NITSCH UNIT A

Operated by MARATHON OIL EF LLC (P-5 525398) in the SUGARKANE (EAGLE FORD) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 278187District 02Field 86950600Hydrogen sulphide field2 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$8.3 M
Aug 2015 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$175 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
130
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 1,993 leases and 2,259 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
2009-12-01
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
0 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 2017-10-10.

The register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: GAS WELLS

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 Gas112017-04-12220130
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
CondensateDisposition81,013 bbl$3,858,217
GasProduction1,536,119 Mcf$4,395,337
Total$8,253,554

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 28.5978, -98.1508. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.59782, -98.15084 · 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
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
13,002 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
00.0%
A plug date is filed
00.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
00.0%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
1100.0%

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 13,002 ft.

Completions filed
Aug 2015
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-297356978H13,002 ftAug 2015

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 (130)

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

130 months

May 20264295106.413.05$4,759
Apr 20261033,27298.932.87$19,580
Mar 2026691,01089.753.15$9,374
Feb 2026822,30563.503.75$13,851
Jan 2026751,00459.138.00$12,465
Dec 2025882,12256.664.41$14,351
Nov 20251123,29258.593.93$19,488
Oct 2025621,08859.383.30$7,277
Sep 20251083,74862.743.08$18,308
Aug 2025801,51963.933.01$9,694
Jul 20252193,14366.743.32$25,036
Jun 20251164,06166.483.13$20,417
May 2025681,68960.553.23$9,577
Apr 2025392,79962.363.54$12,349
Mar 2025925,00567.704.27$27,591
Feb 2025964,76570.884.34$27,489
Jan 20251596,10274.324.28$37,925
Dec 20242046,20268.993.12$33,433
Nov 20242235,56569.052.20$27,632
Oct 20241815,16871.372.28$24,708
Sep 20241443,44869.612.36$18,176
Aug 20242191,97475.632.06$20,637
Jul 20242814,21879.932.15$31,515
Jun 20241492,85778.082.63$19,159
May 20241781378.812.20$14,057
Apr 202411324484.451.66$9,948
Mar 20242156,50780.301.55$27,319
Feb 20242523,83576.091.78$26,015
Jan 20241864,06973.023.30$27,000
Dec 20232352,92871.262.61$24,390
Nov 20233449,47177.892.81$53,385
Oct 202311410,23285.443.09$41,329
Sep 2023443,64589.042.74$13,887
Aug 2023791,14980.522.67$9,432
Jul 20231707,01674.852.64$31,259
Jun 2023941,85568.962.26$10,672
May 2023674,77870.622.23$15,374
Apr 202382,47678.122.24$6,166
Mar 202395,17272.852.39$13,033
Feb 2023236,04475.112.47$16,630
Jan 2023136,79076.533.39$23,998
Dec 2022696,40976.415.73$41,990
Nov 2022463,96385.005.65$26,286
Oct 202233,06587.185.86$18,234
Sep 202253,54184.888.16$29,332
Aug 20221122,74194.529.13$35,604
Jul 20221293,568101.587.54$40,014
Jun 20221734,975115.097.98$59,597
May 20221884,160109.378.43$55,643
Apr 20222205,230104.226.84$58,689
Mar 20224588,810108.885.08$94,590
Feb 20221151,53991.054.86$17,949
Jan 20222023,85081.844.54$34,002
Dec 20211883,75671.323.90$28,053
Nov 20211593,63577.435.24$31,347
Oct 20212293,86179.795.71$40,333
Sep 20214797,28769.865.35$72,455
Aug 20215366,95466.024.22$64,737
Jul 20217158,52770.783.98$84,563
Jun 20214414,65769.493.38$46,389
May 20211232,44863.483.02$15,195
Apr 20214383,33460.362.76$35,634
Mar 2021194,72561.302.72$14,002
Feb 20211554,23957.805.55$32,477
Jan 20215666,31450.412.81$46,276
Dec 20208757,69244.642.68$59,640
Nov 20205646,86138.772.71$40,436
Oct 20205197,12836.972.48$36,854
Sep 20206648,01537.091.99$40,586
Aug 202056710,63539.982.39$48,034
Jul 20205737,24338.371.83$35,205
Jun 2020617,49434.901.69$14,796
May 2020465,47316.921.81$10,710
Apr 2020273,94514.751.80$7,517
Mar 2020374,18730.341.86$8,895
Feb 2020464,69849.881.98$11,600
Jan 2020634,67357.252.09$13,395
Dec 2019453,72159.012.30$11,230
Nov 2019993,97755.302.75$16,414
Oct 20192648,74953.472.42$35,276
Sep 20191682,18855.052.66$15,063
Aug 20191714,22853.112.30$18,825
Jul 2019694,48756.272.46$14,921
Jun 2019634,87552.782.49$15,470
May 20191185,39958.482.74$21,696
Apr 20192787,23362.632.75$37,307
Mar 20194629,45556.803.06$55,194
Feb 20195457,03750.852.79$47,362
Jan 20192411,54746.033.23$16,087
Dec 20185857,89646.594.19$60,303
Nov 201848310,18852.934.24$68,734
Oct 201848311,06561.443.40$67,275
Sep 201892812,55459.543.11$94,271
Aug 201895012,88659.403.07$95,946
Jul 20181,01913,72165.142.93$106,606
Jun 20181,02111,25960.183.08$96,087
May 20181,04811,86465.382.90$102,933
Apr 20181,09911,09763.842.90$102,350
Mar 20181,13115,63461.222.79$112,809
Feb 20183814,91661.782.77$37,136
Jan 201857813,09262.874.01$88,829
Dec 201743212,86157.272.92$62,314
Nov 201743513,32155.423.12$65,647
Oct 201745614,20949.292.98$64,871
Sep 201752715,96247.523.09$74,322
Aug 201738011,07545.373.00$50,514
Jul 201752414,64643.873.09$68,204
Jun 201753715,72542.493.09$71,365
May 201759416,50345.373.26$80,806
Apr 201760916,68247.933.21$82,765
Mar 201768718,43346.772.98$87,129
Feb 201757117,81850.452.95$81,416
Jan 201769521,36049.413.42$107,366
Dec 201679821,68348.763.72$119,633
Nov 201682522,22342.492.64$93,820
Oct 201694126,48946.193.09$125,323
Sep 20161,01828,63241.553.10$131,075
Aug 20161,21533,24241.442.92$147,561
Jul 20161,34841,61841.622.92$177,809
Jun 20161,62945,80945.352.69$196,910
May 20161,86347,73342.521.99$174,253
Apr 20161,79329,59636.561.99$124,479
Mar 20162,31834,94933.011.79$139,216
Feb 20162,74141,65126.472.06$158,507
Jan 20163,49548,77927.352.36$210,919
Dec 20154,11571,90332.362.00$277,069
Nov 20154,89678,33938.792.17$359,702
Oct 20156,69794,96243.552.43$522,087
Sep 20159,580118,63242.992.76$739,081
Aug 20152,10019,90940.162.87$141,524

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.

May 2026 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            42 bbl  × $106.41 =     $4,469
Gas                   95 Mcf  × $  3.05 =       $289

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Month total                                   $4,759

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. 02/G/278187 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.