WILLIAMS, R. L. ET AL

Operated by UNION PACIFIC RESOURCES COMPANY (P-5 876645) in the KURTEN (BUDA) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 17769District 03Field 50424500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$143 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 1996
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
44
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 456 leases and 533 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1976-12-02
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 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 2015-03-24.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: ALLOCATION FORMULA SET TO 100 % ACRES.

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
OilDisposition9,103 bbl$143,104
Casinghead gasProduction6,217 Mcf$0
Total$143,104

6,217 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 25 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 (44)

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

44 months

Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 19950016.44$0
Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 199533418315.92$5,317
Dec 199436427015.03$5,471
Nov 199446315.90$64
Oct 199417943315.58$2,789
Sep 199419221915.29$2,936
Aug 199431627516.13$5,097
Jul 199453722217.56$9,430
Jun 199431324817.09$5,349
May 199434234015.88$5,431
Apr 199433826414.14$4,779
Mar 199433626412.46$4,187
Feb 199434622212.50$4,325
Jan 199433425412.66$4,228
Dec 199352724412.33$6,498
Nov 199334524114.49$4,999
Oct 199334710515.85$5,500
Sep 199333023115.03$4,960
Aug 199351520215.66$8,065
Jul 199351431215.46$7,946
Jun 199334623316.79$5,809
May 199348624317.68$8,592
Apr 19933329318.05$5,993
Mar 199370229418.14$12,734
Feb 199335827917.90$6,408
Jan 199336648316.93$6,196

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.

Jan 1995 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  334 bbl  × $ 15.92 =     $5,317
Casinghead gas       183 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $5,317

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/17769 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.