GARDNER, FRED OIL UNIT

Operated by MISSION RESOURCES CORPORATION (P-5 570400) in the FORT TRINIDAD, EAST (BUDA) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 11159District 03Field 32157071OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$38 k
Jan 1993 – Oct 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$2 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
118
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead 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 310 leases and 403 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1965-04-27
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
933 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 2016-02-23.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: DUE TO COMPUTER RESTRAINTS THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE TOP IS 3499

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
OilDisposition2,255 bbl$37,557
Casinghead gasProduction58 Mcf$0
Total$37,557

58 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 20 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 (118)

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

118 months

Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 200297023.733.34$2,302
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19972018.951.94$38
Feb 19973020.492.21$61
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 1996179019.38$3,469
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 1995175017.19$3,008
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 1995165015.43$2,546
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 1995328015.92$5,222
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 1995178017.73$3,156
Mar 19950016.44$0
Feb 1995176116.58$2,918
Jan 19950115.92$0
Dec 19940115.03$0
Nov 19940115.90$0
Oct 19940115.58$0
Sep 19940015.29$0
Aug 199481116.13$1,307
Jul 19940017.56$0
Jun 1994162517.09$2,769
May 19940215.88$0
Apr 19940514.14$0
Mar 1994162112.46$2,019
Feb 19940212.50$0
Jan 19940612.66$0
Dec 19930012.33$0
Nov 1993180314.49$2,608
Oct 19930015.85$0
Sep 19930415.03$0
Aug 19930915.66$0
Jul 1993178115.46$2,752
Jun 19930016.79$0
May 19930417.68$0
Apr 19930318.05$0
Mar 19930018.14$0
Feb 1993189417.90$3,383
Jan 19930316.93$0

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.

Jun 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   97 bbl  × $ 23.73 =     $2,302
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.34 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,302

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/O/11159 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.