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 278188District 02Field 86950600Hydrogen sulphide field2 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$10.4 M
Aug 2015 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$367 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 Gas112017-04-12220216
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
CondensateDisposition101,640 bbl$5,268,508
GasProduction1,693,581 Mcf$5,114,754
Total$10,383,262

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 28.5976, -98.1504. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.59756, -98.15037 · 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
12,952 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 12,952 ft.

Completions filed
Aug 2015
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-29735699310H12,952 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 202657308106.413.05$7,003
Apr 20262031,73698.932.87$25,065
Mar 20263253,09289.753.15$38,907
Feb 20261263,38263.503.75$20,685
Jan 20261664,80259.138.00$48,222
Dec 2025801,96956.664.41$13,223
Nov 20251426,46358.593.93$33,696
Oct 20251635,99959.383.30$29,505
Sep 20252878,50462.743.08$44,173
Aug 20251714,78963.933.01$25,370
Jul 20253455,87366.743.32$42,495
Jun 20252467,12166.483.13$38,634
May 20252438,09860.553.23$40,889
Apr 20251754,52162.363.54$26,931
Mar 20251864,02167.704.27$29,755
Feb 20251965,43270.884.34$37,472
Jan 20252869,02774.324.28$59,879
Dec 20242424,84568.993.12$31,819
Nov 20243076,44369.052.20$35,363
Oct 20245287,97271.372.28$55,871
Sep 20244147,94769.612.36$47,608
Aug 20241664,43875.632.06$21,713
Jul 20242315,10379.932.15$29,418
Jun 20244148,11478.082.63$53,697
May 202472110,30578.812.20$79,477
Apr 202454410,10384.451.66$62,704
Mar 20246515,60080.301.55$60,928
Feb 20244385,71276.091.78$43,516
Jan 202435810,54173.023.30$60,902
Dec 20232812,25771.262.61$33,995
Nov 2023235,68977.892.81$17,764
Oct 202320916085.443.09$18,351
Sep 202362913,14689.042.74$91,961
Aug 202360315,87580.522.67$90,986
Jul 202348013,27274.852.64$70,990
Jun 202339115,98268.962.26$63,058
May 202346113,89770.622.23$63,510
Apr 202368114,37978.122.24$85,376
Mar 202375716,96472.852.39$95,745
Feb 202348811,40575.112.47$64,775
Jan 202358611,83776.533.39$84,947
Dec 202261213,65376.415.73$124,982
Nov 20225429,83985.005.65$101,623
Oct 20221718,31787.185.86$63,677
Sep 20222799,26884.888.16$99,343
Aug 202218210,19794.529.13$110,272
Jul 202242812,413101.587.54$137,096
Jun 202227810,210115.097.98$113,442
May 202249010,013109.378.43$138,031
Apr 202235412,156104.226.84$120,012
Mar 202299314,752108.885.08$183,005
Feb 202284810,13091.054.86$126,430
Jan 20221,1216,28881.844.54$120,276
Dec 20211,5306,48971.323.90$134,421
Nov 20211,0575,98177.435.24$113,165
Oct 20211,0746,81279.795.71$124,617
Sep 20211787,51769.865.35$52,658
Aug 20213583,68366.024.22$39,180
Jul 20214033,15470.783.98$41,084
Jun 20211,2646,74769.493.38$110,644
May 20217735,54163.483.02$65,791
Apr 2021714,64460.362.76$17,096
Mar 2021457,44661.302.72$22,989
Feb 2021463,96357.805.55$24,645
Jan 2021226,35450.412.81$18,965
Dec 2020194,68044.642.68$13,369
Nov 202051,88238.772.71$5,288
Oct 2020591,87636.972.48$6,831
Sep 20206032,06737.091.99$26,481
Aug 20205994,07739.982.39$33,672
Jul 20204622,42938.371.83$22,160
Jun 2020981,73634.901.69$6,355
May 20201314,43816.921.81$10,270
Apr 20201302,66214.751.80$6,721
Mar 20201131,16230.341.86$5,585
Feb 20204115,22549.881.98$30,850
Jan 20207357,67757.252.09$58,160
Dec 20194087,69859.012.30$41,815
Nov 20194868,71055.302.75$50,834
Oct 20194638,47253.472.42$45,246
Sep 2019184,65055.052.66$13,347
Aug 2019555,71053.112.30$16,079
Jul 20195805,84956.272.46$47,025
Jun 20195714,71752.782.49$41,888
May 20196466,46658.482.74$55,497
Apr 20194225,07062.632.75$40,376
Mar 20191294,44556.803.06$20,938
Feb 20195048,70450.852.79$49,932
Jan 20191565,31746.033.23$24,345
Dec 20183566,49646.594.19$43,775
Nov 20182125,31952.934.24$33,759
Oct 20181904,56061.443.40$27,169
Sep 2018384,38259.543.11$15,882
Aug 2018925,19659.403.07$21,399
Jul 20181455,53165.142.93$25,662
Jun 20183649,19460.183.08$50,195
May 201848911,80565.382.90$66,215
Apr 201858611,00063.842.90$69,319
Mar 201867517,11461.222.79$89,017
Feb 20181292,44661.782.77$14,736
Jan 201849110,84662.874.01$74,354
Dec 201744311,85357.272.92$59,999
Nov 201742412,05855.423.12$61,099
Oct 201748113,64749.292.98$64,427
Sep 201761418,05447.523.09$84,915
Aug 201736910,32545.373.00$47,762
Jul 201751713,98643.873.09$65,859
Jun 201753114,44342.493.09$67,152
May 201759015,19345.373.26$76,349
Apr 201761015,18447.933.21$78,002
Mar 201768917,20046.772.98$83,544
Feb 201763416,85450.452.95$81,748
Jan 201778619,42149.413.42$105,233
Dec 201687019,86948.763.72$116,390
Nov 201683821,49942.492.64$92,458
Oct 201686923,65346.193.09$113,233
Sep 201694924,28441.553.10$114,727
Aug 20161,22927,48441.442.92$131,302
Jul 20161,34129,55741.622.92$142,247
Jun 20161,45734,61345.352.69$159,040
May 20161,79545,13942.521.99$166,197
Apr 20161,72640,59336.561.99$143,925
Mar 20162,39333,82033.011.79$139,666
Feb 20162,87642,14326.472.06$163,095
Jan 20163,68052,37727.352.36$224,486
Dec 20154,56263,31032.362.00$274,336
Nov 20156,10176,36038.792.17$402,155
Oct 20159,182101,43743.552.43$646,021
Sep 201514,128138,57842.992.76$989,619
Aug 20152,52018,34940.162.87$153,911

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            57 bbl  × $106.41 =     $6,065
Gas                  308 Mcf  × $  3.05 =       $938

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Month total                                   $7,003

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/278188 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.