WHEELER, W. M.

Operated by CALICO OPERATING CO., INC. (P-5 123854) 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 7790District 6EField 27302001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$14 k
Jan 1993 – Oct 1995
Value, last 12 filed months
$1 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
34
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
OilDisposition918 bbl$14,260
Casinghead gasProduction470 Mcf$0
Total$14,260

470 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 (34)

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

34 months

Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 199582015.24$1,250
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 19940016.13$0
Jul 19940117.56$0
Jun 19940317.09$0
May 199444215.88$699
Apr 199444614.14$622
Mar 1994823912.46$1,022
Feb 199403912.50$0
Jan 1994514612.66$646
Dec 199347112.33$580
Nov 1993473214.49$681
Oct 199345415.85$713
Sep 199345115.03$676
Aug 199344115.66$689
Jul 199348615.46$742
Jun 1993481816.79$806
May 1993502617.68$884
Apr 199351118.05$921
Mar 1993547718.14$980
Feb 1993509717.90$895
Jan 1993867016.93$1,456

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 1995 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   82 bbl  × $ 15.24 =     $1,250
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $1,250

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/7790 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.