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 211279District 04Field 355665002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$295 k
May 2005 – Mar 2013
Value, last 12 filed months
$3 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
95
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 Gas112006-09-11169913
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
CondensateDisposition53 bbl$4,250
GasProduction38,397 Mcf$290,909
Total$295,159

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 28.0545, -99.9756. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.05452, -99.97556 · 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
4,700 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
7.4 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 4,700 ft.

Completions filed
May 2005
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Oct 2012
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 7.4 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 7.4 years and 7.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-479390952574,700 ftMay 2005Oct 2012Yes

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 (95)

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

95 months

Mar 20130093.623.91$0
Feb 20130091.233.42$0
Jan 20132091.603.42$183
Dec 20121086.773.42$87
Nov 20120086.953.62$0
Oct 2012012789.383.40$432
Sep 2012013294.672.92$385
Aug 2012010692.662.91$308
Jul 2012110685.133.02$405
Jun 2012010979.822.52$275
May 201208691.612.49$214
Apr 2012186101.652.00$273
Mar 2012083105.052.22$184
Feb 2012082101.102.57$211
Jan 201208998.092.73$243
Dec 201106396.873.24$204
Nov 201107295.723.31$238
Oct 20110384.983.65$11
Sep 201101483.623.99$56
Aug 201118783.404.15$444
Jul 2011010394.144.52$465
Jun 2011011492.904.64$529
May 201108098.134.40$352
Apr 2011184105.964.33$470
Mar 2011110196.364.06$506
Feb 2011110585.644.18$525
Jan 2011114286.504.59$738
Dec 2010212985.734.35$732
Nov 2010117380.843.80$737
Oct 2010123178.103.51$889
Sep 2010122372.633.98$960
Aug 2010126273.684.42$1,232
Jul 2010120572.554.74$1,044
Jun 2010116670.364.91$885
May 201019771.124.24$482
Apr 2010122881.694.12$1,022
Mar 2010129578.394.39$1,373
Feb 2010122673.585.44$1,304
Jan 2010024174.365.96$1,437
Dec 2009135271.445.48$2,002
Nov 2009227074.593.75$1,162
Oct 2009129372.544.11$1,277
Sep 2009124865.543.06$826
Aug 2009128367.423.22$978
Jul 2009029661.133.46$1,025
Jun 2009136966.163.90$1,503
May 2009235754.743.93$1,511
Apr 2009127646.773.59$1,037
Mar 2009333342.144.06$1,478
Feb 2009021532.814.63$996
Jan 2009223435.865.37$1,329
Dec 2008039737.105.98$2,373
Nov 2008164955.496.86$4,508
Oct 2008138675.246.92$2,747
Sep 20082319101.767.88$2,716
Aug 20081524114.228.48$4,559
Jul 20080562131.0811.39$6,401
Jun 20081399131.3313.03$5,331
May 20081301123.1711.57$3,607
Apr 20081334110.3110.45$3,602
Mar 20082383101.909.66$3,905
Feb 2008251792.538.77$4,719
Jan 2008152790.388.21$4,415
Dec 2007151488.337.30$3,842
Nov 2007257391.677.29$4,361
Oct 2007055082.856.92$3,807
Sep 2007049575.846.24$3,091
Aug 2007034069.066.39$2,172
Jul 2007036070.906.39$2,300
Jun 2007067762.007.55$5,110
May 2007058558.747.85$4,590
Apr 2007057259.617.81$4,465
Mar 2007071556.927.30$5,221
Feb 2007044655.108.22$3,664
Jan 2007065450.306.73$4,399
Dec 2006057056.656.92$3,944
Nov 2006047654.207.62$3,626
Oct 2006068354.906.01$4,107
Sep 2006065160.085.04$3,279
Aug 2006073768.717.34$5,410
Jul 2006070069.376.34$4,440
Jun 2006073866.286.38$4,711
May 2006077666.016.42$4,986
Apr 2006091064.397.36$6,698
Mar 200601,01456.707.08$7,182
Feb 2006087457.597.75$6,774
Jan 200601,15860.598.93$10,345
Dec 200501,17654.9413.42$15,777
Nov 200501,22354.6910.59$12,950
Oct 200501,20458.3413.80$16,610
Sep 200501,37461.4512.08$16,597
Aug 200501,54561.519.80$15,136
Jul 200501,75255.697.84$13,742
Jun 200501,08152.337.38$7,979
May 20050045.226.65$0

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.

Jan 2013 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             2 bbl  × $ 91.60 =       $183
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  3.42 =         $0

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Month total                                     $183

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/211279 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.