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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 52029District 08Field 85280300OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$13.2 M
Feb 2019 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$316 k
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
OilDisposition182,603 bbl$10,005,363
Casinghead gasProduction981,720 Mcf$3,233,680
Total$13,239,043

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 32.3163, -101.6238. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.31634, -101.62375 · 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
8,002 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 8,002 ft.

Completions filed
Feb 2019
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-227395102646WA8,002 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 202610010,521106.413.05$42,686
Apr 2026768,00198.932.87$30,479
Mar 20269410,03789.753.15$40,047
Feb 2026807,81763.503.75$34,396
Jan 2026784,49759.138.00$40,579
Dec 2025552,29056.664.41$13,223
Nov 202514410,13258.593.93$48,220
Oct 20251217,50459.383.30$31,985
Sep 2025541,94162.743.08$9,360
Aug 2025762,32363.933.01$11,862
Jul 2025891,17266.743.32$9,825
Jun 2025544766.483.13$3,737
May 20256517560.553.23$4,501
Apr 2025164062.363.54$10,227
Mar 20257823267.704.27$6,271
Feb 20251137870.884.34$2,421
Jan 20258352374.324.28$8,406
Dec 20249168668.993.12$8,419
Nov 202415069.052.20$1,036
Oct 202419071.372.28$1,356
Sep 202484069.612.36$5,847
Aug 2024118075.632.06$8,924
Jul 202497079.932.15$7,753
Jun 20241101,05978.082.63$11,378
May 2024381,49478.812.20$6,279
Apr 202451084.451.66$4,307
Mar 20247723480.301.55$6,545
Feb 20241011,87876.091.78$11,035
Jan 20247620373.023.30$6,219
Dec 20238210471.262.61$6,115
Nov 2023822777.892.81$6,463
Oct 2023851585.443.09$7,309
Sep 2023984,93889.042.74$22,232
Aug 202319814,41680.522.67$54,475
Jul 202321513,94774.852.64$52,938
Jun 202324714,53368.962.26$49,856
May 202331017,51770.622.23$60,910
Apr 20231775,29678.122.24$25,678
Mar 20232765,86672.852.39$34,145
Feb 20232423,04375.112.47$25,680
Jan 202315410076.533.39$12,124
Dec 2022411976.415.73$987
Nov 202272285.005.65$719
Oct 202272287.185.86$6,289
Sep 20221397,91684.888.16$76,422
Aug 202226510,33294.529.13$119,350
Jul 202236213,116101.587.54$135,694
Jun 202235312,415115.097.98$139,664
May 202234712,624109.378.43$144,410
Apr 202241012,300104.226.84$126,833
Mar 202248313,026108.885.08$118,714
Feb 202246211,56291.054.86$98,243
Jan 202273817,88381.844.54$141,545
Dec 202171418,19371.323.90$121,859
Nov 202169820,16177.435.24$159,626
Oct 202192222,08279.795.71$199,740
Sep 202195619,48269.865.35$171,033
Aug 202186313,73866.024.22$114,958
Jul 202185411,71470.783.98$107,092
Jun 20216109,43469.493.38$74,282
May 202181315,24363.483.02$97,608
Apr 20211,12418,77760.362.76$119,639
Mar 20211,28618,44461.302.72$128,943
Feb 202179211,47357.805.55$109,429
Jan 20218029,46550.412.81$67,028
Dec 20201,48019,11644.642.68$117,211
Nov 20201,62322,40538.772.71$123,564
Oct 20201,69120,46936.972.48$113,247
Sep 20202,40330,54037.091.99$149,934
Aug 20202,73033,68539.982.39$189,487
Jul 20203,10425,18838.371.83$165,072
Jun 20207105,46634.901.69$34,018
May 20202,15218,14716.921.81$69,344
Apr 20203,64335,65414.751.80$118,068
Mar 20204,28831,96130.341.86$189,425
Feb 20204,41526,78749.881.98$273,276
Jan 20201,95711,68257.252.09$136,509
Dec 20192,99524,98659.012.30$234,312
Nov 20192,99814,41155.302.75$205,430
Oct 20194,32917,51353.472.42$273,828
Sep 20195,40519,16055.052.66$348,459
Aug 20197,63524,34053.112.30$461,583
Jul 20198,16121,45156.272.46$511,990
Jun 201910,21824,01252.782.49$599,125
May 201912,16724,84258.482.74$779,601
Apr 201922,31529,53962.632.75$1,478,841
Mar 201938,29032,06356.803.06$2,273,052
Feb 201919,35315,83450.852.79$1,028,312

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                  100 bbl  × $106.41 =    $10,641
Casinghead gas    10,521 Mcf  × $  3.05 =    $32,045

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Month total                                  $42,686

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/52029 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.