PETTY RANCH

Operated by KERNS O & G, INC. (P-5 457700) in the CATARINA, SW. (OLMOS) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 171027District 01Field 16340500GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$73 k
Nov 1998 – Dec 2004
Value, last 12 filed months
$10 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
74
no gaps in the span
Streams
1
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 213 leases and 214 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1973-12-28
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and 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 Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: OPTIONAL 80 ACRE UNIT MAX DIAG 4000

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
GasProduction21,142 Mcf$73,318
Total$73,318

Every month this lease reported (74)

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

74 months

Dec 20041239.866.75$81
Nov 200415145.286.33$956
Oct 200419949.706.52$1,297
Sep 200419543.245.28$1,030
Aug 200419542.375.55$1,082
Jul 200419938.286.08$1,211
Jun 200416136.106.43$1,036
May 20049737.486.49$630
Apr 20049234.475.86$539
Mar 200416034.365.53$885
Feb 200411632.455.51$639
Jan 200411832.036.30$743
Dec 200312530.266.30$788
Nov 200317428.804.60$800
Oct 200315528.174.76$738
Sep 20038226.314.75$389
Aug 200312429.765.13$636
Jul 200313129.415.17$677
Jun 200314928.565.98$891
May 20038626.595.97$514
Apr 20039326.675.41$503
Mar 200312431.146.10$756
Feb 20039433.487.93$745
Jan 200312830.315.58$715
Dec 200213126.914.85$636
Nov 20027824.664.14$323
Oct 20025526.464.23$233
Sep 200212227.443.64$443
Aug 200213425.963.16$424
Jul 200212524.583.06$383
Jun 200212423.733.34$414
May 200213124.663.58$470
Apr 200217223.653.51$604
Mar 200218122.003.10$562
Feb 200215318.222.38$363
Jan 200222417.172.38$532
Dec 200122616.932.36$534
Nov 200125318.072.41$609
Oct 200122219.782.53$561
Sep 200119724.262.25$444
Aug 200126524.873.05$809
Jul 200120123.933.20$643
Jun 200125624.563.82$979
May 200126725.524.31$1,150
Apr 200124524.685.34$1,307
Mar 200123324.545.38$1,253
Feb 200130227.755.77$1,742
Jan 200132227.478.40$2,704
Dec 200025126.889.12$2,290
Nov 200023932.215.66$1,352
Oct 200027431.235.15$1,410
Sep 200027531.875.19$1,426
Aug 200033729.644.54$1,530
Jul 200040728.534.09$1,665
Jun 200038229.304.40$1,680
May 200048727.263.68$1,792
Apr 20001,02824.513.12$3,203
Mar 200010928.422.86$312
Feb 2000027.622.73$0
Jan 2000025.272.48$0
Dec 1999024.282.42$0
Nov 1999023.192.43$0
Oct 1999020.982.80$0
Sep 19996921.752.62$181
Aug 199922019.262.88$633
Jul 199931517.892.37$747
Jun 199964615.942.36$1,526
May 199966715.792.32$1,548
Apr 199930315.102.21$669
Mar 199944312.471.84$814
Feb 19996349.981.82$1,152
Jan 199993810.381.90$1,782
Dec 19981,1289.201.77$2,000
Nov 19984,21110.892.19$9,204

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
Gas                   12 Mcf  × $  6.75 =        $81

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Month total                                      $81

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/171027 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.