VAUGHT, E. L.

Operated by MERIT ENERGY COMPANY (P-5 561136) in the BOONSVILLE (BEND CONGL., GAS) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 126985District 09Field 10574520CondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$77 k
Jan 1993 – Feb 2009
Value, last 12 filed months
$1 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
194
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 3,438 leases and 3,443 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1945-05-01
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 1991-06-10.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: AMOUNT HAD BEEN CALCULATED FOR 5/1/97.

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
CondensateDisposition22 bbl$1,221
GasProduction48,905 Mcf$76,108
Total$77,329

25,097 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 (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 33.0776, -97.8491. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.07762, -97.84915 · 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
5,940 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
18.8 years
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 5,940 ft.

Completions filed
Feb 1988
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Nov 2006
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 18.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 18.8 years and 18.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-4973327835,940 ftFeb 1988Nov 2006Yes

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 (194)

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

194 months

Feb 20090032.814.63$0
Jan 20090035.865.37$0
Dec 20080037.105.98$0
Nov 200822055.496.86$1,221
Oct 20080075.246.92$0
Sep 200800101.767.88$0
Aug 200800114.228.48$0
Jul 200800131.0811.39$0
Jun 200800131.3313.03$0
May 200800123.1711.57$0
Apr 200800110.3110.45$0
Mar 200800101.909.66$0
Feb 20080092.538.77$0
Jan 20080090.388.21$0
Dec 20070088.337.30$0
Nov 20070091.677.29$0
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 20070075.846.24$0
Aug 20070069.066.39$0
Jul 20070070.906.39$0
Jun 20070062.007.55$0
May 20070058.747.85$0
Apr 20070059.617.81$0
Mar 20070056.927.30$0
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060056.656.92$0
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 20060069.376.34$0
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040132.455.51$6
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 200302428.174.76$114
Sep 200302226.314.75$104
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030229.415.17$10
Jun 20030928.565.98$54
May 200301326.595.97$78
Apr 200304226.675.41$227
Mar 200301931.146.10$116
Feb 200301533.487.93$119
Jan 2003010030.315.58$558
Dec 2002011526.914.85$558
Nov 200206524.664.14$269
Oct 2002014026.464.23$592
Sep 200203627.443.64$131
Aug 200205325.963.16$168
Jul 200208824.583.06$269
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 200204724.663.58$168
Apr 2002011523.653.51$404
Mar 2002029922.003.10$928
Feb 2002025018.222.38$594
Jan 2002021917.172.38$520
Dec 2001033816.932.36$799
Nov 2001024618.072.41$592
Oct 2001024119.782.53$609
Sep 2001026724.262.25$601
Aug 2001030924.873.05$943
Jul 2001027123.933.20$866
Jun 200106224.563.82$237
May 2001036925.524.31$1,589
Apr 2001040624.685.34$2,166
Mar 2001039124.545.38$2,102
Feb 2001032527.755.77$1,874
Jan 2001040327.478.40$3,385
Dec 2000043626.889.12$3,977
Nov 2000038032.215.66$2,150
Oct 2000044031.235.15$2,264
Sep 2000043931.875.19$2,277
Aug 2000047229.644.54$2,143
Jul 2000047428.534.09$1,939
Jun 2000041229.304.40$1,812
May 2000045227.263.68$1,663
Apr 2000044924.513.12$1,399
Mar 2000038528.422.86$1,101
Feb 2000074127.622.73$2,020
Jan 2000032925.272.48$816
Dec 1999030424.282.42$737
Nov 1999021223.192.43$516
Oct 1999038220.982.80$1,071
Sep 1999035221.752.62$922
Aug 1999038319.262.88$1,101
Jul 1999034617.892.37$821
Jun 1999034715.942.36$820
May 1999033815.792.32$785
Apr 1999034015.102.21$751
Mar 1999034412.471.84$632
Feb 199902969.981.82$538
Jan 1999029110.381.90$553
Dec 199803879.201.77$686
Nov 1998031610.892.19$691
Oct 1998042712.421.97$841
Sep 1998041712.592.08$868
Aug 1998037911.301.91$723
Jul 1998038611.742.24$864
Jun 1998034111.242.24$763
May 1998038912.622.21$858
Apr 1998034913.042.51$874
Mar 1998032512.802.31$751
Feb 1998033813.952.30$777
Jan 1998038914.702.15$838
Dec 1997034316.322.41$827
Nov 1997033618.193.09$1,038
Oct 1997036919.253.15$1,162
Sep 1997034717.742.95$1,025
Aug 1997040317.862.55$1,030
Jul 1997043117.582.25$968
Jun 1997041817.242.26$944
May 1997042718.972.31$986
Apr 1997039517.882.08$823
Mar 1997044418.951.94$861
Feb 1997037720.492.21$832
Jan 1997042923.483.54$1,519
Dec 1996046223.32$0
Nov 1996048121.97$0
Oct 1996054823.31$0
Sep 1996042422.22$0
Aug 1996044220.26$0
Jul 1996044319.55$0
Jun 1996042518.73$0
May 1996042519.43$0
Apr 1996044721.51$0
Mar 1996040219.38$0
Feb 1996043016.98$0
Jan 1996051717.07$0
Dec 1995052017.19$0
Nov 1995048916.00$0
Oct 1995046015.43$0
Sep 1995040016.18$0
Aug 1995040815.92$0
Jul 1995037615.24$0
Jun 1995037116.41$0
May 1995039717.56$0
Apr 1995081817.73$0
Mar 1995040516.44$0
Feb 1995037016.58$0
Jan 1995050415.92$0
Dec 1994052215.03$0
Nov 1994054515.90$0
Oct 1994055115.58$0
Sep 1994053915.29$0
Aug 1994058416.13$0
Jul 1994048617.56$0
Jun 1994066317.09$0
May 1994016715.88$0
Apr 1994041614.14$0
Mar 1994076312.46$0
Feb 1994034012.50$0
Jan 1994064512.66$0
Dec 1993095112.33$0
Nov 1993059514.49$0
Oct 1993064815.85$0
Sep 1993054815.03$0
Aug 1993057115.66$0
Jul 1993061315.46$0
Jun 1993065016.79$0
May 1993060517.68$0
Apr 1993063218.05$0
Mar 1993069418.14$0
Feb 1993065617.90$0
Jan 1993074916.93$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.

Nov 2008 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            22 bbl  × $ 55.49 =     $1,221
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  6.86 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,221

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. 09/G/126985 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.