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 188020District 04Field 355665002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$820 k
Mar 2002 – Jul 2014
Value, last 12 filed months
$8 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 Gas112002-05-31147707
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
CondensateDisposition446 bbl$25,998
GasProduction140,538 Mcf$794,122
Total$820,120

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 28.0035, -99.9357. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.00353, -99.93569 · 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
4,980 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 4,980 ft.

Completions filed
Mar 2002
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jul 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

42-47938025974,980 ftMar 2002Jul 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

Jul 20140096.564.18$0
Jun 20140098.164.74$0
May 20140194.734.73$5
Apr 201404495.944.81$212
Mar 2014012495.895.06$627
Feb 2014013697.406.19$842
Jan 2014023790.404.86$1,152
Dec 2013026391.824.35$1,145
Nov 2013028188.853.74$1,050
Oct 2013023597.423.78$888
Sep 20130268104.113.72$996
Aug 20130311104.253.52$1,096
Jul 201315273102.523.72$2,553
Jun 2013029694.403.93$1,164
May 2013133694.834.15$1,489
Apr 2013035493.964.28$1,516
Mar 2013231793.623.91$1,428
Feb 2013126991.233.42$1,011
Jan 2013524491.603.42$1,292
Dec 2012021286.773.42$725
Nov 2012022186.953.62$801
Oct 2012122689.383.40$858
Sep 2012025194.672.92$733
Aug 2012128492.662.91$919
Jul 2012124185.133.02$813
Jun 2012119479.822.52$569
May 2012121091.612.49$614
Apr 20121275101.652.00$651
Mar 20121259105.052.22$681
Feb 20121259101.102.57$767
Jan 2012125398.092.73$790
Dec 2011132296.873.24$1,140
Nov 2011032895.723.31$1,086
Oct 20110084.983.65$0
Sep 201102483.623.99$96
Aug 2011132183.404.15$1,415
Jul 2011132394.144.52$1,553
Jun 2011229992.904.64$1,573
May 2011241598.134.40$2,024
Apr 20112433105.964.33$2,088
Mar 2011342496.364.06$2,009
Feb 2011551985.644.18$2,598
Jan 2011366586.504.59$3,311
Dec 20106063585.734.35$7,905
Nov 2010260080.843.80$2,439
Oct 2010351778.103.51$2,048
Sep 2010379772.633.98$3,390
Aug 2010482173.684.42$3,923
Jul 2010451372.554.74$2,720
Jun 2010359770.364.91$3,143
May 2010261271.124.24$2,734
Apr 2010575881.694.12$3,533
Mar 2010498578.394.39$4,636
Feb 2010548773.585.44$3,018
Jan 2010243674.365.96$2,749
Dec 2009241071.445.48$2,391
Nov 2009122174.593.75$904
Oct 2009160372.544.11$2,551
Sep 2009326565.543.06$1,009
Aug 2009257067.423.22$1,969
Jul 2009352461.133.46$1,999
Jun 2009337166.163.90$1,644
May 2009439954.743.93$1,785
Apr 2009343346.773.59$1,694
Mar 2009340242.144.06$1,758
Feb 2009040332.814.63$1,867
Jan 2009143935.865.37$2,394
Dec 2008254837.105.98$3,350
Nov 2008370555.496.86$5,003
Oct 2008167075.246.92$4,713
Sep 20083577101.767.88$4,850
Aug 20082675114.228.48$5,954
Jul 20080684131.0811.39$7,790
Jun 20081708131.3313.03$9,358
May 20081655123.1711.57$7,704
Apr 20082678110.3110.45$7,309
Mar 20081708101.909.66$6,944
Feb 2008275592.538.77$6,807
Jan 2008177190.388.21$6,417
Dec 2007281988.337.30$6,157
Nov 2007373091.677.29$5,598
Oct 2007068582.856.92$4,742
Sep 2007056475.846.24$3,522
Aug 2007464169.066.39$4,371
Jul 2007465770.906.39$4,480
Jun 2007465962.007.55$5,222
May 2007575858.747.85$6,241
Apr 2007164059.617.81$5,055
Mar 2007177756.927.30$5,731
Feb 2007165555.108.22$5,437
Jan 2007279350.306.73$5,435
Dec 2006275256.656.92$5,316
Nov 2006089754.207.62$6,833
Oct 200601,08254.906.01$6,507
Sep 200601,03360.085.04$5,203
Aug 200601,03968.717.34$7,626
Jul 2006071369.376.34$4,522
Jun 200601,09166.286.38$6,965
May 200601,09766.016.42$7,048
Apr 200601,07564.397.36$7,913
Mar 200601,13956.707.08$8,067
Feb 2006092857.597.75$7,193
Jan 200601,17060.598.93$10,452
Dec 200501,10754.9413.42$14,851
Nov 2005088954.6910.59$9,413
Oct 200501,01258.3413.80$13,961
Sep 200501,29661.4512.08$15,654
Aug 200501,16361.519.80$11,394
Jul 200501,25055.697.84$9,805
Jun 200501,21852.337.38$8,990
May 200501,32545.226.65$8,813
Apr 200501,97949.207.36$14,566
Mar 200501,56650.377.15$11,205
Feb 2005094545.226.31$5,965
Jan 200581,43043.166.32$9,386
Dec 2004171,40339.866.75$10,149
Nov 2004351,31545.286.33$9,909
Oct 200461,13949.706.52$7,719
Sep 2004131,14243.245.28$6,596
Aug 200481,29142.375.55$7,505
Jul 2004121,42338.286.08$9,117
Jun 200441,54336.106.43$10,071
May 2004101,56037.486.49$10,506
Apr 200431,66734.475.86$9,869
Mar 200411,63034.365.53$9,048
Feb 200421,54232.455.51$8,561
Jan 200421,65732.036.30$10,503
Dec 200351,59230.266.30$10,184
Nov 200311,65628.804.60$7,638
Oct 200321,79128.174.76$8,581
Sep 200331,70326.314.75$8,167
Aug 200321,71429.765.13$8,852
Jul 200331,70129.415.17$8,884
Jun 200361,67528.565.98$10,193
May 200321,84226.595.97$11,055
Apr 200342,13426.675.41$11,646
Mar 200361,83131.146.10$11,349
Feb 2003101,40433.487.93$11,463
Jan 200371,94530.315.58$11,069
Dec 200272,38926.914.85$11,784
Nov 200281,84924.664.14$7,847
Oct 200222,03326.464.23$8,651
Sep 200245,13327.443.64$18,769
Aug 200242,38925.963.16$7,663
Jul 200273,95324.583.06$12,275
Jun 200284,31523.733.34$14,594
May 200284,62324.663.58$16,766
Apr 200223,98823.653.51$14,054
Mar 200204,11322.003.10$12,761

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 2014 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 94.73 =         $0
Gas                    1 Mcf  × $  4.73 =         $5

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Month total                                       $5

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/188020 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.