HOT PIE 37-48 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 61245District 08Field 85280300OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$56.6 M
Mar 2024 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$15.8 M
at the published price for each month
Months reported
27
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
OilDisposition755,301 bbl$55,504,274
Casinghead gasProduction371,140 Mcf$1,143,445
Total$56,647,718

Every month this lease reported (27)

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

27 months

May 202617,02812,514106.413.05$1,850,065
Apr 202617,22012,43698.932.87$1,739,262
Mar 202617,31213,23489.753.15$1,595,432
Feb 202616,58810,66963.503.75$1,093,350
Jan 202620,13512,63059.138.00$1,291,596
Dec 202526,15615,13156.664.41$1,548,778
Nov 202529,13913,63858.593.93$1,760,803
Oct 202521,4197,60259.383.30$1,296,984
Sep 202524,3268,79862.743.08$1,553,284
Aug 202511,1535,38063.933.01$729,231
Jul 202511,9115,65666.743.32$813,691
Jun 20258,3414,47466.483.13$568,508
May 202518,67913,00360.553.23$1,173,043
Apr 202519,41613,97462.363.54$1,260,293
Mar 202522,17414,39867.704.27$1,562,635
Feb 202521,03311,27670.884.34$1,539,766
Jan 202525,71813,83574.324.28$1,970,557
Dec 202426,83613,38068.993.12$1,893,180
Nov 202427,63813,72169.052.20$1,938,569
Oct 202432,87216,56971.372.28$2,383,875
Sep 202435,68219,20869.612.36$2,529,239
Aug 202441,00920,77275.632.06$3,144,376
Jul 202446,10319,54879.932.15$3,726,974
Jun 202451,64719,87478.082.63$4,084,945
May 202472,75826,58078.812.20$5,792,493
Apr 202468,60124,64284.451.66$5,834,240
Mar 202424,4078,19880.301.55$1,972,549

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               17,028 bbl  × $106.41 = $1,811,949
Casinghead gas    12,514 Mcf  × $  3.05 =    $38,116

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Month total                               $1,850,065

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/61245 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.