FINLEY-THOMAS "C"

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 6857District 6EField 27302001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$59 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 1996
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
39
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
OilDisposition3,607 bbl$58,828
Casinghead gasProduction2,719 Mcf$0
Total$58,828

2,719 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 19 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 (39)

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

39 months

Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 19950016.44$0
Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 19950015.92$0
Dec 19940015.03$0
Nov 19940015.90$0
Oct 19940015.58$0
Sep 19940015.29$0
Aug 19947016.13$113
Jul 19941177617.56$2,055
Jun 19941406117.09$2,393
May 19941423615.88$2,255
Apr 19941785114.14$2,517
Mar 19941898312.46$2,355
Feb 19941465012.50$1,825
Jan 1994656512.66$823
Dec 19936410912.33$789
Nov 19937610714.49$1,101
Oct 1993783715.85$1,236
Sep 1993974115.03$1,458
Aug 19931147615.66$1,785
Jul 199319518315.46$3,015
Jun 199321720816.79$3,643
May 199327021917.68$4,774
Apr 199328029118.05$5,054
Mar 199339039418.14$7,075
Feb 199331832417.90$5,692
Jan 199352430816.93$8,871

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.

Aug 1994 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    7 bbl  × $ 16.13 =       $113
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                     $113

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/6857 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.