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Operated by DELAWARE ECCO PETROLEUM INC. (P-5 211536) 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 18817District 03Field 50424500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$115 k
Jan 1993 – Jun 1996
Value, last 12 filed months
$11 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
42
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
OilDisposition7,301 bbl$115,481
Casinghead gasProduction32 Mcf$0
Total$115,481

32 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 32 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 (42)

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

42 months

Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 1996116019.38$2,248
Feb 1996332016.98$5,637
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 1995179115.43$2,762
Sep 19950116.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 19951115.24$15
Jun 1995169116.41$2,773
May 19950117.56$0
Apr 19950117.73$0
Mar 1995115116.44$1,891
Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 1995313115.92$4,983
Dec 19940115.03$0
Nov 1994181115.90$2,878
Oct 1994139115.58$2,166
Sep 19940115.29$0
Aug 1994361116.13$5,823
Jul 1994158117.56$2,774
Jun 1994161117.09$2,751
May 1994357115.88$5,669
Apr 1994171114.14$2,418
Mar 1994354112.46$4,411
Feb 1994165112.50$2,063
Jan 1994349112.66$4,418
Dec 1993543112.33$6,695
Nov 1993176114.49$2,550
Oct 1993163115.85$2,584
Sep 19930115.03$0
Aug 1993334115.66$5,230
Jul 1993171115.46$2,644
Jun 1993315116.79$5,289
May 1993535117.68$9,459
Apr 1993366118.05$6,606
Mar 19930118.14$0
Feb 1993525117.90$9,398
Jan 1993552116.93$9,345

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.

Mar 1996 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  116 bbl  × $ 19.38 =     $2,248
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $2,248

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/18817 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.