VEALE RANCH
Operated by DEVON ENERGY PRODUCTION CO, L.P. (P-5 216378) in the WINSTON RANCH (BIG SALINE) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.
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 15 leases and 15 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.
The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “EXEMPT FIELD EFF 04/01/09”
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.
| Stream | Basis | Volume | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gas | Production | 3,040 Mcf | $17,811 |
| Total | $17,811 | ||
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
| May 2011 | 0 | 98.13 | 4.40 | $0 |
| Apr 2011 | 0 | 105.96 | 4.33 | $0 |
| Mar 2011 | 0 | 96.36 | 4.06 | $0 |
| Feb 2011 | 0 | 85.64 | 4.18 | $0 |
| Jan 2011 | 0 | 86.50 | 4.59 | $0 |
| Dec 2010 | 0 | 85.73 | 4.35 | $0 |
| Nov 2010 | 0 | 80.84 | 3.80 | $0 |
| Oct 2010 | 0 | 78.10 | 3.51 | $0 |
| Sep 2010 | 0 | 72.63 | 3.98 | $0 |
| Aug 2010 | 0 | 73.68 | 4.42 | $0 |
| Jul 2010 | 0 | 72.55 | 4.74 | $0 |
| Jun 2010 | 0 | 70.36 | 4.91 | $0 |
| May 2010 | 0 | 71.12 | 4.24 | $0 |
| Apr 2010 | 0 | 81.69 | 4.12 | $0 |
| Mar 2010 | 0 | 78.39 | 4.39 | $0 |
| Feb 2010 | 0 | 73.58 | 5.44 | $0 |
| Jan 2010 | 0 | 74.36 | 5.96 | $0 |
| Dec 2009 | 0 | 71.44 | 5.48 | $0 |
| Nov 2009 | 0 | 74.59 | 3.75 | $0 |
| Oct 2009 | 0 | 72.54 | 4.11 | $0 |
| Sep 2009 | 0 | 65.54 | 3.06 | $0 |
| Aug 2009 | 0 | 67.42 | 3.22 | $0 |
| Jul 2009 | 0 | 61.13 | 3.46 | $0 |
| Jun 2009 | 0 | 66.16 | 3.90 | $0 |
| May 2009 | 0 | 54.74 | 3.93 | $0 |
| Apr 2009 | 0 | 46.77 | 3.59 | $0 |
| Mar 2009 | 1,085 | 42.14 | 4.06 | $4,404 |
| Feb 2009 | 0 | 32.81 | 4.63 | $0 |
| Jan 2009 | 1,021 | 35.86 | 5.37 | $5,484 |
| Dec 2008 | 0 | 37.10 | 5.98 | $0 |
| Nov 2008 | 0 | 55.49 | 6.86 | $0 |
| Oct 2008 | 0 | 75.24 | 6.92 | $0 |
| Sep 2008 | 0 | 101.76 | 7.88 | $0 |
| Aug 2008 | 934 | 114.22 | 8.48 | $7,923 |
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.
Gas 1,085 Mcf × $ 4.06 = $4,404 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── Month total $4,404
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. 7B/G/242960 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.