CHURCH, C. B.

Operated by WHITTINGTON, G. R. ESTATE (P-5 921405) 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 8457District 6EField 27302001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.1 M
Jan 1993 – Mar 2008
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
183
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
OilDisposition60,871 bbl$1,082,614
Casinghead gasProduction19,851 Mcf$30,967
Total$1,113,582

9,166 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 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 (183)

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

183 months

Mar 200800101.909.66$0
Feb 20080092.538.77$0
Jan 20080090.388.21$0
Dec 20070088.337.30$0
Nov 20070091.677.29$0
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 20070075.846.24$0
Aug 20070069.066.39$0
Jul 20070070.906.39$0
Jun 20070062.007.55$0
May 20070058.747.85$0
Apr 20070059.617.81$0
Mar 20070056.927.30$0
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060056.656.92$0
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 20060069.376.34$0
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 200320030.266.30$605
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 2002127517.172.38$2,192
Dec 200118116116.932.36$3,445
Nov 200118216118.072.41$3,676
Oct 200118311119.782.53$3,900
Sep 20011814524.262.25$4,492
Aug 20011828924.873.05$4,798
Jul 200118014823.933.20$4,781
Jun 200136113724.563.82$9,390
May 20013685225.524.31$9,615
Apr 20011845224.685.34$4,819
Mar 200102024.545.38$108
Feb 20011862027.755.77$5,277
Jan 200122215127.478.40$7,367
Dec 200018515126.889.12$6,350
Nov 20001608032.215.66$5,606
Oct 20001658031.235.15$5,565
Sep 200027116231.875.19$9,477
Aug 200036415729.644.54$11,502
Jul 200036730528.534.09$11,718
Jun 200054830929.304.40$17,415
May 200034420227.263.68$10,121
Apr 200052216824.513.12$13,318
Mar 200065116728.422.86$18,979
Feb 200060916727.622.73$17,276
Jan 200066316725.272.48$17,168
Dec 199963914724.282.42$15,871
Nov 199962915323.192.43$14,959
Oct 199965217420.982.80$14,167
Sep 199963214721.752.62$14,131
Aug 199965316719.262.88$13,057
Jul 199964816717.892.37$11,989
Jun 199963017815.942.36$10,463
May 199965111415.792.32$10,544
Apr 199962918815.102.21$9,913
Mar 199965418812.471.84$8,501
Feb 19995932119.981.82$6,302
Jan 199970220810.381.90$7,682
Dec 19985362009.201.77$5,286
Nov 199863217810.892.19$7,272
Oct 199865419212.421.97$8,501
Sep 199863419612.592.08$8,390
Aug 199864820211.301.91$7,708
Jul 199865019511.742.24$8,067
Jun 199862618811.242.24$7,457
May 199866522512.622.21$8,889
Apr 199863219713.042.51$8,735
Mar 199864419212.802.31$8,687
Feb 199859220013.952.30$8,718
Jan 199865120214.702.15$10,005
Dec 199764320316.322.41$10,983
Nov 199763122718.193.09$12,179
Oct 199766629319.253.15$13,743
Sep 199763528817.742.95$12,116
Aug 199765528917.862.55$12,437
Jul 199765525617.582.25$12,090
Jun 199763424017.242.26$11,472
May 199763341418.972.31$12,964
Apr 199759522917.882.08$11,116
Mar 199765318918.951.94$12,741
Feb 199758218120.492.21$12,324
Jan 199767120023.483.54$16,463
Dec 199664319223.32$14,995
Nov 199663816821.97$14,017
Oct 199665619623.31$15,291
Sep 199662919322.22$13,976
Aug 199665420920.26$13,250
Jul 199665420819.55$12,786
Jun 199663419218.73$11,875
May 199664720219.43$12,571
Apr 199661618521.51$13,250
Mar 199666118519.38$12,810
Feb 199660716516.98$10,307
Jan 199665115317.07$11,113
Dec 199564716317.19$11,122
Nov 199564418816.00$10,304
Oct 199562919815.43$9,705
Sep 199566637416.18$10,776
Aug 199565216115.92$10,380
Jul 199563316515.24$9,647
Jun 199561816316.41$10,141
May 199558715317.56$10,308
Apr 199563316117.73$11,223
Mar 199564415716.44$10,587
Feb 199560515316.58$10,031
Jan 199564315315.92$10,237
Dec 199465012615.03$9,770
Nov 199463112915.90$10,033
Oct 199465222415.58$10,158
Sep 199463615015.29$9,724
Aug 199463415316.13$10,226
Jul 199463618017.56$11,168
Jun 199460815517.09$10,391
May 199466713915.88$10,592
Apr 199461216014.14$8,654
Mar 199464616812.46$8,049
Feb 199459918512.50$7,488
Jan 199463517112.66$8,039
Dec 199360616812.33$7,472
Nov 199362417714.49$9,042
Oct 199357121515.85$9,050
Sep 199365723015.03$9,875
Aug 199364729115.66$10,132
Jul 199373624015.46$11,379
Jun 199362518216.79$10,494
May 199364317317.68$11,368
Apr 199363632718.05$11,480
Mar 199363227118.14$11,464
Feb 199360624817.90$10,847
Jan 199365626716.93$11,106

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 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   20 bbl  × $ 30.26 =       $605
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  6.30 =         $0

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Month total                                     $605

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/8457 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.