UNIVERSITY "14-2"

Operated by HALLWOOD PETROLEUM, INC. (P-5 347221) in the SPRABERRY (TREND AREA) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 8973District 7CField 85279200NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$304 k
Jan 1993 – Jun 2000
Value, last 12 filed months
$21 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
90
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 7,461 leases and 22,481 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1904-12-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
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 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 2016-03-08.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: AREA) 85279200.

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
NGPA3none

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
OilDisposition15,825 bbl$264,301
Casinghead gasProduction47,169 Mcf$39,980
Total$304,281

29,878 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 (4)

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 31.2530, -101.6969. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.7 miles.

31.25182, -101.69558 · 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%
4 of 4 wells
With a plug date
75.0%
3 of 4 wells
Median depth
7,798 ft
4 wells filed one
Completion to plug
17.9 years
median over 3 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
4100.0%
A plug date is filed
375.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
375.0%
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 7,400 and 7,850 ft, median 7,798 ft, over the 4 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jun 1981 – Dec 2015
4 of 4 wells
Plug dates filed
Apr 1991 – May 2000
3 of 4 wells; 1 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 17.9 years across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 13.9 years and 18.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

4 wells

42-3833505547,846 ftDec 2015Yes
42-3833193117,850 ftNov 1981Oct 1999Yes
42-3833193027,750 ftAug 1981May 2000Yes
42-3833192937,400 ftJun 1981Apr 1991Yes

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 (90)

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

90 months

Jun 20000029.304.40$0
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 1999124024.282.42$3,011
Nov 19991844323.192.43$4,372
Oct 199918626520.982.80$4,645
Sep 199918626321.752.62$4,734
Aug 1999027519.262.88$791
Jul 199917827817.892.37$3,844
Jun 199918622715.942.36$3,501
May 199918542615.792.32$3,910
Apr 1999055215.102.21$1,219
Mar 199918656012.471.84$3,349
Feb 19991835139.981.82$2,759
Jan 199918556110.381.90$2,986
Dec 19981845529.201.77$2,672
Nov 199818755310.892.19$3,245
Oct 199818658812.421.97$3,468
Sep 199818558912.592.08$3,556
Aug 199818360111.301.91$3,214
Jul 199818861611.742.24$3,585
Jun 199818558611.242.24$3,390
May 199817061012.622.21$3,491
Apr 199818257613.042.51$3,816
Mar 199818947612.802.31$3,518
Feb 199817751113.952.30$3,644
Jan 199818054814.702.15$3,827
Dec 199718154016.322.41$4,256
Nov 199717147118.193.09$4,565
Oct 199717454019.253.15$5,050
Sep 199717558617.742.95$4,836
Aug 199717774617.862.55$5,067
Jul 199717865717.582.25$4,605
Jun 199718655317.242.26$4,455
May 199736060718.972.31$8,230
Apr 1997051917.882.08$1,081
Mar 199736249218.951.94$7,814
Feb 199718341720.492.21$4,670
Jan 199718239423.483.54$5,668
Dec 199617647623.32$4,104
Nov 199617746721.97$3,889
Oct 199617949323.31$4,172
Sep 199634851122.22$7,733
Aug 1996064620.26$0
Jul 199634266619.55$6,686
Jun 199617864318.73$3,334
May 199618062019.43$3,497
Apr 199617631721.51$3,786
Mar 199617811619.38$3,450
Feb 199617861016.98$3,022
Jan 199635561717.07$6,060
Dec 199518162317.19$3,111
Nov 199517460316.00$2,784
Oct 199517966015.43$2,762
Sep 199517364416.18$2,799
Aug 199517765915.92$2,818
Jul 199517868915.24$2,713
Jun 199535466516.41$5,809
May 1995068517.56$0
Apr 199536564417.73$6,471
Mar 199519072016.44$3,124
Feb 199518362016.58$3,034
Jan 199516946715.92$2,690
Dec 199417559715.03$2,630
Nov 199416356515.90$2,592
Oct 199417463215.58$2,711
Sep 199416663715.29$2,538
Aug 199417870616.13$2,871
Jul 199417575517.56$3,073
Jun 199435673017.09$6,084
May 199418367815.88$2,906
Apr 199487969314.14$12,429
Mar 1994071212.46$0
Feb 1994058812.50$0
Jan 1994062712.66$0
Dec 1993066012.33$0
Nov 199317464414.49$2,521
Oct 199317870415.85$2,821
Sep 199317469615.03$2,615
Aug 199334373915.66$5,371
Jul 199317278015.46$2,659
Jun 199317172216.79$2,871
May 199335275817.68$6,223
Apr 199317453918.05$3,141
Mar 199317472618.14$3,156
Feb 199318158117.90$3,240
Jan 199318554816.93$3,132

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.

Dec 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  124 bbl  × $ 24.28 =     $3,011
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.42 =         $0

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Month total                                   $3,011

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/8973 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.