SOUTHERN PINE

Operated by CHESAPEAKE OPERATING, INC. (P-5 147715) in the BROOKELAND (AUSTIN CHALK, 8800) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 162624District 06Field 12193500CondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$720 k
Dec 1996 – Aug 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$50 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
33
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, 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 488 leases and 597 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1983-06-12
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
900 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 160 acres. The field rule took effect on 2009-10-22.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: ACRES. DOCKET EFFECTIVE 10-22-09.

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
CondensateDisposition27,273 bbl$491,151
GasProduction96,008 Mcf$229,121
Total$720,273

4,146 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 1 month, 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 (33)

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

33 months

Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 1999363015.792.32$5,732
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19993843612.471.84$4,855
Feb 19993791,0309.981.82$5,655
Jan 19997431,84410.381.90$11,216
Dec 19981944559.201.77$2,592
Nov 19981862,28310.892.19$7,016
Oct 1998746012.421.97$9,265
Sep 199818774812.592.08$3,912
Aug 19985614,32611.301.91$14,591
Jul 19985553,08311.742.24$13,413
Jun 19983802,81111.242.24$10,560
May 19985613,00412.622.21$13,708
Apr 19983773,99013.042.51$14,912
Mar 1998752012.802.31$9,626
Feb 19985714,05413.952.30$17,286
Jan 19987487,33614.702.15$26,803
Dec 19975676,08016.322.41$23,913
Nov 19975597,01218.193.09$31,823
Oct 19979276,82219.253.15$39,333
Sep 19977384,51517.742.95$26,433
Aug 19979146,13817.862.55$32,005
Jul 19971,0701,84717.582.25$22,961
Jun 19971,4232,58717.242.26$30,372
May 19971,0902,47718.972.31$26,395
Apr 19971,2542,79717.882.08$28,247
Mar 19971,9364,25218.951.94$44,932
Feb 19972,3265,34620.492.21$59,452
Jan 19972,3126,98923.483.54$79,025
Dec 19964,4704,14623.32$104,240

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.

May 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate           363 bbl  × $ 15.79 =     $5,732
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  2.32 =         $0

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Month total                                   $5,732

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. 06/G/162624 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.