UNIVERSITY "6A"

Operated by MAY OIL & GAS (P-5 535660) 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 9647District 7CField 85279200OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$18 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
128
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.

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
OilDisposition1,123 bbl$17,667
Casinghead gasProduction2,873 Mcf$0
Total$17,667

2,873 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 23 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 (11)

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 31.9035, -100.1310. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 118.6 miles, so treat it as the lease's centre and not as its location.

31.63979, -100.76726 · 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%
11 of 11 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
11 of 11 wells
Median depth
4,068 ft
11 wells filed one
Completion to plug
14.9 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
11100.0%
A plug date is filed
11100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
11100.0%
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

Total depth in feet, 11 of 11 wells. Median 4,068 ft, with the middle half between 4,057 and 4,093 ft; the shallowest is 4,044 ft and the deepest 7,775 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, 2 of 11 wells, Jan 1982 – Aug 1982. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Jan 1982 – Aug 1982
2 of 11 wells; 9 filed none
Plug dates filed
Mar 1966 – Jul 2003
11 of 11 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 14.9 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 14.4 years and 15.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

11 wells

42-3990064154,085 ftMar 1988Yes
42-3990064264,050 ftMay 1972Yes
42-3990064374,066 ftApr 1972Yes
42-3990064484,096 ftApr 1972Yes
42-3990256794,052 ftMar 1966Yes
42-3990325424,090 ftDec 1984Yes
42-3990325534,068 ftOct 1971Yes
42-3990339614,044 ftFeb 1985Yes
42-3998005944,061 ftJul 2003Yes
42-3833214127,200 ftAug 1982Jul 1996Yes
42-3833190617,775 ftJan 1982Dec 1997Yes

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 (128)

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

128 months

Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
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
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
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 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 199511015.43$170
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 199544016.41$722
May 199546017.56$808
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 199532016.44$526
Feb 19954112216.58$680
Jan 1995017615.92$0
Dec 199440015.03$601
Nov 199430015.90$477
Oct 19940015.58$0
Sep 19948711315.29$1,330
Aug 1994015716.13$0
Jul 19947914017.56$1,387
Jun 1994016617.09$0
May 1994013215.88$0
Apr 19943616614.14$509
Mar 19944317712.46$536
Feb 19948111712.50$1,013
Jan 1994016912.66$0
Dec 19934315912.33$530
Nov 19939815514.49$1,420
Oct 1993015415.85$0
Sep 19934310015.03$646
Aug 19933815115.66$595
Jul 19933814315.46$587
Jun 19933911716.79$655
May 19934410517.68$778
Apr 1993444818.05$794
Mar 199342118.14$762
Feb 199343117.90$770
Jan 19938110416.93$1,371

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.

Oct 1995 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   11 bbl  × $ 15.43 =       $170
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                     $170

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/9647 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.