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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 51800District 08Field 85280300OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$77.3 M
Feb 2019 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$3.2 M
at the published price for each month
Months reported
88
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
OilDisposition887,122 bbl$51,388,734
Casinghead gasProduction7,448,155 Mcf$25,897,667
Total$77,286,400

Wells on this lease (4)

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 32.3153, -101.6278. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.1 miles.

32.31528, -101.62800 · 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 4 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 4 wells
Median depth
7,994 ft
4 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.
4100.0%

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 7,630 and 8,271 ft, median 7,994 ft, over the 4 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Feb 2019 – Mar 2019
4 of 4 wells

4 wells

42-227394532642WA8,060 ftMar 2019——
42-227394292643WA7,927 ftFeb 2019——
42-227394302622LS7,630 ftFeb 2019——
42-227394312662WB8,271 ftFeb 2019——

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 (88)

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

88 months

May 202668362,484106.413.05$262,994
Apr 202667864,20998.932.87$251,336
Mar 202683851,01889.753.15$235,889
Feb 202693153,27463.503.75$258,913
Jan 202693455,92759.138.00$502,527
Dec 202596046,05756.664.41$257,660
Nov 202593052,55458.593.93$260,839
Oct 202566856,77259.383.30$227,288
Sep 202570148,62762.743.08$193,602
Aug 202573160,79663.933.01$230,018
Jul 202575157,82666.743.32$241,827
Jun 202593655,04466.483.13$234,443
May 202599753,11960.553.23$232,066
Apr 202571834,36162.363.54$166,520
Mar 202596356,98667.704.27$308,430
Feb 202592046,29770.884.34$266,177
Jan 20251,32273,04774.324.28$410,796
Dec 20241,47588,82068.993.12$379,000
Nov 20241,24284,44269.052.20$271,401
Oct 202482254,74371.372.28$183,557
Sep 202443952,80169.612.36$155,399
Aug 20241,16869,68375.632.06$232,136
Jul 20241,35575,78279.932.15$270,978
Jun 20241,39468,71378.082.63$289,832
May 20241,57180,35978.812.20$300,475
Apr 20241,67773,88084.451.66$264,204
Mar 20241,83982,56180.301.55$275,239
Feb 20241,72272,75376.091.78$260,792
Jan 20241,80273,46173.023.30$373,831
Dec 20232,12776,70171.262.61$351,815
Nov 20231,71581,03477.892.81$361,089
Oct 20231,93595,58585.443.09$460,424
Sep 20232,01491,62789.042.74$429,930
Aug 20232,06193,98280.522.67$417,154
Jul 20232,10376,44874.852.64$359,370
Jun 20231,91167,78268.962.26$284,867
May 20232,40395,14370.622.23$381,621
Apr 20232,738106,71578.122.24$452,695
Mar 20233,021108,59272.852.39$479,958
Feb 20232,28981,25175.112.47$372,266
Jan 20232,35582,83876.533.39$460,860
Dec 20222,23576,30576.415.73$607,934
Nov 20222,31690,01385.005.65$705,091
Oct 20221,75976,88987.185.86$604,208
Sep 20222,31798,31384.888.16$999,263
Aug 20223,358113,17394.529.13$1,350,346
Jul 20223,361109,584101.587.54$1,167,902
Jun 20223,523110,040115.097.98$1,283,273
May 20224,188115,446109.378.43$1,431,602
Apr 20224,292107,881104.226.84$1,184,959
Mar 20224,37696,321108.885.08$965,423
Feb 20224,52283,65891.054.86$818,209
Jan 20224,26479,53581.844.54$709,870
Dec 20215,42486,69271.323.90$724,862
Nov 20216,05992,25177.435.24$952,253
Oct 20214,43073,44579.795.71$773,125
Sep 20216,715109,23369.865.35$1,053,607
Aug 20217,251113,55466.024.22$957,976
Jul 20218,302115,25770.783.98$1,046,578
Jun 20218,450103,52869.493.38$937,179
May 202110,268102,90363.483.02$962,340
Apr 20219,58186,09560.362.76$815,795
Mar 20219,43174,61361.302.72$780,839
Feb 20217,35041,34657.805.55$654,216
Jan 20215,24536,20950.412.81$366,158
Dec 20202,61225,51144.642.68$184,853
Nov 20202,32621,13638.772.71$147,385
Oct 20203,98356,73236.972.48$287,858
Sep 20208,154102,08637.091.99$505,689
Aug 202010,027111,15439.982.39$665,993
Jul 202012,479125,83938.371.83$708,491
Jun 202014,077146,50834.901.69$738,931
May 202012,37293,97616.921.81$379,877
Apr 202012,34999,05314.751.80$360,877
Mar 202014,585115,76330.341.86$657,392
Feb 202020,750130,50049.881.98$1,293,487
Jan 202021,612108,77657.252.09$1,465,144
Dec 201921,659103,06359.012.30$1,515,592
Nov 201920,49493,63155.302.75$1,390,869
Oct 201929,582137,64753.472.42$1,914,654
Sep 201926,296107,42055.052.66$1,733,040
Aug 201936,264132,30853.112.30$2,230,866
Jul 201944,940131,64456.272.46$2,852,626
Jun 201960,130155,61552.782.49$3,561,329
May 201979,238155,92658.482.74$5,061,125
Apr 2019108,088125,80062.632.75$7,115,590
Mar 2019115,13491,27856.803.06$6,819,114
Feb 201923,11520,41150.852.79$1,232,390

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                  683 bbl  × $106.41 =    $72,678
Casinghead gas    62,484 Mcf  × $  3.05 =   $190,316

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Month total                                 $262,994

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/51800 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.