STRAIN, J. M.

Operated by SCHLACHTER OPERATING CORPORATION (P-5 753981) 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 62457District 8AField 82710498Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$4 k
Jan 1993 – Nov 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$4 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
119
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
OilDisposition174 bbl$4,277
Casinghead gasProduction81 Mcf$193
Total$4,470

16 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 16 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 (119)

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

119 months

Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 2002174124.583.06$4,280
Jun 20020123.733.34$3
May 20020124.663.58$4
Apr 20020123.653.51$4
Mar 20020122.003.10$3
Feb 20020118.222.38$2
Jan 20020117.172.38$2
Dec 20010116.932.36$2
Nov 20010118.072.41$2
Oct 20010119.782.53$3
Sep 20010124.262.25$2
Aug 20010124.873.05$3
Jul 20010123.933.20$3
Jun 20010124.563.82$4
May 20010125.524.31$4
Apr 20010124.685.34$5
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010127.755.77$6
Jan 20010127.478.40$8
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000132.215.66$6
Oct 20000131.235.15$5
Sep 20000131.875.19$5
Aug 20000129.644.54$5
Jul 20000128.534.09$4
Jun 20000129.304.40$4
May 20000127.263.68$4
Apr 20000124.513.12$3
Mar 20000128.422.86$3
Feb 20000127.622.73$3
Jan 20000125.272.48$2
Dec 19990124.282.42$2
Nov 19990123.192.43$2
Oct 19990120.982.80$3
Sep 19990121.752.62$3
Aug 19990119.262.88$3
Jul 19990117.892.37$2
Jun 19990115.942.36$2
May 19990115.792.32$2
Apr 19990115.102.21$2
Mar 19990112.471.84$2
Feb 1999019.981.82$2
Jan 19990110.381.90$2
Dec 1998019.201.77$2
Nov 19980110.892.19$2
Oct 19980112.421.97$2
Sep 19980112.592.08$2
Aug 19980111.301.91$2
Jul 19980111.742.24$2
Jun 19980111.242.24$2
May 19980112.622.21$2
Apr 19980113.042.51$3
Mar 19980112.802.31$2
Feb 19980113.952.30$2
Jan 19980114.702.15$2
Dec 19970116.322.41$2
Nov 19970118.193.09$3
Oct 19970119.253.15$3
Sep 19970117.742.95$3
Aug 19970117.862.55$3
Jul 19970117.582.25$2
Jun 19970117.242.26$2
May 19970118.972.31$2
Apr 19970117.882.08$2
Mar 19970118.951.94$2
Feb 19970120.492.21$2
Jan 19970123.483.54$4
Dec 19960123.32$0
Nov 19960121.97$0
Oct 19960123.31$0
Sep 19960122.22$0
Aug 19960120.26$0
Jul 19960119.55$0
Jun 19960118.73$0
May 19960119.43$0
Apr 19960121.51$0
Mar 19960119.38$0
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 19950116.44$0
Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 19950015.92$0
Dec 19940115.03$0
Nov 19940115.90$0
Oct 19940015.58$0
Sep 19940015.29$0
Aug 19940016.13$0
Jul 19940017.56$0
Jun 19940017.09$0
May 19940015.88$0
Apr 19940014.14$0
Mar 19940112.46$0
Feb 19940012.50$0
Jan 19940012.66$0
Dec 19930012.33$0
Nov 19930014.49$0
Oct 19930015.85$0
Sep 19930015.03$0
Aug 19930015.66$0
Jul 19930115.46$0
Jun 19930016.79$0
May 19930017.68$0
Apr 19930018.05$0
Mar 19930118.14$0
Feb 19930017.90$0
Jan 19930016.93$0

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.

Jul 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  174 bbl  × $ 24.58 =     $4,277
Casinghead gas         1 Mcf  × $  3.06 =         $3

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Month total                                   $4,280

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/62457 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.