MORGAN, J. C. ET AL

Operated by VALENCE OPERATING COMPANY (P-5 881167) in the COMO (RODESSA HILL, LO.) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 3997District 05Field 19947426OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$350 k
Feb 2013 – Aug 2018
Value, last 12 filed months
$11 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
67
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 21 leases and 32 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1964-03-16
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
0 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 160 acres. The field rule took effect on 2019-08-20.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: HOWEVER, STATE WIDE DENSITY REMAINS IN EFFECT.

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
OilDisposition4,274 bbl$281,622
Casinghead gasProduction19,680 Mcf$68,212
Total$349,835

Every month this lease reported (67)

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

67 months

Aug 20180059.403.07$0
Jul 20180065.142.93$0
Jun 20188121360.183.08$5,530
May 2018015365.382.90$444
Apr 2018021363.842.90$618
Mar 2018036561.222.79$1,017
Feb 2018018761.782.77$517
Jan 2018019362.874.01$774
Dec 2017021157.272.92$616
Nov 2017019455.423.12$605
Oct 2017019249.292.98$573
Sep 2017017747.523.09$546
Aug 2017021145.373.00$634
Jul 2017021743.873.09$670
Jun 2017020042.493.09$617
May 2017020545.373.26$669
Apr 2017019847.933.21$636
Mar 2017021546.772.98$641
Feb 2017019650.452.95$579
Jan 2017022249.413.42$759
Dec 2016022448.763.72$834
Nov 201615421542.492.64$7,112
Oct 201616917346.193.09$8,341
Sep 201616727241.553.10$7,782
Aug 2016030141.442.92$880
Jul 201631135341.622.92$13,976
Jun 2016036445.352.69$978
May 20160042.521.99$0
Apr 20160036.561.99$0
Mar 201615632233.011.79$5,727
Feb 2016029026.472.06$598
Jan 201615128827.352.36$4,811
Dec 2015033432.362.00$668
Nov 201516731938.792.17$7,169
Oct 201516429143.552.43$7,848
Sep 201507042.992.76$193
Aug 2015129440.162.87$885
Jul 201516232148.152.95$8,746
Jun 2015032256.152.88$928
May 201515129755.212.96$9,214
Apr 2015127649.822.71$797
Mar 201515331242.892.93$7,478
Feb 201516730144.662.98$8,354
Jan 2015133543.433.10$1,082
Dec 201424335354.693.59$14,557
Nov 2014133570.464.25$1,495
Oct 201416034178.303.90$13,858
Sep 2014234486.164.05$1,564
Aug 201416333189.394.04$15,906
Jul 201417438396.564.18$18,402
Jun 2014132298.164.74$1,623
May 201417137794.734.73$17,981
Apr 2014228595.944.81$1,562
Mar 201417934295.895.06$18,894
Feb 2014233597.406.19$2,269
Jan 201417031290.404.86$16,885
Dec 201317637691.824.35$17,798
Nov 2013141088.853.74$1,622
Oct 2013151997.423.78$2,059
Sep 2013160621104.113.72$18,966
Aug 20132485104.253.52$1,917
Jul 2013171730102.523.72$20,245
Jun 2013036794.403.93$1,444
May 201316633394.834.15$17,123
Apr 2013054293.964.28$2,321
Mar 201317139893.623.91$17,566
Feb 2013280391.233.42$2,929

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                   81 bbl  × $ 60.18 =     $4,875
Casinghead gas       213 Mcf  × $  3.08 =       $655

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Month total                                   $5,530

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. 05/O/3997 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.