BAUM, G. K.

Operated by SANTOS USA CORP. (P-5 748194) in the B.A.D.A. (10,340 SD.) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 149187District 03Field 04644600CondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$480 k
Apr 1994 – Sep 1996
Value, last 12 filed months
$74 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
30
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 13 leases and 13 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1993-02-22
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
no field rule filed
From a lease line
no field rule filed

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: ALLOCATION FORMULA SUSPENDED PER OPERATOR REQUEST, EFF 3-1-94.

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
CondensateDisposition29,487 bbl$480,415
GasProduction1,678,117 Mcf$0
Total$480,415

1,678,117 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 26 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 (30)

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

30 months

Sep 199685022.22$1,889
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 199606,71819.43$0
Apr 199620011,71421.51$4,302
Mar 199618410,36719.38$3,566
Feb 199619227,14516.98$3,260
Jan 199674939,91717.07$12,785
Dec 19951,03463,12117.19$17,774
Nov 19951,15971,72016.00$18,544
Oct 199579158,92015.43$12,205
Sep 199538316,12316.18$6,197
Aug 19951,38585,05715.92$22,049
Jul 19951,18179,46615.24$17,998
Jun 19951,12374,58416.41$18,428
May 19951,28670,49817.56$22,582
Apr 19951,31671,98117.73$23,333
Mar 19951,30976,69916.44$21,520
Feb 19951,32072,76316.58$21,886
Jan 19951,47881,20815.92$23,530
Dec 19941,47383,75115.03$22,139
Nov 19941,74287,38015.90$27,698
Oct 19941,71189,96915.58$26,657
Sep 19941,48190,64315.29$22,644
Aug 19941,81890,40516.13$29,324
Jul 19941,66287,70517.56$29,185
Jun 19941,64186,21517.09$28,045
May 19942,01692,43815.88$32,014
Apr 199476851,61014.14$10,860

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.

Sep 1996 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            85 bbl  × $ 22.22 =     $1,889
Gas                    0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $1,889

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/149187 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.