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MONTY THE AZTEC 42-43 B

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 53486District 08Field 85280300OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$32.5 M
Nov 2019 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$2.1 M
at the published price for each month
Months reported
79
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
OilDisposition451,736 bbl$24,367,322
Casinghead gasProduction2,672,247 Mcf$8,089,809
Total$32,457,131

Wells on this lease (2)

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 32.3347, -101.6086. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.33465, -101.60862 · 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 2 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 2 wells
Median depth
7,650 ft
2 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.
2100.0%

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 7,291 and 8,008 ft, median 7,650 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Nov 2019
2 of 2 wells

2 wells

42-227399502WA8,008 ftNov 2019——
42-227399492JC7,291 ftNov 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 (79)

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

79 months

May 202657310,272106.413.05$92,260
Apr 202622711,94198.932.87$56,724
Mar 202678635,49189.753.15$182,320
Feb 202636233,01763.503.75$146,811
Jan 202675140,68459.138.00$369,794
Dec 202586235,91756.664.41$207,356
Nov 202583241,73658.593.93$212,621
Oct 202583919,33859.383.30$113,729
Sep 202579634,28562.743.08$155,433
Aug 202581632,69163.933.01$150,722
Jul 202583244,26266.743.32$202,265
Jun 20251,05855,52966.483.13$244,071
May 20251,21055,77560.553.23$253,548
Apr 20251,24542,55162.363.54$228,402
Mar 20251,75161,52667.704.27$381,155
Feb 20251,62762,40270.884.34$386,199
Jan 20252,27353,61874.324.28$398,344
Dec 20241,96435,96268.993.12$247,747
Nov 20241,96430,59069.052.20$202,864
Oct 20242,13831,03071.372.28$223,381
Sep 20241,80428,94069.612.36$194,001
Aug 20241,63628,28075.632.06$182,090
Jul 20241,95829,40679.932.15$219,626
Jun 20242,28531,46178.082.63$261,280
May 20242,80630,28678.812.20$287,723
Apr 20242,35126,25584.451.66$242,104
Mar 20243,18830,92180.301.55$303,773
Feb 20243,16727,58476.091.78$290,177
Jan 20243,32335,97473.023.30$361,275
Dec 20233,49027,39271.262.61$320,210
Nov 20233,79925,76577.892.81$368,241
Oct 20234,15824,43185.443.09$430,685
Sep 20233,45623,24689.042.74$371,301
Aug 20233,35222,11880.522.67$329,022
Jul 20233,05117,53874.852.64$274,699
Jun 20231,44915,93868.962.26$135,919
May 20231,29716,63970.622.23$128,656
Apr 20231,38011,14478.122.24$132,743
Mar 20231,1026,86272.852.39$96,703
Feb 20239245,42275.112.47$82,771
Jan 20234063,63776.533.39$43,392
Dec 20224741,95676.415.73$47,424
Nov 20222851,36185.005.65$31,909
Oct 202235989487.185.86$36,540
Sep 2022179784.888.16$15,251
Aug 202225421694.529.13$25,980
Jul 2022407745101.587.54$46,962
Jun 2022536446115.097.98$65,246
May 20221,1993,272109.378.43$158,728
Apr 20221,1725,353104.226.84$158,748
Mar 20221,52010,280108.885.08$217,683
Feb 20221,88414,53891.054.86$242,176
Jan 20222,82442,03581.844.54$421,858
Dec 20213,37949,78471.323.90$435,104
Nov 20213,62045,11477.435.24$516,552
Oct 20214,30050,16779.795.71$629,745
Sep 20214,47747,49669.865.35$566,911
Aug 20214,87553,96766.024.22$549,620
Jul 20215,95536,82970.783.98$568,151
Jun 20214,13025,49369.493.38$373,176
May 20211,7277,08863.483.02$131,019
Apr 20211,3598,83960.362.76$106,411
Mar 20211,4118,26461.302.72$108,947
Feb 20217343,64657.805.55$62,653
Jan 20214,34645,44050.412.81$346,781
Dec 20205,75454,12144.642.68$401,657
Nov 20206,58948,97238.772.71$388,002
Oct 20207,36450,55636.972.48$397,547
Sep 20208,26257,17037.091.99$420,265
Aug 202010,81372,81739.982.39$605,980
Jul 202010,81878,57938.371.83$558,503
Jun 202011,45855,73934.901.69$494,100
May 202014,93590,87516.921.81$417,616
Apr 202020,639103,58014.751.80$491,323
Mar 202030,47774,48330.341.86$1,062,930
Feb 202038,114107,66449.881.98$2,114,373
Jan 202064,004108,38457.252.09$3,891,265
Dec 201971,85457,22659.012.30$4,371,974
Nov 201925,96110,99555.302.75$1,465,887

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                  573 bbl  × $106.41 =    $60,973
Casinghead gas    10,272 Mcf  × $  3.05 =    $31,287

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Month total                                  $92,260

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/53486 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.