VASTAR FEE UNIT A-229

Operated by RME PETROLEUM COMPANY (P-5 714229) 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 182865District 06Field 12193500CondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$3.3 M
Dec 2000 – Jun 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$1.0 M
at the published price for each month
Months reported
19
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
CondensateDisposition47,032 bbl$1,098,342
GasProduction563,222 Mcf$2,217,744
Total$3,316,085

Every month this lease reported (19)

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

19 months

Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 2002365022.003.10$8,030
Feb 20021,80324,65818.222.38$91,430
Jan 200288313,75917.172.38$47,848
Dec 20011,78421,48916.932.36$81,012
Nov 20012,33530,12618.072.41$114,662
Oct 20012,68831,18819.782.53$132,039
Sep 20012,65536,00824.262.25$145,476
Aug 20013,36938,85724.873.05$202,424
Jul 20013,37044,67623.933.20$223,477
Jun 20014,28851,21424.563.82$301,164
May 20015,16664,26925.524.31$408,663
Apr 20017,31189,69524.685.34$658,987
Mar 200111,015117,28324.545.38$900,873
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$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.

Mar 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate           365 bbl  × $ 22.00 =     $8,030
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  3.10 =         $0

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Month total                                   $8,030

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/182865 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.