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 185864District 04Field 355665002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$995 k
Sep 2001 – Jan 2014
Value, last 12 filed months
$15 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
149
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 Gas112002-03-18146140
NGPA1none

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
CondensateDisposition447 bbl$24,564
GasProduction173,700 Mcf$969,990
Total$994,554

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 27.9995, -99.9912. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

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
4,750 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
12.3 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 4,750 ft.

Completions filed
Sep 2001
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jan 2014
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 12.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 12.3 years and 12.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-479379071144,750 ftSep 2001Jan 2014Yes

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 (149)

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

149 months

Jan 2014034890.404.86$1,692
Dec 2013036691.824.35$1,594
Nov 2013033188.853.74$1,237
Oct 2013034297.423.78$1,293
Sep 20130348104.113.72$1,294
Aug 20130300104.253.52$1,057
Jul 20132147102.523.72$752
Jun 20130194.403.93$4
May 2013238594.834.15$1,787
Apr 2013138393.964.28$1,734
Mar 2013234693.623.91$1,541
Feb 2013328591.233.42$1,248
Jan 2013353391.603.42$2,098
Dec 2012459286.773.42$2,372
Nov 2012054086.953.62$1,957
Oct 2012260189.383.40$2,222
Sep 2012055794.672.92$1,626
Aug 2012160392.662.91$1,846
Jul 2012364385.133.02$2,198
Jun 2012261279.822.52$1,701
May 2012366291.612.49$1,922
Apr 20122730101.652.00$1,661
Mar 20123815105.052.22$2,126
Feb 20123703101.102.57$2,110
Jan 2012369798.092.73$2,200
Dec 2011681496.873.24$3,218
Nov 201112,01495.723.31$6,765
Oct 20110084.983.65$0
Sep 201128083.623.99$486
Aug 201161,10183.404.15$5,069
Jul 201131,07094.144.52$5,116
Jun 2011597792.904.64$4,998
May 2011391698.134.40$4,329
Apr 20114888105.964.33$4,272
Mar 2011658696.364.06$2,956
Feb 2011545685.644.18$2,334
Jan 2011472786.504.59$3,682
Dec 20101078785.734.35$4,279
Nov 2010479580.843.80$3,341
Oct 2010484278.103.51$3,267
Sep 2010578972.633.98$3,503
Aug 2010485373.684.42$4,064
Jul 2010475372.554.74$3,857
Jun 2010491470.364.91$4,770
May 2010381971.124.24$3,682
Apr 2010381481.694.12$3,601
Mar 2010392478.394.39$4,290
Feb 201061,01673.585.44$5,971
Jan 2010293574.365.96$5,725
Dec 200931,21771.445.48$6,888
Nov 2009691474.593.75$3,876
Oct 2009368272.544.11$3,021
Sep 200921,37565.543.06$4,345
Aug 200941,05767.423.22$3,672
Jul 2009372061.133.46$2,678
Jun 2009368366.163.90$2,859
May 2009385954.743.93$3,536
Apr 2009184846.773.59$3,089
Mar 2009394042.144.06$3,942
Feb 2009181,14432.814.63$5,891
Jan 200901,21935.865.37$6,547
Dec 200841,04037.105.98$6,365
Nov 2008151,39955.496.86$10,430
Oct 200851,42875.246.92$10,261
Sep 200801,254101.767.88$9,878
Aug 200831,535114.228.48$13,364
Jul 200801,522131.0811.39$17,335
Jun 200821,658131.3313.03$21,871
May 200851,291123.1711.57$15,558
Apr 200821,170110.3110.45$12,453
Mar 200821,268101.909.66$12,458
Feb 200831,16992.538.77$10,530
Jan 200831,24990.388.21$10,520
Dec 200711,13088.337.30$8,340
Nov 200741,08591.677.29$8,278
Oct 200701,13982.856.92$7,884
Sep 200751,15875.846.24$7,610
Aug 2007082869.066.39$5,289
Jul 2007089770.906.39$5,730
Jun 200701,09962.007.55$8,296
May 2007090458.747.85$7,093
Apr 2007096959.617.81$7,563
Mar 200701,02556.927.30$7,485
Feb 2007078055.108.22$6,408
Jan 200701,05350.306.73$7,083
Dec 2006098056.656.92$6,780
Nov 200601,00354.207.62$7,640
Oct 200601,11854.906.01$6,723
Sep 200601,10660.085.04$5,571
Aug 200601,24068.717.34$9,102
Jul 200601,28569.376.34$8,150
Jun 200601,09866.286.38$7,010
May 200601,24466.016.42$7,993
Apr 200601,32864.397.36$9,775
Mar 200601,41256.707.08$10,001
Feb 200601,31657.597.75$10,200
Jan 200601,43560.598.93$12,819
Dec 200501,39554.9413.42$18,714
Nov 200501,28054.6910.59$13,553
Oct 200501,53758.3413.80$21,204
Sep 200501,34061.4512.08$16,186
Aug 200501,61861.519.80$15,851
Jul 200501,63655.697.84$12,832
Jun 200501,60252.337.38$11,824
May 200501,58545.226.65$10,542
Apr 200501,59749.207.36$11,755
Mar 200541,69850.377.15$12,350
Feb 200591,51345.226.31$9,957
Jan 200501,65543.166.32$10,463
Dec 200451,73739.866.75$11,926
Nov 200401,80645.286.33$11,433
Oct 200401,48549.706.52$9,675
Sep 200401,68343.245.28$8,893
Aug 200401,76542.375.55$9,797
Jul 200401,81038.286.08$11,012
Jun 200401,91836.106.43$12,339
May 200472,39537.486.49$15,817
Apr 200402,27534.475.86$13,328
Mar 2004101,33734.365.53$7,737
Feb 2004078732.455.51$4,336
Jan 2004969432.036.30$4,660
Dec 200301,00330.266.30$6,321
Nov 200391,01928.804.60$4,942
Oct 2003093528.174.76$4,450
Sep 200391,08226.314.75$5,376
Aug 200391,06129.765.13$5,710
Jul 200301,16029.415.17$5,998
Jun 200391,13428.565.98$7,042
May 200301,26026.595.97$7,526
Apr 200381,14726.675.41$6,416
Mar 200321,14631.146.10$7,048
Feb 200391,01233.487.93$8,322
Jan 200391,10030.315.58$6,413
Dec 2002085426.914.85$4,145
Nov 2002121,01524.664.14$4,495
Oct 200201,08026.464.23$4,567
Sep 2002111,14227.443.64$4,453
Aug 200251,73925.963.16$5,632
Jul 200292,55724.583.06$8,050
Jun 200201,78723.733.34$5,965
May 200291,85224.663.58$6,860
Apr 200291,88423.653.51$6,830
Mar 200202,36322.003.10$7,332
Feb 2002182,72618.222.38$6,804
Jan 200203,18717.172.38$7,571
Dec 2001173,72316.932.36$9,090
Nov 200173,59618.072.41$8,777
Oct 200105,12119.782.53$12,950
Sep 200131,85424.262.25$4,247

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.

Jan 2014 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 90.40 =         $0
Gas                  348 Mcf  × $  4.86 =     $1,692

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Month total                                   $1,692

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/185864 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.