BELL-BERMAN "B"

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 9949District 8AField 82710498Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$226 k
Jan 1993 – Dec 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$25 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
120
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
OilDisposition11,932 bbl$226,158
Casinghead gasProduction84 Mcf$0
Total$226,158

84 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 21 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 (120)

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

120 months

Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 2002215025.963.16$5,581
Jul 200298024.583.06$2,409
Jun 200292023.733.34$2,183
May 2002214024.663.58$5,277
Apr 200296023.653.51$2,270
Mar 2002196022.003.10$4,312
Feb 200295018.222.38$1,731
Jan 200292017.172.38$1,580
Dec 2001220016.932.36$3,725
Nov 200194018.072.41$1,699
Oct 2001216019.782.53$4,272
Sep 2001128024.262.25$3,105
Aug 2001217024.873.05$5,397
Jul 200198023.933.20$2,345
Jun 2001205024.563.82$5,035
May 2001211025.524.31$5,385
Apr 200196024.685.34$2,369
Mar 2001212024.545.38$5,202
Feb 200190027.755.77$2,498
Jan 2001195027.478.40$5,357
Dec 200092026.889.12$2,473
Nov 200092032.215.66$2,963
Oct 200096031.235.15$2,998
Sep 200097031.875.19$3,091
Aug 200095029.644.54$2,816
Jul 200097028.534.09$2,767
Jun 200096029.304.40$2,813
May 200062027.263.68$1,690
Apr 200095024.513.12$2,328
Mar 200089028.422.86$2,529
Feb 200087027.622.73$2,403
Jan 200093025.272.48$2,350
Dec 199998024.282.42$2,379
Nov 199983023.192.43$1,925
Oct 199999020.982.80$2,077
Sep 199974021.752.62$1,610
Aug 199997019.262.88$1,868
Jul 199990017.892.37$1,610
Jun 199990015.942.36$1,435
May 1999129015.792.32$2,037
Apr 1999101015.102.21$1,525
Mar 199996012.471.84$1,197
Feb 19999909.981.82$988
Jan 199994010.381.90$976
Dec 199810109.201.77$929
Nov 199897010.892.19$1,056
Oct 1998154012.421.97$1,913
Sep 199887012.592.08$1,095
Aug 199897011.301.91$1,096
Jul 199893011.742.24$1,092
Jun 1998116011.242.24$1,304
May 1998193012.622.21$2,436
Apr 199876013.042.51$991
Mar 1998148012.802.31$1,894
Feb 1998137013.952.30$1,911
Jan 1998168014.702.15$2,470
Dec 1997177016.322.41$2,889
Nov 1997188018.193.09$3,420
Oct 1997166019.253.15$3,196
Sep 1997175017.742.95$3,105
Aug 1997161017.862.55$2,875
Jul 1997143017.582.25$2,514
Jun 1997153017.242.26$2,638
May 199731018.972.31$588
Apr 199730017.882.08$536
Mar 199731018.951.94$587
Feb 199728020.492.21$574
Jan 199731023.483.54$728
Dec 199631023.32$723
Nov 199630021.97$659
Oct 199631023.31$723
Sep 199630022.22$667
Aug 199631020.26$628
Jul 199631019.55$606
Jun 199630018.73$562
May 199631019.43$602
Apr 199630021.51$645
Mar 199631019.38$601
Feb 199634016.98$577
Jan 199668017.07$1,161
Dec 199589017.19$1,530
Nov 199555016.00$880
Oct 199589015.43$1,373
Sep 199562016.18$1,003
Aug 1995124015.92$1,974
Jul 199591015.24$1,387
Jun 199575016.41$1,231
May 199585017.56$1,493
Apr 1995102017.73$1,808
Mar 199592016.44$1,512
Feb 1995140016.58$2,321
Jan 199594015.92$1,496
Dec 199491015.03$1,368
Nov 199494015.90$1,495
Oct 199493015.58$1,449
Sep 199498415.29$1,498
Aug 199493416.13$1,500
Jul 199493417.56$1,633
Jun 1994117417.09$2,000
May 1994115415.88$1,826
Apr 199482414.14$1,159
Mar 1994129412.46$1,607
Feb 199498412.50$1,225
Jan 1994123412.66$1,557
Dec 1993228412.33$2,811
Nov 199358414.49$840
Oct 199393415.85$1,474
Sep 199372415.03$1,082
Aug 199389415.66$1,394
Jul 199373415.46$1,129
Jun 199381416.79$1,360
May 199383417.68$1,467
Apr 199392418.05$1,661
Mar 199373418.14$1,324
Feb 199379417.90$1,414
Jan 199377416.93$1,304

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.

Aug 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  215 bbl  × $ 25.96 =     $5,581
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.16 =         $0

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Month total                                   $5,581

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/9949 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.