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 204229District 04Field 355665002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.1 M
Jul 2004 – Nov 2013
Value, last 12 filed months
$11 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
113
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 Gas112005-04-28160478
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
CondensateDisposition246 bbl$18,964
GasProduction157,913 Mcf$1,084,027
Total$1,102,991

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 28.0521, -99.9839. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.05208, -99.98393 · 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
4,705 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
9.3 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 4,705 ft.

Completions filed
Jul 2004
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Nov 2013
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 9.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 9.3 years and 9.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-479387272024,705 ftJul 2004Nov 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 (113)

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

113 months

Nov 20130088.853.74$0
Oct 20130297.423.78$8
Sep 201302104.113.72$7
Aug 20130246104.253.52$867
Jul 20131344102.523.72$1,381
Jun 2013028794.403.93$1,129
May 2013132794.834.15$1,452
Apr 2013131393.964.28$1,434
Mar 2013228893.623.91$1,314
Feb 2013129091.233.42$1,083
Jan 2013235791.603.42$1,404
Dec 2012031786.773.42$1,084
Nov 2012024786.953.62$895
Oct 2012128689.383.40$1,062
Sep 2012029994.672.92$873
Aug 2012126992.662.91$875
Jul 2012125685.133.02$858
Jun 2012125079.822.52$710
May 2012123091.612.49$664
Apr 20121234101.652.00$569
Mar 20121226105.052.22$607
Feb 20121226101.102.57$682
Jan 2012127698.092.73$853
Dec 2011118696.873.24$699
Nov 2011021595.723.31$712
Oct 20111984.983.65$118
Sep 201104283.623.99$167
Aug 2011228483.404.15$1,345
Jul 2011133394.144.52$1,598
Jun 2011129592.904.64$1,462
May 2011127598.134.40$1,309
Apr 20112300105.964.33$1,512
Mar 2011441696.364.06$2,073
Feb 2011847485.644.18$2,666
Jan 2011463986.504.59$3,278
Dec 2010151,04085.734.35$5,808
Nov 201051,15180.843.80$4,773
Oct 201051,19278.103.51$4,573
Sep 201081,03372.633.98$4,692
Aug 201061,20773.684.42$5,776
Jul 201061,10472.554.74$5,664
Jun 201051,37370.364.91$7,094
May 201041,32371.124.24$5,888
Apr 201061,10281.694.12$5,033
Mar 201051,15978.394.39$5,478
Feb 2010587273.585.44$5,114
Jan 2010378874.365.96$4,923
Dec 2009288671.445.48$5,001
Nov 2009476774.593.75$3,176
Oct 200971,08472.544.11$4,963
Sep 200951,10665.543.06$3,717
Aug 200961,01767.423.22$3,678
Jul 200931,14161.133.46$4,136
Jun 2009599266.163.90$4,195
May 2009792854.743.93$4,026
Apr 2009475946.773.59$2,910
Mar 200971,15242.144.06$4,971
Feb 20091686432.814.63$4,528
Jan 200901,06235.865.37$5,704
Dec 200841,43237.105.98$8,708
Nov 200892,21655.496.86$15,702
Oct 200871,68075.246.92$12,156
Sep 200831,153101.767.88$9,388
Aug 200831,676114.228.48$14,560
Jul 200841,699131.0811.39$19,875
Jun 200821,692131.3313.03$22,314
May 200861,586123.1711.57$19,096
Apr 200812,104110.3110.45$22,107
Mar 200841,629101.909.66$16,150
Feb 200871,48192.538.77$13,637
Jan 200842,23090.388.21$18,660
Dec 200742,06688.337.30$15,439
Nov 200772,13691.677.29$16,217
Oct 200702,07682.856.92$14,370
Sep 200702,67875.846.24$16,722
Aug 2007090069.066.39$5,749
Jul 200701,51470.906.39$9,671
Jun 2007039962.007.55$3,012
May 200701,76458.747.85$13,841
Apr 200702,22659.617.81$17,374
Mar 200701,27556.927.30$9,310
Feb 200701,27555.108.22$10,475
Jan 200701,50150.306.73$10,097
Dec 200601,44856.656.92$10,018
Nov 200601,31254.207.62$9,994
Oct 200601,57754.906.01$9,484
Sep 200601,51660.085.04$7,636
Aug 200601,42968.717.34$10,489
Jul 200601,74969.376.34$11,093
Jun 200601,68566.286.38$10,757
May 200601,75066.016.42$11,244
Apr 200601,92264.397.36$14,147
Mar 200602,28456.707.08$16,177
Feb 200601,73257.597.75$13,425
Jan 200602,22060.598.93$19,832
Dec 200502,67454.9413.42$35,873
Nov 200502,11254.6910.59$22,363
Oct 200502,32158.3413.80$32,020
Sep 200502,54761.4512.08$30,765
Aug 200502,97761.519.80$29,165
Jul 200503,35655.697.84$26,323
Jun 200502,83052.337.38$20,888
May 200503,64045.226.65$24,210
Apr 200502,42849.207.36$17,871
Mar 200503,47950.377.15$24,892
Feb 200503,03345.226.31$19,144
Jan 200503,68943.166.32$23,323
Dec 200403,54339.866.75$23,919
Nov 200403,76445.286.33$23,828
Oct 200404,13949.706.52$26,966
Sep 200405,51643.245.28$29,146
Aug 200408,19542.375.55$45,488
Jul 200402,51638.286.08$15,308

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.

Oct 2013 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 97.42 =         $0
Gas                    2 Mcf  × $  3.78 =         $8

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                       $8

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/204229 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.