BRUTUS BUCKEYE 28-40 G

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 57279District 08Field 85280300OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$77.7 M
Mar 2022 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$5.5 M
at the published price for each month
Months reported
51
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead gas

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
OilDisposition803,767 bbl$69,327,414
Casinghead gasProduction2,071,090 Mcf$8,357,451
Total$77,684,865

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 32.3558, -101.5840. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.35583, -101.58402 · 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
7,652 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 7,420 and 7,883 ft, median 7,652 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Mar 2022
2 of 2 wells

2 wells

42-227408987LS7,420 ftMar 2022
42-227408997WA7,883 ftMar 2022

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 (51)

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

51 months

May 20264,85619,787106.413.05$576,995
Apr 20263,72412,45098.932.87$404,143
Mar 20263,4346,40689.753.15$328,377
Feb 20264,76632,55463.503.75$424,729
Jan 20265,17642,98959.138.00$649,879
Dec 20255,12731,55156.664.41$429,742
Nov 20255,93243,08158.593.93$516,711
Oct 20255,96940,02059.383.30$486,699
Sep 20255,91238,67262.743.08$489,910
Aug 20255,28834,16463.933.01$441,058
Jul 20254,20549,15566.743.32$443,600
Jun 20252,79430,60566.483.13$281,500
May 20253,73344,22060.553.23$368,966
Apr 20254,30546,85362.363.54$434,466
Mar 20254,33244,03467.704.27$481,228
Feb 20253,78927,89570.884.34$389,652
Jan 20255,34830,04774.324.28$526,025
Dec 20244,86730,79468.993.12$431,894
Nov 20244,48718,96169.052.20$351,512
Oct 20243,1299,24571.372.28$244,408
Sep 20244,07721,46069.612.36$334,539
Aug 20244,04120,71575.632.06$348,369
Jul 20245,22932,09479.932.15$486,847
Jun 20245,49127,23778.082.63$500,479
May 20244,9918,99878.812.20$413,122
Apr 20245,0328,25284.451.66$438,644
Mar 20243,2014,93080.301.55$264,658
Feb 20249,15313,57876.091.78$720,670
Jan 20249,44123,18273.023.30$765,828
Dec 20238,38227,19171.262.61$668,289
Nov 20237,13227,59377.892.81$632,980
Oct 20236,20733,91185.443.09$635,019
Sep 202313,95871,17589.042.74$1,437,487
Aug 202311,10849,79780.522.67$1,027,518
Jul 202315,04968,43974.852.64$1,307,220
Jun 202319,77171,35768.962.26$1,524,567
May 202318,83369,83470.622.23$1,485,535
Apr 202319,76274,84778.122.24$1,711,297
Mar 202325,32675,42472.852.39$2,025,501
Feb 202326,28796,51975.112.47$2,212,402
Jan 202357,416103,95876.533.39$4,746,227
Dec 202235,89291,90076.415.73$3,269,010
Nov 202238,47380,54885.005.65$3,724,995
Oct 202245,59878,84287.185.86$4,437,544
Sep 202248,50967,26084.888.16$4,666,533
Aug 202263,58469,65294.529.13$6,645,685
Jul 202278,75149,724101.587.54$8,374,549
Jun 202261,62335,039115.097.98$7,371,704
May 202248,30825,662109.378.43$5,499,855
Apr 202211,5107,755104.226.84$1,252,598
Mar 2022459734108.885.08$53,702

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                4,856 bbl  × $106.41 =   $516,727
Casinghead gas    19,787 Mcf  × $  3.05 =    $60,268

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Month total                                 $576,995

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/57279 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.