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CAPTAIN CANE 18-30 B

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 54303District 08Field 85280300OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$31.1 M
Nov 2019 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$1.5 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
OilDisposition474,687 bbl$23,902,337
Casinghead gasProduction1,989,559 Mcf$7,167,799
Total$31,070,137

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 32.3821, -101.6331. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.38210, -101.63305 · 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
7,887 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 7,725 and 8,048 ft, median 7,887 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jan 2020
2 of 2 wells

2 wells

42-227400433WA8,048 ftJan 2020——
42-227400423LS7,725 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 202639431,599106.413.05$138,171
Apr 202684719,31498.932.87$139,219
Mar 20261,71114,68789.753.15$199,818
Feb 202676512,86763.503.75$96,833
Jan 202655914,23459.138.00$146,896
Dec 202552814,07556.664.41$92,035
Nov 202552413,12858.593.93$82,247
Oct 202542510,03259.383.30$58,391
Sep 202596322,62462.743.08$130,031
Aug 20251,01231,06563.933.01$158,351
Jul 202571831,65766.743.32$152,869
Jun 202586230,96966.483.13$154,199
May 20251,22133,99960.553.23$183,827
Apr 20251,37931,08362.363.54$196,125
Mar 20252,24350,03067.704.27$365,395
Feb 20252,63351,18170.884.34$408,796
Jan 20253,33548,42874.324.28$455,065
Dec 20243,53647,68868.993.12$392,801
Nov 20244,40342,95869.052.20$398,468
Oct 20244,37839,78571.372.28$403,223
Sep 20244,50938,64569.612.36$405,242
Aug 20244,03233,61475.632.06$374,307
Jul 20244,76037,86679.932.15$461,750
Jun 20244,82429,56578.082.63$454,532
May 20242,81626,61478.812.20$280,438
Apr 20244,12328,81984.451.66$396,004
Mar 20244,29730,28380.301.55$391,840
Feb 20243951,85876.091.78$33,370
Jan 20247073.023.30$511
Dec 20231,3343,76071.262.61$104,877
Nov 20232,1199,11177.892.81$190,629
Oct 20233,67013,31785.443.09$354,678
Sep 20235,20916,65389.042.74$509,356
Aug 20234,40012,65880.522.67$388,121
Jul 20232,0907,88474.852.64$177,264
Jun 20233,42810,85768.962.26$260,915
May 20234,21810,94470.622.23$322,252
Apr 20233,0286,00278.122.24$249,978
Mar 20231,2541,59472.852.39$95,169
Feb 20231029475.112.47$7,893
Jan 20232,74620,44776.533.39$279,420
Dec 20221,32716,71076.415.73$197,129
Nov 20221,92418,89885.005.65$270,242
Oct 20221,20820,71187.185.86$226,758
Sep 202296816,80984.888.16$219,387
Aug 20221,38820,86394.529.13$321,614
Jul 20222,29628,490101.587.54$448,102
Jun 20222,86829,546115.097.98$565,772
May 20222,73131,591109.378.43$565,098
Apr 20221,70720,190104.226.84$315,955
Mar 20223,67131,987108.885.08$562,077
Feb 20223,75027,84491.054.86$476,727
Jan 20224,34132,51281.844.54$502,796
Dec 20214,20932,73971.323.90$427,839
Nov 20214,12431,77077.435.24$485,696
Oct 20214,75732,77579.795.71$566,833
Sep 20214,33229,24669.865.35$459,127
Aug 20215,52532,71766.024.22$502,846
Jul 20217,06732,56970.783.98$629,895
Jun 20217,18332,77769.493.38$609,953
May 20217,81332,93463.483.02$595,353
Apr 20218,22430,01660.362.76$579,197
Mar 20218,51630,79461.302.72$605,696
Feb 20218,24627,30357.805.55$628,094
Jan 202113,11739,69750.412.81$772,787
Dec 202014,58639,81144.642.68$757,632
Nov 202016,38940,79138.772.71$745,805
Oct 202019,56545,96736.972.48$837,244
Sep 202020,31641,65237.091.99$836,451
Aug 202024,49042,75739.982.39$1,081,090
Jul 202027,94143,38238.371.83$1,151,274
Jun 202030,41039,68334.901.69$1,128,386
May 202037,40634,86316.921.81$696,177
Apr 202033,60323,25414.751.80$537,603
Mar 202026,62312,89530.341.86$831,678
Feb 202015,3149,80549.881.98$783,283
Jan 20209551,22357.252.09$57,236
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                  394 bbl  × $106.41 =    $41,926
Casinghead gas    31,599 Mcf  × $  3.05 =    $96,246

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Month total                                 $138,171

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/54303 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.