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 4-F) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 3797District 03Field 83586611OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$263 k

Jan 1993 – Dec 2000

Value, last 12 filed months

$48 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The SILSBEE, NORTH (YEGUA 4-F) 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 5 leases and 6 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1951-09-09

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.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “SEP. FROM SILSBEE, NORTH FIELD, EFF. 7-1-52”

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	9,399 bbl	$172,329
Casinghead gas	Production	67,692 Mcf	$90,591
Total			$262,919

32,270 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 38 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 (1)

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 30.4785, -94.1659. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.47850, -94.16593 · 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%

1 of 1 wells

With a plug date

100.0%

1 of 1 wells

Median depth

7,787 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

10 months

median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

1100.0%

A plug date is filed

1100.0%

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

1100.0%

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 7,787 ft.

Completions filed

Jul 2000

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

May 2001

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 10 months across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 10 months and 10 months. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-19900174	1	7,787 ft	Jul 2000	May 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 (96)

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

96 months


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	0	0	31.87	5.19	$0
Aug 2000	0	0	29.64	4.54	$0
Jul 2000	58	972	28.53	4.09	$5,630
Jun 2000	178	964	29.30	4.40	$9,454
May 2000	99	1,015	27.26	3.68	$6,434
Apr 2000	193	974	24.51	3.12	$7,765
Mar 2000	245	967	28.42	2.86	$9,728
Feb 2000	134	1,224	27.62	2.73	$7,038
Jan 2000	0	796	25.27	2.48	$1,974
Dec 1999	130	620	24.28	2.42	$4,659
Nov 1999	109	733	23.19	2.43	$4,312
Oct 1999	0	775	20.98	2.80	$2,173
Sep 1999	60	794	21.75	2.62	$3,384
Aug 1999	0	998	19.26	2.88	$2,870
Jul 1999	44	1,017	17.89	2.37	$3,200
Jun 1999	42	811	15.94	2.36	$2,585
May 1999	42	824	15.79	2.32	$2,576
Apr 1999	83	850	15.10	2.21	$3,130
Mar 1999	42	890	12.47	1.84	$2,160
Feb 1999	42	741	9.98	1.82	$1,766
Jan 1999	41	756	10.38	1.90	$1,862
Dec 1998	76	615	9.20	1.77	$1,790
Nov 1998	37	617	10.89	2.19	$1,752
Oct 1998	75	617	12.42	1.97	$2,147
Sep 1998	38	621	12.59	2.08	$1,772
Aug 1998	37	617	11.30	1.91	$1,595
Jul 1998	37	619	11.74	2.24	$1,819
Jun 1998	73	1,027	11.24	2.24	$3,118
May 1998	37	1,135	12.62	2.21	$2,971
Apr 1998	38	1,044	13.04	2.51	$3,111
Mar 1998	75	753	12.80	2.31	$2,699
Feb 1998	38	857	13.95	2.30	$2,500
Jan 1998	80	857	14.70	2.15	$3,023
Dec 1997	38	858	16.32	2.41	$2,689
Nov 1997	37	858	18.19	3.09	$3,323
Oct 1997	72	817	19.25	3.15	$3,959
Sep 1997	76	898	17.74	2.95	$4,002
Aug 1997	76	928	17.86	2.55	$3,728
Jul 1997	47	677	17.58	2.25	$2,347
Jun 1997	114	783	17.24	2.26	$3,733
May 1997	61	693	18.97	2.31	$2,757
Apr 1997	120	775	17.88	2.08	$3,760
Mar 1997	114	697	18.95	1.94	$3,512
Feb 1997	164	604	20.49	2.21	$4,693
Jan 1997	89	734	23.48	3.54	$4,688
Dec 1996	177	766	23.32	—	$4,128
Nov 1996	167	722	21.97	—	$3,669
Oct 1996	151	714	23.31	—	$3,520
Sep 1996	134	1,404	22.22	—	$2,977
Aug 1996	36	642	20.26	—	$729
Jul 1996	108	603	19.55	—	$2,111
Jun 1996	105	132	18.73	—	$1,967
May 1996	132	937	19.43	—	$2,565
Apr 1996	177	913	21.51	—	$3,807
Mar 1996	111	1,148	19.38	—	$2,151
Feb 1996	0	245	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	108	0	17.07	—	$1,844
Dec 1995	171	509	17.19	—	$2,939
Nov 1995	128	738	16.00	—	$2,048
Oct 1995	162	666	15.43	—	$2,500
Sep 1995	179	748	16.18	—	$2,896
Aug 1995	268	962	15.92	—	$4,267
Jul 1995	181	845	15.24	—	$2,758
Jun 1995	205	822	16.41	—	$3,364
May 1995	213	1,266	17.56	—	$3,740
Apr 1995	205	1,158	17.73	—	$3,635
Mar 1995	218	824	16.44	—	$3,584
Feb 1995	140	971	16.58	—	$2,321
Jan 1995	195	2,374	15.92	—	$3,104
Dec 1994	141	1,658	15.03	—	$2,119
Nov 1994	180	1,068	15.90	—	$2,862
Oct 1994	168	2,345	15.58	—	$2,617
Sep 1994	125	222	15.29	—	$1,911
Aug 1994	106	251	16.13	—	$1,710
Jul 1994	15	0	17.56	—	$263
Jun 1994	87	2,884	17.09	—	$1,487
May 1994	0	0	15.88	—	$0
Apr 1994	0	0	14.14	—	$0
Mar 1994	0	0	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	1	0	12.50	—	$13
Jan 1994	3	0	12.66	—	$38
Dec 1993	2	0	12.33	—	$25
Nov 1993	22	0	14.49	—	$319
Oct 1993	114	221	15.85	—	$1,807
Sep 1993	26	0	15.03	—	$391
Aug 1993	155	344	15.66	—	$2,427
Jul 1993	222	842	15.46	—	$3,432
Jun 1993	36	195	16.79	—	$604
May 1993	213	357	17.68	—	$3,766
Apr 1993	254	384	18.05	—	$4,585
Mar 1993	246	406	18.14	—	$4,462
Feb 1993	145	379	17.90	—	$2,596
Jan 1993	276	605	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.

Jul 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   58 bbl  × $ 28.53 =     $1,655
Casinghead gas       972 Mcf  × $  4.09 =     $3,975

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Month total                                   $5,630

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/3797 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.