MILLER, J. M.

Operated by TEXACO E & P INC. (P-5 844118) in the FAIRWAY (PETTIT) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 4280District 06Field 30035600OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$24 k
Jan 1993 – Feb 1995
Value, last 12 filed months
$4 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
26
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 3 leases and 3 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1961-11-12
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
1,850 ft
minimum
From a lease line
660 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 160 acres.

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
OilDisposition1,500 bbl$23,587
Casinghead gasProduction12 Mcf$0
Total$23,587

12 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 12 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 (26)

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

26 months

Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 19950015.92$0
Dec 19940015.03$0
Nov 19940015.90$0
Oct 19940015.58$0
Sep 19940015.29$0
Aug 19940016.13$0
Jul 19940017.56$0
Jun 199486017.09$1,470
May 19940015.88$0
Apr 1994179014.14$2,531
Mar 19940012.46$0
Feb 1994155012.50$1,938
Jan 19940012.66$0
Dec 19930112.33$0
Nov 1993169114.49$2,449
Oct 19930115.85$0
Sep 1993108115.03$1,623
Aug 1993175115.66$2,741
Jul 1993176115.46$2,721
Jun 19930116.79$0
May 19930117.68$0
Apr 1993162118.05$2,924
Mar 19930118.14$0
Feb 1993290117.90$5,191
Jan 19930116.93$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.

Jun 1994 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   86 bbl  × $ 17.09 =     $1,470
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $1,470

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/4280 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.