UNIVERSITY

Operated by COASTAL MANAGEMENT CORPORATION (P-5 161619) in the M.A.K. (SPRABERRY) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 17840District 08Field 56082500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$196 k
Jan 1993 – May 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$43 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
53
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 21 leases and 52 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1963-07-06
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
1,320 ft
minimum
From a lease line
660 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 160 acres.

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
OilDisposition11,472 bbl$193,826
Casinghead gasProduction20,536 Mcf$2,510
Total$196,336

19,827 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 (2)

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 32.4716, -102.1906. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.5 miles.

32.47159, -102.19057 · 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%
2 of 2 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 2 wells
Median depth
10,600 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
00.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
00.0%
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

Between 9,010 and 12,190 ft, median 10,600 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
May 1993 – Jan 1997
2 of 2 wells

2 wells

42-3170002219,010 ftJan 1997Yes
42-31733934104212,190 ftMay 1993Yes

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 (53)

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

53 months

May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 199730270923.483.54$9,601
Dec 199622976623.32$5,340
Nov 199617961321.97$3,933
Oct 199625977223.31$6,037
Sep 199618382922.22$4,066
Aug 199629880820.26$6,037
Jul 199617294819.55$3,363
Jun 199623787318.73$4,439
May 199627597519.43$5,343
Apr 199610841821.51$2,323
Mar 199634130019.38$6,609
Feb 19968029016.98$1,358
Jan 199624129217.07$4,114
Dec 199524129817.19$4,143
Nov 199516333716.00$2,608
Oct 199530032415.43$4,629
Sep 19957731016.18$1,246
Aug 199529622615.92$4,712
Jul 199519727215.24$3,002
Jun 199530027016.41$4,923
May 199520223217.56$3,547
Apr 199529630017.73$5,248
Mar 199520331416.44$3,337
Feb 199529828616.58$4,941
Jan 199519829315.92$3,152
Dec 199430029415.03$4,509
Nov 199419729815.90$3,132
Oct 199429741015.58$4,627
Sep 199420637915.29$3,150
Aug 199429532916.13$4,758
Jul 199429433917.56$5,163
Jun 199429636717.09$5,059
May 199429940415.88$4,748
Apr 199420037114.14$2,828
Mar 199438337812.46$4,772
Feb 199420533312.50$2,563
Jan 199429738212.66$3,760
Dec 199330238412.33$3,724
Nov 199329739014.49$4,304
Oct 199329040415.85$4,597
Sep 199337741415.03$5,666
Aug 199329241515.66$4,573
Jul 199325635415.46$3,958
Jun 199326040516.79$4,365
May 199330237017.68$5,339
Apr 19932726818.05$487
Mar 19935728118.14$1,034
Feb 19931824417.90$322
Jan 19935026816.93$847

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.

Jan 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  302 bbl  × $ 23.48 =     $7,091
Casinghead gas       709 Mcf  × $  3.54 =     $2,510

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Month total                                   $9,601

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/17840 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.