BRISCOE "J"

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 209681District 04Field 355665002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$647 k
Dec 2004 – Dec 2014
Value, last 12 filed months
$1 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
121
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 Gas112005-10-05165068
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
CondensateDisposition471 bbl$29,066
GasProduction82,527 Mcf$617,837
Total$646,903

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 27.9983, -99.9217. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

27.99835, -99.92168 · 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
5,250 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
10.0 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 5,250 ft.

Completions filed
Dec 2004
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Dec 2014
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 10.0 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 10.0 years and 10.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-47938916415,250 ftDec 2004Dec 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 (121)

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

121 months

Dec 20140054.693.59$0
Nov 20140370.464.25$13
Oct 20140078.303.90$0
Sep 201402286.164.05$89
Aug 201401789.394.04$69
Jul 201401996.564.18$79
Jun 201403198.164.74$147
May 201403594.734.73$165
Apr 201403195.944.81$149
Mar 201403495.895.06$172
Feb 201404897.406.19$297
Jan 201403690.404.86$175
Dec 201303691.824.35$157
Nov 201303688.853.74$135
Oct 201303397.423.78$125
Sep 2013039104.113.72$145
Aug 2013039104.253.52$137
Jul 2013037102.523.72$138
Jun 201303594.403.93$138
May 201303694.834.15$149
Apr 201303993.964.28$167
Mar 201303593.623.91$137
Feb 201303491.233.42$116
Jan 201303591.603.42$120
Dec 201202686.773.42$89
Nov 201202686.953.62$94
Oct 201203289.383.40$109
Sep 201203394.672.92$96
Aug 201203592.662.91$102
Jul 201203885.133.02$115
Jun 201204079.822.52$101
May 201203791.612.49$92
Apr 2012037101.652.00$74
Mar 2012038105.052.22$84
Feb 2012038101.102.57$98
Jan 201204598.092.73$123
Dec 201104196.873.24$133
Nov 201104595.723.31$149
Oct 20110084.983.65$0
Sep 20110583.623.99$20
Aug 201106583.404.15$270
Jul 201108294.144.52$370
Jun 201108292.904.64$380
May 201108498.134.40$370
Apr 20111155105.964.33$778
Mar 2011116296.364.06$754
Feb 2011112885.644.18$621
Jan 2011116386.504.59$834
Dec 2010214585.734.35$802
Nov 2010116480.843.80$703
Oct 2010118578.103.51$727
Sep 2010119072.633.98$829
Aug 2010122473.684.42$1,064
Jul 2010114972.554.74$778
Jun 2010121070.364.91$1,102
May 2010123471.124.24$1,062
Apr 2010124881.694.12$1,104
Mar 2010115778.394.39$767
Feb 2010017073.585.44$925
Jan 2010242174.365.96$2,660
Dec 2009650271.445.48$3,181
Nov 2009335974.593.75$1,571
Oct 2009117972.544.11$808
Sep 2009119865.543.06$672
Aug 2009141067.423.22$1,387
Jul 200906861.133.46$236
Jun 2009125866.163.90$1,071
May 2009247354.743.93$1,966
Apr 2009142146.773.59$1,557
Mar 2009150142.144.06$2,076
Feb 2009130232.814.63$1,432
Jan 20091235735.865.37$2,348
Dec 2008024237.105.98$1,446
Nov 200813478955.496.86$12,848
Oct 2008146675.246.92$3,301
Sep 2008253101.767.88$621
Aug 20081293114.228.48$2,600
Jul 20081487131.0811.39$5,678
Jun 20082302131.3313.03$4,199
May 20081521123.1711.57$6,153
Apr 20080412110.3110.45$4,307
Mar 20083252101.909.66$2,741
Feb 2008431892.538.77$3,159
Jan 20081390.388.21$115
Dec 2007239688.337.30$3,068
Nov 2007462891.677.29$4,946
Oct 2007061882.856.92$4,278
Sep 2007062375.846.24$3,890
Aug 2007261669.066.39$4,073
Jul 2007259070.906.39$3,911
Jun 2007269762.007.55$5,385
May 2007165858.747.85$5,222
Apr 2007171559.617.81$5,640
Mar 2007483256.927.30$6,303
Feb 20071079255.108.22$7,058
Jan 20072561250.306.73$5,374
Dec 20061385556.656.92$6,652
Nov 20062176954.207.62$6,996
Oct 2006371,06254.906.01$8,418
Sep 2006391,01260.085.04$7,441
Aug 2006431,18268.717.34$11,630
Jul 2006591,38069.376.34$12,846
Jun 200691,31166.286.38$8,966
May 200601,31466.016.42$8,442
Apr 200601,27464.397.36$9,377
Mar 200601,43056.707.08$10,129
Feb 200601,46757.597.75$11,371
Jan 200601,80260.598.93$16,098
Dec 200501,98954.9413.42$26,683
Nov 200501,99754.6910.59$21,145
Oct 200502,34258.3413.80$32,310
Sep 200502,30561.4512.08$27,842
Aug 200503,07561.519.80$30,125
Jul 200503,68655.697.84$28,912
Jun 200503,55752.337.38$26,254
May 200504,06245.226.65$27,017
Apr 200504,74849.207.36$34,948
Mar 200505,32150.377.15$38,071
Feb 200506,79745.226.31$42,902
Jan 200505,40643.166.32$34,178
Dec 200401,79739.866.75$12,132

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.

Nov 2014 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 70.46 =         $0
Gas                    3 Mcf  × $  4.25 =        $13

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Month total                                      $13

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/209681 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.