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MONTY THE AZTEC 42-43 C

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 53508District 08Field 85280300OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$26.5 M
Nov 2019 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$2.3 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
OilDisposition337,330 bbl$19,107,574
Casinghead gasProduction2,417,146 Mcf$7,387,795
Total$26,495,368

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, -101.6080. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.33469, -101.60803 · 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
7,915 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 7,550 and 8,279 ft, median 7,915 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Nov 2019
2 of 2 wells

2 wells

42-227399513WB8,279 ftNov 2019——
42-227399523LS7,550 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 202649520,714106.413.05$115,764
Apr 202640219,02998.932.87$94,378
Mar 202672239,33689.753.15$188,686
Feb 202679940,59663.503.75$202,984
Jan 202693637,05459.138.00$351,701
Dec 202598218,95656.664.41$139,300
Nov 202596823,62558.593.93$149,477
Oct 20251,13437,92059.383.30$192,656
Sep 20251,09128,95162.743.08$157,529
Aug 20251,45631,41863.933.01$187,800
Jul 20251,44442,73766.743.32$238,054
Jun 20251,76165,26066.483.13$321,252
May 20252,01466,17760.553.23$335,853
Apr 20251,85364,17962.363.54$342,947
Mar 20251,29664,24967.704.27$361,974
Feb 20251,42444,03070.884.34$292,060
Jan 20251,18035,03374.324.28$237,593
Dec 20241,48439,98368.993.12$227,183
Nov 20241,57244,60769.052.20$206,612
Oct 20241,84852,88271.372.28$252,537
Sep 20241,76249,57269.612.36$239,859
Aug 20241,85950,37775.632.06$244,556
Jul 20242,13250,97979.932.15$279,842
Jun 20242,11044,86078.082.63$282,909
May 20242,29543,85278.812.20$277,275
Apr 20242,07038,80784.451.66$239,200
Mar 20242,56540,58580.301.55$268,679
Feb 20243,28134,11276.091.78$310,495
Jan 20241,64522,76873.023.30$195,199
Dec 20234,37134,58671.262.61$401,772
Nov 20234,31739,33277.892.81$446,678
Oct 20234,54333,75085.443.09$492,350
Sep 20233,86728,98989.042.74$423,604
Aug 20234,73932,51280.522.67$468,485
Jul 20234,34226,65474.852.64$395,413
Jun 20233,93413,48568.962.26$301,744
May 20233,60515,44470.622.23$288,985
Apr 20233,1614,87478.122.24$257,844
Mar 20231,4241,69372.852.39$107,790
Feb 20237738675.112.47$6,735
Jan 20231,1785,94876.533.39$110,303
Dec 20221,8288,15376.415.73$186,387
Nov 20226488,74985.005.65$104,479
Oct 20221817,45887.185.86$59,512
Sep 2022262,22384.888.16$20,355
Aug 202214194.529.13$1,332
Jul 2022181,885101.587.54$16,045
Jun 202292,512115.097.98$21,075
May 20227410109.378.43$8,178
Apr 20223021,355104.226.84$40,739
Mar 20228241,906108.885.08$99,393
Feb 20221,1802,00291.054.86$117,166
Jan 20222,21933,58581.844.54$334,001
Dec 20212,74441,85771.323.90$358,908
Nov 20212,01333,94577.435.24$333,631
Oct 20213,00334,56679.795.71$437,115
Sep 20213,13729,66069.865.35$377,859
Aug 20213,65035,57766.024.22$391,129
Jul 20214,40529,27070.783.98$428,341
Jun 20213,83517,70469.493.38$326,345
May 20212,9572,20163.483.02$194,352
Apr 202116958860.362.76$11,823
Mar 20212234,33161.302.72$25,437
Feb 20211,99824,43957.805.55$251,071
Jan 20212,83943,63750.412.81$265,746
Dec 20204,64743,79944.642.68$324,625
Nov 20204,87039,86038.772.71$296,694
Oct 20205,33244,99536.972.48$308,641
Sep 20205,91042,09837.091.99$303,021
Aug 20207,16443,54139.982.39$390,266
Jul 20204,50315,27938.371.83$200,666
Jun 20205,3307,15134.901.69$198,104
May 20208,78733,20316.921.81$208,931
Apr 202012,71854,74114.751.80$286,364
Mar 202017,18439,58330.341.86$594,838
Feb 202026,54181,80849.881.98$1,485,900
Jan 202043,51698,78057.252.09$2,698,209
Dec 201952,83367,65359.012.30$3,273,572
Nov 201915,5616,74055.302.75$879,063

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                  495 bbl  × $106.41 =    $52,673
Casinghead gas    20,714 Mcf  × $  3.05 =    $63,092

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Month total                                 $115,764

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/53508 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.