DAVIS, W.

Operated by TEXACO E & P INC. (P-5 844118) 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 8296District 6EField 27302001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$179 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 1996
Value, last 12 filed months
$18 k
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
OilDisposition11,267 bbl$178,794
Casinghead gasProduction6,246 Mcf$0
Total$178,794

6,246 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 34 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 1995263716.00$4,208
Oct 1995168015.43$2,592
Sep 1995173716.18$2,799
Aug 199501515.92$0
Jul 19951712515.24$2,606
Jun 199582216.41$131
May 19951431917.56$2,511
Apr 19951871917.73$3,316
Mar 199505616.44$0
Feb 1995993516.58$1,641
Jan 1995916315.92$1,449
Dec 199410117715.03$1,518
Nov 199413614915.90$2,162
Oct 1994195415.58$296
Sep 199411414115.29$1,743
Aug 19942011916.13$3,242
Jul 19941099217.56$1,914
Jun 199433211117.09$5,674
May 19943616215.88$5,733
Apr 199448824714.14$6,900
Mar 199439026712.46$4,859
Feb 199453321112.50$6,663
Jan 199432722912.66$4,140
Dec 199332327512.33$3,983
Nov 199323317014.49$3,376
Oct 199397325715.85$15,422
Sep 199364025115.03$9,619
Aug 1993489115.66$7,658
Jul 199354735515.46$8,457
Jun 199358542216.79$9,822
May 199375339217.68$13,313
Apr 199369072818.05$12,455
Mar 199355056218.14$9,977
Feb 199351659717.90$9,236
Jan 199355420916.93$9,379

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.

Nov 1995 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  263 bbl  × $ 16.00 =     $4,208
Casinghead gas         7 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $4,208

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/8296 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.