PARKS, H. W.

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 68888District 09Field 10574520GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$7 k
Jan 1993 – Jun 1998
Value, last 12 filed months
$184
at the published price for each month
Months reported
66
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
GasProduction27,341 Mcf$6,524
Total$6,524

24,617 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 (66)

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

66 months

Jun 1998011.242.24$0
May 1998012.622.21$0
Apr 1998013.042.51$0
Mar 1998012.802.31$0
Feb 1998013.952.30$0
Jan 1998014.702.15$0
Dec 1997016.322.41$0
Nov 1997018.193.09$0
Oct 1997019.253.15$0
Sep 1997017.742.95$0
Aug 1997017.862.55$0
Jul 19978217.582.25$184
Jun 199714117.242.26$318
May 199751518.972.31$1,189
Apr 199748917.882.08$1,018
Mar 199753518.951.94$1,037
Feb 199747120.492.21$1,039
Jan 199749123.483.54$1,738
Dec 199629223.32$0
Nov 19965721.97$0
Oct 199619723.31$0
Sep 199626722.22$0
Aug 199628520.26$0
Jul 199644319.55$0
Jun 199641418.73$0
May 199642719.43$0
Apr 199642421.51$0
Mar 199647619.38$0
Feb 199644616.98$0
Jan 199640017.07$0
Dec 199539917.19$0
Nov 199541716.00$0
Oct 199523215.43$0
Sep 199530816.18$0
Aug 199540715.92$0
Jul 199537915.24$0
Jun 199544016.41$0
May 199558617.56$0
Apr 199554017.73$0
Mar 199551016.44$0
Feb 199546816.58$0
Jan 199551515.92$0
Dec 199456015.03$0
Nov 199447315.90$0
Oct 199437415.58$0
Sep 199437615.29$0
Aug 199436816.13$0
Jul 199443417.56$0
Jun 199457417.09$0
May 199467115.88$0
Apr 199478214.14$0
Mar 199475412.46$0
Feb 199462412.50$0
Jan 199478912.66$0
Dec 199371112.33$0
Nov 199360514.49$0
Oct 199383315.85$0
Sep 199359315.03$0
Aug 199352215.66$0
Jul 199376115.46$0
Jun 199380716.79$0
May 199374017.68$0
Apr 199380718.05$0
Mar 199361518.14$0
Feb 199376917.90$0
Jan 199374616.93$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.

Jul 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                   82 Mcf  × $  2.25 =       $184

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Month total                                     $184

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/68888 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.