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CAPTAIN CANE 18-30 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 54304District 08Field 85280300OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$31.4 M
Nov 2019 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$2.2 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
OilDisposition495,344 bbl$24,986,937
Casinghead gasProduction1,832,337 Mcf$6,368,327
Total$31,355,264

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 32.3825, -101.6314. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.38250, -101.63141 · 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
7,834 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 7,676 and 7,992 ft, median 7,834 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jan 2020
2 of 2 wells

2 wells

42-227400454WA7,992 ftJan 2020——
42-227400444LS7,676 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 202667635,954106.413.05$181,443
Apr 202650819,22598.932.87$105,427
Mar 202671425,11989.753.15$143,192
Feb 202652426,51063.503.75$132,695
Jan 20262,37825,74559.138.00$346,518
Dec 20251,47922,71656.664.41$184,054
Nov 202561920,39658.593.93$116,351
Oct 202543913,00159.383.30$69,034
Sep 202560820,88962.743.08$102,420
Aug 202591819,91663.933.01$118,730
Jul 20251,49642,36266.743.32$240,282
Jun 20254,43451,59866.483.13$456,208
May 20254,09749,26960.553.23$407,327
Apr 20252,47729,56762.363.54$259,225
Mar 202586714,61067.704.27$121,056
Feb 20254838,26470.884.34$70,108
Jan 20251,71426,63074.324.28$241,326
Dec 20242,33329,90468.993.12$254,295
Nov 20241,87025,47269.052.20$185,122
Oct 20245,37130,14871.372.28$452,108
Sep 20245,08031,76369.612.36$428,718
Aug 20245,09430,51975.632.06$448,239
Jul 20245,26935,90879.932.15$498,231
Jun 20245,07327,58478.082.63$468,756
May 20245,50322,87178.812.20$483,972
Apr 20242,9753,38484.451.66$256,853
Mar 20243,94917,41680.301.55$344,015
Feb 20242,80416,09976.091.78$242,071
Jan 20243,19413,39373.023.30$277,391
Dec 20234,27619,68571.262.61$356,100
Nov 20235,52324,78177.892.81$499,761
Oct 20235,15020,95285.443.09$504,701
Sep 20234,77218,89089.042.74$476,564
Aug 20235,08017,84580.522.67$456,739
Jul 20233,43117,32074.852.64$302,566
Jun 20232,57713,24368.962.26$207,619
May 20232,53111,36670.622.23$204,056
Apr 20231,9085,64078.122.24$161,674
Mar 20239842,09272.852.39$76,691
Feb 2023415475.112.47$3,213
Jan 20231,42611,11376.533.39$146,780
Dec 20225763,25476.415.73$62,655
Nov 20225905,98385.005.65$83,931
Oct 202286412,38187.185.86$147,923
Sep 202271312,25184.888.16$160,533
Aug 20222,25215,09794.529.13$350,652
Jul 20222,48216,499101.587.54$376,558
Jun 20221,93716,905115.097.98$357,784
May 20222,26118,812109.378.43$405,928
Apr 20221,34716,650104.226.84$254,230
Mar 20222,82024,543108.885.08$431,632
Feb 20223,14525,99991.054.86$412,677
Jan 20223,91232,91381.844.54$469,507
Dec 20214,20734,88171.323.90$436,048
Nov 20214,25531,62577.435.24$495,080
Oct 20214,40831,32479.795.71$530,696
Sep 20215,21027,54869.865.35$511,378
Aug 20216,66333,94166.024.22$583,142
Jul 20217,63235,75070.783.98$682,552
Jun 20217,95936,07169.493.38$675,013
May 20219,11929,23263.483.02$667,087
Apr 20219,82134,79360.362.76$688,769
Mar 202110,76636,20861.302.72$758,331
Feb 20217,49325,58357.805.55$575,029
Jan 202112,75137,12250.412.81$747,101
Dec 202014,71137,43244.642.68$756,847
Nov 202016,74537,06938.772.71$749,533
Oct 202019,74740,05136.972.48$829,310
Sep 202020,28537,32737.091.99$826,690
Aug 202025,17837,65039.982.39$1,096,415
Jul 202027,46034,89738.371.83$1,117,331
Jun 202033,35434,33234.901.69$1,222,086
May 202039,75031,72516.921.81$730,143
Apr 202033,30123,44814.751.80$533,499
Mar 202025,93813,02030.341.86$811,127
Feb 202013,1138,93349.881.98$671,770
Jan 20201,9341,87557.252.09$114,649
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                  676 bbl  × $106.41 =    $71,933
Casinghead gas    35,954 Mcf  × $  3.05 =   $109,510

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Month total                                 $181,443

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/54304 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.