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MIKE THE TIGER 18-7 A

Operated by BIRCH OPERATIONS, INC. (P-5 71331) 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 52063District 08Field 85280300OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$64.1 M
Mar 2019 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$2.9 M
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
OilDisposition819,435 bbl$48,805,723
Casinghead gasProduction4,112,785 Mcf$15,309,017
Total$64,114,739

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 32.4310, -101.6490. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.1 miles.

32.43094, -101.64899 · 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
7,845 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 6,952 and 8,217 ft, median 7,845 ft, over the 4 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Mar 2019 – Jun 2020
4 of 4 wells

4 wells

42-227405241MS6,952 ftJun 2020——
42-227396431WA8,018 ftMar 2019——
42-227396441LS7,671 ftMar 2019——
42-227396381WB8,217 ftMar 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 (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

May 20261,48232,475106.413.05$256,613
Apr 20261,70740,35098.932.87$284,667
Mar 20261,84663,32789.753.15$365,123
Feb 20261,58050,43763.503.75$289,485
Jan 20261,76735,95559.138.00$392,048
Dec 20251,30819,03756.664.41$158,128
Nov 20251,67825,28658.593.93$197,598
Oct 20251,39630,21959.383.30$182,763
Sep 20251,70226,97162.743.08$189,771
Aug 20251,66616,96363.933.01$157,647
Jul 20251,75839,88266.743.32$249,546
Jun 20251,53837,46366.483.13$219,457
May 20251,55443,53360.553.23$234,807
Apr 20251,74936,14262.363.54$237,123
Mar 20251,41647,27167.704.27$297,631
Feb 20251,24722,33970.884.34$185,357
Jan 20252,35031,62374.324.28$309,957
Dec 20242,11731,76968.993.12$245,215
Nov 20241,65614,88069.052.20$147,060
Oct 20242,06517,51171.372.28$187,329
Sep 20242,34326,14369.612.36$224,908
Aug 20242,69524,57475.632.06$254,534
Jul 20243,32930,14479.932.15$330,794
Jun 20242,29125,19278.082.63$245,237
May 20242,49517,90378.812.20$235,990
Apr 20242,92224,59984.451.66$287,578
Mar 20243,08523,87180.301.55$284,609
Feb 20242,86019,67476.091.78$252,709
Jan 20242,45821,21073.023.30$249,427
Dec 20231,90319,05871.262.61$185,363
Nov 20232,39724,03677.892.81$254,185
Oct 20232,74428,37785.443.09$322,055
Sep 20232,46026,18089.042.74$290,642
Aug 20231,97127,39480.522.67$231,926
Jul 20232,40226,94974.852.64$250,984
Jun 20232,24916,35568.962.26$192,028
May 20232,39618,22870.622.23$209,807
Apr 20232,95828,85378.122.24$295,645
Mar 20233,71069,32372.852.39$436,175
Feb 20233,89559,54475.112.47$439,370
Jan 20234,29246,03776.533.39$484,427
Dec 20224,45652,92576.415.73$643,695
Nov 20223,60136,49485.005.65$512,137
Oct 20225,43663,08587.185.86$843,826
Sep 20224,51064,11684.888.16$906,231
Aug 20224,54164,64094.529.13$1,019,195
Jul 20224,88461,075101.587.54$956,749
Jun 20225,04868,524115.097.98$1,127,604
May 20225,07568,832109.378.43$1,135,516
Apr 20225,68851,634104.226.84$945,856
Mar 20227,20566,495108.885.08$1,122,036
Feb 20226,61865,04291.054.86$918,598
Jan 20228,55887,92381.844.54$1,099,353
Dec 20218,88289,29471.323.90$981,632
Nov 20217,71181,65477.435.24$1,024,672
Oct 20219,22276,00479.795.71$1,170,100
Sep 20218,97769,82469.865.35$1,000,756
Aug 202111,08869,99266.024.22$1,027,437
Jul 202111,67860,93070.783.98$1,069,197
Jun 202112,20770,86869.493.38$1,087,842
May 202113,30771,68863.483.02$1,061,059
Apr 202114,24082,68960.362.76$1,087,617
Mar 202115,59568,19561.302.72$1,141,255
Feb 202110,98039,48357.805.55$853,694
Jan 202115,60260,14850.412.81$955,529
Dec 202020,95055,01344.642.68$1,082,393
Nov 202015,34849,65138.772.71$729,426
Oct 202023,42665,76736.972.48$1,029,058
Sep 202022,66250,15937.091.99$940,402
Aug 202032,32759,98939.982.39$1,435,513
Jul 202027,86324,40438.371.83$1,113,644
Jun 20204,1572,11534.901.69$148,654
May 2020453216.921.81$7,668
Apr 20206,85363,84614.751.80$216,284
Mar 202011,21450,60630.341.86$434,169
Feb 202012,25255,43049.881.98$720,918
Jan 202014,68344,53957.252.09$933,899
Dec 201914,65647,96159.012.30$975,370
Nov 201912,85951,65555.302.75$853,190
Oct 201910,21938,29453.472.42$639,026
Sep 201918,75959,64355.052.66$1,191,171
Aug 201923,881100,13253.112.30$1,499,060
Jul 201933,437117,76656.272.46$2,171,211
Jun 201942,587114,12752.782.49$2,532,055
May 201965,113113,15158.482.74$4,117,878
Apr 201978,28287,42762.632.75$5,143,287
Mar 201930,9082,47756.803.06$1,763,159

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                1,482 bbl  × $106.41 =   $157,700
Casinghead gas    32,475 Mcf  × $  3.05 =    $98,914

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Month total                                 $256,613

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/52063 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.