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 217090District 04Field 355665002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$221 k
Dec 2005 – Apr 2013
Value, last 12 filed months
$4 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
89
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 Gas112006-11-30169521
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
CondensateDisposition352 bbl$22,530
GasProduction26,870 Mcf$198,627
Total$221,156

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 28.0518, -99.9921. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.05180, -99.99208 · 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
4,500 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
7.3 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 4,500 ft.

Completions filed
Dec 2005
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Apr 2013
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 7.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 7.3 years and 7.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-479392232884,500 ftDec 2005Apr 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 (89)

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

89 months

Apr 20131093.964.28$94
Mar 20131193.623.91$98
Feb 2013011491.233.42$390
Jan 201338791.603.42$572
Dec 2012117886.773.42$1,221
Nov 201248086.953.62$638
Oct 201209089.383.40$306
Sep 2012010194.672.92$295
Aug 201207192.662.91$206
Jul 201207785.133.02$233
Jun 201226379.822.52$318
May 201202891.612.49$70
Apr 2012325101.652.00$355
Mar 2012021105.052.22$47
Feb 2012021101.102.57$54
Jan 201222898.092.73$273
Dec 201103696.873.24$117
Nov 201104195.723.31$136
Oct 20110184.983.65$4
Sep 20110783.623.99$28
Aug 201194883.404.15$950
Jul 201107494.144.52$334
Jun 2011113992.904.64$738
May 2011119698.134.40$961
Apr 20111123105.964.33$639
Mar 2011110196.364.06$506
Feb 2011312285.644.18$767
Jan 2011111486.504.59$610
Dec 201015785.734.35$334
Nov 201006180.843.80$232
Oct 201007078.103.51$246
Sep 201016472.633.98$327
Aug 201006773.684.42$296
Jul 201018972.554.74$494
Jun 2010112570.364.91$684
May 2010012371.124.24$521
Apr 2010012381.694.12$507
Mar 2010012178.394.39$531
Feb 2010010373.585.44$561
Jan 2010011774.365.96$698
Dec 2009011571.445.48$631
Nov 200909374.593.75$349
Oct 2009014672.544.11$600
Sep 2009112465.543.06$446
Aug 2009010067.423.22$322
Jul 2009011761.133.46$405
Jun 2009011866.163.90$460
May 2009012854.743.93$503
Apr 2009016746.773.59$599
Mar 2009019542.144.06$792
Feb 2009119032.814.63$913
Jan 2009014335.865.37$768
Dec 2008122837.105.98$1,400
Nov 2008228455.496.86$2,059
Oct 2008137475.246.92$2,664
Sep 20081178101.767.88$1,504
Aug 20081316114.228.48$2,795
Jul 20081477131.0811.39$5,564
Jun 20081354131.3313.03$4,745
May 20084436123.1711.57$5,539
Apr 20081430110.3110.45$4,606
Mar 20082382101.909.66$3,895
Feb 2008345092.538.77$4,224
Jan 2008256790.388.21$4,833
Dec 2007259688.337.30$4,529
Nov 2007561691.677.29$4,950
Oct 2007068982.856.92$4,769
Sep 2007044675.846.24$2,785
Aug 2007341569.066.39$2,858
Jul 2007378670.906.39$5,234
Jun 2007341662.007.55$3,326
May 2007358658.747.85$4,774
Apr 2007421959.617.81$1,948
Mar 2007432056.927.30$2,564
Feb 2007730055.108.22$2,851
Jan 20075730850.306.73$4,939
Dec 20066338056.656.92$6,198
Nov 20064347654.207.62$5,957
Oct 20062948354.906.01$4,497
Sep 20062755660.085.04$4,423
Aug 20061764068.717.34$5,866
Jul 20061272469.376.34$5,425
Jun 2006092566.286.38$5,905
May 2006096566.016.42$6,200
Apr 2006094564.397.36$6,956
Mar 200601,11156.707.08$7,869
Feb 200601,36157.597.75$10,549
Jan 200601,78760.598.93$15,964
Dec 200501,70154.9413.42$22,820

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.

Apr 2013 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             1 bbl  × $ 93.96 =        $94
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  4.28 =         $0

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Month total                                      $94

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/217090 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.