COTHES, C. R.

Operated by LYNX ENERGY COMPANY, INC. (P-5 516247) in the HARRIS field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 2475District 8AField 39242001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$336 k
Jan 1993 – Dec 2000
Value, last 12 filed months
$53 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
96
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 54 leases and 543 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1949-10-16
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
600 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 10 acres. The field rule took effect on 1990-12-03.

The register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: PER DOC 8A-95247 FLD RULES AMENDED EFF 12-3-90

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
OilDisposition18,918 bbl$336,119
Casinghead gasProduction318 Mcf$0
Total$336,119

318 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 (96)

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

96 months

Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 2000919029.304.40$26,927
May 2000316027.263.68$8,614
Apr 2000161024.513.12$3,946
Mar 2000190028.422.86$5,400
Feb 2000177027.622.73$4,889
Jan 2000136025.272.48$3,437
Dec 1999146024.282.42$3,545
Nov 1999162023.192.43$3,757
Oct 1999174020.982.80$3,651
Sep 1999163021.752.62$3,545
Aug 1999155019.262.88$2,985
Jul 1999175017.892.37$3,131
Jun 1999148015.942.36$2,359
May 1999185015.792.32$2,921
Apr 1999179015.102.21$2,703
Mar 1999187012.471.84$2,332
Feb 199917309.981.82$1,727
Jan 1999325010.381.90$3,374
Dec 199817609.201.77$1,619
Nov 1998181010.892.19$1,971
Oct 1998154012.421.97$1,913
Sep 1998351012.592.08$4,419
Aug 1998160011.301.91$1,808
Jul 1998338011.742.24$3,968
Jun 1998175011.242.24$1,967
May 1998166012.622.21$2,095
Apr 1998168013.042.51$2,191
Mar 1998352012.802.31$4,506
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 1998352014.702.15$5,174
Dec 1997173016.322.41$2,823
Nov 1997170018.193.09$3,092
Oct 1997176019.253.15$3,388
Sep 1997347017.742.95$6,156
Aug 1997176017.862.55$3,143
Jul 1997180017.582.25$3,164
Jun 1997130017.242.26$2,241
May 1997180018.972.31$3,415
Apr 1997343017.882.08$6,133
Mar 1997181018.951.94$3,430
Feb 1997345020.492.21$7,069
Jan 1997169023.483.54$3,968
Dec 1996177023.32$4,128
Nov 1996167021.97$3,669
Oct 1996527023.31$12,284
Sep 1996176022.22$3,911
Aug 1996179020.26$3,627
Jul 1996355019.55$6,940
Jun 1996351018.73$6,574
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 1996366021.51$7,873
Mar 1996179019.38$3,469
Feb 1996185016.98$3,141
Jan 1996183017.07$3,124
Dec 1995180017.19$3,094
Nov 1995184016.00$2,944
Oct 1995178015.43$2,747
Sep 1995162016.18$2,621
Aug 1995321015.92$5,110
Jul 1995162015.24$2,469
Jun 1995181016.41$2,970
May 1995181017.56$3,178
Apr 1995184017.73$3,262
Mar 1995169016.44$2,778
Feb 1995175016.58$2,902
Jan 1995348015.92$5,540
Dec 1994169015.03$2,540
Nov 1994170015.90$2,703
Oct 1994169015.58$2,633
Sep 1994329015.29$5,030
Aug 1994175016.13$2,823
Jul 1994165117.56$2,897
Jun 1994163117.09$2,786
May 1994175115.88$2,779
Apr 1994182114.14$2,573
Mar 1994162112.46$2,019
Feb 1994178112.50$2,225
Jan 1994192112.66$2,431
Dec 199319230012.33$2,367
Nov 1993184114.49$2,666
Oct 1993190115.85$3,012
Sep 1993173115.03$2,600
Aug 1993188115.66$2,944
Jul 1993182115.46$2,814
Jun 1993362116.79$6,078
May 1993187117.68$3,306
Apr 1993184118.05$3,321
Mar 19930118.14$0
Feb 1993181117.90$3,240
Jan 1993182116.93$3,081

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.

Jun 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  919 bbl  × $ 29.30 =    $26,927
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  4.40 =         $0

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Month total                                  $26,927

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. 8A/O/2475 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.