KING SOUTH U-0515
Operated by APACHE CORPORATION (P-5 27200) in the MCELROY 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 114 leases and 4,417 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.
A drilling unit in this field needs at least 10 acres.
The register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.
The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “WAS STATED AS THE GRAYBURG SAN ANDRES DOLOMITE AT 3000FT.”
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 | 1,421 bbl | $71,881 |
| Casinghead gas | Production | 94 Mcf | $274 |
| Total | $72,155 | ||
Every month this lease reported (50)
Volume × price = value, one row per cycle. The price columns are the same series published on the prices page — nothing here is modelled.
50 months
| Feb 2019 | 0 | 0 | 50.85 | 2.79 | $0 |
| Jan 2019 | 0 | 0 | 46.03 | 3.23 | $0 |
| Dec 2018 | 0 | 0 | 46.59 | 4.19 | $0 |
| Nov 2018 | 0 | 0 | 52.93 | 4.24 | $0 |
| Oct 2018 | 0 | 0 | 61.44 | 3.40 | $0 |
| Sep 2018 | 0 | 0 | 59.54 | 3.11 | $0 |
| Aug 2018 | 0 | 0 | 59.40 | 3.07 | $0 |
| Jul 2018 | 0 | 0 | 65.14 | 2.93 | $0 |
| Jun 2018 | 0 | 0 | 60.18 | 3.08 | $0 |
| May 2018 | 0 | 0 | 65.38 | 2.90 | $0 |
| Apr 2018 | 0 | 0 | 63.84 | 2.90 | $0 |
| Mar 2018 | 0 | 0 | 61.22 | 2.79 | $0 |
| Feb 2018 | 0 | 0 | 61.78 | 2.77 | $0 |
| Jan 2018 | 0 | 0 | 62.87 | 4.01 | $0 |
| Dec 2017 | 0 | 0 | 57.27 | 2.92 | $0 |
| Nov 2017 | 0 | 0 | 55.42 | 3.12 | $0 |
| Oct 2017 | 0 | 0 | 49.29 | 2.98 | $0 |
| Sep 2017 | 0 | 0 | 47.52 | 3.09 | $0 |
| Aug 2017 | 0 | 0 | 45.37 | 3.00 | $0 |
| Jul 2017 | 0 | 0 | 43.87 | 3.09 | $0 |
| Jun 2017 | 0 | 0 | 42.49 | 3.09 | $0 |
| May 2017 | 0 | 0 | 45.37 | 3.26 | $0 |
| Apr 2017 | 0 | 0 | 47.93 | 3.21 | $0 |
| Mar 2017 | 0 | 0 | 46.77 | 2.98 | $0 |
| Feb 2017 | 0 | 0 | 50.45 | 2.95 | $0 |
| Jan 2017 | 0 | 0 | 49.41 | 3.42 | $0 |
| Dec 2016 | 0 | 0 | 48.76 | 3.72 | $0 |
| Nov 2016 | 0 | 0 | 42.49 | 2.64 | $0 |
| Oct 2016 | 0 | 0 | 46.19 | 3.09 | $0 |
| Sep 2016 | 0 | 0 | 41.55 | 3.10 | $0 |
| Aug 2016 | 0 | 0 | 41.44 | 2.92 | $0 |
| Jul 2016 | 0 | 0 | 41.62 | 2.92 | $0 |
| Jun 2016 | 0 | 0 | 45.35 | 2.69 | $0 |
| May 2016 | 0 | 0 | 42.52 | 1.99 | $0 |
| Apr 2016 | 0 | 0 | 36.56 | 1.99 | $0 |
| Mar 2016 | 0 | 0 | 33.01 | 1.79 | $0 |
| Feb 2016 | 0 | 0 | 26.47 | 2.06 | $0 |
| Jan 2016 | 0 | 0 | 27.35 | 2.36 | $0 |
| Dec 2015 | 0 | 0 | 32.36 | 2.00 | $0 |
| Nov 2015 | 0 | 0 | 38.79 | 2.17 | $0 |
| Oct 2015 | 0 | 0 | 43.55 | 2.43 | $0 |
| Sep 2015 | 322 | 2 | 42.99 | 2.76 | $13,848 |
| Aug 2015 | 152 | 31 | 40.16 | 2.87 | $6,193 |
| Jul 2015 | 155 | 31 | 48.15 | 2.95 | $7,555 |
| Jun 2015 | 792 | 0 | 56.15 | 2.88 | $44,471 |
| May 2015 | 0 | 0 | 55.21 | 2.96 | $0 |
| Apr 2015 | 0 | 0 | 49.82 | 2.71 | $0 |
| Mar 2015 | 0 | 30 | 42.89 | 2.93 | $88 |
| Feb 2015 | 0 | 0 | 44.66 | 2.98 | $0 |
| Jan 2015 | 0 | 0 | 43.43 | 3.10 | $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.
Oil 322 bbl × $ 42.99 = $13,843 Casinghead gas 2 Mcf × $ 2.76 = $6 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── Month total $13,848
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. 08/O/46612 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.