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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 51805District 08Field 85280300OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$22.1 M
Feb 2019 – Apr 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$337 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
87
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
OilDisposition229,529 bbl$12,683,639
Casinghead gasProduction2,690,718 Mcf$9,414,882
Total$22,098,521

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 32.3160, -101.6251. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.31598, -101.62510 · 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%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
8,048 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
1100.0%
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.
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

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 8,048 ft.

Completions filed
Feb 2019
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-227394352645WA8,048 ftFeb 2019—Yes

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 (87)

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

87 months

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 20259062.743.08$565
Aug 20257926,13063.933.01$83,826
Jul 20257725,54566.743.32$89,826
Jun 20257824,15666.483.13$80,763
May 20257923,98960.553.23$82,324
Apr 20258025,55762.363.54$95,540
Mar 20259930,73067.704.27$137,868
Feb 202510326,47770.884.34$122,233
Jan 202512725,90474.324.28$120,274
Dec 202411926,51668.993.12$90,976
Nov 20249323,77569.052.20$58,690
Oct 202411124,77371.372.28$64,439
Sep 202411123,69269.612.36$63,743
Aug 202410416,99075.632.06$42,927
Jul 202415825,70179.932.15$67,798
Jun 202415825,36978.082.63$79,158
May 202414225,86878.812.20$68,060
Apr 202416531,45484.451.66$66,123
Mar 202417234,42280.301.55$66,998
Feb 202416431,00076.091.78$67,772
Jan 202419631,66473.023.30$118,729
Dec 202320432,75271.262.61$100,043
Nov 202317926,61677.892.81$88,668
Oct 202322235,66485.443.09$129,072
Sep 202318533,37689.042.74$107,757
Aug 202319332,77380.522.67$103,139
Jul 202321032,35174.852.64$101,183
Jun 202321831,79168.962.26$86,833
May 202323934,62770.622.23$94,006
Apr 202323134,60678.122.24$95,486
Mar 202329737,20372.852.39$110,669
Feb 202329833,88175.112.47$105,922
Jan 202324240,83576.533.39$156,858
Dec 202218740,17676.415.73$244,460
Nov 202216339,20185.005.65$235,192
Oct 202217144,47987.185.86$275,722
Sep 202229134,46884.888.16$306,086
Aug 202234937,23694.529.13$372,846
Jul 202240033,885101.587.54$296,195
Jun 202247436,306115.097.98$344,173
May 202254337,594109.378.43$376,420
Apr 202258438,375104.226.84$323,257
Mar 202268641,887108.885.08$287,327
Feb 202266838,14491.054.86$246,157
Jan 202276142,06681.844.54$253,162
Dec 202177843,07671.323.90$223,445
Nov 202185342,17577.435.24$286,912
Oct 202196843,67479.795.71$326,784
Sep 20211,16541,63269.865.35$304,156
Aug 202194529,08666.024.22$185,149
Jul 202175423,09870.783.98$145,346
Jun 20211,10236,60569.493.38$200,326
May 20211,21037,83363.483.02$190,978
Apr 20211,20836,18960.362.76$172,739
Mar 20211,33136,76661.302.72$181,481
Feb 20211,50240,65357.805.55$312,356
Jan 20211,96055,99750.412.81$256,170
Dec 20201,95154,49344.642.68$232,886
Nov 20201,71446,38438.772.71$191,993
Oct 20202,13536,22936.972.48$168,722
Sep 20201,99421,18337.091.99$116,134
Aug 20201931,01939.982.39$10,147
Jul 20202,02226,26838.371.83$125,526
Jun 20203,31048,12434.901.69$196,863
May 20203,99144,94416.921.81$149,090
Apr 20203,71147,35514.751.80$140,184
Mar 20204,56246,33930.341.86$224,427
Feb 20205,03648,77549.881.98$347,803
Jan 20208,06949,79657.252.09$566,260
Dec 201925659859.012.30$16,485
Nov 20194,61828,34955.302.75$333,355
Oct 20197,85141,14353.472.42$519,299
Sep 20198,63544,18355.052.66$592,763
Aug 201910,16643,54053.112.30$640,248
Jul 201911,45239,76656.272.46$742,231
Jun 201916,70945,83952.782.49$996,095
May 201917,41833,68358.482.74$1,110,907
Apr 201929,69134,44062.632.75$1,954,281
Mar 201943,71831,10956.803.06$2,578,441
Feb 201916,13210,37150.852.79$849,270

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 2025 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    9 bbl  × $ 62.74 =       $565
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.08 =         $0

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Month total                                     $565

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/51805 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.