug 2002	0	671	25.96	3.16	$2,123
Jul 2002	0	939	24.58	3.06	$2,875
Jun 2002	0	939	23.73	3.34	$3,135
May 2002	0	1,214	24.66	3.58	$4,351
Apr 2002	0	757	23.65	3.51	$2,659
Mar 2002	0	753	22.00	3.10	$2,336
Feb 2002	0	635	18.22	2.38	$1,509
Jan 2002	0	0	17.17	2.38	$0
Dec 2001	0	882	16.93	2.36	$2,085
Nov 2001	0	970	18.07	2.41	$2,333
Oct 2001	0	271	19.78	2.53	$685
Sep 2001	0	348	24.26	2.25	$783
Aug 2001	0	365	24.87	3.05	$1,114
Jul 2001	0	432	23.93	3.20	$1,381
Jun 2001	0	571	24.56	3.82	$2,184
May 2001	0	637	25.52	4.31	$2,744
Apr 2001	0	727	24.68	5.34	$3,879
Mar 2001	0	692	24.54	5.38	$3,721
Feb 2001	0	692	27.75	5.77	$3,991
Jan 2001	0	776	27.47	8.40	$6,517
Dec 2000	0	760	26.88	9.12	$6,933
Nov 2000	0	681	32.21	5.66	$3,853
Oct 2000	0	625	31.23	5.15	$3,216
Sep 2000	0	612	31.87	5.19	$3,174
Aug 2000	0	592	29.64	4.54	$2,688
Jul 2000	0	646	28.53	4.09	$2,642
Jun 2000	0	674	29.30	4.40	$2,964
May 2000	0	713	27.26	3.68	$2,624
Apr 2000	0	740	24.51	3.12	$2,306
Mar 2000	0	775	28.42	2.86	$2,216
Feb 2000	0	853	27.62	2.73	$2,326
Jan 2000	0	838	25.27	2.48	$2,079
Dec 1999	0	838	24.28	2.42	$2,031
Nov 1999	0	771	23.19	2.43	$1,877
Oct 1999	0	765	20.98	2.80	$2,145
Sep 1999	0	747	21.75	2.62	$1,956
Aug 1999	0	747	19.26	2.88	$2,148
Jul 1999	0	753	17.89	2.37	$1,786
Jun 1999	0	753	15.94	2.36	$1,779
May 1999	0	808	15.79	2.32	$1,875
Apr 1999	0	888	15.10	2.21	$1,961
Mar 1999	0	822	12.47	1.84	$1,511
Feb 1999	0	931	9.98	1.82	$1,692
Jan 1999	0	918	10.38	1.90	$1,744
Dec 1998	0	902	9.20	1.77	$1,600
Nov 1998	0	907	10.89	2.19	$1,982
Oct 1998	0	850	12.42	1.97	$1,674
Sep 1998	0	800	12.59	2.08	$1,666
Aug 1998	0	840	11.30	1.91	$1,602
Jul 1998	0	800	11.74	2.24	$1,790
Jun 1998	0	900	11.24	2.24	$2,014
May 1998	0	772	12.62	2.21	$1,703
Apr 1998	0	295	13.04	2.51	$739
Mar 1998	0	901	12.80	2.31	$2,081
Feb 1998	0	825	13.95	2.30	$1,897
Jan 1998	0	728	14.70	2.15	$1,569
Dec 1997	0	516	16.32	2.41	$1,244
Nov 1997	0	409	18.19	3.09	$1,263
Oct 1997	0	439	19.25	3.15	$1,383
Sep 1997	0	598	17.74	2.95	$1,767
Aug 1997	0	937	17.86	2.55	$2,394
Jul 1997	0	938	17.58	2.25	$2,108
Jun 1997	79	717	17.24	2.26	$2,980
May 1997	0	714	18.97	2.31	$1,648
Apr 1997	0	646	17.88	2.08	$1,345
Mar 1997	0	3,743	18.95	1.94	$7,258
Feb 1997	0	4,305	20.49	2.21	$9,496
Jan 1997	0	6,328	23.48	3.54	$22,399
Dec 1996	0	5,684	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	0	3,091	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	0	2,213	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	0	4,069	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	0	1,240	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	0	948	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	0	1,213	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	0	1,126	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	0	420	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	0	778	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	0	1,353	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	0	959	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	0	1,024	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	0	1,070	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	0	492	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	0	941	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	0	222	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	0	1,031	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	0	1,160	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	0	442	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	0	855	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	0	1,082	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	0	818	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	0	970	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	0	1,321	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	0	1,091	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	0	1,698	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	0	1,520	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	0	713	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	0	1,272	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	0	1,310	17.09	—	$0
May 1994	0	2,545	15.88	—	$0
Apr 1994	0	646	14.14	—	$0
Mar 1994	0	1,620	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	0	1,241	12.50	—	$0
Jan 1994	0	1,389	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	0	1,234	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	0	962	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	0	1,132	15.85	—	$0
Sep 1993	0	1,045	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	0	1,080	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	0	1,110	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	0	1,251	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	0	1,117	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	0	1,195	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	0	1,679	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	0	868	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	0	984	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.

Feb 2008 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate           202 bbl  × $ 92.53 =    $18,691
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  8.77 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                  $18,691

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/98752 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.