BRADEN

Operated by MCENA INC. (P-5 548640) in the CALVIN (DEAN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 7397District 7CField 14937333OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$94 k
Jan 1993 – Jan 1996
Value, last 12 filed months
$23 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
37
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 498 leases and 1,074 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1965-11-17
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
660 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: 7C,08-0209914

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
OilDisposition5,927 bbl$94,051
Casinghead gasProduction31,366 Mcf$0
Total$94,051

31,366 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 (37)

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

37 months

Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 199532587315.43$5,015
Sep 1995086416.18$0
Aug 199519293615.92$3,057
Jul 199518994315.24$2,880
Jun 199519991716.41$3,266
May 199518891217.56$3,301
Apr 1995188717.73$18
Mar 19951441,06216.44$2,367
Feb 199518182916.58$3,001
Jan 199519291715.92$3,057
Dec 199419491415.03$2,916
Nov 199420088515.90$3,180
Oct 1994085515.58$0
Sep 199433887515.29$5,168
Aug 199419193516.13$3,081
Jul 199416471617.56$2,880
Jun 1994395917.09$51
May 199417660215.88$2,795
Apr 199437772214.14$5,331
Mar 19941781,09712.46$2,218
Feb 1994082912.50$0
Jan 1994090112.66$0
Dec 199318199312.33$2,232
Nov 199318498514.49$2,666
Oct 19931761,01815.85$2,790
Sep 19931801,00115.03$2,705
Aug 19931741,06115.66$2,725
Jul 19931811,04415.46$2,798
Jun 19933651,02316.79$6,128
May 199301,05317.68$0
Apr 199316297718.05$2,924
Mar 199318295618.14$3,301
Feb 199318681217.90$3,329
Jan 19935241,01316.93$8,871

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.

Oct 1995 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  325 bbl  × $ 15.43 =     $5,015
Casinghead gas       873 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $5,015

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. 7C/O/7397 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.