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BIG JAY 10-15 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 56522District 08Field 85280300OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$45.9 M
May 2021 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$2.8 M
at the published price for each month
Months reported
61
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
OilDisposition403,501 bbl$30,654,932
Casinghead gasProduction4,122,375 Mcf$15,196,235
Total$45,851,167

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 32.2574, -101.7513. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.25739, -101.75128 · 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
8,110 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 7,904 and 8,315 ft, median 8,110 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
May 2021
2 of 2 wells

2 wells

42-317426214WA8,315 ftMay 2021——
42-317426224LS7,904 ftMay 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 (61)

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

61 months

May 202673633,268106.413.05$179,647
Apr 202626228,76498.932.87$108,464
Mar 202632441,82789.753.15$160,811
Feb 202637044,41063.503.75$190,047
Jan 202640047,40859.138.00$402,817
Dec 202542055,71056.664.41$269,665
Nov 202536758,66858.593.93$251,859
Oct 202547869,67059.383.30$258,632
Sep 202551065,95962.743.08$234,948
Aug 202554169,78963.933.01$244,983
Jul 202564968,68966.743.32$271,032
Jun 202559462,75266.483.13$235,823
May 20251,18756,42360.553.23$254,250
Apr 202553352,79062.363.54$220,279
Mar 202585462,77367.704.27$325,751
Feb 202563050,17070.884.34$262,434
Jan 202565567,38574.324.28$336,998
Dec 202489380,98468.993.12$314,389
Nov 202493578,09769.052.20$236,253
Oct 20241,20281,72671.372.28$272,236
Sep 20241,18170,06069.612.36$247,856
Aug 202487961,33275.632.06$193,045
Jul 20241,28178,29679.932.15$270,460
Jun 20241,43182,41678.082.63$328,815
May 20241,89697,93078.812.20$364,717
Apr 20241,09694,15084.451.66$248,771
Mar 20241,40299,61980.301.55$266,505
Feb 202467957,09776.091.78$153,506
Jan 20241,685100,16873.023.30$453,359
Dec 20231,57196,22171.262.61$363,156
Nov 20231,482108,08977.892.81$418,899
Oct 20232,09082,81185.443.09$434,230
Sep 20232,10083,75689.042.74$416,060
Aug 20232,590103,66380.522.67$485,626
Jul 20231,91375,38674.852.64$342,343
Jun 20231,26258,62068.962.26$219,420
May 20232,48284,66670.622.23$363,864
Apr 20233,51183,67378.122.24$461,519
Mar 20235,72391,20272.852.39$635,182
Feb 20233,17731,88975.112.47$317,253
Jan 20233,15644,04376.533.39$390,734
Dec 20225,34468,65076.415.73$801,636
Nov 20224,49347,42985.005.65$649,699
Oct 20223,50832,15187.185.86$494,353
Sep 20222,69027,36784.888.16$451,743
Aug 20222762,92694.529.13$52,794
Jul 20222,88335,328101.587.54$559,302
Jun 20226,40165,594115.097.98$1,259,948
May 20225,80260,165109.378.43$1,141,939
Apr 20227,85685,480104.226.84$1,403,230
Mar 202210,49592,109108.885.08$1,610,278
Feb 202210,93083,19491.054.86$1,399,403
Jan 202214,56693,71581.844.54$1,617,330
Dec 202115,93487,18871.323.90$1,476,369
Nov 202121,01993,57577.435.24$2,117,539
Oct 202129,719102,26679.795.71$2,955,614
Sep 202136,20486,86769.865.35$2,994,030
Aug 202158,56793,35866.024.22$4,260,619
Jul 202163,86058,00870.783.98$4,751,003
Jun 202143,66239,88969.493.38$3,168,922
May 20214,1654,76763.483.02$278,779

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                  736 bbl  × $106.41 =    $78,318
Casinghead gas    33,268 Mcf  × $  3.05 =   $101,329

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Month total                                 $179,647

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/56522 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.