MILLS-MCGEE TRUST UNIT

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

Oil lease lease 23514District 03Field 34733600OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$393 k
May 1997 – Mar 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$329 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
23
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 598 leases and 630 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1977-03-26
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 1997-05-16.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: DESIGNATED AS UFT FIELD PER DOCKET 01-0299858.

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
OilDisposition24,272 bbl$290,668
Casinghead gasProduction48,304 Mcf$102,677
Total$393,345

Every month this lease reported (23)

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

23 months

Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 1999239010.381.90$2,481
Dec 19981,9334,4129.201.77$25,607
Nov 19981,5944,87210.892.19$28,007
Oct 19981,7566,32112.421.97$34,257
Sep 19981,7595,70912.592.08$34,035
Aug 19982,1305,58511.301.91$34,722
Jul 19982,2625,29911.742.24$38,411
Jun 19981,9803,83911.242.24$30,844
May 19982,5096,56212.622.21$46,142
Apr 19983,0745,70513.042.51$54,378
Mar 19985,036012.802.31$64,461
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

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 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  239 bbl  × $ 10.38 =     $2,481
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  1.90 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,481

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/23514 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.