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Operated by CHESAPEAKE OPERATING, L.L.C. (P-5 147699) in the AGUILA VADO (EAGLEFORD) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.
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 199 leases and 351 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.
A drilling unit in this field needs at least 160 acres. The field rule took effect on 2019-01-07.
The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “1/7/19 FIELD CHANGED TO 49B PER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT.”
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.
| Stream | Basis | Volume | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oil | Disposition | 126,708 bbl | $6,427,020 |
| Casinghead gas | Production | 207,789 Mcf | $619,849 |
| Total | $7,046,869 | ||
Every month this lease reported (58)
Volume × price = value, one row per cycle. The price columns are the same series published on the prices page — nothing here is modelled.
58 months
| Oct 2021 | 0 | 0 | 79.79 | 5.71 | $0 |
| Sep 2021 | 0 | 0 | 69.86 | 5.35 | $0 |
| Aug 2021 | 0 | 0 | 66.02 | 4.22 | $0 |
| Jul 2021 | 0 | 0 | 70.78 | 3.98 | $0 |
| Jun 2021 | 0 | 0 | 69.49 | 3.38 | $0 |
| May 2021 | 0 | 0 | 63.48 | 3.02 | $0 |
| Apr 2021 | 0 | 0 | 60.36 | 2.76 | $0 |
| Mar 2021 | 0 | 0 | 61.30 | 2.72 | $0 |
| Feb 2021 | 0 | 0 | 57.80 | 5.55 | $0 |
| Jan 2021 | 932 | 2,629 | 50.41 | 2.81 | $54,370 |
| Dec 2020 | 943 | 2,394 | 44.64 | 2.68 | $48,501 |
| Nov 2020 | 555 | 1,996 | 38.77 | 2.71 | $26,920 |
| Oct 2020 | 730 | 2,049 | 36.97 | 2.48 | $32,066 |
| Sep 2020 | 738 | 1,619 | 37.09 | 1.99 | $30,596 |
| Aug 2020 | 1,103 | 1,853 | 39.98 | 2.39 | $48,518 |
| Jul 2020 | 557 | 1,827 | 38.37 | 1.83 | $24,707 |
| Jun 2020 | 922 | 1,970 | 34.90 | 1.69 | $35,508 |
| May 2020 | 1,107 | 661 | 16.92 | 1.81 | $19,930 |
| Apr 2020 | 916 | 644 | 14.75 | 1.80 | $14,673 |
| Mar 2020 | 862 | 648 | 30.34 | 1.86 | $27,356 |
| Feb 2020 | 1,146 | 3,341 | 49.88 | 1.98 | $63,780 |
| Jan 2020 | 965 | 664 | 57.25 | 2.09 | $56,637 |
| Dec 2019 | 1,253 | 669 | 59.01 | 2.30 | $75,481 |
| Nov 2019 | 934 | 0 | 55.30 | 2.75 | $51,650 |
| Oct 2019 | 1,127 | 0 | 53.47 | 2.42 | $60,261 |
| Sep 2019 | 1,288 | 1,960 | 55.05 | 2.66 | $76,113 |
| Aug 2019 | 1,471 | 3,255 | 53.11 | 2.30 | $85,626 |
| Jul 2019 | 1,626 | 3,729 | 56.27 | 2.46 | $100,669 |
| Jun 2019 | 1,632 | 2,270 | 52.78 | 2.49 | $91,792 |
| May 2019 | 2,038 | 4,466 | 58.48 | 2.74 | $131,421 |
| Apr 2019 | 919 | 2,334 | 62.63 | 2.75 | $63,977 |
| Mar 2019 | 1,502 | 2,848 | 56.80 | 3.06 | $94,034 |
| Feb 2019 | 1,850 | 3,873 | 50.85 | 2.79 | $104,887 |
| Jan 2019 | 1,686 | 4,272 | 46.03 | 3.23 | $91,397 |
| Dec 2018 | 2,076 | 3,723 | 46.59 | 4.19 | $112,303 |
| Nov 2018 | 1,880 | 4,281 | 52.93 | 4.24 | $117,648 |
| Oct 2018 | 2,059 | 4,327 | 61.44 | 3.40 | $141,208 |
| Sep 2018 | 2,208 | 5,642 | 59.54 | 3.11 | $149,000 |
| Aug 2018 | 2,346 | 4,409 | 59.40 | 3.07 | $152,873 |
| Jul 2018 | 2,150 | 4,481 | 65.14 | 2.93 | $153,189 |
| Jun 2018 | 2,520 | 5,651 | 60.18 | 3.08 | $169,041 |
| May 2018 | 2,373 | 7,029 | 65.38 | 2.90 | $175,536 |
| Apr 2018 | 2,847 | 6,736 | 63.84 | 2.90 | $201,292 |
| Mar 2018 | 3,124 | 6,724 | 61.22 | 2.79 | $209,990 |
| Feb 2018 | 2,938 | 4,911 | 61.78 | 2.77 | $195,094 |
| Jan 2018 | 3,316 | 5,951 | 62.87 | 4.01 | $232,336 |
| Dec 2017 | 3,307 | 6,654 | 57.27 | 2.92 | $208,832 |
| Nov 2017 | 4,032 | 8,872 | 55.42 | 3.12 | $251,120 |
| Oct 2017 | 4,034 | 7,817 | 49.29 | 2.98 | $222,159 |
| Sep 2017 | 5,348 | 12,271 | 47.52 | 3.09 | $292,021 |
| Aug 2017 | 5,505 | 13,742 | 45.37 | 3.00 | $291,048 |
| Jul 2017 | 7,918 | 14,391 | 43.87 | 3.09 | $391,792 |
| Jun 2017 | 5,939 | 5,878 | 42.49 | 3.09 | $270,495 |
| May 2017 | 6,783 | 7,430 | 45.37 | 3.26 | $331,992 |
| Apr 2017 | 6,866 | 7,189 | 47.93 | 3.21 | $352,176 |
| Mar 2017 | 8,571 | 7,709 | 46.77 | 2.98 | $423,867 |
| Feb 2017 | 8,126 | 0 | 50.45 | 2.95 | $409,957 |
| Jan 2017 | 1,640 | 0 | 49.41 | 3.42 | $81,032 |
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.
Oil 932 bbl × $ 50.41 = $46,982 Casinghead gas 2,629 Mcf × $ 2.81 = $7,388 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── Month total $54,370
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/4342 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.