CHILCUTT, J. F.

Operated by MITCHELL ENERGY CORPORATION (P-5 570655) in the BOONSVILLE (BEND CONGL., GAS) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 114576District 09Field 10574520GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$57
Jan 1993 – Jun 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$57
at the published price for each month
Months reported
54
no gaps in the span
Streams
1
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 3,438 leases and 3,443 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1945-05-01
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 1991-06-10.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: AMOUNT HAD BEEN CALCULATED FOR 5/1/97.

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
GasProduction24,603 Mcf$57
Total$57

24,587 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 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 (54)

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

54 months

Jun 1997017.242.26$0
May 1997018.972.31$0
Apr 1997017.882.08$0
Mar 1997018.951.94$0
Feb 1997020.492.21$0
Jan 19971623.483.54$57
Dec 199635123.32$0
Nov 199613821.97$0
Oct 199612223.31$0
Sep 199629522.22$0
Aug 199642920.26$0
Jul 199630919.55$0
Jun 199639618.73$0
May 199635919.43$0
Apr 199640821.51$0
Mar 199646019.38$0
Feb 199629016.98$0
Jan 199652117.07$0
Dec 199541517.19$0
Nov 199535016.00$0
Oct 199520415.43$0
Sep 199528716.18$0
Aug 199563215.92$0
Jul 199546815.24$0
Jun 199579916.41$0
May 199552217.56$0
Apr 199529217.73$0
Mar 199564416.44$0
Feb 199526816.58$0
Jan 199554615.92$0
Dec 199440915.03$0
Nov 199453315.90$0
Oct 199454015.58$0
Sep 199439815.29$0
Aug 199448016.13$0
Jul 199423517.56$0
Jun 199424017.09$0
May 199432715.88$0
Apr 199446814.14$0
Mar 199471312.46$0
Feb 199472612.50$0
Jan 199472412.66$0
Dec 199360912.33$0
Nov 199329814.49$0
Oct 199386515.85$0
Sep 19931,00815.03$0
Aug 199344815.66$0
Jul 199384515.46$0
Jun 199382516.79$0
May 19931,07317.68$0
Apr 199359618.05$0
Mar 199384218.14$0
Feb 199387617.90$0
Jan 19931,00416.93$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.

Jan 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                   16 Mcf  × $  3.54 =        $57

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Month total                                      $57

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. 09/G/114576 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.