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 243731District 04Field 355665002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$922 k
May 2008 – Dec 2014
Value, last 12 filed months
$10 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
80
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 Gas112009-08-14194068
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
CondensateDisposition645 bbl$46,528
GasProduction162,529 Mcf$875,427
Total$921,955

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 28.0158, -99.9224. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.01580, -99.92237 · 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
5,210 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
6.6 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 5,210 ft.

Completions filed
May 2008
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Dec 2014
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 6.6 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 6.6 years and 6.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-4794010210075,210 ftMay 2008Dec 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 (80)

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

80 months

Dec 20140054.693.59$0
Nov 201401470.464.25$60
Oct 201406478.303.90$250
Sep 201408486.164.05$340
Aug 201406989.394.04$278
Jul 2014013496.564.18$560
Jun 2014021898.164.74$1,033
May 2014024594.734.73$1,158
Apr 2014021695.944.81$1,039
Mar 2014024195.895.06$1,219
Feb 2014033597.406.19$2,074
Jan 2014044790.404.86$2,173
Dec 2013046991.824.35$2,042
Nov 2013047988.853.74$1,791
Oct 2013042297.423.78$1,595
Sep 20130513104.113.72$1,907
Aug 20130455104.253.52$1,603
Jul 20132477102.523.72$1,978
Jun 2013045494.403.93$1,786
May 2013247394.834.15$2,152
Apr 2013051393.964.28$2,197
Mar 2013345293.623.91$2,049
Feb 2013432191.233.42$1,463
Jan 2013358691.603.42$2,279
Dec 2012165586.773.42$2,327
Nov 2012062786.953.62$2,273
Oct 2012378589.383.40$2,937
Sep 2012080094.672.92$2,335
Aug 2012284392.662.91$2,637
Jul 2012584385.133.02$2,972
Jun 2012389479.822.52$2,491
May 2012493191.612.49$2,683
Apr 20123927101.652.00$2,156
Mar 20124954105.052.22$2,540
Feb 20124959101.102.57$2,869
Jan 201231,14198.092.73$3,414
Dec 201151,02696.873.24$3,808
Nov 201111,12195.723.31$3,808
Oct 20110084.983.65$0
Sep 2011213283.623.99$693
Aug 201161,51583.404.15$6,787
Jul 201151,67894.144.52$8,051
Jun 201191,91892.904.64$9,735
May 201151,67098.134.40$7,847
Apr 201171,558105.964.33$7,493
Mar 201171,30996.364.06$5,986
Feb 2011111,07785.644.18$5,444
Jan 201171,30886.504.59$6,608
Dec 2010231,04485.734.35$6,511
Nov 2010238580.843.80$1,623
Oct 2010448678.103.51$2,018
Sep 2010469972.633.98$3,072
Aug 2010121,35073.684.42$6,850
Jul 2010142,82472.554.74$14,392
Jun 2010143,22670.364.91$16,826
May 2010153,40271.124.24$15,475
Apr 2010163,62281.694.12$16,239
Mar 201003,58178.394.39$15,716
Feb 2010163,01773.585.44$17,597
Jan 2010153,38774.365.96$21,316
Dec 2009204,25671.445.48$24,768
Nov 2009283,73074.593.75$16,082
Oct 200973,71872.544.11$15,790
Sep 2009194,36365.543.06$14,617
Aug 2009204,85667.423.22$16,977
Jul 2009524,94361.133.46$20,304
Jun 2009275,47466.163.90$23,108
May 2009355,82054.743.93$24,764
Apr 2009246,99946.773.59$26,231
Mar 2009348,62442.144.06$36,438
Feb 2009267,73332.814.63$36,680
Jan 2009139,13435.865.37$49,525
Dec 2008244,02037.105.98$24,919
Nov 200881,21155.496.86$8,752
Oct 200872,43075.246.92$17,347
Sep 2008102,081101.767.88$17,410
Aug 200852,897114.228.48$25,146
Jul 200874,522131.0811.39$52,421
Jun 2008146,027131.3313.03$80,386
May 20081910,316123.1711.57$121,741

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                   14 Mcf  × $  4.25 =        $60

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Month total                                      $60

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/243731 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.