RAFFERTY, JAMES FEE

Name: RAFFERTY, JAMES FEE lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by MERIT ENERGY COMPANY (P-5 561136) in the SILSBEE, NORTH (YEGUA 1) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 3788District 03Field 83586141OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$424 k

Jan 1993 – Sep 2001

Value, last 12 filed months

$1 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

105

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The SILSBEE, NORTH (YEGUA 1) field

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 8 leases and 12 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1954-11-01

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

933 ft

minimum

From a lease line

330 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres.

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	19,473 bbl	$325,760
Casinghead gas	Production	75,373 Mcf	$98,152
Total			$423,912

37,461 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 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.

Wells on this lease (4)

Every wellbore the Railroad Commission records against this lease key, with the depth, the last completion and the plug date exactly as filed. A well with no plug date is not stated to be producing — the state files no such flag.

These wells centre on 30.4811, -94.1541. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.3 miles.

30.47999, -94.15423 · centre of the wells drawn, derived⌘ or Ctrl + scroll to zoom

What these wells add up to

Every figure below is counted over all of this lease's wells, not over the rows listed above. The Railroad Commission files two facts about a well's state — a plug date and a proration-schedule flag — and a well can carry both, so they are published as separate counts and never merged into a status.

On the schedule

100.0%

4 of 4 wells

With a plug date

25.0%

1 of 4 wells

Median depth

7,670 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

—

no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

4100.0%

A plug date is filed

125.0%

BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.

125.0%

NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.

00.0%

A plug date is the date the Commission recorded the wellbore as sealed with cement and abandoned. It is the only end-of-life fact Texas files. There is no "active" flag on a well, so this page does not print one — a well with no plug date is not stated to be producing.

How deep they were drilled

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 7,670 ft.

Plug dates filed

Apr 2001

1 of 4 wells; 3 filed none

4 wells


42-19900177	4	—	—	—	Yes
42-19900179	6	—	—	—	Yes
42-19900182	9	—	—	—	Yes
42-19981772	1N	7,670 ft	—	Apr 2001	Yes

The API number is the state's, prefixed 42 for Texas. A well is matched to this lease by the lease key the Commission files on the wellbore record, so a well that has moved between leases appears under each one it was filed against.

Every month this lease reported (105)

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

105 months


Sep 2001	0	0	24.26	2.25	$0
Aug 2001	0	0	24.87	3.05	$0
Jul 2001	0	0	23.93	3.20	$0
Jun 2001	0	0	24.56	3.82	$0
May 2001	44	0	25.52	4.31	$1,123
Apr 2001	0	0	24.68	5.34	$0
Mar 2001	0	0	24.54	5.38	$0
Feb 2001	0	0	27.75	5.77	$0
Jan 2001	0	0	27.47	8.40	$0
Dec 2000	0	0	26.88	9.12	$0
Nov 2000	0	0	32.21	5.66	$0
Oct 2000	0	0	31.23	5.15	$0
Sep 2000	65	0	31.87	5.19	$2,072
Aug 2000	0	0	29.64	4.54	$0
Jul 2000	106	3,282	28.53	4.09	$16,447
Jun 2000	194	937	29.30	4.40	$9,804
May 2000	86	862	27.26	3.68	$5,516
Apr 2000	172	844	24.51	3.12	$6,846
Mar 2000	114	924	28.42	2.86	$5,882
Feb 2000	52	291	27.62	2.73	$2,230
Jan 2000	0	0	25.27	2.48	$0
Dec 1999	27	492	24.28	2.42	$1,848
Nov 1999	66	0	23.19	2.43	$1,531
Oct 1999	0	105	20.98	2.80	$294
Sep 1999	119	663	21.75	2.62	$4,325
Aug 1999	0	855	19.26	2.88	$2,459
Jul 1999	136	723	17.89	2.37	$4,148
Jun 1999	147	887	15.94	2.36	$4,438
May 1999	148	906	15.79	2.32	$4,440
Apr 1999	290	940	15.10	2.21	$6,455
Mar 1999	148	995	12.47	1.84	$3,675
Feb 1999	148	815	9.98	1.82	$2,959
Jan 1999	150	835	10.38	1.90	$3,143
Dec 1998	302	995	9.20	1.77	$4,543
Nov 1998	146	1,079	10.89	2.19	$3,948
Oct 1998	300	1,112	12.42	1.97	$5,916
Sep 1998	152	1,260	12.59	2.08	$4,538
Aug 1998	150	1,100	11.30	1.91	$3,793
Jul 1998	150	1,189	11.74	2.24	$4,421
Jun 1998	299	802	11.24	2.24	$5,155
May 1998	150	821	12.62	2.21	$3,704
Apr 1998	152	788	13.04	2.51	$3,956
Mar 1998	302	683	12.80	2.31	$5,443
Feb 1998	152	890	13.95	2.30	$4,167
Jan 1998	319	891	14.70	2.15	$6,609
Dec 1997	152	894	16.32	2.41	$4,636
Nov 1997	153	896	18.19	3.09	$5,550
Oct 1997	313	956	19.25	3.15	$9,036
Sep 1997	303	955	17.74	2.95	$8,197
Aug 1997	304	977	17.86	2.55	$7,925
Jul 1997	147	1,012	17.58	2.25	$4,858
Jun 1997	264	1,094	17.24	2.26	$7,021
May 1997	126	848	18.97	2.31	$4,348
Apr 1997	264	824	17.88	2.08	$6,437
Mar 1997	273	971	18.95	1.94	$7,056
Feb 1997	216	707	20.49	2.21	$5,985
Jan 1997	102	812	23.48	3.54	$5,269
Dec 1996	207	802	23.32	—	$4,827
Nov 1996	207	818	21.97	—	$4,548
Oct 1996	223	846	23.31	—	$5,198
Sep 1996	214	1,479	22.22	—	$4,755
Aug 1996	89	601	20.26	—	$1,803
Jul 1996	264	884	19.55	—	$5,161
Jun 1996	162	832	18.73	—	$3,034
May 1996	153	893	19.43	—	$2,973
Apr 1996	205	924	21.51	—	$4,410
Mar 1996	475	1,113	19.38	—	$9,206
Feb 1996	0	1,679	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	228	1,750	17.07	—	$3,892
Dec 1995	170	523	17.19	—	$2,922
Nov 1995	150	779	16.00	—	$2,400
Oct 1995	181	936	15.43	—	$2,793
Sep 1995	155	823	16.18	—	$2,508
Aug 1995	269	1,587	15.92	—	$4,282
Jul 1995	198	1,333	15.24	—	$3,018
Jun 1995	257	1,558	16.41	—	$4,217
May 1995	267	1,730	17.56	—	$4,689
Apr 1995	257	1,254	17.73	—	$4,557
Mar 1995	258	886	16.44	—	$4,242
Feb 1995	170	874	16.58	—	$2,819
Jan 1995	311	2,515	15.92	—	$4,951
Dec 1994	229	1,865	15.03	—	$3,442
Nov 1994	305	1,262	15.90	—	$4,850
Oct 1994	324	590	15.58	—	$5,048
Sep 1994	276	225	15.29	—	$4,220
Aug 1994	231	114	16.13	—	$3,726
Jul 1994	253	62	17.56	—	$4,443
Jun 1994	290	379	17.09	—	$4,956
May 1994	245	167	15.88	—	$3,891
Apr 1994	459	135	14.14	—	$6,490
Mar 1994	214	209	12.46	—	$2,666
Feb 1994	354	111	12.50	—	$4,425
Jan 1994	435	146	12.66	—	$5,507
Dec 1993	176	178	12.33	—	$2,170
Nov 1993	332	238	14.49	—	$4,811
Oct 1993	376	169	15.85	—	$5,960
Sep 1993	270	747	15.03	—	$4,058
Aug 1993	380	531	15.66	—	$5,951
Jul 1993	371	511	15.46	—	$5,736
Jun 1993	85	338	16.79	—	$1,427
May 1993	255	248	17.68	—	$4,508
Apr 1993	332	282	18.05	—	$5,993
Mar 1993	375	551	18.14	—	$6,803
Feb 1993	157	259	17.90	—	$2,810
Jan 1993	276	725	16.93	—	$4,673

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.

May 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   44 bbl  × $ 25.52 =     $1,123
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  4.31 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,123

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. 03/O/3788 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.