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.

Oil lease lease 13329District 04Field 35566500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$3.0 M
Mar 2005 – Sep 2014
Value, last 12 filed months
$15 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
115
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead 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.

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
OilDisposition20,500 bbl$1,362,941
Casinghead gasProduction227,241 Mcf$1,641,416
Total$3,004,357

Wells on this lease (3)

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 28.0307, -99.9885. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 2.1 miles.

28.03372, -99.98377 · 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%
3 of 3 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
3 of 3 wells
Median depth
4,531 ft
3 wells filed one
Completion to plug
6.8 years
median over 3 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
3100.0%
A plug date is filed
3100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
3100.0%
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

Between 4,450 and 5,010 ft, median 4,531 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Feb 2005 – Dec 2007
3 of 3 wells
Plug dates filed
Mar 2013 – Jun 2014
3 of 3 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 6.8 years across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 6.0 years and 8.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells

42-4793998610675,010 ftDec 2007Mar 2013Yes
42-479395923044,531 ftJan 2007Oct 2013Yes
42-479389682244,450 ftFeb 2005Jun 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 (115)

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

115 months

Sep 20140086.164.05$0
Aug 20140089.394.04$0
Jul 20140096.564.18$0
Jun 20140098.164.74$0
May 20140094.734.73$0
Apr 2014010395.944.81$495
Mar 2014011095.895.06$556
Feb 201403397.406.19$204
Jan 2014069290.404.86$3,364
Dec 201301,00891.824.35$4,389
Nov 2013392288.853.74$3,713
Oct 2013362597.423.78$2,654
Sep 20130559104.113.72$2,078
Aug 20130533104.253.52$1,878
Jul 201310564102.523.72$3,122
Jun 2013058294.403.93$2,289
May 2013965194.834.15$3,555
Apr 2013262993.964.28$2,882
Mar 2013454793.623.91$2,515
Feb 2013467191.233.42$2,660
Jan 2013463491.603.42$2,535
Dec 20128954186.773.42$9,573
Nov 2012452486.953.62$2,247
Oct 2012144789.383.40$1,609
Sep 2012043794.672.92$1,275
Aug 2012055792.662.91$1,620
Jul 20123959785.133.02$5,123
Jun 2012151679.822.52$1,380
May 20123842991.612.49$4,549
Apr 20121389101.652.00$878
Mar 20121333105.052.22$845
Feb 20121408101.102.57$1,150
Jan 2012144098.092.73$1,301
Dec 2011243596.873.24$1,603
Nov 2011044195.723.31$1,460
Oct 20110084.983.65$0
Sep 201118683.623.99$426
Aug 201119961283.404.15$19,136
Jul 2011264394.144.52$3,093
Jun 2011477592.904.64$3,968
May 2011390998.134.40$4,298
Apr 20115986105.964.33$4,802
Mar 2011882596.364.06$4,118
Feb 2011876185.644.18$3,866
Jan 201171,20886.504.59$6,149
Dec 20102921,29185.734.35$30,646
Nov 201061,41280.843.80$5,844
Oct 201061,37878.103.51$5,304
Sep 2010101,29872.633.98$5,892
Aug 20101691,40873.684.42$18,674
Jul 201041,20272.554.74$5,983
Jun 201041,17670.364.91$6,056
May 2010381,12171.124.24$7,450
Apr 201061,21581.694.12$5,499
Mar 201081,07478.394.39$5,341
Feb 2010651,12273.585.44$10,889
Jan 2010361,73274.365.96$13,007
Dec 200981,37971.445.48$8,134
Nov 20099583574.593.75$10,219
Oct 2009911,36572.544.11$12,212
Sep 2009121,53465.543.06$5,488
Aug 200951,40167.423.22$4,846
Jul 20091771,39161.133.46$15,639
Jun 200951,41266.163.90$5,831
May 20091831,67854.743.93$16,605
Apr 20091741,65746.773.59$14,082
Mar 20091361,84542.144.06$13,220
Feb 2009451,38332.814.63$7,884
Jan 2009791,62835.865.37$11,577
Dec 20083731,80837.105.98$24,645
Nov 200892,25955.496.86$15,997
Oct 20081522,26475.246.92$27,108
Sep 2008881,243101.767.88$18,746
Aug 20082122,587114.228.48$46,160
Jul 20081102,980131.0811.39$48,359
Jun 20081592,769131.3313.03$56,969
May 20084702,789123.1711.57$90,171
Apr 20083723,115110.3110.45$73,602
Mar 20085123,087101.909.66$82,006
Feb 20083023,52092.538.77$58,817
Jan 20081583,43090.388.21$42,426
Dec 20071553,23488.337.30$37,306
Nov 2007353,37691.677.29$27,825
Oct 20074983,65382.856.92$66,545
Sep 2007113,07575.846.24$20,035
Aug 20072112,95669.066.39$33,454
Jul 20071743,57070.906.39$35,142
Jun 20072003,52762.007.55$39,023
May 20071794,24358.747.85$43,806
Apr 20073504,14259.617.81$53,193
Mar 20071844,17956.927.30$40,988
Feb 200716873955.108.22$15,328
Jan 20073343,22050.306.73$38,461
Dec 20063413,42956.656.92$43,041
Nov 20063303,48554.207.62$44,433
Oct 20063673,57054.906.01$41,618
Sep 20063723,63960.085.04$40,680
Aug 20066674,05568.717.34$75,593
Jul 20066283,69769.376.34$67,014
Jun 20066353,84466.286.38$66,627
May 20066114,08466.016.42$66,572
Apr 20068094,11064.397.36$82,343
Mar 20067924,35056.707.08$75,717
Feb 20066563,89257.597.75$67,946
Jan 20068364,95760.598.93$94,936
Dec 20055824,93554.9413.42$98,180
Nov 20057015,16754.6910.59$93,048
Oct 20055104,35358.3413.80$89,806
Sep 20056485,82961.4512.08$110,228
Aug 20051,0185,43261.519.80$115,834
Jul 20055045,97355.697.84$74,918
Jun 20055815,89552.337.38$73,915
May 20056396,65245.226.65$73,139
Apr 20055306,17449.207.36$71,520
Mar 20052192,85550.377.15$31,458

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 2014 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    0 bbl  × $ 95.94 =         $0
Casinghead gas       103 Mcf  × $  4.81 =       $495

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Month total                                     $495

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/O/13329 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.