HELMERS "A"

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

Operated by LAVANCO ENERGY, LTD. (P-5 489783) in the KURLAND BOW TYE (STRAWN SAND) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 141166District 7CField 504166002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$444 k

Jan 1993 – Apr 2018

Value, last 12 filed months

$11 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

304

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The KURLAND BOW TYE (STRAWN 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 12 leases and 16 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1989-10-17

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

—

no field rule filed

From a lease line

—

no field rule filed

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “ALLOCATION FORMULA SUSPENDED 4/1/95 PER COMPLETED AOF SURVEY”

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	1993-05-20	128610
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	930 bbl	$17,793
Gas	Production	371,272 Mcf	$426,282
Total			$444,075

278,771 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 31.0714, -100.5429. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.07145, -100.54291 · 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

6,500 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

26.1 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 6,500 ft.

Completions filed

Mar 1992

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Apr 2018

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 26.1 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 26.1 years and 26.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-41331777	1	6,500 ft	Mar 1992	Apr 2018	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 (304)

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

304 months


Apr 2018	0	0	63.84	2.90	$0
Mar 2018	0	187	61.22	2.79	$521
Feb 2018	0	201	61.78	2.77	$556
Jan 2018	0	229	62.87	4.01	$918
Dec 2017	0	229	57.27	2.92	$669
Nov 2017	0	230	55.42	3.12	$717
Oct 2017	0	259	49.29	2.98	$773
Sep 2017	0	247	47.52	3.09	$763
Aug 2017	0	249	45.37	3.00	$748
Jul 2017	72	257	43.87	3.09	$3,952
Jun 2017	0	279	42.49	3.09	$861
May 2017	0	156	45.37	3.26	$509
Apr 2017	0	274	47.93	3.21	$880
Mar 2017	0	275	46.77	2.98	$821
Feb 2017	0	256	50.45	2.95	$756
Jan 2017	0	272	49.41	3.42	$930
Dec 2016	0	276	48.76	3.72	$1,028
Nov 2016	0	281	42.49	2.64	$743
Oct 2016	0	296	46.19	3.09	$915
Sep 2016	0	306	41.55	3.10	$949
Aug 2016	0	323	41.44	2.92	$945
Jul 2016	0	323	41.62	2.92	$945
Jun 2016	0	230	45.35	2.69	$618
May 2016	0	264	42.52	1.99	$526
Apr 2016	0	283	36.56	1.99	$563
Mar 2016	0	303	33.01	1.79	$544
Feb 2016	0	276	26.47	2.06	$570
Jan 2016	0	317	27.35	2.36	$750
Dec 2015	0	310	32.36	2.00	$620
Nov 2015	0	304	38.79	2.17	$659
Oct 2015	0	320	43.55	2.43	$777
Sep 2015	0	326	42.99	2.76	$899
Aug 2015	0	348	40.16	2.87	$1,000
Jul 2015	0	321	48.15	2.95	$945
Jun 2015	0	348	56.15	2.88	$1,003
May 2015	0	346	55.21	2.96	$1,023
Apr 2015	0	346	49.82	2.71	$936
Mar 2015	0	331	42.89	2.93	$971
Feb 2015	0	303	44.66	2.98	$902
Jan 2015	0	354	43.43	3.10	$1,098
Dec 2014	0	366	54.69	3.59	$1,314
Nov 2014	0	351	70.46	4.25	$1,492
Oct 2014	0	360	78.30	3.90	$1,404
Sep 2014	0	384	86.16	4.05	$1,553
Aug 2014	0	389	89.39	4.04	$1,570
Jul 2014	0	406	96.56	4.18	$1,697
Jun 2014	0	376	98.16	4.74	$1,781
May 2014	0	408	94.73	4.73	$1,928
Apr 2014	0	414	95.94	4.81	$1,991
Mar 2014	0	229	95.89	5.06	$1,158
Feb 2014	0	359	97.40	6.19	$2,223
Jan 2014	0	382	90.40	4.86	$1,857
Dec 2013	0	404	91.82	4.35	$1,759
Nov 2013	0	335	88.85	3.74	$1,252
Oct 2013	0	424	97.42	3.78	$1,602
Sep 2013	0	441	104.11	3.72	$1,640
Aug 2013	0	474	104.25	3.52	$1,670
Jul 2013	0	434	102.52	3.72	$1,614
Jun 2013	0	480	94.40	3.93	$1,888
May 2013	0	371	94.83	4.15	$1,539
Apr 2013	0	336	93.96	4.28	$1,439
Mar 2013	0	241	93.62	3.91	$943
Feb 2013	0	305	91.23	3.42	$1,043
Jan 2013	0	340	91.60	3.42	$1,163
Dec 2012	0	383	86.77	3.42	$1,310
Nov 2012	0	330	86.95	3.62	$1,196
Oct 2012	0	394	89.38	3.40	$1,339
Sep 2012	0	448	94.67	2.92	$1,307
Aug 2012	0	421	92.66	2.91	$1,224
Jul 2012	0	391	85.13	3.02	$1,181
Jun 2012	0	455	79.82	2.52	$1,146
May 2012	0	405	91.61	2.49	$1,008
Apr 2012	0	444	101.65	2.00	$887
Mar 2012	0	459	105.05	2.22	$1,020
Feb 2012	0	439	101.10	2.57	$1,128
Jan 2012	0	484	98.09	2.73	$1,323
Dec 2011	0	496	96.87	3.24	$1,607
Nov 2011	0	489	95.72	3.31	$1,619
Oct 2011	0	489	84.98	3.65	$1,784
Sep 2011	0	524	83.62	3.99	$2,089
Aug 2011	0	561	83.40	4.15	$2,328
Jul 2011	0	565	94.14	4.52	$2,552
Jun 2011	0	560	92.90	4.64	$2,598
May 2011	0	576	98.13	4.40	$2,537
Apr 2011	0	514	105.96	4.33	$2,227
Mar 2011	0	606	96.36	4.06	$2,459
Feb 2011	0	556	85.64	4.18	$2,324
Jan 2011	0	611	86.50	4.59	$2,804
Dec 2010	0	643	85.73	4.35	$2,796
Nov 2010	0	249	80.84	3.80	$945
Oct 2010	0	331	78.10	3.51	$1,161
Sep 2010	0	427	72.63	3.98	$1,699
Aug 2010	0	485	73.68	4.42	$2,143
Jul 2010	0	479	72.55	4.74	$2,269
Jun 2010	0	553	70.36	4.91	$2,715
May 2010	0	559	71.12	4.24	$2,367
Apr 2010	0	541	81.69	4.12	$2,230
Mar 2010	0	527	78.39	4.39	$2,313
Feb 2010	0	499	73.58	5.44	$2,716
Jan 2010	0	570	74.36	5.96	$3,400
Dec 2009	0	600	71.44	5.48	$3,290
Nov 2009	0	589	74.59	3.75	$2,210
Oct 2009	0	601	72.54	4.11	$2,470
Sep 2009	0	651	65.54	3.06	$1,995
Aug 2009	0	645	67.42	3.22	$2,076
Jul 2009	0	622	61.13	3.46	$2,155
Jun 2009	0	459	66.16	3.90	$1,788
May 2009	0	484	54.74	3.93	$1,900
Apr 2009	0	457	46.77	3.59	$1,639
Mar 2009	0	419	42.14	4.06	$1,701
Feb 2009	0	380	32.81	4.63	$1,761
Jan 2009	0	421	35.86	5.37	$2,261
Dec 2008	0	440	37.10	5.98	$2,630
Nov 2008	0	534	55.49	6.86	$3,663
Oct 2008	0	244	75.24	6.92	$1,689
Sep 2008	0	411	101.76	7.88	$3,237
Aug 2008	0	601	114.22	8.48	$5,098
Jul 2008	0	551	131.08	11.39	$6,276
Jun 2008	0	570	131.33	13.03	$7,429
May 2008	0	584	123.17	11.57	$6,759
Apr 2008	0	611	110.31	10.45	$6,388
Mar 2008	0	496	101.90	9.66	$4,793
Feb 2008	0	637	92.53	8.77	$5,587
Jan 2008	0	674	90.38	8.21	$5,531
Dec 2007	0	717	88.33	7.30	$5,236
Nov 2007	0	711	91.67	7.29	$5,184
Oct 2007	0	746	82.85	6.92	$5,164
Sep 2007	0	750	75.84	6.24	$4,683
Aug 2007	0	792	69.06	6.39	$5,059
Jul 2007	0	779	70.90	6.39	$4,976
Jun 2007	0	753	62.00	7.55	$5,684
May 2007	0	779	58.74	7.85	$6,112
Apr 2007	0	822	59.61	7.81	$6,416
Mar 2007	0	734	56.92	7.30	$5,360
Feb 2007	0	727	55.10	8.22	$5,973
Jan 2007	0	826	50.30	6.73	$5,556
Dec 2006	0	837	56.65	6.92	$5,791
Nov 2006	0	866	54.20	7.62	$6,597
Oct 2006	0	929	54.90	6.01	$5,587
Sep 2006	0	884	60.08	5.04	$4,453
Aug 2006	0	806	68.71	7.34	$5,916
Jul 2006	0	806	69.37	6.34	$5,112
Jun 2006	0	882	66.28	6.38	$5,631
May 2006	0	816	66.01	6.42	$5,243
Apr 2006	0	666	64.39	7.36	$4,902
Mar 2006	0	429	56.70	7.08	$3,039
Feb 2006	0	354	57.59	7.75	$2,744
Jan 2006	0	405	60.59	8.93	$3,618
Dec 2005	0	366	54.94	13.42	$4,910
Nov 2005	0	356	54.69	10.59	$3,769
Oct 2005	0	334	58.34	13.80	$4,608
Sep 2005	0	363	61.45	12.08	$4,385
Aug 2005	0	56	61.51	9.80	$549
Jul 2005	0	52	55.69	7.84	$408
Jun 2005	0	51	52.33	7.38	$376
May 2005	0	41	45.22	6.65	$273
Apr 2005	0	0	49.20	7.36	$0
Mar 2005	0	0	50.37	7.15	$0
Feb 2005	0	0	45.22	6.31	$0
Jan 2005	0	0	43.16	6.32	$0
Dec 2004	0	0	39.86	6.75	$0
Nov 2004	0	0	45.28	6.33	$0
Oct 2004	0	0	49.70	6.52	$0
Sep 2004	0	0	43.24	5.28	$0
Aug 2004	0	0	42.37	5.55	$0
Jul 2004	0	0	38.28	6.08	$0
Jun 2004	0	0	36.10	6.43	$0
May 2004	0	0	37.48	6.49	$0
Apr 2004	0	0	34.47	5.86	$0
Mar 2004	0	0	34.36	5.53	$0
Feb 2004	0	0	32.45	5.51	$0
Jan 2004	0	0	32.03	6.30	$0
Dec 2003	0	0	30.26	6.30	$0
Nov 2003	0	0	28.80	4.60	$0
Oct 2003	0	0	28.17	4.76	$0
Sep 2003	0	0	26.31	4.75	$0
Aug 2003	0	0	29.76	5.13	$0
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	0	0	33.48	7.93	$0
Jan 2003	0	0	30.31	5.58	$0
Dec 2002	0	0	26.91	4.85	$0
Nov 2002	0	0	24.66	4.14	$0
Oct 2002	0	0	26.46	4.23	$0
Sep 2002	0	0	27.44	3.64	$0
Aug 2002	0	0	25.96	3.16	$0
Jul 2002	0	0	24.58	3.06	$0
Jun 2002	0	0	23.73	3.34	$0
May 2002	0	0	24.66	3.58	$0
Apr 2002	0	0	23.65	3.51	$0
Mar 2002	0	0	22.00	3.10	$0
Feb 2002	0	0	18.22	2.38	$0
Jan 2002	0	73	17.17	2.38	$173
Dec 2001	0	12	16.93	2.36	$28
Nov 2001	0	0	18.07	2.41	$0
Oct 2001	0	14	19.78	2.53	$35
Sep 2001	0	20	24.26	2.25	$45
Aug 2001	0	50	24.87	3.05	$153
Jul 2001	0	0	23.93	3.20	$0
Jun 2001	0	63	24.56	3.82	$241
May 2001	0	40	25.52	4.31	$172
Apr 2001	0	83	24.68	5.34	$443
Mar 2001	0	360	24.54	5.38	$1,936
Feb 2001	0	208	27.75	5.77	$1,200
Jan 2001	0	218	27.47	8.40	$1,831
Dec 2000	0	221	26.88	9.12	$2,016
Nov 2000	0	254	32.21	5.66	$1,437
Oct 2000	0	260	31.23	5.15	$1,338
Sep 2000	0	141	31.87	5.19	$731
Aug 2000	0	154	29.64	4.54	$699
Jul 2000	0	141	28.53	4.09	$577
Jun 2000	0	207	29.30	4.40	$910
May 2000	0	158	27.26	3.68	$581
Apr 2000	0	170	24.51	3.12	$530
Mar 2000	0	137	28.42	2.86	$392
Feb 2000	0	193	27.62	2.73	$526
Jan 2000	0	215	25.27	2.48	$533
Dec 1999	0	320	24.28	2.42	$776
Nov 1999	0	195	23.19	2.43	$475
Oct 1999	0	315	20.98	2.80	$883
Sep 1999	0	225	21.75	2.62	$589
Aug 1999	171	199	19.26	2.88	$3,866
Jul 1999	0	261	17.89	2.37	$619
Jun 1999	0	181	15.94	2.36	$428
May 1999	0	207	15.79	2.32	$480
Apr 1999	0	354	15.10	2.21	$782
Mar 1999	0	386	12.47	1.84	$710
Feb 1999	0	234	9.98	1.82	$425
Jan 1999	0	487	10.38	1.90	$925
Dec 1998	0	435	9.20	1.77	$771
Nov 1998	0	343	10.89	2.19	$750
Oct 1998	0	392	12.42	1.97	$772
Sep 1998	0	508	12.59	2.08	$1,058
Aug 1998	0	440	11.30	1.91	$839
Jul 1998	0	644	11.74	2.24	$1,441
Jun 1998	0	679	11.24	2.24	$1,519
May 1998	0	532	12.62	2.21	$1,174
Apr 1998	0	213	13.04	2.51	$534
Mar 1998	0	278	12.80	2.31	$642
Feb 1998	0	373	13.95	2.30	$858
Jan 1998	0	202	14.70	2.15	$435
Dec 1997	0	318	16.32	2.41	$767
Nov 1997	0	456	18.19	3.09	$1,408
Oct 1997	0	401	19.25	3.15	$1,263
Sep 1997	0	323	17.74	2.95	$954
Aug 1997	0	620	17.86	2.55	$1,584
Jul 1997	0	460	17.58	2.25	$1,034
Jun 1997	0	1,363	17.24	2.26	$3,077
May 1997	0	1,609	18.97	2.31	$3,714
Apr 1997	0	1,389	17.88	2.08	$2,893
Mar 1997	0	1,468	18.95	1.94	$2,847
Feb 1997	0	1,327	20.49	2.21	$2,927
Jan 1997	0	1,349	23.48	3.54	$4,775
Dec 1996	0	1,545	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	0	1,536	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	0	2,015	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	22	1,622	22.22	—	$489
Aug 1996	0	2,032	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	0	1,977	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	0	1,649	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	0	1,964	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	0	2,156	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	0	2,498	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	0	2,542	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	0	3,817	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	0	3,540	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	0	3,933	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	0	3,865	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	0	3,310	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	0	3,463	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	0	1,763	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	0	1,705	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	0	2,685	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	0	3,437	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	0	6,595	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	61	4,474	16.58	—	$1,011
Jan 1995	0	4,537	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	2	5,504	15.03	—	$30
Nov 1994	0	5,362	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	0	6,240	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	2	5,076	15.29	—	$31
Aug 1994	12	9,476	16.13	—	$194
Jul 1994	0	6,622	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	0	7,900	17.09	—	$0
May 1994	16	9,885	15.88	—	$254
Apr 1994	0	10,411	14.14	—	$0
Mar 1994	8	9,633	12.46	—	$100
Feb 1994	0	10,251	12.50	—	$0
Jan 1994	63	11,486	12.66	—	$798
Dec 1993	23	13,472	12.33	—	$284
Nov 1993	20	11,470	14.49	—	$290
Oct 1993	28	14,486	15.85	—	$444
Sep 1993	28	12,884	15.03	—	$421
Aug 1993	16	12,255	15.66	—	$251
Jul 1993	6	10,963	15.46	—	$93
Jun 1993	84	11,627	16.79	—	$1,410
May 1993	27	2,799	17.68	—	$477
Apr 1993	27	1,436	18.05	—	$487
Mar 1993	86	6,215	18.14	—	$1,560
Feb 1993	80	7,329	17.90	—	$1,432
Jan 1993	76	7,329	16.93	—	$1,287

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.

Mar 2018 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 61.22 =         $0
Gas                  187 Mcf  × $  2.79 =       $521

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                     $521

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/141166 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.