ADAMS, W.H. ESTATE

Operated by BELLWETHER EXPLORATION COMPANY (P-5 63865) in the FT. TRINIDAD,S.(OTTOS SAND) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 11183District 03Field 32175825OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$163 k
Jan 1993 – Nov 1998
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
71
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 8 leases and 13 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1973-09-20
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
660 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 2006-08-01.

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
OilDisposition9,934 bbl$162,917
Casinghead gasProduction322 Mcf$0
Total$162,917

322 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 (71)

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

71 months

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 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 199661022.22$1,355
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 1996263018.73$4,926
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 1996176021.51$3,786
Mar 1996169019.38$3,275
Feb 1996147016.98$2,496
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 1995171017.19$2,939
Nov 1995166016.00$2,656
Oct 1995168015.43$2,592
Sep 1995333016.18$5,388
Aug 1995366015.92$5,827
Jul 1995173015.24$2,637
Jun 1995327016.41$5,366
May 1995344017.56$6,041
Apr 19951,026017.73$18,191
Mar 1995177016.44$2,910
Feb 19951,033116.58$17,127
Jan 1995175115.92$2,786
Dec 1994542115.03$8,146
Nov 19941,048115.90$16,663
Oct 19941,020115.58$15,892
Sep 1994180115.29$2,752
Aug 1994451116.13$7,275
Jul 19940117.56$0
Jun 199401717.09$0
May 19941781015.88$2,827
Apr 199402114.14$0
Mar 19941781812.46$2,218
Feb 199402012.50$0
Jan 19941711512.66$2,165
Dec 199301912.33$0
Nov 199301814.49$0
Oct 19931742015.85$2,758
Sep 19931751615.03$2,630
Aug 199302015.66$0
Jul 19931792215.46$2,767
Jun 199301716.79$0
May 199301817.68$0
Apr 19931891818.05$3,411
Mar 199301518.14$0
Feb 19931741417.90$3,115
Jan 199301616.93$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.

Sep 1996 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   61 bbl  × $ 22.22 =     $1,355
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $1,355

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/11183 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.