PETTY RANCH

Operated by ST. MARY LAND & EXPLORATION CO. (P-5 810874) 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 220379District 01Field 16340500GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$21 k
May 2006 – Jul 2008
Value, last 12 filed months
$3 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
27
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
GasProduction3,067 Mcf$20,811
Total$20,811

Every month this lease reported (27)

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

27 months

Jul 20080131.0811.39$0
Jun 20080131.3313.03$0
May 20080123.1711.57$0
Apr 20080110.3110.45$0
Mar 20080101.909.66$0
Feb 20081292.538.77$105
Jan 2008890.388.21$66
Dec 20072788.337.30$197
Nov 20075191.677.29$372
Oct 20078782.856.92$602
Sep 20079575.846.24$593
Aug 20079469.066.39$600
Jul 200712270.906.39$779
Jun 200710662.007.55$800
May 200712058.747.85$942
Apr 200714859.617.81$1,155
Mar 200712356.927.30$898
Feb 200711955.108.22$978
Jan 200713450.306.73$901
Dec 200616056.656.92$1,107
Nov 200616154.207.62$1,226
Oct 200618454.906.01$1,107
Sep 200616460.085.04$826
Aug 200622768.717.34$1,666
Jul 200640769.376.34$2,582
Jun 200648666.286.38$3,103
May 20063266.016.42$206

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.

Feb 2008 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                   12 Mcf  × $  8.77 =       $105

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Month total                                     $105

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/220379 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.