HELBING 18

Name: HELBING 18 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 (CANYON SAND) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 13379District 7CField 67995200NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$646 k

Jan 1993 – May 2006

Value, last 12 filed months

$74 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

161

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The OZONA (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 2,312 leases and 2,323 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1962-02-23

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

600 ft

minimum

From a lease line

660 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 2006-09-12.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “ZONE TO BE SET UP IN OZONA (CANYON SAND, OIL).”

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
Oil	Disposition	9,811 bbl	$195,618
Casinghead gas	Production	247,308 Mcf	$450,706
Total			$646,324

133,625 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 30.6403, -101.2762. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.64034, -101.27615 · 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

6,854 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 6,854 ft.

Completions filed

Mar 2006

1 of 1 wells

1 well


42-10536173	3	6,854 ft	Mar 2006	—	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 (161)

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

161 months


May 2006	0	0	66.01	6.42	$0
Apr 2006	0	0	64.39	7.36	$0
Mar 2006	2	226	56.70	7.08	$1,714
Feb 2006	4	841	57.59	7.75	$6,749
Jan 2006	4	891	60.59	8.93	$8,202
Dec 2005	5	983	54.94	13.42	$13,462
Nov 2005	4	798	54.69	10.59	$8,668
Oct 2005	4	851	58.34	13.80	$11,974
Sep 2005	3	623	61.45	12.08	$7,710
Aug 2005	3	529	61.51	9.80	$5,367
Jul 2005	4	578	55.69	7.84	$4,756
Jun 2005	5	632	52.33	7.38	$4,926
May 2005	3	842	45.22	6.65	$5,736
Apr 2005	7	838	49.20	7.36	$6,512
Mar 2005	12	923	50.37	7.15	$7,208
Feb 2005	44	1,084	45.22	6.31	$8,832
Jan 2005	46	982	43.16	6.32	$8,194
Dec 2004	65	892	39.86	6.75	$8,613
Nov 2004	78	821	45.28	6.33	$8,729
Oct 2004	39	836	49.70	6.52	$7,385
Sep 2004	51	674	43.24	5.28	$5,767
Aug 2004	37	651	42.37	5.55	$5,181
Jul 2004	36	940	38.28	6.08	$7,097
Jun 2004	37	729	36.10	6.43	$6,025
May 2004	29	837	37.48	6.49	$6,523
Apr 2004	44	661	34.47	5.86	$5,389
Mar 2004	46	1,292	34.36	5.53	$8,726
Feb 2004	47	762	32.45	5.51	$5,723
Jan 2004	43	897	32.03	6.30	$7,028
Dec 2003	33	609	30.26	6.30	$4,836
Nov 2003	11	879	28.80	4.60	$4,356
Oct 2003	11	926	28.17	4.76	$4,717
Sep 2003	11	757	26.31	4.75	$3,885
Aug 2003	0	1,105	29.76	5.13	$5,668
Jul 2003	10	744	29.41	5.17	$4,141
Jun 2003	11	921	28.56	5.98	$5,824
May 2003	14	1,014	26.59	5.97	$6,429
Apr 2003	28	1,051	26.67	5.41	$6,430
Mar 2003	12	902	31.14	6.10	$5,872
Feb 2003	20	786	33.48	7.93	$6,899
Jan 2003	16	813	30.31	5.58	$5,023
Dec 2002	9	759	26.91	4.85	$3,926
Nov 2002	30	1,029	24.66	4.14	$4,997
Oct 2002	43	710	26.46	4.23	$4,140
Sep 2002	0	829	27.44	3.64	$3,014
Aug 2002	0	761	25.96	3.16	$2,408
Jul 2002	0	721	24.58	3.06	$2,208
Jun 2002	39	737	23.73	3.34	$3,386
May 2002	0	733	24.66	3.58	$2,627
Apr 2002	0	689	23.65	3.51	$2,420
Mar 2002	58	939	22.00	3.10	$4,189
Feb 2002	0	829	18.22	2.38	$1,969
Jan 2002	0	1,063	17.17	2.38	$2,525
Dec 2001	1	1,063	16.93	2.36	$2,530
Nov 2001	4	1,073	18.07	2.41	$2,653
Oct 2001	0	1,130	19.78	2.53	$2,858
Sep 2001	32	1,038	24.26	2.25	$3,113
Aug 2001	0	1,115	24.87	3.05	$3,404
Jul 2001	44	626	23.93	3.20	$3,054
Jun 2001	49	635	24.56	3.82	$3,632
May 2001	59	461	25.52	4.31	$3,491
Apr 2001	0	498	24.68	5.34	$2,657
Mar 2001	107	502	24.54	5.38	$5,325
Feb 2001	110	610	27.75	5.77	$6,570
Jan 2001	52	444	27.47	8.40	$5,157
Dec 2000	95	535	26.88	9.12	$7,434
Nov 2000	73	338	32.21	5.66	$4,264
Oct 2000	25	568	31.23	5.15	$3,703
Sep 2000	53	434	31.87	5.19	$3,940
Aug 2000	30	605	29.64	4.54	$3,636
Jul 2000	63	526	28.53	4.09	$3,949
Jun 2000	26	674	29.30	4.40	$3,726
May 2000	41	561	27.26	3.68	$3,182
Apr 2000	51	1,164	24.51	3.12	$4,877
Mar 2000	58	1,064	28.42	2.86	$4,691
Feb 2000	100	1,148	27.62	2.73	$5,892
Jan 2000	46	968	25.27	2.48	$3,564
Dec 1999	101	980	24.28	2.42	$4,828
Nov 1999	95	1,468	23.19	2.43	$5,776
Oct 1999	48	1,351	20.98	2.80	$4,795
Sep 1999	45	1,125	21.75	2.62	$3,925
Aug 1999	5	915	19.26	2.88	$2,727
Jul 1999	36	879	17.89	2.37	$2,729
Jun 1999	91	3,082	15.94	2.36	$8,731
May 1999	0	814	15.79	2.32	$1,889
Apr 1999	45	1,375	15.10	2.21	$3,716
Mar 1999	45	989	12.47	1.84	$2,379
Feb 1999	86	1,075	9.98	1.82	$2,812
Jan 1999	72	786	10.38	1.90	$2,241
Dec 1998	25	1,017	9.20	1.77	$2,033
Nov 1998	52	1,228	10.89	2.19	$3,250
Oct 1998	25	1,394	12.42	1.97	$3,056
Sep 1998	23	1,351	12.59	2.08	$3,103
Aug 1998	25	1,754	11.30	1.91	$3,628
Jul 1998	46	1,283	11.74	2.24	$3,410
Jun 1998	0	1,661	11.24	2.24	$3,716
May 1998	22	1,397	12.62	2.21	$3,360
Apr 1998	24	1,699	13.04	2.51	$4,570
Mar 1998	73	1,437	12.80	2.31	$4,253
Feb 1998	49	1,881	13.95	2.30	$5,008
Jan 1998	47	1,315	14.70	2.15	$3,524
Dec 1997	70	1,311	16.32	2.41	$4,303
Nov 1997	71	1,179	18.19	3.09	$4,933
Oct 1997	47	1,582	19.25	3.15	$5,888
Sep 1997	47	1,596	17.74	2.95	$5,550
Aug 1997	24	2,654	17.86	2.55	$7,209
Jul 1997	47	1,244	17.58	2.25	$3,621
Jun 1997	23	2,065	17.24	2.26	$5,058
May 1997	25	2,188	18.97	2.31	$5,525
Apr 1997	46	2,033	17.88	2.08	$5,057
Mar 1997	17	1,720	18.95	1.94	$3,657
Feb 1997	62	1,926	20.49	2.21	$5,519
Jan 1997	54	2,230	23.48	3.54	$9,161
Dec 1996	55	1,635	23.32	—	$1,283
Nov 1996	59	1,579	21.97	—	$1,296
Oct 1996	79	3,328	23.31	—	$1,841
Sep 1996	80	2,027	22.22	—	$1,778
Aug 1996	94	1,612	20.26	—	$1,904
Jul 1996	22	2,180	19.55	—	$430
Jun 1996	33	2,292	18.73	—	$618
May 1996	89	2,006	19.43	—	$1,729
Apr 1996	106	2,000	21.51	—	$2,280
Mar 1996	29	2,291	19.38	—	$562
Feb 1996	117	2,592	16.98	—	$1,987
Jan 1996	86	3,724	17.07	—	$1,468
Dec 1995	113	2,966	17.19	—	$1,942
Nov 1995	112	1,695	16.00	—	$1,792
Oct 1995	118	1,561	15.43	—	$1,821
Sep 1995	36	252	16.18	—	$582
Aug 1995	83	1,893	15.92	—	$1,321
Jul 1995	152	935	15.24	—	$2,316
Jun 1995	63	1,029	16.41	—	$1,034
May 1995	133	895	17.56	—	$2,335
Apr 1995	111	1,418	17.73	—	$1,968
Mar 1995	118	1,934	16.44	—	$1,940
Feb 1995	177	1,623	16.58	—	$2,935
Jan 1995	48	1,957	15.92	—	$764
Dec 1994	187	1,898	15.03	—	$2,811
Nov 1994	139	2,241	15.90	—	$2,210
Oct 1994	143	2,242	15.58	—	$2,228
Sep 1994	170	2,329	15.29	—	$2,599
Aug 1994	78	3,382	16.13	—	$1,258
Jul 1994	126	2,994	17.56	—	$2,213
Jun 1994	74	2,744	17.09	—	$1,265
May 1994	84	2,824	15.88	—	$1,334
Apr 1994	49	2,773	14.14	—	$693
Mar 1994	85	2,563	12.46	—	$1,059
Feb 1994	180	4,138	12.50	—	$2,250
Jan 1994	184	3,265	12.66	—	$2,329
Dec 1993	80	2,815	12.33	—	$986
Nov 1993	170	3,693	14.49	—	$2,463
Oct 1993	129	2,624	15.85	—	$2,045
Sep 1993	187	3,348	15.03	—	$2,811
Aug 1993	195	3,735	15.66	—	$3,054
Jul 1993	176	3,776	15.46	—	$2,721
Jun 1993	264	4,560	16.79	—	$4,433
May 1993	153	4,613	17.68	—	$2,705
Apr 1993	197	5,848	18.05	—	$3,556
Mar 1993	193	6,345	18.14	—	$3,501
Feb 1993	290	5,803	17.90	—	$5,191
Jan 1993	375	7,648	16.93	—	$6,349

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 2006 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                    2 bbl  × $ 56.70 =       $113
Casinghead gas       226 Mcf  × $  7.08 =     $1,601

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Month total                                   $1,714

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/O/13379 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.