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CAPTAIN CANE 18-30 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 54300District 08Field 85280300OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$33.8 M
Nov 2019 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$1.9 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
OilDisposition584,222 bbl$28,102,650
Casinghead gasProduction1,849,217 Mcf$5,678,089
Total$33,780,739

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 32.3829, -101.6298. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.38288, -101.62982 · 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
7,731 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 7,004 and 8,043 ft, median 7,731 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jan 2020 – Mar 2023
3 of 3 wells

3 wells

42-227419485MS7,004 ftMar 2023——
42-227400485WA8,043 ftJan 2020——
42-227400475LS7,731 ftJan 2020——

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 202685135,019106.413.05$197,217
Apr 202681324,48998.932.87$150,707
Mar 202692624,41489.753.15$159,999
Feb 202686818,50063.503.75$124,499
Jan 202678017,94159.138.00$189,612
Dec 202557213,40556.664.41$91,571
Nov 202560617,99758.593.93$106,170
Oct 202570020,69359.383.30$109,953
Sep 202581422,75762.743.08$121,092
Aug 20251,33231,76963.933.01$180,931
Jul 20251,71349,05266.743.32$276,943
Jun 20251,37135,99766.483.13$203,769
May 20251,80233,29360.553.23$216,725
Apr 20251,99430,11662.363.54$231,050
Mar 20252,29131,60267.704.27$289,988
Feb 20252,45130,42370.884.34$305,788
Jan 20253,30222,87974.324.28$343,297
Dec 20242,31319,24268.993.12$219,635
Nov 20243,56129,05669.052.20$309,765
Oct 20245,24631,69071.372.28$446,705
Sep 20245,00327,74869.612.36$413,865
Aug 20242,94815,89475.632.06$255,757
Jul 20241,7199,60479.932.15$158,016
Jun 20243,83813,41878.082.63$335,014
May 20246,91927,08078.812.20$604,820
Apr 20245,16915,92884.451.66$462,950
Mar 20243,18410,90080.301.55$272,517
Feb 20242,49514,44276.091.78$215,604
Jan 20243,40212,07573.023.30$288,233
Dec 20232,4449,47171.262.61$198,886
Nov 20232,6689,35777.892.81$234,081
Oct 20233,42216,81885.443.09$344,298
Sep 20234,70019,50689.042.74$471,838
Aug 20235,42821,15680.522.67$493,610
Jul 20236,23125,01674.852.64$532,478
Jun 20235,83519,41268.962.26$446,223
May 20238,18717,00770.622.23$616,047
Apr 20238,45111,42178.122.24$685,750
Mar 20231,2705,90872.852.39$106,658
Feb 20234033875.112.47$3,838
Jan 20237363,63576.533.39$68,640
Dec 20226753,18876.415.73$69,841
Nov 20221,1271,06885.005.65$101,825
Oct 20221,14766887.185.86$103,912
Sep 202269291784.888.16$66,223
Aug 20221,0804,75894.529.13$145,509
Jul 20221,9689,893101.587.54$274,523
Jun 20221,6355,479115.097.98$231,879
May 20221,461426109.378.43$163,382
Apr 20221,7566,674104.226.84$228,644
Mar 20224,62619,596108.885.08$603,156
Feb 20223,01710,75191.054.86$326,935
Jan 20223,0569,31881.844.54$292,385
Dec 20212,6034,67271.323.90$203,863
Nov 20211,8757,19977.435.24$182,881
Oct 20212,91614,21079.795.71$313,862
Sep 20218,53236,33869.865.35$790,487
Aug 20218,47334,20066.024.22$703,732
Jul 20218,30232,10170.783.98$715,444
Jun 20217,57926,85869.493.38$617,461
May 20215,80716,54363.483.02$418,550
Apr 20215,35318,49260.362.76$374,116
Mar 20217,11127,53761.302.72$510,721
Feb 20217,75445,21157.805.55$699,010
Jan 202114,63168,51750.412.81$930,100
Dec 202016,53671,06244.642.68$928,291
Nov 202018,80167,50438.772.71$911,619
Oct 202022,67871,49736.972.48$1,015,606
Sep 202025,30569,23037.091.99$1,076,402
Aug 202032,34975,29139.982.39$1,472,890
Jul 202042,56481,00938.371.83$1,781,032
Jun 202046,96562,30734.901.69$1,744,397
May 202043,43534,86916.921.81$798,199
Apr 202043,45229,12614.751.80$693,471
Mar 202041,95319,09730.341.86$1,308,302
Feb 202023,72514,00249.881.98$1,211,136
Jan 20204,8883,14157.252.09$286,418
Dec 20190059.012.30$0
Nov 20190055.302.75$0

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                  851 bbl  × $106.41 =    $90,555
Casinghead gas    35,019 Mcf  × $  3.05 =   $106,662

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Month total                                 $197,217

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/54300 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.