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MONTY THE AZTEC 42-43 D

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 53499District 08Field 85280300OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$26.8 M
Nov 2019 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$1.2 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
OilDisposition425,578 bbl$22,531,845
Casinghead gasProduction1,525,913 Mcf$4,226,329
Total$26,758,175

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 32.3350, -101.6070. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.33503, -101.60701 · 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
50.0%
1 of 2 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 2 wells
Median depth
7,640 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
150.0%
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.
150.0%

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 7,367 and 7,912 ft, median 7,640 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Nov 2019
2 of 2 wells

2 wells

42-227399544WA7,912 ftNov 2019—Yes
42-227399534JD7,367 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 202678619,422106.413.05$142,795
Apr 202665017,46498.932.87$114,421
Mar 202674015,80589.753.15$116,192
Feb 202649517,04763.503.75$95,364
Jan 202662415,16159.138.00$158,154
Dec 202589917,77956.664.41$129,402
Nov 20251,00812,93458.593.93$109,843
Oct 20252233,17259.383.30$23,725
Sep 20254595,32962.743.08$45,195
Aug 20258288,11463.933.01$77,396
Jul 20255008,37566.743.32$61,135
Jun 20251,07614,00666.483.13$115,353
May 20251,30520,48460.553.23$145,229
Apr 20251,17122,06062.363.54$151,185
Mar 20251,01018,00967.704.27$145,245
Feb 20251,02729,21270.884.34$199,598
Jan 20251,34726,12474.324.28$211,885
Dec 20241,54617,02668.993.12$159,803
Nov 20241,39315,67469.052.20$130,645
Oct 20241,70518,21671.372.28$163,244
Sep 20241,70618,51769.612.36$162,536
Aug 20241,43614,03275.632.06$137,562
Jul 20241,54413,34679.932.15$152,060
Jun 20241,69911,17378.082.63$162,087
May 20241,2947,88478.812.20$119,313
Apr 20241,11510,73084.451.66$111,965
Mar 20242,29417,35680.301.55$211,025
Feb 20242,27617,25276.091.78$203,952
Jan 20242,64221,03773.023.30$262,292
Dec 20232,77619,55671.262.61$248,873
Nov 20232,51518,11277.892.81$246,744
Oct 20232,43612,46585.443.09$246,615
Sep 20232,82311,41689.042.74$282,583
Aug 20233,02911,98380.522.67$275,924
Jul 20233,73814,89574.852.64$319,139
Jun 20233,16213,47468.962.26$248,482
May 20231,4739,09870.622.23$124,288
Apr 20237645,81578.122.24$72,696
Mar 20231,2256,11072.852.39$103,863
Feb 20231,3466,43775.112.47$116,970
Jan 20231,3355,75276.533.39$121,654
Dec 20222,1423,38776.415.73$183,075
Nov 20222,5092,66985.005.65$228,335
Oct 20224,5891,20387.185.86$407,123
Sep 20223,1838284.888.16$270,842
Aug 20221,1015294.529.13$104,541
Jul 20226025101.587.54$6,283
Jun 20221284115.097.98$14,763
May 2022751109.378.43$8,211
Apr 2022169104.226.84$1,729
Mar 2022150108.885.08$1,633
Feb 20221343191.054.86$12,351
Jan 20224471,34681.844.54$42,690
Dec 20211,2569,74071.323.90$127,555
Nov 20212,14120,06577.435.24$270,855
Oct 20212,24413,92679.795.71$258,620
Sep 20211,8318,80569.865.35$175,029
Aug 2021754066.024.22$49,779
Jul 20211,5783,39570.783.98$125,210
Jun 20212,17514,52069.493.38$200,227
May 20212,51410,30963.483.02$190,698
Apr 20211,2331,30660.362.76$78,026
Mar 20211,4031,95061.302.72$91,302
Feb 20213,67838,22957.805.55$424,681
Jan 20213,52344,02350.412.81$301,311
Dec 20206,85857,82044.642.68$460,836
Nov 20207,51255,81938.772.71$442,318
Oct 20208,47660,62736.972.48$463,618
Sep 20208,56557,39137.091.99$431,944
Aug 20206,53333,36739.982.39$340,773
Jul 20206,39028,80738.371.83$297,761
Jun 202012,00538,44334.901.69$483,955
May 202014,71458,41416.921.81$354,968
Apr 202018,58661,34514.751.80$384,833
Mar 202029,67252,81230.341.86$998,280
Feb 202041,28198,39349.881.98$2,253,980
Jan 202057,17886,71357.252.09$3,455,082
Dec 201970,00657,42159.012.30$4,263,373
Nov 201937,65315,61155.302.75$2,125,152

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                  786 bbl  × $106.41 =    $83,638
Casinghead gas    19,422 Mcf  × $  3.05 =    $59,156

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Month total                                 $142,795

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/53499 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.