MILLS, CURTIS GU

Operated by DEVON ENERGY PRODUCTION CO, L.P. (P-5 216378) in the NEWARK, EAST (BARNETT SHALE) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 228418District 09Field 65280200GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$330 k
Mar 2007 – Mar 2009
Value, last 12 filed months
$108 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
25
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 21,881 leases and 22,468 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1981-10-15
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
0 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 acres. The field rule took effect on 2009-09-29.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: DESIGNATED AS UFT FIELD PER DOCKET 01-0299858

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
GasProduction38,706 Mcf$330,355
Total$330,355

Every month this lease reported (25)

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

25 months

Mar 2009042.144.06$0
Feb 2009032.814.63$0
Jan 2009035.865.37$0
Dec 2008037.105.98$0
Nov 20085155.496.86$350
Oct 20081,29375.246.92$8,950
Sep 20081,218101.767.88$9,594
Aug 20081,178114.228.48$9,993
Jul 20081,136131.0811.39$12,938
Jun 20082,031131.3313.03$26,469
May 20082,530123.1711.57$29,283
Apr 20081,032110.3110.45$10,789
Mar 20082,246101.909.66$21,706
Feb 20083,96892.538.77$34,802
Jan 200889190.388.21$7,311
Dec 20072,30288.337.30$16,809
Nov 20071,58791.677.29$11,572
Oct 20071,85582.856.92$12,840
Sep 200715475.846.24$962
Aug 200745669.066.39$2,913
Jul 200788270.906.39$5,634
Jun 20071,87462.007.55$14,146
May 20073,77058.747.85$29,580
Apr 20076,87059.617.81$53,622
Mar 20071,38256.927.30$10,091

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.

Nov 2008 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                   51 Mcf  × $  6.86 =       $350

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Month total                                     $350

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/228418 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.