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CAPTAIN CANE 18-30 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 54373District 08Field 85280300OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$52.3 M
Nov 2019 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$3.2 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
OilDisposition790,852 bbl$38,802,699
Casinghead gasProduction3,733,122 Mcf$13,449,355
Total$52,252,054

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 32.3831, -101.6283. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.38314, -101.62832 · 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
7,983 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 7,669 and 8,209 ft, median 7,983 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jan 2020
3 of 3 wells

3 wells

42-227400497LS7,669 ftJan 2020——
42-227400507WA7,983 ftJan 2020——
42-227400517WB8,209 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 20261,68771,290106.413.05$396,652
Apr 20261,07128,51898.932.87$187,793
Mar 20262,05444,82989.753.15$325,533
Feb 20262,10643,98363.503.75$298,681
Jan 20261,64031,01859.138.00$345,053
Dec 20251,52924,07656.664.41$192,889
Nov 20251,79732,16258.593.93$231,568
Oct 20251,41625,31759.383.30$167,751
Sep 20251,92136,32962.743.08$232,305
Aug 20252,10438,54363.933.01$250,707
Jul 20252,58052,04866.743.32$344,739
Jun 20251,99143,99666.483.13$270,013
May 20252,12144,47460.553.23$272,181
Apr 20252,40134,78262.363.54$272,963
Mar 20253,24945,61467.704.27$414,652
Feb 20252,38628,95270.884.34$294,796
Jan 20252,95937,33574.324.28$379,657
Dec 20243,02430,88568.993.12$305,029
Nov 20243,78437,85569.052.20$344,507
Oct 20244,30735,28971.372.28$387,899
Sep 20244,43435,34369.612.36$392,214
Aug 20244,25929,48575.632.06$382,954
Jul 20242,75630,66079.932.15$286,102
Jun 20242,49727,35078.082.63$267,005
May 20241,28422,15378.812.20$149,894
Apr 20243,50933,25084.451.66$351,503
Mar 20243,40941,52180.301.55$337,898
Feb 20242,83930,57876.091.78$270,560
Jan 20243,70244,75973.023.30$417,920
Dec 20233,26533,96771.262.61$321,342
Nov 20232,49921,01877.892.81$253,656
Oct 20233,03327,62485.443.09$344,423
Sep 20233,56038,95589.042.74$423,526
Aug 20231,36523,49480.522.67$172,706
Jul 20232,67031,69874.852.64$283,589
Jun 20232,89934,14968.962.26$277,040
May 20233,32534,90270.622.23$312,552
Apr 20232,84022,53478.122.24$272,286
Mar 20231,80617,30472.852.39$172,978
Feb 20232401,37675.112.47$21,419
Jan 20234,78346,83876.533.39$524,717
Dec 20225,22547,60076.415.73$671,946
Nov 20226,73865,89885.005.65$944,803
Oct 20227,50563,71187.185.86$1,027,872
Sep 20224,83330,69184.888.16$660,777
Aug 20222,61713,98794.529.13$375,020
Jul 20225,61845,428101.587.54$913,298
Jun 20226,14951,212115.097.98$1,116,217
May 20226,40175,371109.378.43$1,335,684
Apr 20227,39083,642104.226.84$1,342,096
Mar 20228,30774,207108.885.08$1,281,171
Feb 20227,43765,11091.054.86$993,498
Jan 20226,30651,14981.844.54$748,181
Dec 20217,60256,32271.323.90$761,781
Nov 20216,18954,56377.435.24$764,953
Oct 20213,79533,86279.795.71$496,286
Sep 20219,71665,60069.865.35$1,029,780
Aug 202111,42463,58166.024.22$1,022,562
Jul 20217,66438,67470.783.98$696,461
Jun 20218,02941,31769.493.38$697,612
May 202111,80867,71963.483.02$953,925
Apr 202113,38976,45060.362.76$1,019,041
Mar 202113,97384,84361.302.72$1,087,058
Feb 202110,35568,29257.805.55$977,400
Jan 202118,545104,32850.412.81$1,228,043
Dec 202020,015102,77244.642.68$1,168,432
Nov 202023,15193,91538.772.71$1,151,752
Oct 202028,052102,13836.972.48$1,290,224
Sep 202030,99594,85137.091.99$1,338,457
Aug 202044,643115,52139.982.39$2,060,356
Jul 202058,338120,21838.371.83$2,457,841
Jun 202063,24390,02234.901.69$2,359,346
May 202037,97148,85616.921.81$731,131
Apr 202069,79569,27814.751.80$1,154,480
Mar 202074,26543,58130.341.86$2,334,096
Feb 202031,46526,24549.881.98$1,621,457
Jan 20204,8035,91557.252.09$287,362
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                1,687 bbl  × $106.41 =   $179,514
Casinghead gas    71,290 Mcf  × $  3.05 =   $217,138

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Month total                                 $396,652

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/54373 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.