LONGCLAW 34-27 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 60265District 08Field 85280300OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$30.9 M
Jun 2023 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$4.3 M
at the published price for each month
Months reported
36
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
OilDisposition400,766 bbl$30,503,542
Casinghead gasProduction147,504 Mcf$398,316
Total$30,901,859

Wells on this lease (4)

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 32.4699, -101.7749. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.6 miles.

32.46980, -101.77506 · 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
100.0%
4 of 4 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
4 of 4 wells
Median depth
8,710 ft
4 wells filed one
Completion to plug
4.2 years
median over 4 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
4100.0%
A plug date is filed
4100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
4100.0%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
00.0%

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 8,700 and 8,750 ft, median 8,710 ft, over the 4 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Nov 1978 – Jul 2022
4 of 4 wells
Plug dates filed
Apr 2015 – Mar 2025
4 of 4 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 4.2 years across the 4 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 2.6 years and 15.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

4 wells

42-31732554C 18,710 ftJul 2022Mar 2025Yes
42-31732382B 18,700 ftJun 2022Oct 2024Yes
42-3171027518,750 ftSep 2009Apr 2015Yes
42-317320241248,710 ftNov 1978Mar 2025Yes

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 (36)

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

36 months

May 20263,8761,612106.413.05$417,355
Apr 20264,7241,90498.932.87$472,809
Mar 20265,0972,01689.753.15$463,805
Feb 20264,5171,36463.503.75$291,945
Jan 20262,6291,09359.138.00$164,195
Dec 20254,3711,98056.664.41$256,399
Nov 20254,5612,51558.593.93$277,104
Oct 20255,1321,34859.383.30$309,193
Sep 20255,5841,54662.743.08$355,097
Aug 20256,3461,92163.933.01$411,491
Jul 20256,5881,50666.743.32$444,676
Jun 20255,8381,20566.483.13$391,880
May 20255,91586260.553.23$360,940
Apr 20258,5221,52562.363.54$536,835
Mar 20258,2811,76167.704.27$568,140
Feb 20252,61436770.884.34$186,873
Jan 20257,35699474.324.28$550,951
Dec 20247,7431,20368.993.12$537,945
Nov 20244,70789269.052.20$326,979
Oct 20247,5861,79271.372.28$545,501
Sep 20246,8801,31769.612.36$482,031
Aug 20248,4072,81075.632.06$641,620
Jul 20249,6523,54979.932.15$779,103
Jun 202410,4754,74378.082.63$830,381
May 202412,3526,03078.812.20$986,718
Apr 202413,4726,38184.451.66$1,148,298
Mar 202416,5057,49380.301.55$1,336,929
Feb 202416,5826,31376.091.78$1,272,985
Jan 202418,2845,68273.023.30$1,353,835
Dec 202321,1906,32171.262.61$1,526,502
Nov 202325,4588,53577.892.81$2,006,886
Oct 202327,0208,61885.443.09$2,335,195
Sep 202328,09710,12289.042.74$2,529,441
Aug 202332,26617,80980.522.67$2,645,660
Jul 202332,77717,39474.852.64$2,499,310
Jun 20239,3624,98168.962.26$656,853

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                3,876 bbl  × $106.41 =   $412,445
Casinghead gas     1,612 Mcf  × $  3.05 =     $4,910

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Month total                                 $417,355

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/60265 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.