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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 278304District 02Field 86950600Hydrogen sulphide field2 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$13.6 M
Apr 2015 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
134
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, gas

The SUGARKANE (EAGLE FORD) field

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 Gas112016-02-16217931
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
CondensateDisposition243,581 bbl$11,643,509
GasProduction683,375 Mcf$1,977,653
Total$13,621,162

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 28.8885, -97.7759. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.88851, -97.77587 · 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
13,205 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 13,205 ft.

Completions filed
Dec 2015
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-2553356108H13,205 ftDec 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 (134)

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

134 months

May 202600106.413.05$0
Apr 20260098.932.87$0
Mar 20260089.753.15$0
Feb 20260063.503.75$0
Jan 20260059.138.00$0
Dec 20250056.664.41$0
Nov 20250058.593.93$0
Oct 20250059.383.30$0
Sep 20250062.743.08$0
Aug 20250063.933.01$0
Jul 20250066.743.32$0
Jun 20250066.483.13$0
May 20250060.553.23$0
Apr 20250062.363.54$0
Mar 20250067.704.27$0
Feb 20250070.884.34$0
Jan 20250074.324.28$0
Dec 20240068.993.12$0
Nov 20240069.052.20$0
Oct 20240071.372.28$0
Sep 20240069.612.36$0
Aug 20240075.632.06$0
Jul 20240079.932.15$0
Jun 20240078.082.63$0
May 20240078.812.20$0
Apr 20240084.451.66$0
Mar 20245775880.301.55$5,748
Feb 20243373,51976.091.78$31,919
Jan 20242571,03573.023.30$22,179
Dec 20230071.262.61$0
Nov 202302377.892.81$65
Oct 2023216585.443.09$680
Sep 202336289.042.74$437
Aug 202329580.522.67$2,348
Jul 202315976474.852.64$13,919
Jun 20231161,16668.962.26$10,633
May 202316997870.622.23$14,113
Apr 202324943478.122.24$20,423
Mar 202320637272.852.39$15,897
Feb 202332188875.112.47$26,300
Jan 20233661,28076.533.39$32,346
Dec 20224791,80176.415.73$46,918
Nov 202232339985.005.65$29,708
Oct 20224001,79987.185.86$45,421
Sep 20223061,27584.888.16$36,382
Aug 20224411,92794.529.13$59,271
Jul 20223821,269101.587.54$48,374
Jun 2022349845115.097.98$46,907
May 20223691,635109.378.43$54,146
Apr 20224141,752104.226.84$55,127
Mar 20224752,509108.885.08$64,455
Feb 20223931,86091.054.86$44,820
Jan 20226282,27581.844.54$61,719
Dec 20213591,85871.323.90$32,848
Nov 202132296777.435.24$29,996
Oct 20214172,05179.795.71$44,992
Sep 20214671,82569.865.35$42,390
Aug 20216352,16266.024.22$51,048
Jul 20213261,53070.783.98$29,167
Jun 20213191,32369.493.38$26,640
May 20213191,74263.483.02$25,507
Apr 20214862,38360.362.76$35,908
Mar 202137729861.302.72$23,920
Feb 20214071,03657.805.55$29,272
Jan 20215321,96850.412.81$32,349
Dec 20204821,51844.642.68$25,578
Nov 20205732,80138.772.71$29,796
Oct 20205621,09236.972.48$23,484
Sep 202045910437.091.99$17,231
Aug 20204531,67939.982.39$22,116
Jul 20206691,57138.371.83$28,537
Jun 20206791,51434.901.69$26,256
May 20208493,37416.921.81$20,488
Apr 202043664414.751.80$7,593
Mar 20203634530.341.86$11,097
Feb 20202272849.881.98$11,378
Jan 202047861857.252.09$28,660
Dec 20192935259.012.30$17,410
Nov 20191322455.302.75$7,366
Oct 20191522153.472.42$8,178
Sep 201913822355.052.66$8,189
Aug 2019297553.112.30$15,785
Jul 201922324556.272.46$13,151
Jun 2019717852.782.49$3,942
May 20196831,30158.482.74$43,507
Apr 20193281,27362.632.75$24,044
Mar 20194670056.803.06$4,756
Feb 201912666650.852.79$8,267
Jan 201928174846.033.23$15,349
Dec 20183671,60346.594.19$23,808
Nov 20181,0464,82752.934.24$75,818
Oct 20181,4096,24961.443.40$107,804
Sep 20181,3726,08659.543.11$100,604
Aug 20181,3896,17859.403.07$101,452
Jul 20181,4486,38465.142.93$113,040
Jun 20181,7977,22160.183.08$130,362
May 20182,5438,82665.382.90$191,864
Apr 20184,14214,48563.842.90$306,443
Mar 20183,72614,11361.222.79$267,436
Feb 20181,3445,01161.782.77$96,893
Jan 20181,2403,70462.874.01$92,809
Dec 20172,5939,69157.272.92$176,814
Nov 20172,66710,70355.423.12$181,181
Oct 20172,4059,34149.292.98$146,413
Sep 20171,9556,87347.523.09$114,120
Aug 20172,2366,59545.373.00$121,261
Jul 20171,7133,70143.873.09$86,575
Jun 20171,9394,56742.493.09$96,488
May 20171,9115,36245.373.26$104,200
Apr 20172,8287,55247.933.21$159,800
Mar 20172,4726,71146.772.98$135,639
Feb 20172,0675,53250.452.95$120,614
Jan 20172,4806,84749.413.42$145,945
Dec 20163,2409,54548.763.72$193,517
Nov 20163,68810,45742.492.64$184,355
Oct 20164,04812,18346.193.09$224,626
Sep 20165,35013,44041.553.10$263,965
Aug 20164,6119,03141.442.92$217,490
Jul 20165,45513,64441.622.92$266,937
Jun 20164,99412,37145.352.69$259,704
May 20164,41213,88542.521.99$215,244
Apr 20164,58414,60936.561.99$196,678
Mar 20165,38715,74533.011.79$206,072
Feb 20165,90316,36026.472.06$190,013
Jan 20167,49819,40027.352.36$250,939
Dec 20157,58718,37832.362.00$282,297
Nov 20159,80021,56738.792.17$426,885
Oct 201510,42723,61243.552.43$511,392
Sep 201510,52027,92742.992.76$529,289
Aug 201512,83633,85740.162.87$612,748
Jul 201515,37238,41848.152.95$853,306
Jun 201516,91242,08256.152.88$1,070,925
May 201518,42045,31855.212.96$1,150,903
Apr 201512,25233,12249.822.71$700,042

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.

Mar 2024 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            57 bbl  × $ 80.30 =     $4,577
Gas                  758 Mcf  × $  1.55 =     $1,171

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Month total                                   $5,748

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/278304 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.