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 91595District 09Field 10574520NGPA filingCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$243 k
Jan 1993 – Feb 2009
Value, last 12 filed months
$3 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.

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
NGPA2none

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
CondensateDisposition162 bbl$5,939
GasProduction111,303 Mcf$236,872
Total$242,811

29,639 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 15 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 33.0835, -97.8489. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.08346, -97.84886 · 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
5,850 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
25.9 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 5,850 ft.

Completions filed
Jan 1981
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Dec 2006
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 25.9 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 25.9 years and 25.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-4973204525,850 ftJan 1981Dec 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 200860055.496.86$3,329
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 20061157.597.75$65
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 200401536.106.43$97
May 200405337.486.49$344
Apr 20040134.475.86$6
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040232.455.51$11
Jan 20040132.036.30$6
Dec 200301030.266.30$63
Nov 200308028.804.60$368
Oct 200306828.174.76$324
Sep 200301926.314.75$90
Aug 20030129.765.13$5
Jul 200301829.415.17$93
Jun 200303728.565.98$221
May 200304126.595.97$245
Apr 2003034026.675.41$1,838
Mar 2003022631.146.10$1,378
Feb 2003022333.487.93$1,767
Jan 2003020430.315.58$1,139
Dec 2002025826.914.85$1,252
Nov 2002030824.664.14$1,274
Oct 2002045326.464.23$1,916
Sep 2002055227.443.64$2,007
Aug 2002076125.963.16$2,408
Jul 2002077124.583.06$2,361
Jun 2002076523.733.34$2,554
May 2002063924.663.58$2,290
Apr 2002077423.653.51$2,719
Mar 2002061822.003.10$1,917
Feb 2002037418.222.38$889
Jan 2002061417.172.38$1,459
Dec 2001048916.932.36$1,156
Nov 2001059018.072.41$1,419
Oct 2001093319.782.53$2,359
Sep 2001097824.262.25$2,202
Aug 2001092824.873.05$2,833
Jul 2001081323.933.20$2,599
Jun 2001019324.563.82$738
May 2001065525.524.31$2,821
Apr 2001062724.685.34$3,345
Mar 2001054724.545.38$2,941
Feb 2001039827.755.77$2,295
Jan 2001053827.478.40$4,519
Dec 2000074126.889.12$6,760
Nov 2000080332.215.66$4,543
Oct 200001,01331.235.15$5,212
Sep 200001,14031.875.19$5,913
Aug 2000094429.644.54$4,286
Jul 200001,03528.534.09$4,233
Jun 2000048629.304.40$2,137
May 2000065727.263.68$2,418
Apr 2000085824.513.12$2,674
Mar 2000048128.422.86$1,376
Feb 2000094327.622.73$2,571
Jan 200010198625.272.48$4,998
Dec 1999041424.282.42$1,003
Nov 1999065823.192.43$1,602
Oct 199901,35620.982.80$3,802
Sep 199901,34721.752.62$3,528
Aug 199901,21719.262.88$3,500
Jul 199901,41717.892.37$3,362
Jun 199901,32915.942.36$3,139
May 199901,41615.792.32$3,287
Apr 199901,33315.102.21$2,943
Mar 199901,34412.471.84$2,471
Feb 199901,2679.981.82$2,303
Jan 199901,28310.381.90$2,438
Dec 199801,1969.201.77$2,121
Nov 199801,48710.892.19$3,250
Oct 199801,67812.421.97$3,304
Sep 199801,60912.592.08$3,351
Aug 199801,57711.301.91$3,008
Jul 199801,86711.742.24$4,177
Jun 199801,61211.242.24$3,606
May 199801,55412.622.21$3,429
Apr 199801,52313.042.51$3,816
Mar 199801,80512.802.31$4,169
Feb 199801,87113.952.30$4,302
Jan 199801,67814.702.15$3,616
Dec 199701,89816.322.41$4,576
Nov 199701,70918.193.09$5,278
Oct 199702,15719.253.15$6,794
Sep 199701,88417.742.95$5,567
Aug 199702,51017.862.55$6,412
Jul 199701,76217.582.25$3,959
Jun 1997088717.242.26$2,002
May 199701,20318.972.31$2,777
Apr 199701,31917.882.08$2,747
Mar 199702,32518.951.94$4,509
Feb 199702,15620.492.21$4,756
Jan 199702,01323.483.54$7,125
Dec 199602,30323.32$0
Nov 199602,51221.97$0
Oct 199603,05523.31$0
Sep 199603,01522.22$0
Aug 199603,04420.26$0
Jul 199603,30619.55$0
Jun 199603,59718.73$0
May 199603,53519.43$0
Apr 199602,14821.51$0
Mar 1996081719.38$0
Feb 1996054416.98$0
Jan 1996028117.07$0
Dec 1995031417.19$0
Nov 1995057416.00$0
Oct 1995059415.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 19950016.44$0
Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 19950015.92$0
Dec 19940015.03$0
Nov 19940015.90$0
Oct 19940015.58$0
Sep 19940015.29$0
Aug 19940016.13$0
Jul 19940017.56$0
Jun 19940017.09$0
May 19940015.88$0
Apr 19940014.14$0
Mar 19940012.46$0
Feb 19940012.50$0
Jan 19940012.66$0
Dec 19930012.33$0
Nov 19930014.49$0
Oct 19930015.85$0
Sep 19930015.03$0
Aug 19930015.66$0
Jul 19930015.46$0
Jun 19930016.79$0
May 19930017.68$0
Apr 19930018.05$0
Mar 19930018.14$0
Feb 19930017.90$0
Jan 19930016.93$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            60 bbl  × $ 55.49 =     $3,329
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  6.86 =         $0

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Month total                                   $3,329

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/91595 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.