UNIVERSITY -169-

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 20559District 08Field 82570500Hydrogen sulphide fieldNGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$512 k
Jan 1993 – Jan 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$15 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
108
1 month not filed
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.

Severance-tax incentive filings

Applications the operator filed to have this lease's gas taxed at a reduced state rate. A filing is an application, and this page never calls one a reduction that was granted.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
NGPA1none

This says nothing about a royalty. A severance tax is charged to the operator. Whether a reduced rate reaches a royalty owner depends on the wording of the lease instrument, which is a private contract this site does not hold.

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
OilDisposition28,378 bbl$487,139
Casinghead gasProduction19,892 Mcf$24,874
Total$512,013

11,361 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 32.3947, -102.7103. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

32.39450, -102.70990 · 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
4,738 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
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 4,700 and 4,775 ft, median 4,738 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jun 1993
1 of 3 wells; 2 filed none
Plug dates filed
Jul 2002
1 of 3 wells; 2 filed none

3 wells

42-0031089134,700 ftJul 2002Yes
42-003109234
42-0033720254,775 ftJun 1993

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 (108)

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

108 months

Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jun 20016111324.563.82$1,930
May 2001658225.524.31$2,012
Apr 20017311024.685.34$2,389
Mar 20019610524.545.38$2,920
Feb 20017711827.755.77$2,817
Jan 20018010327.478.40$3,063
Dec 20008111126.889.12$3,190
Nov 20009412932.215.66$3,758
Oct 200014011531.235.15$4,964
Sep 20001309331.875.19$4,625
Aug 200016511929.644.54$5,431
Jul 20002059028.534.09$6,217
Jun 20001989429.304.40$6,215
May 200019517427.263.68$5,956
Apr 200017119924.513.12$4,811
Mar 200015618328.422.86$4,957
Feb 200017317327.622.73$5,250
Jan 200015015725.272.48$4,180
Dec 199920015924.282.42$5,241
Nov 199921216623.192.43$5,320
Oct 199922419820.982.80$5,255
Sep 199925421721.752.62$6,093
Aug 199927424019.262.88$5,967
Jul 199922822417.892.37$4,610
Jun 199921420315.942.36$3,891
May 199922222215.792.32$4,021
Apr 199922721815.102.21$3,909
Mar 199921921912.471.84$3,134
Feb 19992041899.981.82$2,379
Jan 199918514710.381.90$2,200
Dec 19982051599.201.77$2,168
Nov 199819527310.892.19$2,720
Oct 199818919312.421.97$2,727
Sep 199819717012.592.08$2,834
Aug 199819521911.301.91$2,621
Jul 199817818611.742.24$2,506
Jun 199820717011.242.24$2,707
May 199820212612.622.21$2,827
Apr 199821310713.042.51$3,046
Mar 199823110212.802.31$3,192
Feb 19981608813.952.30$2,434
Jan 19981816714.702.15$2,805
Dec 19971398416.322.41$2,471
Nov 199720112818.193.09$4,051
Oct 199720417319.253.15$4,472
Sep 199720517717.742.95$4,160
Aug 199720919617.862.55$4,233
Jul 199721221117.582.25$4,201
Jun 199723517917.242.26$4,455
May 199721120218.972.31$4,469
Apr 199724122317.882.08$4,774
Mar 199726319318.951.94$5,358
Feb 199720312320.492.21$4,431
Jan 199715511223.483.54$4,036
Dec 199616635523.32$3,871
Nov 199621225121.97$4,658
Oct 199633524723.31$7,809
Sep 199622117522.22$4,911
Aug 199622418920.26$4,538
Jul 199628117919.55$5,494
Jun 199623916318.73$4,476
May 199626214319.43$5,091
Apr 199624214421.51$5,205
Mar 199626017419.38$5,039
Feb 199625315416.98$4,296
Jan 199632118617.07$5,479
Dec 199528522917.19$4,899
Nov 199529422116.00$4,704
Oct 199531625215.43$4,876
Sep 199522712416.18$3,673
Aug 199541029715.92$6,527
Jul 199523326515.24$3,551
Jun 199521524516.41$3,528
May 199522220417.56$3,898
Apr 199521825217.73$3,865
Mar 199532025716.44$5,261
Feb 199521921916.58$3,631
Jan 199533626615.92$5,349
Dec 199425427315.03$3,818
Nov 199435228915.90$5,597
Oct 199438930715.58$6,061
Sep 199434031115.29$5,199
Aug 199426033516.13$4,194
Jul 199428033917.56$4,917
Jun 199427627117.09$4,717
May 199432811915.88$5,209
Apr 199438428014.14$5,430
Mar 199444328912.46$5,520
Feb 199438725112.50$4,838
Jan 199446131012.66$5,836
Dec 19931,04340312.33$12,860
Nov 19931,21539914.49$17,605
Oct 19931,33545115.85$21,160
Sep 19931,03129415.03$15,496
Aug 199377034615.66$12,058
Jul 199346428315.46$7,173
Jun 199360313816.79$10,124
May 19932555717.68$4,508
Apr 19932956618.05$5,325
Mar 19933158018.14$5,714
Feb 199337712017.90$6,748
Jan 199340615916.93$6,874

Not filed, and not zero: Jul 2001. The Railroad Commission holds no report for those months, so this page shows none — a zero would state that the lease produced nothing.

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.

Jun 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   61 bbl  × $ 24.56 =     $1,498
Casinghead gas       113 Mcf  × $  3.82 =       $432

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Month total                                   $1,930

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/20559 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.