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 189998District 04Field 355665002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$557 k
Feb 2002 – Jun 2013
Value, last 12 filed months
$4 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
137
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 Gas112003-05-15151440
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
CondensateDisposition294 bbl$12,103
GasProduction87,577 Mcf$545,130
Total$557,233

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 28.0405, -99.9291. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.04048, -99.92913 · 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
5,150 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
11.3 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 5,150 ft.

Completions filed
Feb 2002
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jun 2013
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 11.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 11.3 years and 11.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-47934418795,150 ftFeb 2002Jun 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 (137)

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

137 months

Jun 201304694.403.93$181
May 20130094.834.15$0
Apr 2013014393.964.28$612
Mar 201317093.623.91$368
Feb 2013011191.233.42$380
Jan 2013012991.603.42$441
Dec 2012112986.773.42$528
Nov 2012010386.953.62$373
Oct 201208989.383.40$303
Sep 201208294.672.92$239
Aug 201208592.662.91$247
Jul 201219785.133.02$378
Jun 201209479.822.52$237
May 2012112391.612.49$398
Apr 20120102101.652.00$204
Mar 20121156105.052.22$452
Feb 20121197101.102.57$607
Jan 2012022898.092.73$623
Dec 20110296.873.24$6
Nov 20110295.723.31$7
Oct 20110084.983.65$0
Sep 20110183.623.99$4
Aug 20110283.404.15$8
Jul 20110294.144.52$9
Jun 20110292.904.64$9
May 20110298.134.40$9
Apr 20112137105.964.33$806
Mar 2011237696.364.06$1,718
Feb 2011339385.644.18$1,900
Jan 2011244686.504.59$2,220
Dec 2010440885.734.35$2,117
Nov 2010246580.843.80$1,927
Oct 2010246778.103.51$1,795
Sep 2010242872.633.98$1,848
Aug 2010245973.684.42$2,176
Jul 2010237072.554.74$1,898
Jun 2010240770.364.91$2,139
May 2010148871.124.24$2,138
Apr 2010233481.694.12$1,540
Mar 2010045878.394.39$2,010
Feb 2010149573.585.44$2,768
Jan 2010268174.365.96$4,210
Dec 2009172571.445.48$4,047
Nov 2009365174.593.75$2,666
Oct 2009460772.544.11$2,785
Sep 2009186165.543.06$2,704
Aug 2009270067.423.22$2,388
Jul 2009069861.133.46$2,418
Jun 2009082066.163.90$3,194
May 2009088354.743.93$3,466
Apr 2009069546.773.59$2,493
Mar 2009168142.144.06$2,806
Feb 2009066332.814.63$3,072
Jan 2009080335.865.37$4,313
Dec 2008190137.105.98$5,423
Nov 200811,22255.496.86$8,439
Oct 2008092675.246.92$6,410
Sep 20081740101.767.88$5,931
Aug 20081964114.228.48$8,292
Jul 20083853131.0811.39$10,108
Jun 20080796131.3313.03$10,374
May 20081904123.1711.57$10,586
Apr 200801,084110.3110.45$11,333
Mar 200801,098101.909.66$10,611
Feb 2008095292.538.77$8,350
Jan 2008091790.388.21$7,525
Dec 2007185488.337.30$6,324
Nov 200701,09391.677.29$7,970
Oct 200701,09682.856.92$7,586
Sep 200701,11875.846.24$6,981
Aug 2007194669.066.39$6,112
Jul 200711,01970.906.39$6,580
Jun 2007188862.007.55$6,765
May 200721,14658.747.85$9,109
Apr 200721,18259.617.81$9,345
Mar 200721,31556.927.30$9,716
Feb 200721,08255.108.22$9,000
Jan 200721,25950.306.73$8,570
Dec 200631,12656.656.92$7,960
Nov 200621,36654.207.62$10,514
Oct 200601,32754.906.01$7,980
Sep 200601,26860.085.04$6,387
Aug 200601,47668.717.34$10,834
Jul 200601,55369.376.34$9,850
Jun 200601,41966.286.38$9,059
May 200601,66266.016.42$10,678
Apr 200601,64764.397.36$12,123
Mar 2006041856.707.08$2,961
Feb 2006030457.597.75$2,356
Jan 2006023460.598.93$2,090
Dec 2005030454.9413.42$4,078
Nov 2005042054.6910.59$4,447
Oct 2005031658.3413.80$4,359
Sep 2005030761.4512.08$3,708
Aug 2005032461.519.80$3,174
Jul 2005030355.697.84$2,377
Jun 2005052652.337.38$3,882
May 2005062945.226.65$4,184
Apr 2005059849.207.36$4,402
Mar 2005027450.377.15$1,960
Feb 2005041345.226.31$2,607
Jan 2005042443.166.32$2,681
Dec 2004034739.866.75$2,343
Nov 2004035345.286.33$2,235
Oct 2004038049.706.52$2,476
Sep 2004032743.245.28$1,728
Aug 2004032542.375.55$1,804
Jul 2004043238.286.08$2,628
Jun 2004033536.106.43$2,155
May 2004036437.486.49$2,364
Apr 2004329434.475.86$1,826
Mar 2004864734.365.53$3,853
Feb 2004863032.455.51$3,731
Jan 2004871532.036.30$4,760
Dec 2003677030.266.30$5,034
Nov 2003884728.804.60$4,123
Oct 2003161,18328.174.76$6,081
Sep 200381,75826.314.75$8,560
Aug 200381,53629.765.13$8,117
Jul 2003171,10029.415.17$6,188
Jun 200381,10728.565.98$6,852
May 200371,18726.595.97$7,276
Apr 2003241,37326.675.41$8,064
Mar 2003351,59631.146.10$10,819
Feb 200381,50333.487.93$12,180
Jan 200301,73530.315.58$9,685
Dec 200281,42426.914.85$7,127
Nov 2002873724.664.14$3,246
Oct 2002052226.464.23$2,208
Sep 2002038727.443.64$1,407
Aug 2002846925.963.16$1,692
Jul 2002035224.583.06$1,078
Jun 2002842123.733.34$1,595
May 2002030624.663.58$1,097
Apr 2002839523.653.51$1,577
Mar 2002034922.003.10$1,083
Feb 2002678218.222.38$1,967

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.

Jun 2013 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 94.40 =         $0
Gas                   46 Mcf  × $  3.93 =       $181

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Month total                                     $181

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/189998 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.