CHRISTIAN, ARTHUR

Operated by AMOCO PRODUCTION COMPANY (P-5 20425) in the EAST TEXAS field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 6736District 6EField 27302001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$893 k
Jan 1993 – Dec 1998
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
72
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 2,264 leases and 17,267 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1930-12-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
330 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 5 acres. The field rule took effect on 2015-01-27.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: THIS ORDER TO BE CANCELLED

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
OilDisposition55,565 bbl$892,886
Casinghead gasProduction17,898 Mcf$0
Total$892,886

17,898 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 42 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 (72)

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

72 months

Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19966023.32$140
Nov 199680021.97$1,758
Oct 199676023.31$1,772
Sep 1996158022.22$3,511
Aug 1996170020.26$3,444
Jul 1996194119.55$3,793
Jun 1996199118.73$3,727
May 1996239019.43$4,644
Apr 1996247221.51$5,313
Mar 19962991019.38$5,795
Feb 1996302616.98$5,128
Jan 1996373317.07$6,367
Dec 1995406817.19$6,979
Nov 1995420816.00$6,720
Oct 1995466315.43$7,190
Sep 1995353816.18$5,712
Aug 1995484415.92$7,705
Jul 1995610715.24$9,296
Jun 19956281416.41$10,305
May 19957131317.56$12,520
Apr 19956291717.73$11,152
Mar 19958411016.44$13,826
Feb 19958021016.58$13,297
Jan 19959821315.92$15,633
Dec 19949682015.03$14,549
Nov 19949886915.90$15,709
Oct 19941,00310615.58$15,627
Sep 199499418215.29$15,198
Aug 19941,30651016.13$21,066
Jul 19941,39758417.56$24,531
Jun 19941,37966317.09$23,567
May 19941,49253415.88$23,693
Apr 19941,50260014.14$21,238
Mar 19941,63152112.46$20,322
Feb 19941,67430212.50$20,925
Jan 19941,98041512.66$25,067
Dec 19932,02640612.33$24,981
Nov 19931,89633814.49$27,473
Oct 19932,04358615.85$32,382
Sep 19932,0161,21215.03$30,300
Aug 19932,1761,35215.66$34,076
Jul 19932,3091,43115.46$35,697
Jun 19932,4601,28716.79$41,303
May 19932,6281,34317.68$46,463
Apr 19932,7121,30318.05$48,952
Mar 19933,0991,35618.14$56,216
Feb 19932,7881,14217.90$49,905
Jan 19933,4211,49816.93$57,918

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.

Dec 1996 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    6 bbl  × $ 23.32 =       $140
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                     $140

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. 6E/O/6736 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.