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Operated by BIRCH OPERATIONS, INC. (P-5 71331) 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 43168District 08Field 85280300OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$3.2 M
Oct 2012 – Feb 2025
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
149
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead gas

The SPRABERRY (TREND AREA) field

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 16,587 leases and 43,997 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1952-12-22
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 2018-02-13.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “SPRABERRY (TREND AREA) FIELD EFFECTIVE 10/1/2019.”

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
OilDisposition32,327 bbl$2,581,274
Casinghead gasProduction184,734 Mcf$663,731
Total$3,245,005

Wells on this lease (2)

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 32.3459, -101.6100. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

32.34594, -101.61001 · 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%
2 of 2 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
2 of 2 wells
Median depth
10,282 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
8.2 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
2100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
2100.0%
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 10,260 and 10,304 ft, median 10,282 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Oct 2012 – Feb 2016
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Apr 2021 – Dec 2023
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 8.2 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 6.7 years and 9.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-22736929110,260 ftFeb 2016Apr 2021Yes
42-22737081210,304 ftOct 2012Dec 2023Yes

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 (149)

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

149 months

Feb 20250070.884.34$0
Jan 20250074.324.28$0
Dec 20240068.993.12$0
Nov 20240069.052.20$0
Oct 20240071.372.28$0
Sep 20240069.612.36$0
Aug 20240075.632.06$0
Jul 20240079.932.15$0
Jun 20240078.082.63$0
May 20240078.812.20$0
Apr 20240084.451.66$0
Mar 20240080.301.55$0
Feb 20240076.091.78$0
Jan 20240073.023.30$0
Dec 20230071.262.61$0
Nov 20230077.892.81$0
Oct 20230085.443.09$0
Sep 20230089.042.74$0
Aug 20230080.522.67$0
Jul 20230074.852.64$0
Jun 20230068.962.26$0
May 20230070.622.23$0
Apr 20230078.122.24$0
Mar 20230072.852.39$0
Feb 20230075.112.47$0
Jan 20230076.533.39$0
Dec 20220076.415.73$0
Nov 20220085.005.65$0
Oct 20220087.185.86$0
Sep 20220084.888.16$0
Aug 20220094.529.13$0
Jul 202200101.587.54$0
Jun 202200115.097.98$0
May 202200109.378.43$0
Apr 202200104.226.84$0
Mar 202200108.885.08$0
Feb 20220091.054.86$0
Jan 20220081.844.54$0
Dec 20210071.323.90$0
Nov 20210077.435.24$0
Oct 20210079.795.71$0
Sep 20210069.865.35$0
Aug 20210066.024.22$0
Jul 20210070.783.98$0
Jun 20210069.493.38$0
May 20210063.483.02$0
Apr 20210060.362.76$0
Mar 2021154061.302.72$9,440
Feb 20210057.805.55$0
Jan 20210050.412.81$0
Dec 20200044.642.68$0
Nov 20200038.772.71$0
Oct 20200036.972.48$0
Sep 20200037.091.99$0
Aug 20200039.982.39$0
Jul 20200038.371.83$0
Jun 20200034.901.69$0
May 20200016.921.81$0
Apr 20200014.751.80$0
Mar 20200030.341.86$0
Feb 20200049.881.98$0
Jan 20200057.252.09$0
Dec 20190059.012.30$0
Nov 20190055.302.75$0
Oct 20190353.472.42$7
Sep 20190055.052.66$0
Aug 20190053.112.30$0
Jul 2019043856.272.46$1,078
Jun 2019056452.782.49$1,405
May 2019079558.482.74$2,179
Apr 201916482662.632.75$12,543
Mar 201902456.803.06$73
Feb 201916748950.852.79$9,857
Jan 20193521,16246.033.23$19,954
Dec 201801,20046.594.19$5,023
Nov 2018086452.934.24$3,661
Oct 2018027661.443.40$938
Sep 20181751,20759.543.11$14,171
Aug 20181711,25059.403.07$13,991
Jul 201833488965.142.93$24,363
Jun 2018061060.183.08$1,877
May 201801,26065.382.90$3,655
Apr 20181681,12663.842.90$13,991
Mar 20181701,10561.222.79$13,487
Feb 20181711,18961.782.77$13,853
Jan 20184061,30162.874.01$30,741
Dec 201701,37857.272.92$4,026
Nov 20173341,34255.423.12$22,695
Oct 2017031849.292.98$949
Sep 2017168047.523.09$7,983
Aug 201716916445.373.00$8,160
Jul 20171801,40643.873.09$12,237
Jun 2017052142.493.09$1,608
May 201718068045.373.26$10,386
Apr 2017098247.933.21$3,154
Mar 20173381,77046.772.98$21,089
Feb 20173391,59650.452.95$21,815
Jan 20171731,61049.413.42$14,052
Dec 20163371,66648.763.72$22,634
Nov 201601,78642.492.64$4,723
Oct 20163421,81846.193.09$21,415
Sep 201601,83241.553.10$5,680
Aug 20161761,68241.442.92$12,212
Jul 20161672,01641.622.92$12,846
Jun 20161802,09845.352.69$13,798
May 20162012,12842.521.99$12,783
Apr 20165482,23336.561.99$24,481
Mar 201602,42533.011.79$4,350
Feb 20163531,04126.472.06$11,492
Jan 20164771,98227.352.36$17,732
Dec 20153632,17032.362.00$16,090
Nov 201522,58738.792.17$5,684
Oct 2015096843.552.43$2,349
Sep 20151782,42142.992.76$14,330
Aug 20151782,88840.162.87$15,444
Jul 20153553,02548.152.95$26,002
Jun 20155382,62656.152.88$37,779
May 20153592,09655.212.96$26,015
Apr 2015090649.822.71$2,452
Mar 2015093242.892.93$2,735
Feb 20151182844.662.98$2,956
Jan 201501,14043.433.10$3,535
Dec 20141791,64354.693.59$15,690
Nov 20143613,65670.464.25$40,981
Oct 20145163,94478.303.90$55,788
Sep 20141744,17286.164.05$31,869
Aug 20143424,54389.394.04$48,903
Jul 20148615,40596.564.18$105,729
Jun 20141684,88798.164.74$39,640
May 20141834,32394.734.73$37,769
Apr 20146195,24895.944.81$84,625
Mar 20141765,49695.895.06$44,669
Feb 20143673,19697.406.19$55,535
Jan 20143496,68590.404.86$64,044
Dec 20135446,57691.824.35$78,585
Nov 20135628,55388.853.74$81,907
Oct 20135342,11097.423.78$59,997
Sep 20138729,112104.113.72$124,660
Aug 2013517211104.253.52$54,641
Jul 20131,2790102.523.72$131,123
Jun 20131,44334994.403.93$137,592
May 20131,5772094.834.15$149,630
Apr 20131,648093.964.28$154,846
Mar 20131,958093.623.91$183,308
Feb 20132,5277,24291.233.42$255,305
Jan 20139638,88191.603.42$118,583
Dec 20121,4758,65686.773.42$157,591
Nov 20123,0265,76186.953.62$283,994
Oct 20122942689.383.40$4,040

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.

Mar 2021 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  154 bbl  × $ 61.30 =     $9,440
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.72 =         $0

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Month total                                   $9,440

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/43168 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.