HELMERS

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

Operated by LAVANCO ENERGY, INC. (P-5 489781) 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 144115District 7CField 504166002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$279 k

Jan 1993 – Feb 2005

Value, last 12 filed months

$6 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

146

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	1993-06-02	128608
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	265 bbl	$6,896
Gas	Production	375,003 Mcf	$272,148
Total			$279,044

289,797 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 31.0746, -100.5400. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.07459, -100.54005 · 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

6,700 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

24.8 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 6,700 ft.

Completions filed

Dec 1992

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Sep 2017

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 24.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 24.8 years and 24.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-41331749	2	6,700 ft	Dec 1992	Sep 2017	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 (146)

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

146 months


Feb 2005	0	0	45.22	6.31	$0
Jan 2005	0	0	43.16	6.32	$0
Dec 2004	29	0	39.86	6.75	$1,156
Nov 2004	18	107	45.28	6.33	$1,492
Oct 2004	0	131	49.70	6.52	$853
Sep 2004	18	154	43.24	5.28	$1,592
Aug 2004	2	46	42.37	5.55	$340
Jul 2004	0	22	38.28	6.08	$134
Jun 2004	0	23	36.10	6.43	$148
May 2004	2	23	37.48	6.49	$224
Apr 2004	0	0	34.47	5.86	$0
Mar 2004	0	0	34.36	5.53	$0
Feb 2004	2	5	32.45	5.51	$92
Jan 2004	0	57	32.03	6.30	$359
Dec 2003	2	60	30.26	6.30	$439
Nov 2003	0	118	28.80	4.60	$542
Oct 2003	2	98	28.17	4.76	$523
Sep 2003	2	100	26.31	4.75	$528
Aug 2003	0	56	29.76	5.13	$287
Jul 2003	0	107	29.41	5.17	$553
Jun 2003	2	197	28.56	5.98	$1,236
May 2003	0	161	26.59	5.97	$962
Apr 2003	2	238	26.67	5.41	$1,340
Mar 2003	0	250	31.14	6.10	$1,524
Feb 2003	2	296	33.48	7.93	$2,413
Jan 2003	2	236	30.31	5.58	$1,378
Dec 2002	0	365	26.91	4.85	$1,772
Nov 2002	2	261	24.66	4.14	$1,129
Oct 2002	2	77	26.46	4.23	$379
Sep 2002	0	337	27.44	3.64	$1,225
Aug 2002	2	263	25.96	3.16	$884
Jul 2002	0	241	24.58	3.06	$738
Jun 2002	2	223	23.73	3.34	$792
May 2002	2	230	24.66	3.58	$874
Apr 2002	2	180	23.65	3.51	$680
Mar 2002	0	208	22.00	3.10	$645
Feb 2002	2	237	18.22	2.38	$599
Jan 2002	2	248	17.17	2.38	$624
Dec 2001	2	164	16.93	2.36	$422
Nov 2001	2	127	18.07	2.41	$342
Oct 2001	0	60	19.78	2.53	$152
Sep 2001	2	6	24.26	2.25	$62
Aug 2001	0	318	24.87	3.05	$971
Jul 2001	2	295	23.93	3.20	$991
Jun 2001	2	616	24.56	3.82	$2,405
May 2001	2	1,104	25.52	4.31	$4,806
Apr 2001	2	1,299	24.68	5.34	$6,980
Mar 2001	2	1,415	24.54	5.38	$7,657
Feb 2001	2	1,469	27.75	5.77	$8,527
Jan 2001	2	1,550	27.47	8.40	$13,073
Dec 2000	2	1,516	26.88	9.12	$13,883
Nov 2000	2	1,531	32.21	5.66	$8,727
Oct 2000	2	1,438	31.23	5.15	$7,462
Sep 2000	2	1,454	31.87	5.19	$7,605
Aug 2000	2	1,518	29.64	4.54	$6,952
Jul 2000	2	1,674	28.53	4.09	$6,903
Jun 2000	2	1,448	29.30	4.40	$6,426
May 2000	2	1,641	27.26	3.68	$6,093
Apr 2000	2	1,714	24.51	3.12	$5,390
Mar 2000	2	1,914	28.42	2.86	$5,530
Feb 2000	2	2,888	27.62	2.73	$7,929
Jan 2000	2	1,770	25.27	2.48	$4,441
Dec 1999	2	1,995	24.28	2.42	$4,884
Nov 1999	2	1,838	23.19	2.43	$4,520
Oct 1999	2	2,086	20.98	2.80	$5,891
Sep 1999	2	2,061	21.75	2.62	$5,441
Aug 1999	2	2,418	19.26	2.88	$6,992
Jul 1999	2	2,428	17.89	2.37	$5,796
Jun 1999	2	2,407	15.94	2.36	$5,717
May 1999	2	2,508	15.79	2.32	$5,853
Apr 1999	2	2,732	15.10	2.21	$6,063
Mar 1999	2	2,758	12.47	1.84	$5,095
Feb 1999	2	2,534	9.98	1.82	$4,626
Jan 1999	2	2,782	10.38	1.90	$5,306
Dec 1998	2	2,838	9.20	1.77	$5,051
Nov 1998	2	2,769	10.89	2.19	$6,074
Oct 1998	2	2,197	12.42	1.97	$4,351
Sep 1998	2	1,414	12.59	2.08	$2,970
Aug 1998	2	1,843	11.30	1.91	$3,538
Jul 1998	2	2,206	11.74	2.24	$4,959
Jun 1998	2	2,014	11.24	2.24	$4,528
May 1998	2	1,593	12.62	2.21	$3,540
Apr 1998	2	1,006	13.04	2.51	$2,546
Mar 1998	0	12	12.80	2.31	$28
Feb 1998	0	129	13.95	2.30	$297
Jan 1998	1	137	14.70	2.15	$310
Dec 1997	2	158	16.32	2.41	$414
Nov 1997	2	156	18.19	3.09	$518
Oct 1997	2	231	19.25	3.15	$766
Sep 1997	2	120	17.74	2.95	$390
Aug 1997	2	254	17.86	2.55	$685
Jul 1997	2	237	17.58	2.25	$568
Jun 1997	2	326	17.24	2.26	$770
May 1997	0	271	18.97	2.31	$626
Apr 1997	2	257	17.88	2.08	$571
Mar 1997	2	525	18.95	1.94	$1,056
Feb 1997	2	642	20.49	2.21	$1,457
Jan 1997	2	1,040	23.48	3.54	$3,728
Dec 1996	2	1,188	23.32	—	$47
Nov 1996	2	1,213	21.97	—	$44
Oct 1996	2	1,447	23.31	—	$47
Sep 1996	2	1,128	22.22	—	$44
Aug 1996	0	1,354	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	0	1,247	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	0	1,244	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	0	897	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	1	416	21.51	—	$22
Mar 1996	0	507	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	2	777	16.98	—	$34
Jan 1996	2	2,273	17.07	—	$34
Dec 1995	2	2,764	17.19	—	$34
Nov 1995	2	2,389	16.00	—	$32
Oct 1995	2	2,457	15.43	—	$31
Sep 1995	2	2,222	16.18	—	$32
Aug 1995	1	2,279	15.92	—	$16
Jul 1995	2	2,178	15.24	—	$30
Jun 1995	1	2,477	16.41	—	$16
May 1995	2	2,204	17.56	—	$35
Apr 1995	2	3,697	17.73	—	$35
Mar 1995	2	4,091	16.44	—	$33
Feb 1995	3	4,389	16.58	—	$50
Jan 1995	0	3,129	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	2	4,028	15.03	—	$30
Nov 1994	1	5,776	15.90	—	$16
Oct 1994	0	3,968	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	2	5,037	15.29	—	$31
Aug 1994	2	7,400	16.13	—	$32
Jul 1994	0	7,338	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	1	8,460	17.09	—	$17
May 1994	1	7,229	15.88	—	$16
Apr 1994	0	9,168	14.14	—	$0
Mar 1994	1	8,527	12.46	—	$12
Feb 1994	1	11,573	12.50	—	$13
Jan 1994	1	10,512	12.66	—	$13
Dec 1993	1	16,367	12.33	—	$12
Nov 1993	1	16,345	14.49	—	$14
Oct 1993	1	15,651	15.85	—	$16
Sep 1993	1	15,357	15.03	—	$15
Aug 1993	1	14,295	15.66	—	$16
Jul 1993	1	15,722	15.46	—	$15
Jun 1993	3	16,053	16.79	—	$50
May 1993	0	9,036	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	0	397	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	0	9,227	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	0	9,592	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	0	14,772	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.

Dec 2004 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate            29 bbl  × $ 39.86 =     $1,156
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  6.75 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $1,156

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/144115 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.