GRIFFITH, H. E. "A"

Operated by NEFF, MICKEY OIL COMPANY INC. (P-5 602990) in the SHARON RIDGE (1700) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 62425District 8AField 82710498Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$22 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 1994
Value, last 12 filed months
$16 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
15
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 403 leases and 3,269 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1923-12-29
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
0 ft
minimum
From a lease line
165 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 5 acres. The field rule took effect on 2014-02-18.

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: REQUIRED.

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
OilDisposition1,349 bbl$22,257
Casinghead gasProduction45 Mcf$0
Total$22,257

45 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 10 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 (15)

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

15 months

Mar 19940012.46$0
Feb 19940012.50$0
Jan 19940012.66$0
Dec 19930012.33$0
Nov 19930014.49$0
Oct 1993280115.85$4,438
Sep 1993125115.03$1,879
Aug 1993159115.66$2,490
Jul 1993176115.46$2,721
Jun 199374116.79$1,242
May 199373817.68$1,291
Apr 1993108818.05$1,949
Mar 1993116818.14$2,104
Feb 1993117817.90$2,094
Jan 1993121816.93$2,049

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 1993 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  280 bbl  × $ 15.85 =     $4,438
Casinghead gas         1 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $4,438

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/62425 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.