UNIVERSITY -36-

Operated by RING ENERGY, INC. (P-5 712382) in the EMMA (ELLENBURGER) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 17838District 08Field 28899249Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$7.5 M
Jan 1993 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
401
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 26 leases and 97 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1953-10-06
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
933 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres.

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.

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
OilDisposition393,313 bbl$6,999,016
Casinghead gasProduction454,625 Mcf$523,326
Total$7,522,342

280,377 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 (8)

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 32.1374, -102.6285. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.9 miles.

32.13808, -102.62851 · 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
87.5%
7 of 8 wells
With a plug date
50.0%
4 of 8 wells
Median depth
12,648 ft
8 wells filed one
Completion to plug
13.1 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
787.5%
A plug date is filed
450.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
450.0%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
112.5%

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

Total depth in feet, 8 of 8 wells. Median 12,648 ft, with the middle half between 12,610 and 12,691 ft; the shallowest is 12,579 ft and the deepest 12,815 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

Last completion by decade, 6 of 8 wells, Nov 1997 – Nov 2013. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Nov 1997 – Nov 2013
6 of 8 wells; 2 filed none
Plug dates filed
Oct 1988 – Aug 2015
4 of 8 wells; 4 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 13.1 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 13.1 years and 13.1 years. A further 1 well is excluded, because the last completion the Commission holds for it is dated after the plug date. Both dates are the latest of their kind on the wellbore record and they are filed separately, so the two need not run in order. The gap is the distance between two filed dates — it is not a statement of how long the well produced.

8 wells

42-00306529512,660 ftMay 1999Yes
42-00306582812,620 ftOct 1988Yes
42-00306547212,579 ftNov 2013Sep 1996Yes
42-00306550612,815 ftNov 2002Yes
42-00306527112,636 ftJul 2002Aug 2015Yes
42-00306567712,768 ftJun 2002Yes
42-00306613312,665 ftDec 2001Yes
42-00306577412,580 ftNov 1997

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 (401)

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

401 months

May 202600106.413.05$0
Apr 20260098.932.87$0
Mar 20260089.753.15$0
Feb 20260063.503.75$0
Jan 20260059.138.00$0
Dec 20250056.664.41$0
Nov 20250058.593.93$0
Oct 20250059.383.30$0
Sep 20250062.743.08$0
Aug 20250063.933.01$0
Jul 20250066.743.32$0
Jun 20250066.483.13$0
May 20250060.553.23$0
Apr 20250062.363.54$0
Mar 20250067.704.27$0
Feb 20250070.884.34$0
Jan 20250074.324.28$0
Dec 20240068.993.12$0
Nov 20240069.052.20$0
Oct 20240071.372.28$0
Sep 20240069.612.36$0
Aug 20240075.632.06$0
Jul 20240079.932.15$0
Jun 20240078.082.63$0
May 20240078.812.20$0
Apr 20240084.451.66$0
Mar 20240080.301.55$0
Feb 20240076.091.78$0
Jan 20240073.023.30$0
Dec 20230071.262.61$0
Nov 20230077.892.81$0
Oct 20230085.443.09$0
Sep 20230089.042.74$0
Aug 20230080.522.67$0
Jul 20230074.852.64$0
Jun 20230068.962.26$0
May 20230070.622.23$0
Apr 20230078.122.24$0
Mar 20230072.852.39$0
Feb 20230075.112.47$0
Jan 20230076.533.39$0
Dec 20220076.415.73$0
Nov 20220085.005.65$0
Oct 20220087.185.86$0
Sep 20220084.888.16$0
Aug 20220094.529.13$0
Jul 202200101.587.54$0
Jun 202200115.097.98$0
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 20140054.693.59$0
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 20140095.895.06$0
Feb 20140097.406.19$0
Jan 20140090.404.86$0
Dec 20130091.824.35$0
Nov 20130088.853.74$0
Oct 20130097.423.78$0
Sep 201300104.113.72$0
Aug 201300104.253.52$0
Jul 201300102.523.72$0
Jun 20130094.403.93$0
May 20130094.834.15$0
Apr 20130093.964.28$0
Mar 20130093.623.91$0
Feb 20130091.233.42$0
Jan 20130091.603.42$0
Dec 20120086.773.42$0
Nov 20120086.953.62$0
Oct 20120089.383.40$0
Sep 20120094.672.92$0
Aug 20120092.662.91$0
Jul 20120085.133.02$0
Jun 20120079.822.52$0
May 201202291.612.49$55
Apr 201200101.652.00$0
Mar 201200105.052.22$0
Feb 201200101.102.57$0
Jan 20120098.092.73$0
Dec 20110096.873.24$0
Nov 20110095.723.31$0
Oct 20110084.983.65$0
Sep 20110083.623.99$0
Aug 20110083.404.15$0
Jul 20110094.144.52$0
Jun 20110092.904.64$0
May 20110098.134.40$0
Apr 201100105.964.33$0
Mar 20110096.364.06$0
Feb 20110085.644.18$0
Jan 20110086.504.59$0
Dec 20100085.734.35$0
Nov 20100080.843.80$0
Oct 20100078.103.51$0
Sep 20100072.633.98$0
Aug 20100073.684.42$0
Jul 20100072.554.74$0
Jun 20100070.364.91$0
May 20100071.124.24$0
Apr 20100081.694.12$0
Mar 20100078.394.39$0
Feb 20100073.585.44$0
Jan 20100074.365.96$0
Dec 20090071.445.48$0
Nov 20090074.593.75$0
Oct 20090072.544.11$0
Sep 20090065.543.06$0
Aug 20090067.423.22$0
Jul 20090061.133.46$0
Jun 20090066.163.90$0
May 20090054.743.93$0
Apr 20090046.773.59$0
Mar 20090042.144.06$0
Feb 20090032.814.63$0
Jan 20090035.865.37$0
Dec 20080037.105.98$0
Nov 20080055.496.86$0
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 200472043.245.28$3,113
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 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20044032.036.30$128
Dec 20034030.266.30$121
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 200241630826.464.23$12,310
Sep 200262142027.443.64$18,567
Aug 200262957325.963.16$18,142
Jul 20021,1241,21624.583.06$31,351
Jun 20029831,04023.733.34$26,798
May 20029961,55724.663.58$30,142
Apr 20028901,32623.653.51$25,706
Mar 20021,0141,62222.003.10$27,341
Feb 20021,2601,68518.222.38$26,960
Jan 20029421,67817.172.38$20,161
Dec 20011,1031,33716.932.36$21,835
Nov 20011,1091,24718.072.41$23,039
Oct 20011,0421,55219.782.53$24,536
Sep 20011,5161,79824.262.25$40,826
Aug 20011,2341,51924.873.05$35,327
Jul 20011,6371,97523.933.20$45,488
Jun 20011,7342,42724.563.82$51,868
May 20012,1272,20925.524.31$63,796
Apr 20011,9212,39924.685.34$60,210
Mar 20012,0002,34624.545.38$61,693
Feb 20011,6482,20527.755.77$58,448
Jan 20012,1441,96927.478.40$75,433
Dec 20002,0942,26726.889.12$76,967
Nov 20001,8952,35832.215.66$74,380
Oct 20002,1192,24431.235.15$77,723
Sep 20001,9662,38631.875.19$75,031
Aug 20001,8411,97529.644.54$63,535
Jul 20002,0322,64028.534.09$68,770
Jun 20001,8882,34929.304.40$65,648
May 20002,0812,43127.263.68$65,674
Apr 20001,9292,36324.513.12$54,643
Mar 20002,2762,45528.422.86$71,705
Feb 20001,9632,12527.622.73$60,012
Jan 20001,9062,41325.272.48$54,150
Dec 19992,2172,43624.282.42$59,733
Nov 19992,0102,51923.192.43$52,743
Oct 19992,0412,70720.982.80$50,410
Sep 19991,7222,59621.752.62$44,252
Aug 19992,0482,65919.262.88$47,091
Jul 19992,1412,70417.892.37$44,717
Jun 19992,1442,43615.942.36$39,929
May 19992,4041,92615.792.32$42,429
Apr 19991,5151,73015.102.21$26,696
Mar 19992,0411,77412.471.84$28,712
Feb 19991,5171,5709.981.82$17,994
Jan 19992,2632,21810.381.90$27,704
Dec 19982,2082,2619.201.77$24,323
Nov 19982,1711,79910.892.19$27,574
Oct 19982,1952,44412.421.97$32,075
Sep 19982,1292,55512.592.08$32,125
Aug 19982,4042,67311.301.91$32,264
Jul 19982,3892,98011.742.24$34,714
Jun 19982,9123,61511.242.24$40,819
May 19982,8333,27312.622.21$42,974
Apr 19983,1583,53113.042.51$50,027
Mar 19982,9383,36112.802.31$45,368
Feb 19982,8843,30013.952.30$47,819
Jan 19983,1413,56914.702.15$53,863
Dec 19973,4093,61616.322.41$64,353
Nov 19973,2513,68418.193.09$70,513
Oct 19973,0433,63619.253.15$70,031
Sep 19972,8193,46117.742.95$60,236
Aug 19972,7073,64917.862.55$57,669
Jul 19972,5373,21717.582.25$51,829
Jun 19972,7223,20617.242.26$54,164
May 19973,0844,01918.972.31$67,781
Apr 19973,5595,37417.882.08$74,828
Mar 19973,6805,93618.951.94$81,247
Feb 19973,4984,61320.492.21$81,850
Jan 19973,5074,76523.483.54$99,211
Dec 19964,0525,48523.32$94,493
Nov 19963,7635,06421.97$82,673
Oct 19964,1205,91023.31$96,037
Sep 19963,7285,78822.22$82,836
Aug 19964,1075,89920.26$83,208
Jul 19963,9496,10919.55$77,203
Jun 19964,1786,11318.73$78,254
May 19964,0256,73719.43$78,206
Apr 19963,9285,21021.51$84,491
Mar 19964,0795,89119.38$79,051
Feb 19964,0915,63716.98$69,465
Jan 19964,3875,84817.07$74,886
Dec 19954,2635,54017.19$73,281
Nov 19954,0825,48816.00$65,312
Oct 19954,4735,82715.43$69,018
Sep 19954,3855,55016.18$70,949
Aug 19954,7026,20515.92$74,856
Jul 19954,4735,98015.24$68,169
Jun 19954,7585,77416.41$78,079
May 19954,6035,62117.56$80,829
Apr 19954,8385,81417.73$85,778
Mar 19955,2625,97916.44$86,507
Feb 19954,7595,69516.58$78,904
Jan 19955,1956,10415.92$82,704
Dec 19944,5805,69815.03$68,837
Nov 19945,1896,57915.90$82,505
Oct 19945,4886,80915.58$85,503
Sep 19945,7017,13815.29$87,168
Aug 19945,6927,39116.13$91,812
Jul 19946,1037,15017.56$107,169
Jun 19946,6147,06517.09$113,033
May 19945,0735,97715.88$80,559
Apr 19945,2966,42314.14$74,885
Mar 19945,8126,26312.46$72,418
Feb 19945,6346,24812.50$70,425
Jan 19947,1007,59012.66$89,886
Dec 19936,7225,52412.33$82,882
Nov 19937,1583,97914.49$103,719
Oct 19936,6183,87215.85$104,895
Sep 19935,6473,09415.03$84,874
Aug 19936,6464,42415.66$104,076
Jul 19937,7184,93115.46$119,320
Jun 19938,5485,80316.79$143,521
May 19936,4575,02217.68$114,160
Apr 19935,1936,40018.05$93,734
Mar 19935,3926,16218.14$97,811
Feb 19934,4205,70317.90$79,118
Jan 19934,9115,86416.93$83,143

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 2012 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    0 bbl  × $ 91.61 =         $0
Casinghead gas        22 Mcf  × $  2.49 =        $55

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Month total                                      $55

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. 08/O/17838 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.