MOTHMAN UNIT A 45-04

Operated by SURGE OPERATING, LLC (P-5 760725) 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 50859District 08Field 85280300OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$16.9 M
May 2018 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$307 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
97
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
OilDisposition261,619 bbl$15,924,488
Casinghead gasProduction300,618 Mcf$992,824
Total$16,917,312

Every month this lease reported (97)

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

97 months

May 202600106.413.05$0
Apr 20260098.932.87$0
Mar 20260089.753.15$0
Feb 20260063.503.75$0
Jan 20260059.138.00$0
Dec 20250056.664.41$0
Nov 20250058.593.93$0
Oct 20250059.383.30$0
Sep 20250062.743.08$0
Aug 20251,4983,20663.933.01$105,432
Jul 20251,1723,37266.743.32$89,398
Jun 20251,5233,40566.483.13$111,902
May 20251,1733,25360.553.23$81,540
Apr 20251,1803,06062.363.54$84,427
Mar 20251,6862,94567.704.27$126,712
Feb 20258472,22670.884.34$69,698
Jan 20251,1832,59774.324.28$99,032
Dec 20241,1792,82068.993.12$90,141
Nov 20241,3372,76369.052.20$98,394
Oct 20241,5023,18671.372.28$114,466
Sep 20241,5143,19569.612.36$112,944
Aug 20241,5033,28775.632.06$120,455
Jul 20243311,35979.932.15$29,374
Jun 20241,4782,92578.082.63$123,107
May 20241,1552,94978.812.20$97,509
Apr 20241,6882,96284.451.66$147,466
Mar 20241,1972,87780.301.55$100,564
Feb 20241,3652,98176.091.78$109,180
Jan 20241,5512,97673.023.30$123,068
Dec 20231,3682,93171.262.61$105,136
Nov 20231,21092977.892.81$96,855
Oct 20231,5082,05585.443.09$135,188
Sep 20231,2092,83789.042.74$115,409
Aug 20231,5482,96680.522.67$132,573
Jul 20231,7163,02374.852.64$136,429
Jun 20231,0312,67168.962.26$77,130
May 20231,6112,77570.622.23$119,950
Apr 20231,5281,49078.122.24$122,702
Mar 20230072.852.39$0
Feb 20231,1721,57375.112.47$91,907
Jan 20231,0692,11276.533.39$88,965
Dec 20221,3852,09576.415.73$117,830
Nov 20221,3732,96585.005.65$133,446
Oct 20221,4613,33587.185.86$146,926
Sep 20221,7233,39384.888.16$173,948
Aug 20222,0743,41794.529.13$227,222
Jul 20226871,831101.587.54$83,595
Jun 20221,3591,828115.097.98$170,990
May 20221,7343,112109.378.43$215,891
Apr 20222,1403,509104.226.84$247,024
Mar 20222,0763,513108.885.08$243,868
Feb 20221,4092,23091.054.86$139,125
Jan 20221,9272,93381.844.54$171,015
Dec 20211,7843,63171.323.90$141,393
Nov 20212,3864,17377.435.24$206,601
Oct 20213,0143,96579.795.71$263,143
Sep 20218691,64969.865.35$69,532
Aug 20212,2223,66066.024.22$162,144
Jul 20212,2734,66370.783.98$179,451
Jun 20212,3794,41469.493.38$180,239
May 20212,3784,78363.483.02$165,389
Apr 20212,3023,21860.362.76$147,825
Mar 20212,9354,89861.302.72$193,223
Feb 202185195157.805.55$54,464
Jan 20213,4305,58750.412.81$188,607
Dec 20201,8663,41144.642.68$92,424
Nov 20203,3646,18838.772.71$147,171
Oct 20203,0065,39236.972.48$124,496
Sep 20203,0533,12437.091.99$119,456
Aug 20204,0073,66739.982.39$168,946
Jul 20204,0063,35038.371.83$159,824
Jun 20201,6521,84234.901.69$60,768
May 20201691016.921.81$2,878
Apr 20203,0944,70814.751.80$54,132
Mar 20203,5755,37430.341.86$118,441
Feb 20203,5655,37149.881.98$188,460
Jan 20203,9755,81257.252.09$239,743
Dec 20193,9236,55059.012.30$246,590
Nov 20194,1246,43555.302.75$245,758
Oct 20194,1996,72753.472.42$240,790
Sep 20194,3336,65955.052.66$256,226
Aug 20195,0074,87853.112.30$277,162
Jul 20195,1524,87656.272.46$301,898
Jun 20195,2085,02852.782.49$287,404
May 20195,6995,77758.482.74$349,108
Apr 20196,6796,08262.632.75$435,036
Mar 20194,9323,23056.803.06$290,028
Feb 20195,7203,28050.852.79$300,020
Jan 20197,9845,50646.033.23$385,278
Dec 20189,1655,46146.594.19$449,854
Nov 20188,9573,09552.934.24$487,208
Oct 20185,9952,02061.443.40$375,197
Sep 201810,2043,10559.543.11$617,197
Aug 201811,2943,19559.403.07$680,661
Jul 201812,5003,23565.142.93$823,735
Jun 201814,8883,00260.183.08$905,197
May 20183,12176965.382.90$206,282

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.

Aug 2025 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                1,498 bbl  × $ 63.93 =    $95,767
Casinghead gas     3,206 Mcf  × $  3.01 =     $9,665

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Month total                                 $105,432

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/50859 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.