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Operated by MAY, JOE R. (P-5 535640) 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 7468District 6EField 27302001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$21 k
Jan 1993 – May 1996
Value, last 12 filed months
$1 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
41
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
OilDisposition1,283 bbl$20,930
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$20,930

21 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 21 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 (41)

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

41 months

May 19960019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 199668019.38$1,318
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 1995175017.73$3,103
Mar 19950016.44$0
Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 19950015.92$0
Dec 19940015.03$0
Nov 1994152015.90$2,417
Oct 19940015.58$0
Sep 19940115.29$0
Aug 19940116.13$0
Jul 1994177117.56$3,108
Jun 19940117.09$0
May 19940115.88$0
Apr 19940114.14$0
Mar 1994178112.46$2,218
Feb 19940112.50$0
Jan 19940112.66$0
Dec 19930112.33$0
Nov 19930114.49$0
Oct 1993175115.85$2,774
Sep 19930115.03$0
Aug 19930115.66$0
Jul 1993181115.46$2,798
Jun 19930116.79$0
May 19930117.68$0
Apr 1993177118.05$3,195
Mar 19930118.14$0
Feb 19930117.90$0
Jan 19930116.93$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.

Mar 1996 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   68 bbl  × $ 19.38 =     $1,318
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $1,318

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/7468 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.