UNIVERSITY -155-

Operated by HENRY PETROLEUM LP (P-5 378642) in the SHAFTER LAKE (SAN ANDRES) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 20482District 08Field 82570500Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$757 k
Jan 1993 – Sep 2001
Value, last 12 filed months
$116 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
105
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 194 leases and 1,113 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1953-04-01
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
0 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 10 acres. The field rule took effect on 2014-01-07.

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.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: DIAGONAL LIMITATION, TOP ALLOWABLE ADJUSTED.

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
OilDisposition39,287 bbl$725,758
Casinghead gasProduction27,872 Mcf$31,437
Total$757,195

17,284 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 (3)

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 32.3843, -102.7216. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

32.38452, -102.72165 · 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
33.3%
1 of 3 wells
With a plug date
33.3%
1 of 3 wells
Median depth
4,750 ft
3 wells filed one
Completion to plug
22.9 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
133.3%
A plug date is filed
133.3%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
133.3%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
266.7%

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 4,750 and 4,800 ft, median 4,750 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Oct 2001 – Nov 2001
3 of 3 wells
Plug dates filed
Oct 2024
1 of 3 wells; 2 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 22.9 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 22.9 years and 22.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells

42-0031086574,750 ftNov 2001
42-00337201104,800 ftNov 2001Oct 2024Yes
42-0031085564,750 ftOct 2001

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 (105)

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

105 months

Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 200122120823.933.20$5,954
Jun 200122411824.563.82$5,953
May 20012448725.524.31$6,602
Apr 200133411524.685.34$8,857
Mar 200138310524.545.38$9,963
Feb 200140912227.755.77$12,053
Jan 200173322727.478.40$22,042
Dec 200037811526.889.12$11,210
Nov 200042113432.215.66$14,319
Oct 200058815031.235.15$19,135
Sep 200048312031.875.19$16,016
Aug 200029511929.644.54$9,284
Jul 200032115928.534.09$9,808
Jun 200032616429.304.40$10,273
May 200038915327.263.68$11,167
Apr 200035817724.513.12$9,326
Mar 200045020728.422.86$13,381
Feb 200040918327.622.73$11,796
Jan 200039119125.272.48$10,354
Dec 199947718224.282.42$12,023
Nov 199931716623.192.43$7,755
Oct 199933519720.982.80$7,581
Sep 199938121721.752.62$8,855
Aug 199941224019.262.88$8,625
Jul 199936520817.892.37$7,023
Jun 199936420315.942.36$6,282
May 199933224215.792.32$5,804
Apr 199930722015.102.21$5,121
Mar 199925019312.471.84$3,472
Feb 19992261619.981.82$2,548
Jan 199923514110.381.90$2,707
Dec 19982391449.201.77$2,454
Nov 199822324010.892.19$2,953
Oct 199821617212.421.97$3,021
Sep 199822614512.592.08$3,147
Aug 199823818811.301.91$3,048
Jul 199837523911.742.24$4,937
Jun 199838921011.242.24$4,842
May 199834616112.622.21$4,722
Apr 199836613813.042.51$5,118
Mar 199840713512.802.31$5,521
Feb 199827711413.952.30$4,126
Jan 199837012014.702.15$5,698
Dec 199733020516.322.41$5,880
Nov 199731919518.193.09$6,405
Oct 199734027919.253.15$7,424
Sep 199732226817.742.95$6,504
Aug 199734030817.862.55$6,859
Jul 199734433117.582.25$6,791
Jun 199737728217.242.26$7,136
May 199728031218.972.31$6,032
Apr 199729134617.882.08$5,924
Mar 199726633118.951.94$5,683
Feb 199725725020.492.21$5,817
Jan 199721225123.483.54$5,866
Dec 199622823523.32$5,317
Nov 199628738921.97$6,305
Oct 199635438223.31$8,252
Sep 199629538722.22$6,555
Aug 199630129120.26$6,098
Jul 199640530019.55$7,918
Jun 199634327318.73$6,424
May 199637923319.43$7,364
Apr 199638335521.51$8,238
Mar 199632428019.38$6,279
Feb 199635426616.98$6,011
Jan 199641731217.07$7,118
Dec 199537336917.19$6,412
Nov 199539236016.00$6,272
Oct 199544741015.43$6,897
Sep 199536936616.18$5,970
Aug 199532738215.92$5,206
Jul 199528538515.24$4,343
Jun 199524033916.41$3,938
May 199525228117.56$4,425
Apr 199524534717.73$4,344
Mar 199535735516.44$5,869
Feb 199525030816.58$4,145
Jan 199534836915.92$5,540
Dec 199428737915.03$4,314
Nov 199437339815.90$5,931
Oct 199438343515.58$5,967
Sep 199443342815.29$6,621
Aug 199438046216.13$6,129
Jul 199433446817.56$5,865
Jun 199426040517.09$4,443
May 199425446915.88$4,034
Apr 199450844614.14$7,183
Mar 199465246112.46$8,124
Feb 199458640312.50$7,325
Jan 199445240212.66$5,722
Dec 199392263112.33$11,368
Nov 199398265614.49$14,229
Oct 19931,62874515.85$25,804
Sep 19931,23745415.03$18,592
Aug 199378444315.66$12,277
Jul 199346432015.46$7,173
Jun 199359621616.79$10,007
May 19932168317.68$3,819
Apr 19931918918.05$3,448
Mar 199321015918.14$3,809
Feb 199324817217.90$4,439
Jan 199324418616.93$4,131

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.

Jul 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  221 bbl  × $ 23.93 =     $5,289
Casinghead gas       208 Mcf  × $  3.20 =       $665

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Month total                                   $5,954

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/20482 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.