VAUGHN, DOYLE -A-

Operated by HARTOIL CORPORATION (P-5 362980) in the MOORE field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 29831District 08Field 62711001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$77 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 2001
Value, last 12 filed months
$8 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
104
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 287 leases and 1,144 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1937-12-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
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 20 acres.

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.

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
OilDisposition4,225 bbl$76,926
Casinghead gasProduction22 Mcf$0
Total$76,926

22 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 22 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 (3)

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 32.2642, -101.6199. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

32.26384, -101.61952 · 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
33.3%
1 of 3 wells
With a plug date
33.3%
1 of 3 wells
Median depth
3,325 ft
3 wells filed one
Completion to plug
8.7 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
133.3%
A plug date is filed
133.3%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
133.3%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
266.7%

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

Between 3,301 and 3,375 ft, median 3,325 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jan 1985 – Jun 1985
3 of 3 wells
Plug dates filed
Dec 1993
1 of 3 wells; 2 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 8.7 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 8.7 years and 8.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells

42-2273372213,375 ftJun 1985
42-2273323623,301 ftApr 1985Dec 1993Yes
42-2273323733,325 ftJan 1985

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 (104)

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

104 months

Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 2001132025.524.31$3,369
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 200035026.889.12$941
Nov 200038032.215.66$1,224
Oct 200040031.235.15$1,249
Sep 200053031.875.19$1,689
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 200022028.534.09$628
Jun 200064029.304.40$1,875
May 2000105027.263.68$2,862
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 200067027.622.73$1,851
Jan 2000168025.272.48$4,245
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 199915015.102.21$227
Mar 199944012.471.84$549
Feb 19994009.981.82$399
Jan 199932010.381.90$332
Dec 19984009.201.77$368
Nov 199837010.892.19$403
Oct 199847012.421.97$584
Sep 199838012.592.08$478
Aug 199862011.301.91$701
Jul 199841011.742.24$481
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 1998154012.622.21$1,943
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 199879014.702.15$1,161
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 199759018.193.09$1,073
Oct 199761019.253.15$1,174
Sep 199741017.742.95$727
Aug 199750017.862.55$893
Jul 199746017.582.25$809
Jun 199773017.242.26$1,259
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 199750017.882.08$894
Mar 199754018.951.94$1,023
Feb 199757020.492.21$1,168
Jan 199760023.483.54$1,409
Dec 199646023.32$1,073
Nov 199671021.97$1,560
Oct 199691023.31$2,121
Sep 199629022.22$644
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 199640019.55$782
Jun 199626018.73$487
May 199620019.43$389
Apr 199623021.51$495
Mar 199654019.38$1,047
Feb 199668016.98$1,155
Jan 199631017.07$529
Dec 199567017.19$1,152
Nov 199559016.00$944
Oct 199551015.43$787
Sep 199557016.18$922
Aug 199585015.92$1,353
Jul 199529015.24$442
Jun 199580016.41$1,313
May 199538017.56$667
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 199526016.44$427
Feb 199534016.58$564
Jan 199521015.92$334
Dec 199441015.03$616
Nov 19940115.90$0
Oct 199488115.58$1,371
Sep 19940115.29$0
Aug 199447116.13$758
Jul 199455117.56$966
Jun 199445117.09$769
May 199462115.88$985
Apr 199459114.14$834
Mar 199463012.46$785
Feb 199456112.50$700
Jan 1994153112.66$1,937
Dec 19930112.33$0
Nov 199343114.49$623
Oct 199332115.85$507
Sep 199341115.03$616
Aug 199337115.66$579
Jul 1993139115.46$2,149
Jun 19930116.79$0
May 1993132117.68$2,334
Apr 19930118.05$0
Mar 199396118.14$1,741
Feb 199325117.90$448
Jan 199361116.93$1,033

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                  132 bbl  × $ 25.52 =     $3,369
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  4.31 =         $0

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Month total                                   $3,369

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. 08/O/29831 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.