BRISCOE "E"

Operated by SM ENERGY COMPANY (P-5 788997) in the GOLD RIVER, NORTH (OLMOS) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 185027District 04Field 355665002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.5 M
Sep 2001 – Apr 2013
Value, last 12 filed months
$3 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
140
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, 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 830 leases and 840 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1978-10-01
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
933 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 2005-10-25.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: REMAIN SUSPENDED.

Severance-tax incentive filings

Applications the operator filed to have this lease's gas taxed at a reduced state rate. A filing is an application, and this page never calls one a reduction that was granted.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
High Cost Gas222002-03-18 – 2007-05-292 dockets
NGPA2none

This says nothing about a royalty. A severance tax is charged to the operator. Whether a reduced rate reaches a royalty owner depends on the wording of the lease instrument, which is a private contract this site does not hold.

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
CondensateDisposition830 bbl$45,660
GasProduction224,582 Mcf$1,478,455
Total$1,524,115

Wells on this lease (1)

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 28.0422, -99.9836. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.04218, -99.98364 · 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%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
4,550 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
11.6 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
1100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1100.0%
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

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 4,550 ft.

Completions filed
Sep 2001
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Apr 2013
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 11.6 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 11.6 years and 11.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-479378571074,550 ftSep 2001Apr 2013Yes

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 (140)

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

140 months

Apr 20130093.964.28$0
Mar 201315693.623.91$313
Feb 201317491.233.42$344
Jan 201317691.603.42$352
Dec 201216786.773.42$316
Nov 201205386.953.62$192
Oct 201217789.383.40$351
Sep 201209494.672.92$274
Aug 201209992.662.91$288
Jul 201209085.133.02$272
Jun 201206579.822.52$164
May 201219691.612.49$330
Apr 20121150101.652.00$401
Mar 20121145105.052.22$427
Feb 20121128101.102.57$430
Jan 2012119498.092.73$629
Dec 2011117396.873.24$657
Nov 2011022395.723.31$738
Oct 201101084.983.65$36
Sep 201104483.623.99$175
Aug 20113626983.404.15$4,119
Jul 2011136994.144.52$1,761
Jun 2011242092.904.64$2,135
May 2011240198.134.40$1,963
Apr 20112429105.964.33$2,071
Mar 2011347396.364.06$2,208
Feb 2011220185.644.18$1,011
Jan 2011125386.504.59$1,247
Dec 2010324085.734.35$1,301
Nov 2010125180.843.80$1,033
Oct 2010126978.103.51$1,022
Sep 2010224672.633.98$1,124
Aug 2010128173.684.42$1,316
Jul 2010123972.554.74$1,205
Jun 2010129470.364.91$1,514
May 2010132371.124.24$1,439
Apr 2010227981.694.12$1,314
Mar 2010168578.394.39$3,085
Feb 2010362073.585.44$3,595
Jan 2010263174.365.96$3,912
Dec 2009279571.445.48$4,502
Nov 2009456674.593.75$2,422
Oct 2009361272.544.11$2,733
Sep 2009482265.543.06$2,781
Aug 2009280267.423.22$2,716
Jul 2009076861.133.46$2,661
Jun 2009374066.163.90$3,081
May 200961,11054.743.93$4,686
Apr 200941,04146.773.59$3,922
Mar 200931,30942.144.06$5,440
Feb 200981,01732.814.63$4,974
Jan 200991,21835.865.37$6,865
Dec 200831,11237.105.98$6,758
Nov 200861,23655.496.86$8,812
Oct 200841,08575.246.92$7,811
Sep 2008201,452101.767.88$13,473
Aug 200841,303114.228.48$11,510
Jul 200871,815131.0811.39$21,589
Jun 200832,187131.3313.03$28,896
May 200801,735123.1711.57$20,081
Apr 2008172,085110.3110.45$23,674
Mar 2008462,313101.909.66$27,040
Feb 2008391,94692.538.77$20,676
Jan 2008362,56490.388.21$24,293
Dec 2007352,59988.337.30$22,069
Nov 2007593,68991.677.29$32,308
Oct 200704,32182.856.92$29,910
Sep 200704,58075.846.24$28,598
Aug 200707,13769.066.39$45,591
Jul 2007010,01170.906.39$63,950
Jun 2007011,75062.007.55$88,694
May 2007016,86958.747.85$132,359
Apr 2007019,72259.617.81$153,934
Mar 2007017,31156.927.30$126,404
Feb 2007067355.108.22$5,529
Jan 2007073950.306.73$4,971
Dec 2006060956.656.92$4,213
Nov 2006076754.207.62$5,843
Oct 2006085354.906.01$5,130
Sep 2006087960.085.04$4,428
Aug 2006097568.717.34$7,156
Jul 2006096469.376.34$6,114
Jun 2006087766.286.38$5,599
May 2006099566.016.42$6,393
Apr 200601,12364.397.36$8,266
Mar 200601,30056.707.08$9,208
Feb 200601,06657.597.75$8,263
Jan 200601,26660.598.93$11,310
Dec 200501,15054.9413.42$15,428
Nov 200501,18954.6910.59$12,590
Oct 200501,10658.3413.80$15,258
Sep 200501,30561.4512.08$15,763
Aug 200501,51461.519.80$14,832
Jul 200501,74455.697.84$13,679
Jun 200501,34852.337.38$9,950
May 200501,32545.226.65$8,813
Apr 200501,59549.207.36$11,740
Mar 200501,48450.377.15$10,618
Feb 200501,07545.226.31$6,785
Jan 200501,36443.166.32$8,623
Dec 200401,36839.866.75$9,235
Nov 200401,40945.286.33$8,920
Oct 200411,29149.706.52$8,461
Sep 200401,56843.245.28$8,285
Aug 200411,58742.375.55$8,851
Jul 200401,59938.286.08$9,729
Jun 200401,60736.106.43$10,338
May 200402,01237.486.49$13,067
Apr 200401,62334.475.86$9,508
Mar 200481,47734.365.53$8,443
Feb 200401,44032.455.51$7,934
Jan 2004083732.036.30$5,273
Dec 20031982230.266.30$5,755
Nov 2003075928.804.60$3,488
Oct 2003090228.174.76$4,293
Sep 20032173326.314.75$4,034
Aug 2003085529.765.13$4,386
Jul 2003092629.415.17$4,788
Jun 20032178128.565.98$5,272
May 2003091826.595.97$5,483
Apr 20032183626.675.41$5,081
Mar 2003211,00631.146.10$6,787
Feb 2003077733.487.93$6,158
Jan 20033994230.315.58$6,440
Dec 2002099326.914.85$4,820
Nov 20021889824.664.14$4,159
Oct 2002211,11926.464.23$5,288
Sep 2002096127.443.64$3,493
Aug 200201,19825.963.16$3,791
Jul 2002191,02124.583.06$3,593
Jun 200201,37123.733.34$4,577
May 2002191,34624.663.58$5,293
Apr 200201,24623.653.51$4,376
Mar 2002191,23722.003.10$4,256
Feb 2002181,55218.222.38$4,015
Jan 2002341,98117.172.38$5,290
Dec 2001452,43416.932.36$6,517
Nov 2001702,20618.072.41$6,571
Oct 200193,45819.782.53$8,923
Sep 200105,49224.262.25$12,364

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.

Mar 2013 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             1 bbl  × $ 93.62 =        $94
Gas                   56 Mcf  × $  3.91 =       $219

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Month total                                     $313

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. 04/G/185027 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.