UNIVERSITY -19-

Operated by MWS PRODUCING, INC. (P-5 597379) in the FARMER (SAN ANDRES) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 8447District 7CField 30243500Hydrogen sulphide fieldNGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$32 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 2000
Value, last 12 filed months
$469
at the published price for each month
Months reported
92
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 351 leases and 1,445 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1953-01-10
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
660 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 1997-12-16.

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: PER DOCKET 7C-0214566 ON 3/7/97.

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
OilDisposition1,728 bbl$28,827
Casinghead gasProduction2,775 Mcf$2,700
Total$31,527

1,573 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 (1)

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 31.0127, -101.3578. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.01270, -101.35782 · 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%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
2,265 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
19.6 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
1100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1100.0%
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

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 2,265 ft.

Completions filed
Jul 1980
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Feb 2000
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 19.6 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 19.6 years and 19.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-1053286612,265 ftJul 1980Feb 2000Yes

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 (92)

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

92 months

Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 200016029.304.40$469
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 199928019.262.88$539
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990815.942.36$19
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 1999843315.102.21$1,341
Mar 199952412.471.84$106
Feb 19990189.981.82$33
Jan 199901810.381.90$34
Dec 19980499.201.77$87
Nov 199807710.892.19$168
Oct 199806912.421.97$136
Sep 199805512.592.08$115
Aug 199806511.301.91$124
Jul 19981043511.742.24$1,299
Jun 199805511.242.24$123
May 199807112.622.21$157
Apr 199805613.042.51$140
Mar 19981053612.802.31$1,427
Feb 19980913.952.30$21
Jan 19980214.702.15$4
Dec 199701616.322.41$39
Nov 199702118.193.09$65
Oct 199702719.253.15$85
Sep 199703517.742.95$103
Aug 1997942317.862.55$1,738
Jul 199701917.582.25$43
Jun 199704117.242.26$93
May 199702618.972.31$60
Apr 19971017417.882.08$1,960
Mar 1997012018.951.94$233
Feb 199707220.492.21$159
Jan 199704823.483.54$170
Dec 19961494023.32$3,475
Nov 199602821.97$0
Oct 199603623.31$0
Sep 199603622.22$0
Aug 199603120.26$0
Jul 19961293019.55$2,522
Jun 199603518.73$0
May 199605319.43$0
Apr 199606021.51$0
Mar 199607419.38$0
Feb 19961543916.98$2,615
Jan 199602817.07$0
Dec 199508317.19$0
Nov 199501716.00$0
Oct 199504815.43$0
Sep 199503616.18$0
Aug 19951396115.92$2,213
Jul 199504815.24$0
Jun 199503716.41$0
May 199503017.56$0
Apr 199503117.73$0
Mar 19951421816.44$2,334
Feb 19950916.58$0
Jan 199501015.92$0
Dec 199401315.03$0
Nov 199401715.90$0
Oct 199401815.58$0
Sep 199402615.29$0
Aug 199403516.13$0
Jul 19941622517.56$2,845
Jun 199404417.09$0
May 199405515.88$0
Apr 199403814.14$0
Mar 199403012.46$0
Feb 199401312.50$0
Jan 19941611312.66$2,038
Dec 199302212.33$0
Nov 199303814.49$0
Oct 199301315.85$0
Sep 199301615.03$0
Aug 199302015.66$0
Jul 19931558315.46$2,396
Jun 199301516.79$0
May 199303417.68$0
Apr 199303218.05$0
Mar 199302318.14$0
Feb 199302017.90$0
Jan 199301216.93$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.

Jun 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   16 bbl  × $ 29.30 =       $469
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  4.40 =         $0

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Month total                                     $469

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/8447 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.