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 204419District 04Field 355665002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.8 M
Sep 2004 – Nov 2013
Value, last 12 filed months
$19 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
111
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 Gas112005-08-16163100
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
CondensateDisposition1,134 bbl$84,079
GasProduction246,554 Mcf$1,722,837
Total$1,806,916

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 28.0470, -99.9941. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.04702, -99.99411 · 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
4,750 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
9.2 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 2004
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Nov 2013
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 9.2 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 9.2 years and 9.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-479388052064,750 ftSep 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 (111)

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

111 months

Nov 20130088.853.74$0
Oct 2013048697.423.78$1,837
Sep 20130433104.113.72$1,610
Aug 20130294104.253.52$1,036
Jul 20132360102.523.72$1,543
Jun 2013034894.403.93$1,369
May 2013238394.834.15$1,779
Apr 2013247093.964.28$2,201
Mar 2013238993.623.91$1,709
Feb 2013242391.233.42$1,629
Jan 2013539291.603.42$1,799
Dec 20121135486.773.42$2,165
Nov 2012439886.953.62$1,791
Oct 2012246189.383.40$1,746
Sep 2012054794.672.92$1,596
Aug 2012150592.662.91$1,561
Jul 2012252485.133.02$1,753
Jun 2012139979.822.52$1,085
May 2012127891.612.49$783
Apr 20125263101.652.00$1,033
Mar 20121224105.052.22$603
Feb 20121298101.102.57$867
Jan 2012139498.092.73$1,175
Dec 2011238496.873.24$1,438
Nov 2011041295.723.31$1,364
Oct 20110184.983.65$4
Sep 201116883.623.99$355
Aug 20111247783.404.15$2,980
Jul 2011152994.144.52$2,484
Jun 2011465692.904.64$3,415
May 2011269998.134.40$3,275
Apr 20114811105.964.33$3,938
Mar 2011883296.364.06$4,147
Feb 20112996385.644.18$6,509
Jan 201151,12786.504.59$5,604
Dec 20102893085.734.35$6,444
Nov 201051,01980.843.80$4,272
Oct 201051,15578.103.51$4,443
Sep 2010181,09172.633.98$5,649
Aug 2010131,13973.684.42$5,991
Jul 2010111,11872.554.74$6,093
Jun 2010499870.364.91$5,182
May 2010378971.124.24$3,555
Apr 2010476381.694.12$3,472
Mar 20101878778.394.39$4,865
Feb 2010996073.585.44$5,887
Jan 201031,21474.365.96$7,463
Dec 200961,25871.445.48$7,327
Nov 20091098274.593.75$4,430
Oct 2009388772.544.11$3,863
Sep 2009093965.543.06$2,878
Aug 2009593967.423.22$3,359
Jul 2009388561.133.46$3,249
Jun 2009577966.163.90$3,365
May 20091198054.743.93$4,449
Apr 200941,06646.773.59$4,011
Mar 200961,03142.144.06$4,438
Feb 2009498332.814.63$4,685
Jan 2009121,22835.865.37$7,026
Dec 200831,46437.105.98$8,862
Nov 2008112,14855.496.86$15,346
Oct 200862,34575.246.92$16,683
Sep 200826525101.767.88$6,781
Aug 200882,463114.228.48$21,807
Jul 2008121,875131.0811.39$22,928
Jun 2008152,600131.3313.03$35,855
May 2008372,428123.1711.57$32,660
Apr 2008173,744110.3110.45$41,018
Mar 2008342,935101.909.66$31,829
Feb 2008363,25992.538.77$31,914
Jan 2008343,69290.388.21$33,368
Dec 2007313,77588.337.30$30,303
Nov 2007183,32791.677.29$25,910
Oct 200702,80982.856.92$19,444
Sep 200703,18475.846.24$19,881
Aug 2007242,26269.066.39$16,107
Jul 2007242,54670.906.39$17,965
Jun 2007261,98762.007.55$16,611
May 2007302,13458.747.85$18,506
Apr 2007342,27559.617.81$19,784
Mar 2007382,85656.927.30$23,017
Feb 2007342,34455.108.22$21,132
Jan 2007512,05250.306.73$16,369
Dec 2006561,98656.656.92$16,912
Nov 2006411,76254.207.62$15,644
Oct 200602,08654.906.01$12,545
Sep 200602,49660.085.04$12,573
Aug 200612,25768.717.34$16,635
Jul 200632,59669.376.34$16,674
Jun 200622,29166.286.38$14,758
May 200633,12966.016.42$20,302
Apr 200633,47864.397.36$25,793
Mar 200694,29556.707.08$30,931
Feb 200662,02857.597.75$16,065
Jan 200662,07660.598.93$18,909
Dec 200532,62954.9413.42$35,434
Nov 200533,26854.6910.59$34,767
Oct 2005112,89958.3413.80$40,636
Sep 2005383,21361.4512.08$41,145
Aug 2005604,21561.519.80$44,984
Jul 2005174,75055.697.84$38,204
Jun 2005114,56952.337.38$34,300
May 200596,16645.226.65$41,418
Apr 200504,25449.207.36$31,311
Mar 200506,83150.377.15$48,875
Feb 200506,73045.226.31$42,479
Jan 2005010,62143.166.32$67,148
Dec 2004012,39239.866.75$83,659
Nov 2004019,90945.286.33$126,032
Oct 2004022,80449.706.52$148,570
Sep 2004029343.245.28$1,548

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                  486 Mcf  × $  3.78 =     $1,837

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Month total                                   $1,837

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/204419 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.