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WILLIE THE WILDCAT 3-15 A

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 55963District 08Field 85280300OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$89.9 M
Apr 2021 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$5.3 M
at the published price for each month
Months reported
62
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
OilDisposition941,892 bbl$72,935,419
Casinghead gasProduction3,864,326 Mcf$16,952,032
Total$89,887,451

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 32.2586, -101.7459. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.25858, -101.74589 · 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
7,763 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 7,501 and 8,324 ft, median 7,763 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Apr 2021 – May 2021
3 of 3 wells

3 wells

42-317427151JC7,501 ftMay 2021——
42-317427171LS7,763 ftApr 2021——
42-317427181WA8,324 ftApr 2021——

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 (62)

Volume × price = value, one row per cycle. The price columns are the same series published on the prices page — nothing here is modelled.

62 months

May 20262,00959,191106.413.05$394,064
Apr 20262,15553,60298.932.87$367,017
Mar 20262,69762,40789.753.15$438,603
Feb 20262,68458,04763.503.75$388,129
Jan 20263,36163,79559.138.00$708,963
Dec 20252,89257,20356.664.41$416,318
Nov 20253,21256,11858.593.93$408,535
Oct 20253,95255,95959.383.30$419,605
Sep 20254,10451,84762.743.08$417,014
Aug 20254,21849,70963.933.01$419,517
Jul 20254,68847,13866.743.32$469,149
Jun 20254,04545,29266.483.13$410,618
May 20254,16847,54060.553.23$406,037
Apr 20255,54451,64862.363.54$528,719
Mar 20255,09745,73067.704.27$540,257
Feb 20253,92835,52470.884.34$432,621
Jan 20255,43648,20274.324.28$610,244
Dec 20246,69153,35668.993.12$628,156
Nov 20246,04140,69669.052.20$506,599
Oct 20243,33127,22771.372.28$299,849
Sep 20243,25729,45569.612.36$296,362
Aug 20244,97634,01775.632.06$446,533
Jul 20242,33125,46579.932.15$240,980
Jun 20242,96522,76978.082.63$291,480
May 20244,18317,54378.812.20$368,229
Apr 20243,88814,90984.451.66$353,079
Mar 20246,30314,20180.301.55$528,073
Feb 20246,6668,91376.091.78$523,114
Jan 20244,1503,54373.023.30$314,717
Dec 20232,3661,56571.262.61$172,687
Nov 20239529,37977.892.81$100,483
Oct 20236,99964,01785.443.09$795,633
Sep 20238,65864,28589.042.74$946,730
Aug 20236,26564,77180.522.67$677,583
Jul 20236,20678,30474.852.64$671,383
Jun 20235,72060,91268.962.26$532,020
May 20239,828104,24370.622.23$926,244
Apr 202310,829115,21478.122.24$1,103,783
Mar 202311,965102,03372.852.39$1,115,832
Feb 20238,70174,73075.112.47$837,792
Jan 202313,83085,89576.533.39$1,349,398
Dec 202212,07159,97276.415.73$1,265,930
Nov 20229,89247,35585.005.65$1,108,196
Oct 202214,04190,18987.185.86$1,752,941
Sep 202216,27586,84784.888.16$2,090,413
Aug 202216,47593,57294.529.13$2,411,264
Jul 202214,99998,223101.587.54$2,264,404
Jun 202219,14689,499115.097.98$2,917,465
May 202217,69080,416109.378.43$2,612,907
Apr 202220,88693,353104.226.84$2,815,049
Mar 202225,20497,278108.885.08$3,238,034
Feb 202226,09289,24691.054.86$2,809,309
Jan 202233,141112,56481.844.54$3,223,039
Dec 202141,372137,44271.323.90$3,486,554
Nov 202149,913137,75977.435.24$4,586,187
Oct 202164,182146,03379.795.71$5,955,495
Sep 202168,608120,56169.865.35$5,438,067
Aug 202198,127120,75166.024.22$6,987,985
Jul 202182,90072,30770.783.98$6,155,594
Jun 202161,91149,29569.493.38$4,468,843
May 202137,54135,04963.483.02$2,488,869
Apr 202113522160.362.76$8,758

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                2,009 bbl  × $106.41 =   $213,778
Casinghead gas    59,191 Mcf  × $  3.05 =   $180,286

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Month total                                 $394,064

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/55963 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.