LONG 29

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 43206District 08Field 85280300OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$3.4 M
Jun 2012 – Dec 2023
Value, last 12 filed months
$4 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
139
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 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
OilDisposition33,605 bbl$2,975,588
Casinghead gasProduction102,005 Mcf$384,458
Total$3,360,045

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 32.3829, -101.6036. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

32.38290, -101.60360 · 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
10,258 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
4.7 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 10,250 and 10,265 ft, median 10,258 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Nov 2012 – Nov 2016
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Jul 2019
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 4.7 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 3.7 years and 5.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-22736833110,265 ftNov 2016Jul 2019Yes
42-22737155210,250 ftNov 2012Jul 2019Yes

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 (139)

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

139 months

Dec 20230071.262.61$0
Nov 20230077.892.81$0
Oct 20230085.443.09$0
Sep 202350089.042.74$4,452
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 20210061.302.72$0
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 20190053.472.42$0
Sep 20190055.052.66$0
Aug 20190053.112.30$0
Jul 20190056.272.46$0
Jun 20190052.782.49$0
May 20190058.482.74$0
Apr 20190062.632.75$0
Mar 20190056.803.06$0
Feb 20190050.852.79$0
Jan 20190046.033.23$0
Dec 20180046.594.19$0
Nov 20180052.934.24$0
Oct 20180061.443.40$0
Sep 20180059.543.11$0
Aug 20180059.403.07$0
Jul 20180065.142.93$0
Jun 20180060.183.08$0
May 20180065.382.90$0
Apr 2018180063.842.90$11,491
Mar 20180061.222.79$0
Feb 20180061.782.77$0
Jan 20180062.874.01$0
Dec 20170057.272.92$0
Nov 20170055.423.12$0
Oct 20170049.292.98$0
Sep 20170047.523.09$0
Aug 20170045.373.00$0
Jul 20170043.873.09$0
Jun 20170042.493.09$0
May 20170045.373.26$0
Apr 20170047.933.21$0
Mar 20170046.772.98$0
Feb 201797050.452.95$4,894
Jan 20170049.413.42$0
Dec 20167048.763.72$341
Nov 20160042.492.64$0
Oct 20162046.193.09$92
Sep 20160041.553.10$0
Aug 20160041.442.92$0
Jul 20160041.622.92$0
Jun 20160045.352.69$0
May 20160042.521.99$0
Apr 20160036.561.99$0
Mar 20160033.011.79$0
Feb 20164026.472.06$106
Jan 20160027.352.36$0
Dec 2015119732.362.00$427
Nov 20153501,58438.792.17$17,010
Oct 20153671,87143.552.43$20,523
Sep 20155391,86642.992.76$28,319
Aug 20153421,28640.162.87$17,429
Jul 2015031248.152.95$919
Jun 201511056.152.88$618
May 2015302555.212.96$1,730
Apr 20155231,53249.822.71$30,202
Mar 20151981,63342.892.93$13,285
Feb 20152181,45044.662.98$14,051
Jan 20153541,75343.433.10$20,810
Dec 20141841,98654.693.59$17,195
Nov 20146902,63870.464.25$59,834
Oct 20145262,66378.303.90$51,574
Sep 2014479086.164.05$41,271
Aug 20145291,91289.394.04$55,002
Jul 20148702,76496.564.18$95,560
Jun 20143322,28398.164.74$43,403
May 201434384594.734.73$36,486
Apr 201403295.944.81$154
Mar 2014012095.895.06$607
Feb 201401,31197.406.19$8,118
Jan 20146953,27890.404.86$78,761
Dec 20131761,90591.824.35$24,456
Nov 20135212,20388.853.74$54,526
Oct 20138714,52097.423.78$101,936
Sep 20131,0152,891104.113.72$116,420
Aug 20131,3823,599104.253.52$156,751
Jul 20131,8846,694102.523.72$218,034
Jun 20131,6977,87794.403.93$191,180
May 20132,6096,33294.834.15$273,683
Apr 20132,9946,47493.964.28$309,042
Mar 20133,5477,17393.623.91$360,137
Feb 20134,41610,27091.233.42$437,994
Jan 20132,9965,65691.603.42$293,777
Dec 20121,4632,85186.773.42$136,695
Nov 20124014986.953.62$4,018
Oct 201224989.383.40$2,176
Sep 201201694.672.92$47
Aug 201230792.662.91$2,800
Jul 2012153685.133.02$1,386
Jun 20124279.822.52$324

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.

Sep 2023 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   50 bbl  × $ 89.04 =     $4,452
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.74 =         $0

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Month total                                   $4,452

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/43206 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.