JAMES, T. D.

Operated by BUFFCO PRODUCTION INC. (P-5 106406) in the ROSEWOOD (COTTON VALLEY) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 94233District 06Field 78330500NGPA filingCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$62 k
Jan 1993 – Oct 2001
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
106
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, 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 188 leases and 188 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1975-11-01
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,320 ft
minimum
From a lease line
660 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 1999-07-27.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: EFFECTIVE AUGUST.

Severance-tax incentive filings

Applications the operator filed to have this lease's gas taxed at a reduced state rate. A filing is an application, and this page never calls one a reduction that was granted.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
NGPA1none

This says nothing about a royalty. A severance tax is charged to the operator. Whether a reduced rate reaches a royalty owner depends on the wording of the lease instrument, which is a private contract this site does not hold.

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
CondensateDisposition2,705 bbl$48,618
GasProduction18,377 Mcf$13,489
Total$62,107

12,953 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 46 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 32.7516, -95.0991. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.75160, -95.09913 · centre of the wells drawn, derived

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
11,300 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
17 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 11,300 ft.

Completions filed
Aug 2000
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jan 2002
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 17 months across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 17 months and 17 months. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-45930482111,300 ftAug 2000Jan 2002Yes

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 (106)

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

106 months

Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 200034031.235.15$1,062
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20001394728.534.09$4,158
Jun 200007429.304.40$325
May 2000018827.263.68$692
Apr 2000018124.513.12$564
Mar 2000018628.422.86$532
Feb 200016219827.622.73$5,014
Jan 2000019125.272.48$474
Dec 1999021124.282.42$511
Nov 1999018523.192.43$450
Oct 1999013520.982.80$379
Sep 199915111221.752.62$3,578
Aug 199909319.262.88$267
Jul 199906817.892.37$161
Jun 199903215.942.36$76
May 1999011915.792.32$276
Apr 199916311615.102.21$2,717
Mar 1999026512.471.84$487
Feb 199901159.981.82$209
Jan 199909810.381.90$186
Dec 19981831819.201.77$2,005
Nov 1998014410.892.19$315
Oct 199809412.421.97$185
Sep 1998015712.592.08$327
Aug 1998011011.301.91$210
Jul 199803311.742.24$74
Jun 199816111511.242.24$2,067
May 1998116812.622.21$383
Apr 1998113213.042.51$344
Mar 1998013512.802.31$312
Feb 199816317513.952.30$2,676
Jan 1998017514.702.15$377
Dec 199718816.322.41$229
Nov 1997213918.193.09$466
Oct 1997011119.253.15$350
Sep 19971859417.742.95$3,560
Aug 1997011717.862.55$299
Jul 199708717.582.25$195
Jun 199727517.242.26$204
May 19971407718.972.31$2,834
Apr 199708617.882.08$179
Mar 199727818.951.94$189
Feb 199718211320.492.21$3,978
Jan 1997012623.483.54$446
Dec 1996124123.32$23
Nov 1996114221.97$22
Oct 19961723.31$23
Sep 19961612022.22$3,577
Aug 19964320.26$81
Jul 1996012919.55$0
Jun 199613117718.73$2,454
May 1996023519.43$0
Apr 1996031221.51$0
Mar 199616841119.38$3,256
Feb 1996027716.98$0
Jan 1996036517.07$0
Dec 1995037617.19$0
Nov 1995028616.00$0
Oct 199524515.43$31
Sep 199526516.18$32
Aug 19951666315.92$2,643
Jul 19951516215.24$2,301
Jun 1995121916.41$16
May 1995241517.56$35
Apr 1995045617.73$0
Mar 19956672716.44$1,085
Feb 1995030816.58$0
Jan 1995026615.92$0
Dec 1994032915.03$0
Nov 1994033415.90$0
Oct 1994026815.58$0
Sep 1994043215.29$0
Aug 1994033216.13$0
Jul 1994031417.56$0
Jun 1994027017.09$0
May 1994047715.88$0
Apr 1994046614.14$0
Mar 1994039612.46$0
Feb 199417536212.50$2,188
Jan 1994030612.66$0
Dec 1993046812.33$0
Nov 1993012614.49$0
Oct 1993034215.85$0
Sep 1993026715.03$0
Aug 1993042415.66$0
Jul 199303915.46$0
Jun 19930016.79$0
May 19930017.68$0
Apr 1993036318.05$0
Mar 1993136518.14$18
Feb 1993018017.90$0
Jan 1993048616.93$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.

Oct 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            34 bbl  × $ 31.23 =     $1,062
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  5.15 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,062

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. 06/G/94233 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.