L. F. O'BRIEN ET AL UNIT

Operated by TEXAS VANGUARD OIL COMPANY (P-5 848310) in the SERBIN (TAYLOR SAND) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 21082District 03Field 82265500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$34 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 2008
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
183
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 444 leases and 641 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1985-11-19
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
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 20 acres. The field rule took effect on 2013-08-06.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: 1500 FT DIAGONAL.

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
OilDisposition1,337 bbl$21,557
Casinghead gasProduction51,135 Mcf$12,313
Total$33,870

46,063 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 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 (183)

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

183 months

Mar 200800101.909.66$0
Feb 20080092.538.77$0
Jan 20080090.388.21$0
Dec 20070088.337.30$0
Nov 20070091.677.29$0
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 20070075.846.24$0
Aug 20070069.066.39$0
Jul 20070070.906.39$0
Jun 20070062.007.55$0
May 20070058.747.85$0
Apr 20070059.617.81$0
Mar 20070056.927.30$0
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060056.656.92$0
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 20060069.376.34$0
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
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 19984709.201.77$432
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 1998018812.592.08$392
Aug 1998025011.301.91$477
Jul 1998026111.742.24$584
Jun 1998027511.242.24$615
May 1998019012.622.21$419
Apr 1998020913.042.51$524
Mar 1998026112.802.31$603
Feb 1998023313.952.30$536
Jan 1998024014.702.15$517
Dec 1997016716.322.41$403
Nov 1997031818.193.09$982
Oct 19971423819.253.15$1,019
Sep 19976923617.742.95$1,921
Aug 1997921617.862.55$713
Jul 19971324117.582.25$770
Jun 19971324817.242.26$784
May 19971025618.972.31$781
Apr 19971324617.882.08$745
Mar 19971024918.951.94$672
Feb 1997827820.492.21$777
Jan 19971027223.483.54$1,198
Dec 1996027923.32$0
Nov 1996026821.97$0
Oct 19962634923.31$606
Sep 1996056522.22$0
Aug 1996059220.26$0
Jul 1996056619.55$0
Jun 1996055818.73$0
May 1996044019.43$0
Apr 19962655221.51$559
Mar 1996043719.38$0
Feb 1996045416.98$0
Jan 1996051117.07$0
Dec 1995062517.19$0
Nov 1995071716.00$0
Oct 19950115.43$0
Sep 199514678616.18$2,362
Aug 19951583815.92$239
Jul 1995361,05515.24$549
Jun 1995068016.41$0
May 1995872317.56$140
Apr 1995473317.73$71
Mar 19954394616.44$707
Feb 1995077816.58$0
Jan 1995088815.92$0
Dec 199401,11515.03$0
Nov 1994121,07315.90$191
Oct 199461,05915.58$93
Sep 19942161,31715.29$3,303
Aug 199451,77316.13$81
Jul 199401,08417.56$0
Jun 199431,17517.09$51
May 199481,18915.88$127
Apr 199461,23014.14$85
Mar 199451,08412.46$62
Feb 199461,07912.50$75
Jan 19941821,15212.66$2,304
Dec 199351,27712.33$62
Nov 199351,26214.49$72
Oct 199331,37215.85$48
Sep 1993301,47715.03$451
Aug 199331,46615.66$47
Jul 199321,52615.46$31
Jun 199321,62416.79$34
May 19931521,69317.68$2,687
Apr 199301,74218.05$0
Mar 199311,63818.14$18
Feb 19931641,06817.90$2,936
Jan 199311,24716.93$17

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.

Dec 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   47 bbl  × $  9.20 =       $432
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  1.77 =         $0

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Month total                                     $432

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/21082 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.