UNIVERSITY 45
Operated by EP ENERGY E&P COMPANY, L.P. (P-5 253385) in the LIN (WOLFCAMP) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.
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 515 leases and 2,325 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.
A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 2014-04-21.
The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “PER DOCKET NO. 7C-0317412, LIN (WOLFCAMP) IS A UFT FIELD. PDD”
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.
| Stream | Basis | Volume | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oil | Disposition | 131,772 bbl | $11,544,798 |
| Casinghead gas | Production | 444,967 Mcf | $1,851,746 |
| Total | $13,396,544 | ||
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 30.9602, -101.2863. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 6.1 miles.
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.
What the state filed about each well
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 6,556 ft, with the middle half between 6,106 and 6,638 ft; the shallowest is 4,315 ft and the deepest 6,705 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, 8 of 8 wells, Mar 2012 – Sep 2014. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.
8 wells
| 42-10541481 | 0616H | 6,705 ft | Sep 2014 | — | — |
| 42-10541478 | 0615H | 6,660 ft | Sep 2014 | — | Yes |
| 42-10541501 | 0607H | 6,631 ft | Apr 2013 | — | — |
| 42-10541472 | 2504H | 5,897 ft | Jan 2013 | — | — |
| 42-10541471 | 2503H | 6,175 ft | Dec 2012 | — | — |
| 42-10541500 | 0608H | 6,581 ft | Sep 2012 | — | — |
| 42-10541477 | 0613H | 4,315 ft | Jun 2012 | — | — |
| 42-10541353 | 0601H | 6,530 ft | Mar 2012 | — | — |
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.
Leases whose centres are nearest (77)
Ranked by the distance between lease centres, within 5 miles. A lease has no coordinate the state files — each centre is the mean of that lease's own wells, so this measures how far apart two centres are and not whether the two leases touch.
| Lease | Operator | Centres apart |
|---|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY 45 A | APPROACH OPERATING LLC | 0.55 mi |
| UNIVERSITY 45 B | APPROACH OPERATING LLC | 1.54 mi |
| UNIVERSITY "45 F" | APPROACH OPERATING LLC | 2.11 mi |
| UNIVERSITY 45 | ZARVONA ENERGY LLC | 2.14 mi |
| UNIVERSITY 45 C | APPROACH OPERATING LLC | 2.17 mi |
| UNIVERSITY "J" | VANCO OIL & GAS CORP. | 2.25 mi |
| UNIVERSITY "H" | BELVAN CORP. | 2.25 mi |
| UNIVERSITY "J" | VANCO OIL & GAS CORP. | 2.25 mi |
| UNIVERSITY BLOCK 46 | MARIAH ENERGY CORP. | 2.45 mi |
| WATER DOG | KSTONE ENERGY, LLC | 2.50 mi |
The 10 nearest are listed. 77 leases in all have a centre within 5 miles of this one.
Operators who reported on those leases
Taken from the same 5-mile set above. This is who filed production, not who holds acreage — the state publishes no acreage register.
- APPROACH OPERATING LLC 12 leases, nearest 0.55 mi
- ZARVONA ENERGY LLC 27 leases, nearest 2.14 mi
- BELVAN CORP. 1 lease, nearest 2.25 mi
- VANCO OIL & GAS CORP. 4 leases, nearest 2.25 mi
- MARIAH ENERGY CORP. 1 lease, nearest 2.45 mi
- KSTONE ENERGY, LLC 3 leases, nearest 2.50 mi
Every month this lease reported (43)
Volume × price = value, one row per cycle. The price columns are the same series published on the prices page — nothing here is modelled.
43 months
| Sep 2015 | 0 | 0 | 42.99 | 2.76 | $0 |
| Aug 2015 | 0 | 0 | 40.16 | 2.87 | $0 |
| Jul 2015 | 0 | 0 | 48.15 | 2.95 | $0 |
| Jun 2015 | 0 | 0 | 56.15 | 2.88 | $0 |
| May 2015 | 0 | 0 | 55.21 | 2.96 | $0 |
| Apr 2015 | 0 | 0 | 49.82 | 2.71 | $0 |
| Mar 2015 | 0 | 0 | 42.89 | 2.93 | $0 |
| Feb 2015 | 0 | 0 | 44.66 | 2.98 | $0 |
| Jan 2015 | 6,912 | 16,074 | 43.43 | 3.10 | $350,028 |
| Dec 2014 | 6,823 | 28,698 | 54.69 | 3.59 | $476,215 |
| Nov 2014 | 6,826 | 28,958 | 70.46 | 4.25 | $604,085 |
| Oct 2014 | 11,739 | 37,331 | 78.30 | 3.90 | $1,064,790 |
| Sep 2014 | 5,806 | 10,974 | 86.16 | 4.05 | $544,640 |
| Aug 2014 | 2,386 | 11,243 | 89.39 | 4.04 | $258,651 |
| Jul 2014 | 2,586 | 14,390 | 96.56 | 4.18 | $309,849 |
| Jun 2014 | 3,397 | 13,854 | 98.16 | 4.74 | $399,074 |
| May 2014 | 3,625 | 20,379 | 94.73 | 4.73 | $439,719 |
| Apr 2014 | 2,858 | 15,207 | 95.94 | 4.81 | $347,329 |
| Mar 2014 | 3,355 | 25,215 | 95.89 | 5.06 | $449,218 |
| Feb 2014 | 3,070 | 22,844 | 97.40 | 6.19 | $440,468 |
| Jan 2014 | 6,903 | 19,456 | 90.40 | 4.86 | $718,601 |
| Dec 2013 | 1,860 | 5,987 | 91.82 | 4.35 | $196,855 |
| Nov 2013 | 2,664 | 10,861 | 88.85 | 3.74 | $277,298 |
| Oct 2013 | 4,640 | 16,251 | 97.42 | 3.78 | $513,447 |
| Sep 2013 | 4,863 | 19,660 | 104.11 | 3.72 | $579,378 |
| Aug 2013 | 5,863 | 28,140 | 104.25 | 3.52 | $710,344 |
| Jul 2013 | 6,910 | 34,261 | 102.52 | 3.72 | $835,787 |
| Jun 2013 | 10,542 | 28,760 | 94.40 | 3.93 | $1,108,290 |
| May 2013 | 10,581 | 6,626 | 94.83 | 4.15 | $1,030,888 |
| Apr 2013 | 1,447 | 4,744 | 93.96 | 4.28 | $156,277 |
| Mar 2013 | 8,052 | 14,769 | 93.62 | 3.91 | $811,617 |
| Feb 2013 | 377 | 0 | 91.23 | 3.42 | $34,394 |
| Jan 2013 | 7,687 | 9,940 | 91.60 | 3.42 | $738,123 |
| Dec 2012 | 0 | 345 | 86.77 | 3.42 | $1,180 |
| Nov 2012 | 0 | 0 | 86.95 | 3.62 | $0 |
| Oct 2012 | 0 | 0 | 89.38 | 3.40 | $0 |
| Sep 2012 | 0 | 0 | 94.67 | 2.92 | $0 |
| Aug 2012 | 0 | 0 | 92.66 | 2.91 | $0 |
| Jul 2012 | 0 | 0 | 85.13 | 3.02 | $0 |
| Jun 2012 | 0 | 0 | 79.82 | 2.52 | $0 |
| May 2012 | 0 | 0 | 91.61 | 2.49 | $0 |
| Apr 2012 | 0 | 0 | 101.65 | 2.00 | $0 |
| Mar 2012 | 0 | 0 | 105.05 | 2.22 | $0 |
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.
Oil 6,912 bbl × $ 43.43 = $300,188 Casinghead gas 16,074 Mcf × $ 3.10 = $49,840 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── Month total $350,028
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. 7C/O/17935 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.