COTHES
Operated by SEABOARD OIL COMPANY (P-5 760901) in the HARRIS 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 54 leases and 543 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.
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.
| Stream | Basis | Volume | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oil | Disposition | 5,618 bbl | $117,114 |
| Total | $117,114 | ||
Every month this lease reported (50)
Volume × price = value, one row per cycle. The price columns are the same series published on the prices page — nothing here is modelled.
50 months
| May 2002 | 0 | 24.66 | 3.58 | $0 |
| Apr 2002 | 0 | 23.65 | 3.51 | $0 |
| Mar 2002 | 69 | 22.00 | 3.10 | $1,518 |
| Feb 2002 | 91 | 18.22 | 2.38 | $1,658 |
| Jan 2002 | 194 | 17.17 | 2.38 | $3,331 |
| Dec 2001 | 144 | 16.93 | 2.36 | $2,438 |
| Nov 2001 | 73 | 18.07 | 2.41 | $1,319 |
| Oct 2001 | 147 | 19.78 | 2.53 | $2,908 |
| Sep 2001 | 71 | 24.26 | 2.25 | $1,722 |
| Aug 2001 | 133 | 24.87 | 3.05 | $3,308 |
| Jul 2001 | 100 | 23.93 | 3.20 | $2,393 |
| Jun 2001 | 135 | 24.56 | 3.82 | $3,316 |
| May 2001 | 108 | 25.52 | 4.31 | $2,756 |
| Apr 2001 | 108 | 24.68 | 5.34 | $2,665 |
| Mar 2001 | 146 | 24.54 | 5.38 | $3,583 |
| Feb 2001 | 110 | 27.75 | 5.77 | $3,053 |
| Jan 2001 | 106 | 27.47 | 8.40 | $2,912 |
| Dec 2000 | 144 | 26.88 | 9.12 | $3,871 |
| Nov 2000 | 110 | 32.21 | 5.66 | $3,543 |
| Oct 2000 | 144 | 31.23 | 5.15 | $4,497 |
| Sep 2000 | 108 | 31.87 | 5.19 | $3,442 |
| Aug 2000 | 143 | 29.64 | 4.54 | $4,239 |
| Jul 2000 | 110 | 28.53 | 4.09 | $3,138 |
| Jun 2000 | 107 | 29.30 | 4.40 | $3,135 |
| May 2000 | 130 | 27.26 | 3.68 | $3,544 |
| Apr 2000 | 158 | 24.51 | 3.12 | $3,873 |
| Mar 2000 | 102 | 28.42 | 2.86 | $2,899 |
| Feb 2000 | 139 | 27.62 | 2.73 | $3,839 |
| Jan 2000 | 105 | 25.27 | 2.48 | $2,653 |
| Dec 1999 | 130 | 24.28 | 2.42 | $3,156 |
| Nov 1999 | 135 | 23.19 | 2.43 | $3,131 |
| Oct 1999 | 101 | 20.98 | 2.80 | $2,119 |
| Sep 1999 | 137 | 21.75 | 2.62 | $2,980 |
| Aug 1999 | 84 | 19.26 | 2.88 | $1,618 |
| Jul 1999 | 139 | 17.89 | 2.37 | $2,487 |
| Jun 1999 | 169 | 15.94 | 2.36 | $2,694 |
| May 1999 | 57 | 15.79 | 2.32 | $900 |
| Apr 1999 | 114 | 15.10 | 2.21 | $1,721 |
| Mar 1999 | 159 | 12.47 | 1.84 | $1,983 |
| Feb 1999 | 63 | 9.98 | 1.82 | $629 |
| Jan 1999 | 102 | 10.38 | 1.90 | $1,059 |
| Dec 1998 | 135 | 9.20 | 1.77 | $1,242 |
| Nov 1998 | 325 | 10.89 | 2.19 | $3,539 |
| Oct 1998 | 0 | 12.42 | 1.97 | $0 |
| Sep 1998 | 0 | 12.59 | 2.08 | $0 |
| Aug 1998 | 110 | 11.30 | 1.91 | $1,243 |
| Jul 1998 | 110 | 11.74 | 2.24 | $1,291 |
| Jun 1998 | 130 | 11.24 | 2.24 | $1,461 |
| May 1998 | 183 | 12.62 | 2.21 | $2,309 |
| Apr 1998 | 0 | 13.04 | 2.51 | $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.
Oil 69 bbl × $ 22.00 = $1,518 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── Month total $1,518
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/68009 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.