MERTZ "A"

Name: MERTZ "A" lease production and value, Jan 2000 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by SILVER OIL & GAS INC. (P-5 781880) in the FLYING ANCHOR (WOLFCAMP) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 176029District 7CField 31726500GasSave Export

Value, all time

$214 k

Jan 2000 – Nov 2020

Value, last 12 filed months

$92

at the published price for each month

Months reported

251

no gaps in the span

Streams

gas

The FLYING ANCHOR (WOLFCAMP) 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 4 leases and 4 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1959-03-19

as the register files it

Field class

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 EFFECTIVE 03/01/86.”

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
Gas	Production	48,002 Mcf	$214,277
Total			$214,277

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 30.7918, -100.5530. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.79178, -100.55305 · 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

6,444 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

20.8 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 6,444 ft.

Completions filed

Jan 2000

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Nov 2020

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 20.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 20.8 years and 20.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-41330776	1	6,444 ft	Jan 2000	Nov 2020	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 (251)

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

251 months


Nov 2020	0	38.77	2.71	$0
Oct 2020	0	36.97	2.48	$0
Sep 2020	0	37.09	1.99	$0
Aug 2020	0	39.98	2.39	$0
Jul 2020	13	38.37	1.83	$24
Jun 2020	3	34.90	1.69	$5
May 2020	5	16.92	1.81	$9
Apr 2020	6	14.75	1.80	$11
Mar 2020	10	30.34	1.86	$19
Feb 2020	6	49.88	1.98	$12
Jan 2020	6	57.25	2.09	$13
Dec 2019	0	59.01	2.30	$0
Nov 2019	7	55.30	2.75	$19
Oct 2019	6	53.47	2.42	$15
Sep 2019	15	55.05	2.66	$40
Aug 2019	0	53.11	2.30	$0
Jul 2019	0	56.27	2.46	$0
Jun 2019	10	52.78	2.49	$25
May 2019	14	58.48	2.74	$38
Apr 2019	14	62.63	2.75	$39
Mar 2019	16	56.80	3.06	$49
Feb 2019	14	50.85	2.79	$39
Jan 2019	13	46.03	3.23	$42
Dec 2018	14	46.59	4.19	$59
Nov 2018	14	52.93	4.24	$59
Oct 2018	10	61.44	3.40	$34
Sep 2018	11	59.54	3.11	$34
Aug 2018	12	59.40	3.07	$37
Jul 2018	14	65.14	2.93	$41
Jun 2018	16	60.18	3.08	$49
May 2018	14	65.38	2.90	$41
Apr 2018	14	63.84	2.90	$41
Mar 2018	19	61.22	2.79	$53
Feb 2018	17	61.78	2.77	$47
Jan 2018	8	62.87	4.01	$32
Dec 2017	5	57.27	2.92	$15
Nov 2017	5	55.42	3.12	$16
Oct 2017	12	49.29	2.98	$36
Sep 2017	14	47.52	3.09	$43
Aug 2017	12	45.37	3.00	$36
Jul 2017	32	43.87	3.09	$99
Jun 2017	32	42.49	3.09	$99
May 2017	19	45.37	3.26	$62
Apr 2017	35	47.93	3.21	$112
Mar 2017	35	46.77	2.98	$104
Feb 2017	20	50.45	2.95	$59
Jan 2017	12	49.41	3.42	$41
Dec 2016	17	48.76	3.72	$63
Nov 2016	12	42.49	2.64	$32
Oct 2016	26	46.19	3.09	$80
Sep 2016	30	41.55	3.10	$93
Aug 2016	25	41.44	2.92	$73
Jul 2016	27	41.62	2.92	$79
Jun 2016	18	45.35	2.69	$48
May 2016	28	42.52	1.99	$56
Apr 2016	33	36.56	1.99	$66
Mar 2016	37	33.01	1.79	$66
Feb 2016	12	26.47	2.06	$25
Jan 2016	13	27.35	2.36	$31
Dec 2015	8	32.36	2.00	$16
Nov 2015	5	38.79	2.17	$11
Oct 2015	10	43.55	2.43	$24
Sep 2015	8	42.99	2.76	$22
Aug 2015	8	40.16	2.87	$23
Jul 2015	14	48.15	2.95	$41
Jun 2015	14	56.15	2.88	$40
May 2015	18	55.21	2.96	$53
Apr 2015	25	49.82	2.71	$68
Mar 2015	40	42.89	2.93	$117
Feb 2015	20	44.66	2.98	$60
Jan 2015	20	43.43	3.10	$62
Dec 2014	11	54.69	3.59	$40
Nov 2014	16	70.46	4.25	$68
Oct 2014	21	78.30	3.90	$82
Sep 2014	20	86.16	4.05	$81
Aug 2014	23	89.39	4.04	$93
Jul 2014	22	96.56	4.18	$92
Jun 2014	30	98.16	4.74	$142
May 2014	27	94.73	4.73	$128
Apr 2014	35	95.94	4.81	$168
Mar 2014	27	95.89	5.06	$137
Feb 2014	37	97.40	6.19	$229
Jan 2014	34	90.40	4.86	$165
Dec 2013	38	91.82	4.35	$165
Nov 2013	12	88.85	3.74	$45
Oct 2013	29	97.42	3.78	$110
Sep 2013	29	104.11	3.72	$108
Aug 2013	27	104.25	3.52	$95
Jul 2013	10	102.52	3.72	$37
Jun 2013	47	94.40	3.93	$185
May 2013	21	94.83	4.15	$87
Apr 2013	54	93.96	4.28	$231
Mar 2013	25	93.62	3.91	$98
Feb 2013	27	91.23	3.42	$92
Jan 2013	30	91.60	3.42	$103
Dec 2012	36	86.77	3.42	$123
Nov 2012	34	86.95	3.62	$123
Oct 2012	36	89.38	3.40	$122
Sep 2012	34	94.67	2.92	$99
Aug 2012	37	92.66	2.91	$108
Jul 2012	37	85.13	3.02	$112
Jun 2012	35	79.82	2.52	$88
May 2012	37	91.61	2.49	$92
Apr 2012	31	101.65	2.00	$62
Mar 2012	36	105.05	2.22	$80
Feb 2012	33	101.10	2.57	$85
Jan 2012	36	98.09	2.73	$98
Dec 2011	35	96.87	3.24	$113
Nov 2011	34	95.72	3.31	$113
Oct 2011	36	84.98	3.65	$131
Sep 2011	30	83.62	3.99	$120
Aug 2011	33	83.40	4.15	$137
Jul 2011	42	94.14	4.52	$190
Jun 2011	61	92.90	4.64	$283
May 2011	61	98.13	4.40	$269
Apr 2011	60	105.96	4.33	$260
Mar 2011	62	96.36	4.06	$252
Feb 2011	36	85.64	4.18	$150
Jan 2011	48	86.50	4.59	$220
Dec 2010	49	85.73	4.35	$213
Nov 2010	53	80.84	3.80	$201
Oct 2010	54	78.10	3.51	$189
Sep 2010	55	72.63	3.98	$219
Aug 2010	49	73.68	4.42	$217
Jul 2010	60	72.55	4.74	$284
Jun 2010	58	70.36	4.91	$285
May 2010	59	71.12	4.24	$250
Apr 2010	57	81.69	4.12	$235
Mar 2010	61	78.39	4.39	$268
Feb 2010	54	73.58	5.44	$294
Jan 2010	69	74.36	5.96	$412
Dec 2009	82	71.44	5.48	$450
Nov 2009	87	74.59	3.75	$326
Oct 2009	81	72.54	4.11	$333
Sep 2009	72	65.54	3.06	$221
Aug 2009	72	67.42	3.22	$232
Jul 2009	83	61.13	3.46	$288
Jun 2009	74	66.16	3.90	$288
May 2009	89	54.74	3.93	$349
Apr 2009	84	46.77	3.59	$301
Mar 2009	79	42.14	4.06	$321
Feb 2009	106	32.81	4.63	$491
Jan 2009	137	35.86	5.37	$736
Dec 2008	69	37.10	5.98	$412
Nov 2008	69	55.49	6.86	$473
Oct 2008	75	75.24	6.92	$519
Sep 2008	74	101.76	7.88	$583
Aug 2008	103	114.22	8.48	$874
Jul 2008	3	131.08	11.39	$34
Jun 2008	20	131.33	13.03	$261
May 2008	32	123.17	11.57	$370
Apr 2008	69	110.31	10.45	$721
Mar 2008	95	101.90	9.66	$918
Feb 2008	90	92.53	8.77	$789
Jan 2008	96	90.38	8.21	$788
Dec 2007	80	88.33	7.30	$584
Nov 2007	94	91.67	7.29	$685
Oct 2007	91	82.85	6.92	$630
Sep 2007	88	75.84	6.24	$549
Aug 2007	65	69.06	6.39	$415
Jul 2007	93	70.90	6.39	$594
Jun 2007	93	62.00	7.55	$702
May 2007	93	58.74	7.85	$730
Apr 2007	93	59.61	7.81	$726
Mar 2007	93	56.92	7.30	$679
Feb 2007	93	55.10	8.22	$764
Jan 2007	93	50.30	6.73	$626
Dec 2006	93	56.65	6.92	$643
Nov 2006	90	54.20	7.62	$686
Oct 2006	93	54.90	6.01	$559
Sep 2006	96	60.08	5.04	$484
Aug 2006	94	68.71	7.34	$690
Jul 2006	104	69.37	6.34	$660
Jun 2006	104	66.28	6.38	$664
May 2006	94	66.01	6.42	$604
Apr 2006	90	64.39	7.36	$662
Mar 2006	120	56.70	7.08	$850
Feb 2006	77	57.59	7.75	$597
Jan 2006	104	60.59	8.93	$929
Dec 2005	113	54.94	13.42	$1,516
Nov 2005	120	54.69	10.59	$1,271
Oct 2005	108	58.34	13.80	$1,490
Sep 2005	102	61.45	12.08	$1,232
Aug 2005	110	61.51	9.80	$1,078
Jul 2005	124	55.69	7.84	$973
Jun 2005	110	52.33	7.38	$812
May 2005	124	45.22	6.65	$825
Apr 2005	120	49.20	7.36	$883
Mar 2005	0	50.37	7.15	$0
Feb 2005	130	45.22	6.31	$821
Jan 2005	60	43.16	6.32	$379
Dec 2004	55	39.86	6.75	$371
Nov 2004	59	45.28	6.33	$373
Oct 2004	76	49.70	6.52	$495
Sep 2004	67	43.24	5.28	$354
Aug 2004	79	42.37	5.55	$439
Jul 2004	74	38.28	6.08	$450
Jun 2004	82	36.10	6.43	$528
May 2004	93	37.48	6.49	$604
Apr 2004	97	34.47	5.86	$568
Mar 2004	115	34.36	5.53	$636
Feb 2004	85	32.45	5.51	$468
Jan 2004	113	32.03	6.30	$712
Dec 2003	72	30.26	6.30	$454
Nov 2003	107	28.80	4.60	$492
Oct 2003	121	28.17	4.76	$576
Sep 2003	73	26.31	4.75	$347
Aug 2003	109	29.76	5.13	$559
Jul 2003	122	29.41	5.17	$631
Jun 2003	142	28.56	5.98	$850
May 2003	124	26.59	5.97	$741
Apr 2003	196	26.67	5.41	$1,060
Mar 2003	233	31.14	6.10	$1,420
Feb 2003	85	33.48	7.93	$674
Jan 2003	137	30.31	5.58	$765
Dec 2002	133	26.91	4.85	$646
Nov 2002	118	24.66	4.14	$488
Oct 2002	170	26.46	4.23	$719
Sep 2002	207	27.44	3.64	$752
Aug 2002	213	25.96	3.16	$674
Jul 2002	273	24.58	3.06	$836
Jun 2002	349	23.73	3.34	$1,165
May 2002	297	24.66	3.58	$1,064
Apr 2002	386	23.65	3.51	$1,356
Mar 2002	372	22.00	3.10	$1,154
Feb 2002	332	18.22	2.38	$789
Jan 2002	432	17.17	2.38	$1,026
Dec 2001	462	16.93	2.36	$1,092
Nov 2001	494	18.07	2.41	$1,188
Oct 2001	593	19.78	2.53	$1,500
Sep 2001	617	24.26	2.25	$1,389
Aug 2001	685	24.87	3.05	$2,091
Jul 2001	751	23.93	3.20	$2,401
Jun 2001	793	24.56	3.82	$3,033
May 2001	860	25.52	4.31	$3,704
Apr 2001	875	24.68	5.34	$4,668
Mar 2001	955	24.54	5.38	$5,135
Feb 2001	939	27.75	5.77	$5,415
Jan 2001	1,112	27.47	8.40	$9,339
Dec 2000	1,159	26.88	9.12	$10,573
Nov 2000	1,219	32.21	5.66	$6,897
Oct 2000	1,374	31.23	5.15	$7,070
Sep 2000	1,439	31.87	5.19	$7,463
Aug 2000	1,590	29.64	4.54	$7,220
Jul 2000	1,759	28.53	4.09	$7,194
Jun 2000	2,273	29.30	4.40	$9,995
May 2000	2,385	27.26	3.68	$8,776
Apr 2000	3,645	24.51	3.12	$11,358
Mar 2000	3,934	28.42	2.86	$11,250
Feb 2000	3,651	27.62	2.73	$9,954
Jan 2000	38	25.27	2.48	$94

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 2020 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Gas                   13 Mcf  × $  1.83 =        $24

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Month total                                      $24

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/176029 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.