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 247792District 04Field 355665002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$40 k
Sep 2008 – Jun 2013
Value, last 12 filed months
$2 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
58
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 Gas112010-05-24198107
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
CondensateDisposition41 bbl$2,600
GasProduction6,205 Mcf$37,101
Total$39,702

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 28.0659, -99.9407. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.06592, -99.94069 · 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
4,975 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
4.0 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 4,975 ft.

Completions filed
Sep 2008
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 2012
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 4.0 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 4.0 years and 4.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-4794032412664,975 ftSep 2008Sep 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 (58)

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

58 months

Jun 20130094.403.93$0
May 20130094.834.15$0
Apr 20130093.964.28$0
Mar 20130093.623.91$0
Feb 20130091.233.42$0
Jan 20130091.603.42$0
Dec 20120086.773.42$0
Nov 20120086.953.62$0
Oct 20120089.383.40$0
Sep 2012019894.672.92$578
Aug 2012017092.662.91$494
Jul 2012020285.133.02$610
Jun 201225979.822.52$308
May 20120191.612.49$2
Apr 201202101.652.00$4
Mar 201202105.052.22$4
Feb 201201101.102.57$3
Jan 20120198.092.73$3
Dec 20110196.873.24$3
Nov 20110195.723.31$3
Oct 20110184.983.65$4
Sep 20110183.623.99$4
Aug 20110183.404.15$4
Jul 20110194.144.52$5
Jun 20110192.904.64$5
May 20110198.134.40$4
Apr 201101105.964.33$4
Mar 20110196.364.06$4
Feb 20110185.644.18$4
Jan 20110186.504.59$5
Dec 20105185.734.35$433
Nov 20100180.843.80$4
Oct 20100178.103.51$4
Sep 20100172.633.98$4
Aug 201001973.684.42$84
Jul 2010022672.554.74$1,070
Jun 2010030070.364.91$1,473
May 2010031671.124.24$1,338
Apr 2010022081.694.12$907
Mar 20100178.394.39$4
Feb 20100273.585.44$11
Jan 20100274.365.96$12
Dec 20090271.445.48$11
Nov 200901874.593.75$68
Oct 200901672.544.11$66
Sep 200904765.543.06$144
Aug 200906567.423.22$209
Jul 200906861.133.46$236
Jun 200914766.163.90$249
May 200905554.743.93$216
Apr 200903346.773.59$118
Mar 2009122442.144.06$603
Feb 2009015232.814.63$704
Jan 2009027235.865.37$1,461
Dec 2008314337.105.98$966
Nov 2008859055.496.86$4,492
Oct 200851,30475.246.92$9,402
Sep 200851,631101.767.88$13,356

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.

Sep 2012 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 94.67 =         $0
Gas                  198 Mcf  × $  2.92 =       $578

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Month total                                     $578

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/247792 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.