CHESTER ADAMS

Operated by SEM OPERATING COMPANY LLC (P-5 766370) in the FORT TRINIDAD (GLEN ROSE, UPPER) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 259670District 03Field 32156852CondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$5.8 M
May 2010 – Sep 2014
Value, last 12 filed months
$801 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
53
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 145 leases and 145 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1961-01-07
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
2,640 ft
minimum
From a lease line
660 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 640 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: NO GREATER THAN THE YARDSTICK OF 845 BBLS/DAY FOR 640 AC WELL.

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
CondensateDisposition57,853 bbl$5,027,651
GasProduction181,786 Mcf$739,169
Total$5,766,820

Every month this lease reported (53)

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

53 months

Sep 20140086.164.05$0
Aug 20144649,78489.394.04$80,957
Jul 20144742,67696.564.18$56,954
Jun 20145423,50798.164.74$69,815
May 20147062,21494.734.73$77,344
Apr 20146832,63495.944.81$78,194
Mar 20147262,00295.895.06$79,740
Feb 20146982,72497.406.19$84,852
Jan 20146482,39790.404.86$70,230
Dec 20135101,74091.824.35$54,405
Nov 20138301,28988.853.74$78,564
Oct 201368777597.423.78$69,857
Sep 20138351,631104.113.72$92,995
Aug 20138431,687104.253.52$93,825
Jul 20138511,867102.523.72$94,186
Jun 20138711,89394.403.93$89,668
May 20137011,82394.834.15$74,040
Apr 20138561,79893.964.28$88,130
Mar 20131,03577593.623.91$99,929
Feb 20137331,82491.233.42$73,110
Jan 20139154,22391.603.42$98,256
Dec 20127161,05586.773.42$65,736
Nov 20125531,32786.953.62$52,894
Oct 201267877889.383.40$63,245
Sep 20125532,17594.672.92$58,700
Aug 20127571,98292.662.91$75,908
Jul 20125561,74185.133.02$52,591
Jun 20125791,53079.822.52$50,070
May 20125302,60291.612.49$55,028
Apr 20127522,430101.652.00$81,293
Mar 20121971,280105.052.22$23,539
Feb 20124032,283101.102.57$46,611
Jan 20129682,11998.092.73$100,745
Dec 20119223,29096.873.24$99,973
Nov 20118192,56395.723.31$86,881
Oct 20118993,09384.983.65$87,682
Sep 20117603,41883.623.99$77,175
Aug 20111,5093,75683.404.15$141,435
Jul 20111,2734,39994.144.52$139,712
Jun 20118854,23892.904.64$101,880
May 20111,4213,30898.134.40$154,014
Apr 20111,5885,013105.964.33$189,987
Mar 20111,6405,52596.364.06$180,447
Feb 20111,2243,44085.644.18$119,202
Jan 20111,7887,18586.504.59$187,632
Dec 20102,2848,48785.734.35$232,707
Nov 20102,8736,66980.843.80$257,564
Oct 20102,1165,25578.103.51$183,699
Sep 20102,4757,83172.633.98$210,922
Aug 20103,62410,08173.684.42$311,568
Jul 20102,6767,06672.554.74$227,612
Jun 20103,5068,76170.364.91$289,702
May 20101,7217,84371.124.24$155,614

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.

Aug 2014 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate           464 bbl  × $ 89.39 =    $41,477
Gas                9,784 Mcf  × $  4.04 =    $39,480

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Month total                                  $80,957

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/259670 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.