MERFELD

Name: MERFELD lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by SOJOURNER DRILLING CORPORATION (P-5 800750) in the WINTERS (CAPPS) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 12195District 7CField 98182260Hydrogen sulphide fieldNGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$124 k

Jan 1993 – Oct 2013

Value, last 12 filed months

$2 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

250

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The WINTERS (CAPPS) 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 74 leases and 109 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1980-01-01

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

—

no field rule filed

From a lease line

—

no field rule filed

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.

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.

Programme	Filings	With an approval date	Dated	Docket
NGPA	1	none	—	—

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Oil	Disposition	5,900 bbl	$114,285
Casinghead gas	Production	6,229 Mcf	$9,215
Total			$123,500

3,346 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 31.9796, -99.9010. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.97956, -99.90101 · 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

4,300 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

26.1 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 4,300 ft.

Completions filed

May 1987

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Jun 2013

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 26.1 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 26.1 years and 26.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-39933771	1	4,300 ft	May 1987	Jun 2013	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 (250)

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

250 months


Oct 2013	0	0	97.42	3.78	$0
Sep 2013	0	0	104.11	3.72	$0
Aug 2013	0	0	104.25	3.52	$0
Jul 2013	0	0	102.52	3.72	$0
Jun 2013	0	0	94.40	3.93	$0
May 2013	0	0	94.83	4.15	$0
Apr 2013	24	0	93.96	4.28	$2,255
Mar 2013	0	0	93.62	3.91	$0
Feb 2013	0	0	91.23	3.42	$0
Jan 2013	0	0	91.60	3.42	$0
Dec 2012	0	0	86.77	3.42	$0
Nov 2012	0	0	86.95	3.62	$0
Oct 2012	0	0	89.38	3.40	$0
Sep 2012	0	0	94.67	2.92	$0
Aug 2012	0	0	92.66	2.91	$0
Jul 2012	0	0	85.13	3.02	$0
Jun 2012	0	0	79.82	2.52	$0
May 2012	0	0	91.61	2.49	$0
Apr 2012	0	0	101.65	2.00	$0
Mar 2012	0	0	105.05	2.22	$0
Feb 2012	0	0	101.10	2.57	$0
Jan 2012	0	0	98.09	2.73	$0
Dec 2011	0	0	96.87	3.24	$0
Nov 2011	0	0	95.72	3.31	$0
Oct 2011	0	0	84.98	3.65	$0
Sep 2011	0	0	83.62	3.99	$0
Aug 2011	0	0	83.40	4.15	$0
Jul 2011	0	0	94.14	4.52	$0
Jun 2011	0	0	92.90	4.64	$0
May 2011	0	0	98.13	4.40	$0
Apr 2011	0	0	105.96	4.33	$0
Mar 2011	0	0	96.36	4.06	$0
Feb 2011	0	0	85.64	4.18	$0
Jan 2011	0	0	86.50	4.59	$0
Dec 2010	0	0	85.73	4.35	$0
Nov 2010	0	0	80.84	3.80	$0
Oct 2010	0	0	78.10	3.51	$0
Sep 2010	0	0	72.63	3.98	$0
Aug 2010	0	0	73.68	4.42	$0
Jul 2010	0	0	72.55	4.74	$0
Jun 2010	0	0	70.36	4.91	$0
May 2010	0	0	71.12	4.24	$0
Apr 2010	0	0	81.69	4.12	$0
Mar 2010	0	0	78.39	4.39	$0
Feb 2010	0	0	73.58	5.44	$0
Jan 2010	0	0	74.36	5.96	$0
Dec 2009	0	0	71.44	5.48	$0
Nov 2009	0	0	74.59	3.75	$0
Oct 2009	0	0	72.54	4.11	$0
Sep 2009	0	0	65.54	3.06	$0
Aug 2009	0	0	67.42	3.22	$0
Jul 2009	0	0	61.13	3.46	$0
Jun 2009	0	0	66.16	3.90	$0
May 2009	0	0	54.74	3.93	$0
Apr 2009	0	0	46.77	3.59	$0
Mar 2009	0	0	42.14	4.06	$0
Feb 2009	0	0	32.81	4.63	$0
Jan 2009	0	0	35.86	5.37	$0
Dec 2008	0	0	37.10	5.98	$0
Nov 2008	0	0	55.49	6.86	$0
Oct 2008	0	0	75.24	6.92	$0
Sep 2008	0	0	101.76	7.88	$0
Aug 2008	0	0	114.22	8.48	$0
Jul 2008	0	0	131.08	11.39	$0
Jun 2008	0	0	131.33	13.03	$0
May 2008	0	0	123.17	11.57	$0
Apr 2008	0	0	110.31	10.45	$0
Mar 2008	0	0	101.90	9.66	$0
Feb 2008	0	0	92.53	8.77	$0
Jan 2008	0	0	90.38	8.21	$0
Dec 2007	0	0	88.33	7.30	$0
Nov 2007	0	0	91.67	7.29	$0
Oct 2007	0	0	82.85	6.92	$0
Sep 2007	0	0	75.84	6.24	$0
Aug 2007	0	0	69.06	6.39	$0
Jul 2007	0	0	70.90	6.39	$0
Jun 2007	0	0	62.00	7.55	$0
May 2007	0	0	58.74	7.85	$0
Apr 2007	0	0	59.61	7.81	$0
Mar 2007	0	0	56.92	7.30	$0
Feb 2007	0	0	55.10	8.22	$0
Jan 2007	0	0	50.30	6.73	$0
Dec 2006	0	0	56.65	6.92	$0
Nov 2006	0	0	54.20	7.62	$0
Oct 2006	0	0	54.90	6.01	$0
Sep 2006	0	0	60.08	5.04	$0
Aug 2006	0	0	68.71	7.34	$0
Jul 2006	0	0	69.37	6.34	$0
Jun 2006	0	0	66.28	6.38	$0
May 2006	0	0	66.01	6.42	$0
Apr 2006	0	0	64.39	7.36	$0
Mar 2006	0	0	56.70	7.08	$0
Feb 2006	0	0	57.59	7.75	$0
Jan 2006	0	0	60.59	8.93	$0
Dec 2005	0	0	54.94	13.42	$0
Nov 2005	0	0	54.69	10.59	$0
Oct 2005	0	0	58.34	13.80	$0
Sep 2005	0	0	61.45	12.08	$0
Aug 2005	0	0	61.51	9.80	$0
Jul 2005	0	0	55.69	7.84	$0
Jun 2005	0	0	52.33	7.38	$0
May 2005	0	0	45.22	6.65	$0
Apr 2005	0	0	49.20	7.36	$0
Mar 2005	0	0	50.37	7.15	$0
Feb 2005	0	0	45.22	6.31	$0
Jan 2005	0	0	43.16	6.32	$0
Dec 2004	0	0	39.86	6.75	$0
Nov 2004	0	0	45.28	6.33	$0
Oct 2004	0	0	49.70	6.52	$0
Sep 2004	0	0	43.24	5.28	$0
Aug 2004	0	0	42.37	5.55	$0
Jul 2004	0	0	38.28	6.08	$0
Jun 2004	0	0	36.10	6.43	$0
May 2004	0	0	37.48	6.49	$0
Apr 2004	0	0	34.47	5.86	$0
Mar 2004	0	0	34.36	5.53	$0
Feb 2004	0	0	32.45	5.51	$0
Jan 2004	0	0	32.03	6.30	$0
Dec 2003	0	0	30.26	6.30	$0
Nov 2003	0	0	28.80	4.60	$0
Oct 2003	0	0	28.17	4.76	$0
Sep 2003	0	0	26.31	4.75	$0
Aug 2003	0	0	29.76	5.13	$0
Jul 2003	0	0	29.41	5.17	$0
Jun 2003	80	0	28.56	5.98	$2,285
May 2003	0	15	26.59	5.97	$90
Apr 2003	74	17	26.67	5.41	$2,066
Mar 2003	48	12	31.14	6.10	$1,568
Feb 2003	0	17	33.48	7.93	$135
Jan 2003	0	20	30.31	5.58	$112
Dec 2002	0	31	26.91	4.85	$150
Nov 2002	0	34	24.66	4.14	$141
Oct 2002	166	28	26.46	4.23	$4,511
Sep 2002	0	42	27.44	3.64	$153
Aug 2002	0	29	25.96	3.16	$92
Jul 2002	0	40	24.58	3.06	$122
Jun 2002	0	62	23.73	3.34	$207
May 2002	164	36	24.66	3.58	$4,173
Apr 2002	0	32	23.65	3.51	$112
Mar 2002	0	30	22.00	3.10	$93
Feb 2002	0	24	18.22	2.38	$57
Jan 2002	0	26	17.17	2.38	$62
Dec 2001	166	26	16.93	2.36	$2,872
Nov 2001	0	35	18.07	2.41	$84
Oct 2001	0	32	19.78	2.53	$81
Sep 2001	0	44	24.26	2.25	$99
Aug 2001	0	37	24.87	3.05	$113
Jul 2001	0	58	23.93	3.20	$185
Jun 2001	157	58	24.56	3.82	$4,078
May 2001	0	49	25.52	4.31	$211
Apr 2001	0	48	24.68	5.34	$256
Mar 2001	0	50	24.54	5.38	$269
Feb 2001	176	48	27.75	5.77	$5,161
Jan 2001	0	39	27.47	8.40	$328
Dec 2000	0	21	26.88	9.12	$192
Nov 2000	0	25	32.21	5.66	$141
Oct 2000	164	31	31.23	5.15	$5,281
Sep 2000	0	29	31.87	5.19	$150
Aug 2000	0	40	29.64	4.54	$182
Jul 2000	0	43	28.53	4.09	$176
Jun 2000	0	27	29.30	4.40	$119
May 2000	143	34	27.26	3.68	$4,023
Apr 2000	0	34	24.51	3.12	$106
Mar 2000	0	39	28.42	2.86	$112
Feb 2000	169	40	27.62	2.73	$4,777
Jan 2000	0	42	25.27	2.48	$104
Dec 1999	0	36	24.28	2.42	$87
Nov 1999	0	42	23.19	2.43	$102
Oct 1999	173	35	20.98	2.80	$3,728
Sep 1999	0	50	21.75	2.62	$131
Aug 1999	0	48	19.26	2.88	$138
Jul 1999	0	63	17.89	2.37	$149
Jun 1999	169	48	15.94	2.36	$2,807
May 1999	0	45	15.79	2.32	$104
Apr 1999	0	49	15.10	2.21	$108
Mar 1999	173	44	12.47	1.84	$2,238
Feb 1999	0	30	9.98	1.82	$55
Jan 1999	0	43	10.38	1.90	$82
Dec 1998	0	46	9.20	1.77	$82
Nov 1998	174	37	10.89	2.19	$1,976
Oct 1998	0	25	12.42	1.97	$49
Sep 1998	0	36	12.59	2.08	$75
Aug 1998	0	49	11.30	1.91	$93
Jul 1998	168	42	11.74	2.24	$2,066
Jun 1998	0	38	11.24	2.24	$85
May 1998	0	47	12.62	2.21	$104
Apr 1998	168	39	13.04	2.51	$2,288
Mar 1998	0	50	12.80	2.31	$115
Feb 1998	0	48	13.95	2.30	$110
Jan 1998	175	47	14.70	2.15	$2,674
Dec 1997	0	42	16.32	2.41	$101
Nov 1997	0	28	18.19	3.09	$86
Oct 1997	171	27	19.25	3.15	$3,377
Sep 1997	0	38	17.74	2.95	$112
Aug 1997	0	39	17.86	2.55	$100
Jul 1997	0	38	17.58	2.25	$85
Jun 1997	173	36	17.24	2.26	$3,064
May 1997	0	39	18.97	2.31	$90
Apr 1997	0	29	17.88	2.08	$60
Mar 1997	165	35	18.95	1.94	$3,195
Feb 1997	0	31	20.49	2.21	$68
Jan 1997	0	40	23.48	3.54	$142
Dec 1996	178	31	23.32	—	$4,151
Nov 1996	0	37	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	0	56	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	175	47	22.22	—	$3,889
Aug 1996	0	44	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	0	35	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	172	39	18.73	—	$3,222
May 1996	0	73	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	0	56	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	175	51	19.38	—	$3,392
Feb 1996	0	50	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	0	54	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	173	51	17.19	—	$2,974
Nov 1995	0	48	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	0	52	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	171	65	16.18	—	$2,767
Aug 1995	0	61	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	0	62	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	169	61	16.41	—	$2,773
May 1995	0	52	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	0	68	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	0	61	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	176	59	16.58	—	$2,918
Jan 1995	0	67	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	0	85	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	177	83	15.90	—	$2,814
Oct 1994	0	102	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	0	67	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	0	74	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	167	75	17.56	—	$2,933
Jun 1994	0	83	17.09	—	$0
May 1994	0	64	15.88	—	$0
Apr 1994	72	64	14.14	—	$1,018
Mar 1994	0	77	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	171	76	12.50	—	$2,138
Jan 1994	0	69	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	0	104	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	177	86	14.49	—	$2,565
Oct 1993	4	72	15.85	—	$63
Sep 1993	0	68	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	0	87	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	161	106	15.46	—	$2,489
Jun 1993	0	87	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	0	81	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	175	100	18.05	—	$3,159
Mar 1993	0	122	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	0	108	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	167	126	16.93	—	$2,827

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.

Apr 2013 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   24 bbl  × $ 93.96 =     $2,255
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  4.28 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $2,255

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. 7C/O/12195 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.