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MONTY THE AZTEC 42-43 F

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 53500District 08Field 85280300OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$51.8 M
Nov 2019 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$3.4 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
OilDisposition780,749 bbl$42,724,639
Casinghead gasProduction3,053,487 Mcf$9,104,986
Total$51,829,626

Wells on this lease (3)

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 32.3356, -101.6042. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.33560, -101.60416 · 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 3 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 3 wells
Median depth
7,903 ft
3 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.
3100.0%

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 7,545 and 8,144 ft, median 7,903 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Nov 2019
3 of 3 wells

3 wells

42-227399587LS7,545 ftNov 2019——
42-227399607WB8,144 ftNov 2019——
42-227399597WA7,903 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 20261,05730,161106.413.05$204,341
Apr 202689824,87598.932.87$160,223
Mar 20261,44353,28989.753.15$297,340
Feb 20261,09853,05063.503.75$268,677
Jan 20261,44247,99159.138.00$469,094
Dec 20251,69551,26156.664.41$322,272
Nov 20251,92855,98258.593.93$332,771
Oct 20251,62443,21259.383.30$239,242
Sep 20251,64647,12362.743.08$248,264
Aug 20252,39454,90263.933.01$318,565
Jul 20251,64151,19566.743.32$279,242
Jun 20252,05748,50266.483.13$288,499
May 20252,39056,67260.553.23$327,897
Apr 20252,91953,99162.363.54$373,325
Mar 20254,35471,02367.704.27$597,915
Feb 20254,19359,32570.884.34$554,720
Jan 20254,56648,77274.324.28$548,025
Dec 20244,71854,99868.993.12$497,164
Nov 20243,65147,35969.052.20$356,217
Oct 20243,78650,60171.372.28$385,648
Sep 20244,83452,18569.612.36$459,879
Aug 20244,62845,53375.632.06$443,979
Jul 20244,08439,79679.932.15$411,860
Jun 20244,10637,42078.082.63$419,160
May 20244,16336,88178.812.20$409,167
Apr 20244,30436,11884.451.66$423,400
Mar 20245,02734,18280.301.55$456,484
Feb 20243,41128,97376.091.78$311,220
Jan 20244,84442,83773.023.30$494,971
Dec 20235,40838,13371.262.61$484,929
Nov 20236,38846,50477.892.81$628,124
Oct 20237,03744,54385.443.09$738,758
Sep 20236,07133,56789.042.74$632,369
Aug 20236,80137,15980.522.67$646,938
Jul 20236,07632,96374.852.64$541,870
Jun 20237,65939,63868.962.26$617,686
May 20238,07529,46870.622.23$635,894
Apr 20237,54625,76578.122.24$647,149
Mar 20237,61327,08972.852.39$619,435
Feb 20235,15917,78475.112.47$431,342
Jan 20235,64723,53676.533.39$511,898
Dec 20228,35732,37876.415.73$824,055
Nov 20229,54630,84185.005.65$985,544
Oct 20226,4345,99987.185.86$596,093
Sep 20225,7101,20784.888.16$494,518
Aug 20221,34615494.529.13$128,630
Jul 202225332101.587.54$25,941
Jun 2022907799115.097.98$110,760
May 2022136356109.378.43$17,876
Apr 202255165104.226.84$6,860
Mar 202260502108.885.08$9,081
Feb 20221562,04491.054.86$24,135
Jan 20223501,54281.844.54$35,641
Dec 20211,8258,08071.323.90$161,664
Nov 20216,93534,87377.435.24$719,602
Oct 20217,68232,28679.795.71$797,425
Sep 20216,92724,21369.865.35$613,482
Aug 20217,12423,52366.024.22$569,607
Jul 20216,69521,44470.783.98$559,264
Jun 20214,47418,97169.493.38$375,032
May 20216,64824,21763.483.02$495,094
Apr 20217,21024,06160.362.76$501,566
Mar 20214,98014,47361.302.72$344,596
Feb 20217,57229,42657.805.55$600,916
Jan 202111,72141,86750.412.81$708,513
Dec 202012,94340,19244.642.68$685,308
Nov 202011,70129,11838.772.71$532,458
Oct 202013,84753,22436.972.48$643,836
Sep 202017,93673,92937.091.99$812,442
Aug 202018,98165,86139.982.39$915,945
Jul 202022,05776,81838.371.83$986,529
Jun 202025,37651,93834.901.69$973,414
May 202023,07855,44516.921.81$491,099
Apr 202035,411101,45814.751.80$705,381
Mar 202048,09166,39830.341.86$1,582,331
Feb 202058,09299,24649.881.98$3,094,203
Jan 202082,041113,43457.252.09$4,934,462
Dec 201986,76280,19659.012.30$5,304,626
Nov 201942,94918,41955.302.75$2,425,745

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                1,057 bbl  × $106.41 =   $112,475
Casinghead gas    30,161 Mcf  × $  3.05 =    $91,866

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Month total                                 $204,341

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/53500 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.