JAMES, T. C. JR.

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

Operated by AOCO OPERATING COMPANY, L.L.C. (P-5 26802) in the HOOPLE (CLEAR FORK) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 62554District 8AField 42499500OilCasinghead gasSave

Value, all time

$743 k

Jan 1993 – Nov 1999

Value, last 12 filed months

$52 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

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	45,278 bbl	$735,680
Casinghead gas	Production	6,077 Mcf	$7,786
Total			$743,466

2,749 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 47 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 (18)

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 33.5285, -101.5384. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.8 miles.

33.52757, -101.53950 · 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

44.4%

8 of 18 wells

With a plug date

44.4%

8 of 18 wells

Median depth

4,558 ft

18 wells filed one

Completion to plug

38.1 years

median over 8 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

844.4%

A plug date is filed

844.4%

BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.

844.4%

NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.

1055.6%

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

10k

12k

15k

20k+

Total depth in feet, 18 of 18 wells. Median 4,558 ft, with the middle half between 4,500 and 4,608 ft; the shallowest is 4,470 ft and the deepest 4,620 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

70s

80s

90s

00s

10s

20s

Last completion by decade, 18 of 18 wells, Aug 1979 – Feb 2026. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed

Aug 1979 – Feb 2026

18 of 18 wells

Plug dates filed

Jul 2006 – Nov 2022

8 of 18 wells; 10 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 38.1 years across the 8 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 33.0 years and 41.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

18 wells


42-10731019	760	4,620 ft	Feb 2026	—	—
42-10731029	770	4,620 ft	Apr 2025	—	—
42-10731030	759	4,485 ft	Sep 2021	—	—
42-10730464	7	4,520 ft	Nov 2020	—	—
42-10731018	771	4,620 ft	Feb 2011	—	—
42-10731031	747	4,620 ft	Feb 2009	—	—
42-10731017	748	4,610 ft	Nov 1998	—	—
42-10730568	12	4,515 ft	Mar 1981	Nov 2022	Yes
42-10730567	11	4,500 ft	Mar 1981	—	—
42-10730566	10	4,500 ft	Mar 1981	Oct 2022	Yes
42-10730565	9	4,470 ft	Dec 1980	—	—
42-10730465	8	4,500 ft	Jun 1980	Mar 2015	Yes
42-10730461	6	4,600 ft	Apr 1980	Feb 2017	Yes
42-10730448	5	4,600 ft	Apr 1980	Jul 2019	Yes
42-10730449	4	4,600 ft	Mar 1980	Nov 2007	Yes
42-10730399	3	4,560 ft	Nov 1979	Nov 2022	Yes
42-10730397	2	4,555 ft	Oct 1979	—	—
42-10730366	1	4,500 ft	Aug 1979	Jul 2006	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 (83)

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

83 months


Nov 1999	0	0	23.19	2.43	$0
Oct 1999	0	0	20.98	2.80	$0
Sep 1999	0	0	21.75	2.62	$0
Aug 1999	0	0	19.26	2.88	$0
Jul 1999	0	0	17.89	2.37	$0
Jun 1999	0	0	15.94	2.36	$0
May 1999	1,113	128	15.79	2.32	$17,871
Apr 1999	661	0	15.10	2.21	$9,981
Mar 1999	682	0	12.47	1.84	$8,505
Feb 1999	514	0	9.98	1.82	$5,130
Jan 1999	340	128	10.38	1.90	$3,772
Dec 1998	681	128	9.20	1.77	$6,492
Nov 1998	494	128	10.89	2.19	$5,659
Oct 1998	644	128	12.42	1.97	$8,251
Sep 1998	594	128	12.59	2.08	$7,745
Aug 1998	475	128	11.30	1.91	$5,612
Jul 1998	489	128	11.74	2.24	$6,027
Jun 1998	625	128	11.24	2.24	$7,311
May 1998	753	128	12.62	2.21	$9,785
Apr 1998	606	128	13.04	2.51	$8,223
Mar 1998	464	128	12.80	2.31	$6,235
Feb 1998	776	128	13.95	2.30	$11,119
Jan 1998	470	128	14.70	2.15	$7,185
Dec 1997	472	128	16.32	2.41	$8,012
Nov 1997	782	128	18.19	3.09	$14,620
Oct 1997	624	128	19.25	3.15	$12,415
Sep 1997	637	128	17.74	2.95	$11,679
Aug 1997	609	128	17.86	2.55	$11,204
Jul 1997	483	128	17.58	2.25	$8,779
Jun 1997	797	128	17.24	2.26	$14,029
May 1997	624	128	18.97	2.31	$12,133
Apr 1997	488	128	17.88	2.08	$8,992
Mar 1997	515	128	18.95	1.94	$10,007
Feb 1997	534	128	20.49	2.21	$11,224
Jan 1997	613	128	23.48	3.54	$14,846
Dec 1996	531	128	23.32	—	$12,383
Nov 1996	528	128	21.97	—	$11,600
Oct 1996	540	7	23.31	—	$12,587
Sep 1996	734	7	22.22	—	$16,309
Aug 1996	524	7	20.26	—	$10,616
Jul 1996	359	7	19.55	—	$7,018
Jun 1996	711	7	18.73	—	$13,317
May 1996	523	7	19.43	—	$10,162
Apr 1996	530	7	21.51	—	$11,400
Mar 1996	699	128	19.38	—	$13,547
Feb 1996	526	128	16.98	—	$8,931
Jan 1996	511	128	17.07	—	$8,723
Dec 1995	697	128	17.19	—	$11,981
Nov 1995	523	128	16.00	—	$8,368
Oct 1995	535	7	15.43	—	$8,255
Sep 1995	715	7	16.18	—	$11,569
Aug 1995	525	7	15.92	—	$8,358
Jul 1995	518	7	15.24	—	$7,894
Jun 1995	527	7	16.41	—	$8,648
May 1995	678	7	17.56	—	$11,906
Apr 1995	516	7	17.73	—	$9,149
Mar 1995	507	128	16.44	—	$8,335
Feb 1995	490	128	16.58	—	$8,124
Jan 1995	654	128	15.92	—	$10,412
Dec 1994	495	128	15.03	—	$7,440
Nov 1994	499	128	15.90	—	$7,934
Oct 1994	654	7	15.58	—	$10,189
Sep 1994	498	0	15.29	—	$7,614
Aug 1994	673	7	16.13	—	$10,855
Jul 1994	496	7	17.56	—	$8,710
Jun 1994	654	7	17.09	—	$11,177
May 1994	663	7	15.88	—	$10,528
Apr 1994	501	7	14.14	—	$7,084
Mar 1994	497	128	12.46	—	$6,193
Feb 1994	507	128	12.50	—	$6,338
Jan 1994	835	128	12.66	—	$10,571
Dec 1993	505	128	12.33	—	$6,227
Nov 1993	496	128	14.49	—	$7,187
Oct 1993	664	7	15.85	—	$10,524
Sep 1993	498	7	15.03	—	$7,485
Aug 1993	658	7	15.66	—	$10,304
Jul 1993	664	7	15.46	—	$10,265
Jun 1993	495	7	16.79	—	$8,311
May 1993	669	7	17.68	—	$11,828
Apr 1993	668	7	18.05	—	$12,057
Mar 1993	495	128	18.14	—	$8,979
Feb 1993	662	128	17.90	—	$11,850
Jan 1993	672	128	16.93	—	$11,377

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 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                1,113 bbl  × $ 15.79 =    $17,574
Casinghead gas       128 Mcf  × $  2.32 =       $297

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Month total                                  $17,871

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. 8A/O/62554 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.