MERYL SAMPSON

Operated by SUNDOWN ENERGY LP (P-5 829482) in the DUBINA, SOUTH (9150) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 25468District 03Field 26228925OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$2.2 M
May 2007 – May 2022
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
181
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 3 leases and 3 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1977-06-02
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 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 2009-03-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: FIELD RETURNED TO STATEWIDE RULES.

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
OilDisposition14,711 bbl$1,326,534
Casinghead gasProduction116,861 Mcf$892,976
Total$2,219,510

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 29.6462, -96.8233. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.64624, -96.82330 · 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
10,000 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
13.8 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 10,000 ft.

Completions filed
May 2007
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Mar 2021
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 13.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 13.8 years and 13.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-08930581110,000 ftMay 2007Mar 2021Yes

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 (181)

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

181 months

May 202200109.378.43$0
Apr 202200104.226.84$0
Mar 202200108.885.08$0
Feb 20220091.054.86$0
Jan 20220081.844.54$0
Dec 20210071.323.90$0
Nov 20210077.435.24$0
Oct 20210079.795.71$0
Sep 20210069.865.35$0
Aug 20210066.024.22$0
Jul 20210070.783.98$0
Jun 20210069.493.38$0
May 20210063.483.02$0
Apr 20210060.362.76$0
Mar 20210061.302.72$0
Feb 20210057.805.55$0
Jan 20210050.412.81$0
Dec 20200044.642.68$0
Nov 20200038.772.71$0
Oct 20200036.972.48$0
Sep 20200037.091.99$0
Aug 20200039.982.39$0
Jul 20200038.371.83$0
Jun 20200034.901.69$0
May 20200016.921.81$0
Apr 20200014.751.80$0
Mar 20200030.341.86$0
Feb 20200049.881.98$0
Jan 20200057.252.09$0
Dec 20190059.012.30$0
Nov 20190055.302.75$0
Oct 20190053.472.42$0
Sep 20190055.052.66$0
Aug 20190053.112.30$0
Jul 20190056.272.46$0
Jun 20190052.782.49$0
May 20190058.482.74$0
Apr 20190062.632.75$0
Mar 20190056.803.06$0
Feb 20190050.852.79$0
Jan 20190046.033.23$0
Dec 20180046.594.19$0
Nov 20180052.934.24$0
Oct 20180061.443.40$0
Sep 20180059.543.11$0
Aug 20180059.403.07$0
Jul 20180065.142.93$0
Jun 20180060.183.08$0
May 20180065.382.90$0
Apr 20180063.842.90$0
Mar 20180061.222.79$0
Feb 20180061.782.77$0
Jan 20180062.874.01$0
Dec 20170057.272.92$0
Nov 20170055.423.12$0
Oct 20170049.292.98$0
Sep 20170047.523.09$0
Aug 20170045.373.00$0
Jul 20170043.873.09$0
Jun 20170042.493.09$0
May 20170045.373.26$0
Apr 20170047.933.21$0
Mar 20170046.772.98$0
Feb 20170050.452.95$0
Jan 20170049.413.42$0
Dec 20160048.763.72$0
Nov 20160042.492.64$0
Oct 20160046.193.09$0
Sep 20160041.553.10$0
Aug 20160041.442.92$0
Jul 20160041.622.92$0
Jun 20160045.352.69$0
May 20160042.521.99$0
Apr 20160036.561.99$0
Mar 20160033.011.79$0
Feb 20160026.472.06$0
Jan 20160027.352.36$0
Dec 20150032.362.00$0
Nov 20150038.792.17$0
Oct 20150043.552.43$0
Sep 20150042.992.76$0
Aug 20150040.162.87$0
Jul 20150048.152.95$0
Jun 20150056.152.88$0
May 20150055.212.96$0
Apr 20150049.822.71$0
Mar 20150042.892.93$0
Feb 20150044.662.98$0
Jan 20150043.433.10$0
Dec 2014151054.693.59$8,258
Nov 20140070.464.25$0
Oct 20140078.303.90$0
Sep 20140086.164.05$0
Aug 20140089.394.04$0
Jul 20140096.564.18$0
Jun 20140098.164.74$0
May 20140094.734.73$0
Apr 20140095.944.81$0
Mar 2014187095.895.06$17,931
Feb 20140097.406.19$0
Jan 20140090.404.86$0
Dec 20130091.824.35$0
Nov 20130088.853.74$0
Oct 2013179097.423.78$17,438
Sep 201300104.113.72$0
Aug 201300104.253.52$0
Jul 201301102.523.72$4
Jun 2013015294.403.93$598
May 2013021294.834.15$880
Apr 201318240693.964.28$18,839
Mar 2013035293.623.91$1,377
Feb 2013050191.233.42$1,713
Jan 2013030391.603.42$1,036
Dec 2012025486.773.42$869
Nov 201217929286.953.62$16,623
Oct 2012025689.383.40$870
Sep 2012041494.672.92$1,208
Aug 201218842092.662.91$18,642
Jul 201205185.133.02$154
Jun 201202679.822.52$66
May 201201891.612.49$45
Apr 2012028101.652.00$56
Mar 2012012105.052.22$27
Feb 2012053101.102.57$136
Jan 201218519298.092.73$18,672
Dec 2011019596.873.24$632
Nov 2011024995.723.31$825
Oct 2011188084.983.65$15,976
Sep 2011025083.623.99$996
Aug 2011024383.404.15$1,008
Jul 201117931294.144.52$18,260
Jun 201118844092.904.64$19,507
May 2011028898.134.40$1,269
Apr 20110349105.964.33$1,512
Mar 2011026896.364.06$1,087
Feb 201115011885.644.18$13,339
Jan 2011022986.504.59$1,051
Dec 2010057285.734.35$2,487
Nov 201019143280.843.80$17,080
Oct 2010043278.103.51$1,516
Sep 201018175672.633.98$16,155
Aug 201018745273.684.42$15,776
Jul 2010042572.554.74$2,013
Jun 2010038670.364.91$1,895
May 201018143771.124.24$14,724
Apr 2010036181.694.12$1,488
Mar 201017950778.394.39$16,257
Feb 2010016573.585.44$898
Jan 20100074.365.96$0
Dec 2009031771.445.48$1,738
Nov 2009023974.593.75$897
Oct 200918729072.544.11$14,757
Sep 2009014565.543.06$444
Aug 2009028067.423.22$901
Jul 200918530061.133.46$12,348
Jun 2009017566.163.90$682
May 2009010954.743.93$428
Apr 20090246.773.59$7
Mar 200909942.144.06$402
Feb 200919611232.814.63$6,950
Jan 200919627935.865.37$8,527
Dec 2008061737.105.98$3,688
Nov 20083521,31455.496.86$28,547
Oct 20081851,78875.246.92$26,296
Sep 200801,546101.767.88$12,178
Aug 20089502,236114.228.48$127,477
Jul 200822,688131.0811.39$30,877
Jun 20089233,293131.3313.03$164,134
May 20081,6814,741123.1711.57$261,922
Apr 200804,834110.3110.45$50,539
Mar 200805,745101.909.66$55,520
Feb 200806,87692.538.77$60,307
Jan 20089297,43990.388.21$145,005
Dec 20071,32511,95888.337.30$204,354
Nov 20071,69715,82491.677.29$270,948
Oct 20077738,03182.856.92$119,633
Sep 2007030875.846.24$1,923
Aug 20071901,79669.066.39$24,594
Jul 20071,3139,73070.906.39$155,246
Jun 200775210,97662.007.55$129,476
May 2007096558.747.85$7,572

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.

Dec 2014 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  151 bbl  × $ 54.69 =     $8,258
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.59 =         $0

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Month total                                   $8,258

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. 03/O/25468 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.