GIBBS BROS. UNIT

Operated by TEXACO E & P INC. (P-5 844118) 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.

Oil lease lease 13276District 06Field 12193500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$493 k
Feb 1994 – Sep 1994
Value, last 12 filed months
$493 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
8
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 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
OilDisposition38,278 bbl$493,094
Casinghead gasProduction188,440 Mcf$0
Total$493,094

188,440 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 3 months, 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 (8)

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

8 months

Sep 19940015.29$0
Aug 19940016.13$0
Jul 19940017.56$0
Jun 19940017.09$0
May 1994311015.88$4,939
Apr 19948,56549,20714.14$121,109
Mar 199411,96160,39212.46$149,034
Feb 199417,44178,84112.50$218,013

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 1994 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  311 bbl  × $ 15.88 =     $4,939
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $4,939

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/O/13276 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.