HELBING "17"

Name: HELBING "17" lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by DEVON ENERGY PRODUCTION CO, L.P. (P-5 216378) in the OZONA, NE. (CANYON SAND) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 140232District 7CField 679980752 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$419 k

Jan 1993 – Jul 2003

Value, last 12 filed months

$38 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

127

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The OZONA, NE. (CANYON SAND) 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 800 leases and 804 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1995-10-03

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

1,320 ft

minimum

From a lease line

660 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 1997-02-27.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “38. DOCKET 7C-0214353 EFF 2/27/97 SIGNED 2/4/97”

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.

Programme	Filings	With an approval date	Dated	Docket
High Cost Gas	1	1	1992-07-11	125598
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	1,801 bbl	$30,943
Gas	Production	278,404 Mcf	$387,691
Total			$418,634

150,632 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 30.6349, -101.2565. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.63486, -101.25646 · 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

6,700 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 6,700 ft.

Completions filed

Feb 2003

1 of 1 wells

1 well


42-10535984	3	6,700 ft	Feb 2003	—	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 (127)

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

127 months


Jul 2003	0	0	29.41	5.17	$0
Jun 2003	0	0	28.56	5.98	$0
May 2003	0	0	26.59	5.97	$0
Apr 2003	0	0	26.67	5.41	$0
Mar 2003	0	0	31.14	6.10	$0
Feb 2003	2	0	33.48	7.93	$67
Jan 2003	6	1,329	30.31	5.58	$7,600
Dec 2002	3	1,772	26.91	4.85	$8,682
Nov 2002	5	1,591	24.66	4.14	$6,705
Oct 2002	4	1,247	26.46	4.23	$5,380
Sep 2002	0	1,370	27.44	3.64	$4,980
Aug 2002	0	1,403	25.96	3.16	$4,439
Jul 2002	0	1,336	24.58	3.06	$4,091
Jun 2002	11	1,177	23.73	3.34	$4,190
May 2002	0	1,263	24.66	3.58	$4,527
Apr 2002	0	1,569	23.65	3.51	$5,511
Mar 2002	31	1,860	22.00	3.10	$6,453
Feb 2002	6	1,416	18.22	2.38	$3,473
Jan 2002	13	1,702	17.17	2.38	$4,267
Dec 2001	5	1,661	16.93	2.36	$4,012
Nov 2001	0	1,114	18.07	2.41	$2,680
Oct 2001	0	1,184	19.78	2.53	$2,994
Sep 2001	0	1,167	24.26	2.25	$2,627
Aug 2001	0	1,435	24.87	3.05	$4,381
Jul 2001	0	1,307	23.93	3.20	$4,179
Jun 2001	0	1,122	24.56	3.82	$4,291
May 2001	0	1,414	25.52	4.31	$6,091
Apr 2001	0	1,561	24.68	5.34	$8,328
Mar 2001	0	1,582	24.54	5.38	$8,506
Feb 2001	0	1,389	27.75	5.77	$8,010
Jan 2001	0	1,260	27.47	8.40	$10,582
Dec 2000	0	1,302	26.88	9.12	$11,878
Nov 2000	0	1,575	32.21	5.66	$8,911
Oct 2000	0	1,130	31.23	5.15	$5,814
Sep 2000	0	1,057	31.87	5.19	$5,482
Aug 2000	0	1,275	29.64	4.54	$5,789
Jul 2000	0	1,360	28.53	4.09	$5,562
Jun 2000	0	1,252	29.30	4.40	$5,505
May 2000	0	1,178	27.26	3.68	$4,335
Apr 2000	0	1,443	24.51	3.12	$4,496
Mar 2000	0	2,627	28.42	2.86	$7,513
Feb 2000	0	1,714	27.62	2.73	$4,673
Jan 2000	0	1,850	25.27	2.48	$4,589
Dec 1999	0	1,822	24.28	2.42	$4,416
Nov 1999	0	1,801	23.19	2.43	$4,384
Oct 1999	0	1,290	20.98	2.80	$3,617
Sep 1999	0	1,442	21.75	2.62	$3,776
Aug 1999	0	1,671	19.26	2.88	$4,805
Jul 1999	0	1,768	17.89	2.37	$4,194
Jun 1999	0	1,394	15.94	2.36	$3,293
May 1999	0	1,922	15.79	2.32	$4,461
Apr 1999	0	1,686	15.10	2.21	$3,723
Mar 1999	0	1,791	12.47	1.84	$3,292
Feb 1999	0	1,817	9.98	1.82	$3,303
Jan 1999	0	1,846	10.38	1.90	$3,507
Dec 1998	0	1,689	9.20	1.77	$2,995
Nov 1998	0	1,344	10.89	2.19	$2,938
Oct 1998	0	1,452	12.42	1.97	$2,859
Sep 1998	0	1,481	12.59	2.08	$3,084
Aug 1998	0	1,845	11.30	1.91	$3,519
Jul 1998	4	1,893	11.74	2.24	$4,282
Jun 1998	0	2,020	11.24	2.24	$4,519
May 1998	8	1,874	12.62	2.21	$4,236
Apr 1998	8	2,057	13.04	2.51	$5,258
Mar 1998	26	2,346	12.80	2.31	$5,751
Feb 1998	18	1,995	13.95	2.30	$4,838
Jan 1998	16	2,333	14.70	2.15	$5,262
Dec 1997	24	2,423	16.32	2.41	$6,234
Nov 1997	26	2,407	18.19	3.09	$7,906
Oct 1997	16	2,341	19.25	3.15	$7,682
Sep 1997	17	2,242	17.74	2.95	$6,926
Aug 1997	8	2,210	17.86	2.55	$5,789
Jul 1997	16	2,465	17.58	2.25	$5,820
Jun 1997	8	2,425	17.24	2.26	$5,612
May 1997	8	2,421	18.97	2.31	$5,741
Apr 1997	16	2,705	17.88	2.08	$5,920
Mar 1997	8	3,124	18.95	1.94	$6,209
Feb 1997	32	3,568	20.49	2.21	$8,526
Jan 1997	26	3,868	23.48	3.54	$14,302
Dec 1996	27	1,086	23.32	—	$630
Nov 1996	31	1,843	21.97	—	$681
Oct 1996	32	3,196	23.31	—	$746
Sep 1996	20	2,566	22.22	—	$444
Aug 1996	29	1,630	20.26	—	$588
Jul 1996	13	4,218	19.55	—	$254
Jun 1996	42	4,532	18.73	—	$787
May 1996	44	4,696	19.43	—	$855
Apr 1996	29	4,706	21.51	—	$624
Mar 1996	6	5,224	19.38	—	$116
Feb 1996	28	3,524	16.98	—	$475
Jan 1996	49	3,176	17.07	—	$836
Dec 1995	44	4,714	17.19	—	$756
Nov 1995	38	5,010	16.00	—	$608
Oct 1995	33	5,500	15.43	—	$509
Sep 1995	2	120	16.18	—	$32
Aug 1995	3	878	15.92	—	$48
Jul 1995	17	1,040	15.24	—	$259
Jun 1995	9	1,072	16.41	—	$148
May 1995	2	5,222	17.56	—	$35
Apr 1995	4	5,818	17.73	—	$71
Mar 1995	6	2,774	16.44	—	$99
Feb 1995	20	0	16.58	—	$332
Jan 1995	12	2,222	15.92	—	$191
Dec 1994	55	2,590	15.03	—	$827
Nov 1994	42	2,817	15.90	—	$668
Oct 1994	44	3,342	15.58	—	$686
Sep 1994	58	2,621	15.29	—	$887
Aug 1994	32	2,904	16.13	—	$516
Jul 1994	38	3,660	17.56	—	$667
Jun 1994	15	3,535	17.09	—	$256
May 1994	28	3,427	15.88	—	$445
Apr 1994	23	3,148	14.14	—	$325
Mar 1994	45	3,435	12.46	—	$561
Feb 1994	40	3,192	12.50	—	$500
Jan 1994	39	3,655	12.66	—	$494
Dec 1993	18	2,057	12.33	—	$222
Nov 1993	26	2,418	14.49	—	$377
Oct 1993	10	2,588	15.85	—	$159
Sep 1993	48	3,005	15.03	—	$721
Aug 1993	45	2,619	15.66	—	$705
Jul 1993	36	3,176	15.46	—	$557
Jun 1993	58	4,127	16.79	—	$974
May 1993	57	2,729	17.68	—	$1,008
Apr 1993	75	3,278	18.05	—	$1,354
Mar 1993	29	3,707	18.14	—	$526
Feb 1993	14	3,488	17.90	—	$251
Jan 1993	15	4,347	16.93	—	$254

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 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate             2 bbl  × $ 33.48 =        $67
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  7.93 =         $0

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Month total                                      $67

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. 7C/G/140232 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.