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MONTY THE AZTEC 42-43 E

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 53511District 08Field 85280300OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$40.2 M
Nov 2019 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$2.5 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
OilDisposition581,416 bbl$31,056,916
Casinghead gasProduction3,190,469 Mcf$9,166,179
Total$40,223,095

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 32.3352, -101.6060. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.33523, -101.60591 · 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
7,996 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 7,503 and 8,262 ft, median 7,996 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Nov 2019
3 of 3 wells

3 wells

42-227399555WB8,262 ftNov 2019——
42-227399565LS7,503 ftNov 2019——
42-227399575WA7,996 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 202643417,297106.413.05$98,866
Apr 202662329,55098.932.87$146,434
Mar 20261,01343,61889.753.15$228,289
Feb 202690927,31663.503.75$160,165
Jan 202693330,20959.138.00$296,777
Dec 202597337,08356.664.41$218,791
Nov 20251,05239,69758.593.93$217,505
Oct 202593937,49059.383.30$179,656
Sep 202580737,56562.743.08$166,216
Aug 20251,10845,69463.933.01$208,591
Jul 20251,09469,47366.743.32$303,330
Jun 20251,06458,79266.483.13$254,678
May 20251,36572,05460.553.23$315,552
Apr 20251,23460,81062.363.54$292,409
Mar 20251,33558,39467.704.27$339,624
Feb 20251,13044,49270.884.34$273,227
Jan 20251,85045,65374.324.28$332,827
Dec 20242,27652,36968.993.12$320,484
Nov 20242,00648,79969.052.20$245,796
Oct 20242,19453,10371.372.28$277,735
Sep 20242,50252,26369.612.36$297,733
Aug 20242,84556,65075.632.06$332,072
Jul 20243,28654,75079.932.15$380,176
Jun 20243,13748,62278.082.63$373,006
May 20243,63653,36478.812.20$403,871
Apr 20243,00141,07284.451.66$321,581
Mar 20242,67140,01780.301.55$276,313
Feb 20242,59627,50976.091.78$246,596
Jan 20242,31227,08673.023.30$258,143
Dec 20231,48317,39071.262.61$151,079
Nov 20232,21923,07877.892.81$237,631
Oct 20233,98235,77785.443.09$450,676
Sep 20233,39529,55489.042.74$383,122
Aug 20233,94732,55780.522.67$404,833
Jul 20233,97631,33974.852.64$380,395
Jun 20232,78921,89068.962.26$241,768
May 20233,58321,80670.622.23$301,602
Apr 20233,94725,88278.122.24$366,257
Mar 20234,29926,40672.852.39$376,376
Feb 20233,47922,03675.112.47$315,641
Jan 20233,25914,01776.533.39$296,897
Dec 20223,3308,92476.415.73$305,572
Nov 20222,8995,59685.005.65$278,011
Oct 20223,89711,04487.185.86$404,500
Sep 20222,0855,40884.888.16$221,124
Aug 20227413,59694.529.13$102,861
Jul 20222262,259101.587.54$39,995
Jun 20224772,548115.097.98$75,224
May 20222372,368109.378.43$45,890
Apr 202272487104.226.84$10,834
Mar 202273594108.885.08$10,964
Feb 20223162,22091.054.86$39,558
Jan 20228883,45481.844.54$88,347
Dec 20211,99317,26071.323.90$209,440
Nov 20213,35428,16077.435.24$407,170
Oct 20215,64937,05679.795.71$662,467
Sep 20214,49623,97569.865.35$442,379
Aug 20216,67337,04366.024.22$596,895
Jul 20215,37523,26970.783.98$473,102
Jun 20212,66922,59569.493.38$261,854
May 20213,48128,81463.483.02$307,925
Apr 20212,53718,03660.362.76$202,884
Mar 20213,75340,30561.302.72$339,565
Feb 20214,45151,75457.805.55$544,396
Jan 20217,63967,08150.412.81$573,598
Dec 20208,63764,45544.642.68$558,002
Nov 20209,27663,91238.772.71$532,613
Oct 20209,64858,17136.972.48$500,859
Sep 20207,17544,01737.091.99$353,760
Aug 202012,67275,38239.982.39$686,420
Jul 202015,196101,78138.371.83$768,833
Jun 202018,82671,70534.901.69$778,231
May 202019,70795,48616.921.81$506,726
Apr 202026,617113,37314.751.80$597,169
Mar 202035,26975,24430.341.86$1,209,732
Feb 202048,878123,11149.881.98$2,681,877
Jan 202070,671129,92357.252.09$4,318,070
Dec 201992,82296,70159.012.30$5,700,260
Nov 201948,02820,83955.302.75$2,713,270

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                  434 bbl  × $106.41 =    $46,182
Casinghead gas    17,297 Mcf  × $  3.05 =    $52,684

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Month total                                  $98,866

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/53511 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.