VERNA

Operated by BURK ROYALTY CO., LTD. (P-5 108799) in the FORT TRINIDAD, EAST (BUDA) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 25953District 03Field 32157071OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$508 k
Sep 2011 – Oct 2018
Value, last 12 filed months
$3 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
86
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 310 leases and 403 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1965-04-27
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
933 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 2016-02-23.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: DUE TO COMPUTER RESTRAINTS THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE TOP IS 3499

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
OilDisposition4,125 bbl$352,140
Casinghead gasProduction46,679 Mcf$156,220
Total$508,361

Every month this lease reported (86)

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

86 months

Oct 20180061.443.40$0
Sep 20180059.543.11$0
Aug 20180059.403.07$0
Jul 20180065.142.93$0
Jun 201842060.183.08$2,528
May 20180065.382.90$0
Apr 20180063.842.90$0
Mar 201801061.222.79$28
Feb 201801161.782.77$30
Jan 201801662.874.01$64
Dec 201702357.272.92$67
Nov 20170155.423.12$3
Oct 20170349.292.98$9
Sep 20170347.523.09$9
Aug 20170645.373.00$18
Jul 20170543.873.09$15
Jun 20170842.493.09$25
May 20170745.373.26$23
Apr 20170347.933.21$10
Mar 20170846.772.98$24
Feb 201701750.452.95$50
Jan 201702349.413.42$79
Dec 20160748.763.72$26
Nov 201602742.492.64$71
Oct 201602946.193.09$90
Sep 201601141.553.10$34
Aug 201602241.442.92$64
Jul 201601841.622.92$53
Jun 201602045.352.69$54
May 201602942.521.99$58
Apr 201602736.561.99$54
Mar 201604033.011.79$72
Feb 201605926.472.06$122
Jan 2016025727.352.36$608
Dec 201518815732.362.00$6,398
Nov 201506538.792.17$141
Oct 201503643.552.43$87
Sep 20150842.992.76$22
Aug 20150040.162.87$0
Jul 20150048.152.95$0
Jun 2015178056.152.88$9,995
May 20150055.212.96$0
Apr 20150049.822.71$0
Mar 20150042.892.93$0
Feb 2015180044.662.98$8,039
Jan 20150043.433.10$0
Dec 20140054.693.59$0
Nov 20140070.464.25$0
Oct 20140078.303.90$0
Sep 2014024386.164.05$983
Aug 20140089.394.04$0
Jul 2014185096.564.18$17,864
Jun 2014018198.164.74$857
May 2014027794.734.73$1,309
Apr 201418413995.944.81$18,321
Mar 201403595.895.06$177
Feb 201402197.406.19$130
Jan 20140090.404.86$0
Dec 201303891.824.35$165
Nov 201301088.853.74$37
Oct 201308597.423.78$321
Sep 2013038104.113.72$141
Aug 2013026104.253.52$92
Jul 2013166352102.523.72$18,327
Jun 2013025094.403.93$983
May 201304394.834.15$178
Apr 2013047693.964.28$2,039
Mar 2013059593.623.91$2,328
Feb 201316530191.233.42$16,082
Jan 2013010491.603.42$356
Dec 2012035386.773.42$1,207
Nov 20121584286.953.62$13,890
Oct 201217843789.383.40$17,395
Sep 2012082494.672.92$2,405
Aug 20121718,97392.662.91$41,940
Jul 20121821,18085.133.02$19,058
Jun 20121751,35479.822.52$17,379
May 201217164691.612.49$17,273
Apr 2012060101.652.00$120
Mar 2012182258105.052.22$19,692
Feb 20120279101.102.57$717
Jan 201218270898.092.73$19,788
Dec 20113641,51696.873.24$40,172
Nov 20113535,97895.723.31$53,584
Oct 201171819,29884.983.65$131,425
Sep 2011360383.623.99$2,654

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.

Jun 2018 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   42 bbl  × $ 60.18 =     $2,528
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.08 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,528

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/25953 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.