GATES RANCH -A-

Operated by LEWIS PETRO PROPERTIES, INC. (P-5 499978) in the CATARINA, SW. (SAN MIGUEL-GAS) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 168650District 01Field 16340900CondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$20 k
Jun 1998 – Feb 2006
Value, last 12 filed months
$55
at the published price for each month
Months reported
93
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, gas

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 120 leases and 120 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1978-05-01
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 1979-05-21.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: KERNS O&G, INC. EFFECTIVE APRIL 1, 1997.

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.

StreamBasisVolumeValue
CondensateDisposition47 bbl$1,261
GasProduction4,396 Mcf$18,514
Total$19,775

Every month this lease reported (93)

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

93 months

Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20051054.6910.59$55
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 200322330.266.30$205
Nov 200301228.804.60$55
Oct 200302028.174.76$95
Sep 20030726.314.75$33
Aug 200301429.765.13$72
Jul 200301829.415.17$93
Jun 20030628.565.98$36
May 200333226.595.97$889
Apr 200307226.675.41$389
Mar 200307331.146.10$445
Feb 200307533.487.93$594
Jan 200307130.315.58$396
Dec 200207326.914.85$354
Nov 200207224.664.14$298
Oct 200207026.464.23$296
Sep 200207227.443.64$262
Aug 200207325.963.16$231
Jul 200207224.583.06$220
Jun 200207423.733.34$247
May 200207024.663.58$251
Apr 200206923.653.51$242
Mar 200206922.003.10$214
Feb 200207718.222.38$183
Jan 2002110117.172.38$257
Dec 200105016.932.36$118
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 2001018219.782.53$460
Sep 2001218724.262.25$470
Aug 2001212224.873.05$422
Jul 2001120223.933.20$670
Jun 2001115024.563.82$598
May 2001112525.524.31$564
Apr 200117324.685.34$414
Mar 200107624.545.38$409
Feb 2001120127.755.77$1,187
Jan 2001020527.478.40$1,722
Dec 2000118526.889.12$1,715
Nov 2000012432.215.66$702
Oct 200007831.235.15$401
Sep 2000013331.875.19$690
Aug 200008929.644.54$404
Jul 200004228.534.09$172
Jun 200003529.304.40$154
May 200003627.263.68$132
Apr 200005124.513.12$159
Mar 200005228.422.86$149
Feb 200004427.622.73$120
Jan 200005425.272.48$134
Dec 199904424.282.42$107
Nov 199904123.192.43$100
Oct 199903420.982.80$95
Sep 199904221.752.62$110
Aug 199902919.262.88$83
Jul 199903717.892.37$88
Jun 199903815.942.36$90
May 199904215.792.32$97
Apr 199903115.102.21$68
Mar 199902912.471.84$53
Feb 19990189.981.82$33
Jan 199901910.381.90$36
Dec 19980259.201.77$44
Nov 199803310.892.19$72
Oct 199803412.421.97$67
Sep 199802412.592.08$50
Aug 199803311.301.91$63
Jul 199802911.742.24$65
Jun 199803311.242.24$74

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.

Nov 2005 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             1 bbl  × $ 54.69 =        $55
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $ 10.59 =         $0

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Month total                                      $55

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. 01/G/168650 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.