STATE TRACT 485-L
Operated by TORCH OPERATING COMPANY (P-5 862594) in the MATAGORDA ISLAND BLOCK 485-L (B) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.
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 other leases, and the rule below applies to all of them.
The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “ALLOCATION FORMULA EFF. 030183 PER AMENDMENT TO SWR 28 & 29”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condensate | Disposition | 2,741 bbl | $43,416 |
| Gas | Production | 491,096 Mcf | $0 |
| Total | $43,416 | ||
491,096 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 24 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.
Every month this lease reported (24)
Volume × price = value, one row per cycle. The price columns are the same series published on the prices page — nothing here is modelled.
24 months
| Dec 1994 | 0 | 2,708 | 15.03 | — | $0 |
| Nov 1994 | 0 | 1,583 | 15.90 | — | $0 |
| Oct 1994 | 15 | 10,340 | 15.58 | — | $234 |
| Sep 1994 | 8 | 7,367 | 15.29 | — | $122 |
| Aug 1994 | 5 | 4,976 | 16.13 | — | $81 |
| Jul 1994 | 58 | 6,962 | 17.56 | — | $1,018 |
| Jun 1994 | 72 | 10,495 | 17.09 | — | $1,230 |
| May 1994 | 52 | 13,025 | 15.88 | — | $826 |
| Apr 1994 | 82 | 14,614 | 14.14 | — | $1,159 |
| Mar 1994 | 94 | 21,655 | 12.46 | — | $1,171 |
| Feb 1994 | 105 | 9,911 | 12.50 | — | $1,313 |
| Jan 1994 | 111 | 16,648 | 12.66 | — | $1,405 |
| Dec 1993 | 94 | 22,364 | 12.33 | — | $1,159 |
| Nov 1993 | 142 | 18,237 | 14.49 | — | $2,058 |
| Oct 1993 | 129 | 21,838 | 15.85 | — | $2,045 |
| Sep 1993 | 300 | 31,234 | 15.03 | — | $4,509 |
| Aug 1993 | 284 | 46,023 | 15.66 | — | $4,447 |
| Jul 1993 | 186 | 44,508 | 15.46 | — | $2,876 |
| Jun 1993 | 130 | 34,275 | 16.79 | — | $2,183 |
| May 1993 | 282 | 49,173 | 17.68 | — | $4,986 |
| Apr 1993 | 224 | 42,729 | 18.05 | — | $4,043 |
| Mar 1993 | 59 | 8,912 | 18.14 | — | $1,070 |
| Feb 1993 | 257 | 31,741 | 17.90 | — | $4,600 |
| Jan 1993 | 52 | 19,778 | 16.93 | — | $880 |
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.
Condensate 15 bbl × $ 15.58 = $234 Gas 10,340 Mcf × no price — ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── Month total $234
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. 03/G/144789 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.