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BIG DADDY A

Operated by SM ENERGY COMPANY (P-5 788997) 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 50229District 08Field 85280300OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$43.2 M
Feb 2018 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$3.0 M
at the published price for each month
Months reported
100
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
OilDisposition634,175 bbl$39,553,584
Casinghead gasProduction1,118,613 Mcf$3,663,426
Total$43,217,010

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 32.4244, -101.4093. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.42443, -101.40931 · 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
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
7,260 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
—
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
00.0%
A plug date is filed
00.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
00.0%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
1100.0%

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 7,260 ft.

Completions filed
Feb 2018
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-227392871844WA7,260 ftFeb 2018——

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 (100)

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

100 months

May 20261,50410,248106.413.05$191,254
Apr 20262,19516,72998.932.87$265,159
Mar 20262,32716,67889.753.15$261,375
Feb 20262,09415,60063.503.75$191,474
Jan 20262,68918,31359.138.00$305,466
Dec 20252,79417,95056.664.41$237,528
Nov 20252,59317,63158.593.93$221,151
Oct 20252,95218,49859.383.30$236,423
Sep 20252,84918,87962.743.08$236,835
Aug 20253,21618,45763.933.01$261,242
Jul 20252,84116,75366.743.32$245,148
Jun 20254,06420,40166.483.13$334,004
May 20253,44819,07960.553.23$270,446
Apr 20253,98219,42162.363.54$317,128
Mar 20254,31321,64667.704.27$384,382
Feb 20254,08519,22070.884.34$372,976
Jan 20254,00018,87274.324.28$378,027
Dec 20244,80313,75568.993.12$374,293
Nov 20245,04714,79369.052.20$381,017
Oct 20245,22017,91371.372.28$413,418
Sep 20243,67314,37469.612.36$289,663
Aug 20245,47018,28575.632.06$451,430
Jul 20246,68617,85079.932.15$572,729
Jun 20247,18917,71378.082.63$607,973
May 20247,09316,82978.812.20$595,997
Apr 20247,26212,29284.451.66$633,671
Mar 20247,43910,62580.301.55$613,769
Feb 20246,6346,87876.091.78$517,049
Jan 20245,8643,92173.023.30$441,119
Dec 20234,4882,68271.262.61$326,817
Nov 20232,5491,47577.892.81$202,683
Oct 202397072985.443.09$85,127
Sep 202317133389.042.74$16,137
Aug 202301080.522.67$27
Jul 20230074.852.64$0
Jun 20231068.962.26$69
May 20234070.622.23$282
Apr 20231878.122.24$96
Mar 202371372.852.39$541
Feb 202344657575.112.47$34,917
Jan 20232,5124,18976.533.39$206,435
Dec 20224,2357,48676.415.73$366,484
Nov 20224,3157,36385.005.65$408,348
Oct 20224,8388,65087.185.86$472,498
Sep 20224,6948,35984.888.16$466,667
Aug 20224,9127,59594.529.13$533,603
Jul 20224,5036,818101.587.54$508,837
Jun 20224,3495,893115.097.98$547,536
May 20224,6506,062109.378.43$559,692
Apr 20224,9727,309104.226.84$568,158
Mar 20225,1507,545108.885.08$599,033
Feb 20224,9846,65091.054.86$486,104
Jan 20224,8996,74881.844.54$431,554
Dec 20214,7466,95171.323.90$365,588
Nov 20213,8714,95177.435.24$325,659
Oct 20211,94724279.795.71$156,734
Sep 2021323569.865.35$22,592
Aug 20211066.024.22$66
Jul 20211070.783.98$71
Jun 202185069.493.38$5,907
May 20212,0494,25563.483.02$142,911
Apr 20215,76011,36960.362.76$379,034
Mar 20216,02211,86761.302.72$401,391
Feb 20213,6227,72157.805.55$252,187
Jan 20215,62411,93550.412.81$317,046
Dec 20205,90112,84144.642.68$297,776
Nov 20206,13413,41938.772.71$274,135
Oct 20206,21413,82536.972.48$263,996
Sep 20206,22013,42537.091.99$257,430
Aug 20206,58913,49039.982.39$295,603
Jul 20206,67213,62138.371.83$280,865
Jun 20206,30014,36634.901.69$244,153
May 20207,38815,44916.921.81$153,041
Apr 20207,47415,61714.751.80$138,421
Mar 20207,51313,26330.341.86$252,564
Feb 20206,22310,92449.881.98$332,040
Jan 20208,49914,44857.252.09$516,833
Dec 201910,69811,78459.012.30$658,444
Nov 20195,6289,23655.302.75$336,634
Oct 20199,71618,26253.472.42$563,682
Sep 201910,42218,43555.052.66$622,718
Aug 201911,77812,75753.112.30$654,926
Jul 20197,3285,31956.272.46$425,432
Jun 20198,77611,08652.782.49$490,815
May 201911,34015,54258.482.74$705,753
Apr 201912,94715,73462.632.75$854,150
Mar 20198,46410,21956.803.06$512,047
Feb 201911,58912,64050.852.79$624,594
Jan 201913,18417,97746.033.23$664,893
Dec 201812,69015,12346.594.19$654,524
Nov 201813,31613,38852.934.24$761,544
Oct 201815,26213,31161.443.40$982,929
Sep 201815,85313,18359.543.11$984,860
Aug 201817,85616,02459.403.07$1,109,785
Jul 201821,03920,31665.142.93$1,430,045
Jun 201821,08817,58860.183.08$1,323,193
May 201826,75517,76265.382.90$1,800,766
Apr 201829,86919,96563.842.90$1,964,751
Mar 201825,54918,98261.222.79$1,617,010
Feb 20185,8743,90161.782.77$373,686

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.

May 2026 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                1,504 bbl  × $106.41 =   $160,041
Casinghead gas    10,248 Mcf  × $  3.05 =    $31,214

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Month total                                 $191,254

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/50229 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.