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WILLIE THE WILDCAT 3-15 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 56028District 08Field 85280300OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$48.6 M
Apr 2021 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$3.3 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
OilDisposition506,004 bbl$38,007,500
Casinghead gasProduction2,406,675 Mcf$10,544,238
Total$48,551,738

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 32.2592, -101.7430. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.25918, -101.74298 · 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
8,023 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 7,741 and 8,304 ft, median 8,023 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Apr 2021
2 of 2 wells

2 wells

42-317427244LS7,741 ftApr 2021——
42-317427234WA8,304 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 20261,64638,318106.413.05$291,861
Apr 202665125,72598.932.87$138,227
Mar 20261,62941,20189.753.15$275,963
Feb 20261,79338,38463.503.75$257,808
Jan 20262,18041,46059.138.00$460,497
Dec 20251,85134,33656.664.41$256,415
Nov 20251,96835,90858.593.93$256,296
Oct 20253,07643,28459.383.30$325,700
Sep 20252,58137,29362.743.08$276,680
Aug 20252,22631,88363.933.01$238,428
Jul 20252,61732,21266.743.32$281,448
Jun 20252,54830,05866.483.13$263,434
May 20252,83232,41260.553.23$276,244
Apr 20252,77730,08562.363.54$279,768
Mar 20252,87028,04467.704.27$314,000
Feb 20252,26523,39370.884.34$262,088
Jan 20253,12533,12974.324.28$373,998
Dec 20242,72523,21068.993.12$260,445
Nov 20241,06010,17069.052.20$95,551
Oct 20241,69813,14571.372.28$151,175
Sep 20241,2333,23969.612.36$93,487
Aug 20241,8069,60075.632.06$156,399
Jul 20241,7457,24779.932.15$155,034
Jun 20248605,55678.082.63$81,783
May 20242,92414,43878.812.20$262,182
Apr 20242,6158,54584.451.66$235,015
Mar 20241,7956,16380.301.55$153,661
Feb 20243,0756,69176.091.78$245,911
Jan 20241,9155,53773.023.30$158,092
Dec 202384476571.262.61$62,141
Nov 20231,41992977.892.81$113,134
Oct 20231,3119,71485.443.09$142,002
Sep 20231,2879,02589.042.74$139,278
Aug 20231924180.522.67$15,569
Jul 202335048774.852.64$27,484
Jun 20233,60677,26068.962.26$423,160
May 20234,12088,89370.622.23$488,955
Apr 20234,65181,18178.122.24$545,000
Mar 20233,77571,79772.852.39$446,830
Feb 20233,37374,55375.112.47$437,170
Jan 20235,71285,88976.533.39$728,107
Dec 20225,72180,40476.415.73$897,783
Nov 20226,65475,74385.005.65$993,250
Oct 20225,64760,31187.185.86$845,955
Sep 20225,82239,50584.888.16$816,678
Aug 20223,32417,98294.529.13$478,309
Jul 20226,43554,970101.587.54$1,068,255
Jun 20227,90060,693115.097.98$1,393,371
May 20227,45051,474109.378.43$1,248,889
Apr 20228,40657,236104.226.84$1,267,430
Mar 20229,58854,380108.885.08$1,319,996
Feb 202210,79153,38491.054.86$1,241,905
Jan 202213,60858,25281.844.54$1,378,008
Dec 202119,60178,80071.323.90$1,705,194
Nov 202125,98685,44077.435.24$2,459,532
Oct 202137,061106,94979.795.71$3,568,190
Sep 202139,14379,04569.865.35$3,157,493
Aug 202156,12875,21866.024.22$4,023,035
Jul 202153,17648,31370.783.98$3,956,184
Jun 202147,10736,91369.493.38$3,398,254
May 202140,62437,43163.483.02$2,691,766
Apr 20213,1063,03260.362.76$195,842

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                1,646 bbl  × $106.41 =   $175,151
Casinghead gas    38,318 Mcf  × $  3.05 =   $116,711

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Month total                                 $291,861

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/56028 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.