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FOSTER UNIT

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 279840District 02Field 86950600Hydrogen sulphide field2 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$12.9 M
Jan 2016 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$177 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
125
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 Gas112017-04-12220220
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
CondensateDisposition180,574 bbl$8,825,577
GasProduction1,426,780 Mcf$4,117,495
Total$12,943,072

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 28.8011, -97.9040. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.80107, -97.90398 · 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
12,699 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 12,699 ft.

Completions filed
Jan 2016
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-25534686509H12,699 ftJan 2016——

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 (125)

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

125 months

May 2026831,968106.413.05$14,826
Apr 20261022,01298.932.87$15,865
Mar 20261362,41689.753.15$19,815
Feb 2026472,58763.503.75$12,687
Jan 2026861,82659.138.00$19,689
Dec 20251802,52756.664.41$21,351
Nov 20251061,27258.593.93$11,205
Oct 2025491,03559.383.30$6,330
Sep 2025441,42662.743.08$7,148
Aug 2025511,45463.933.01$7,644
Jul 20251692,57766.743.32$19,822
Jun 20251862,75366.483.13$20,979
May 20252192,93760.553.23$22,754
Apr 20252052,88862.363.54$23,016
Mar 20252753,96567.704.27$35,541
Feb 20252843470.884.34$20,278
Jan 20251463,38674.324.28$25,338
Dec 20241773,74168.993.12$23,888
Nov 20241923,34669.052.20$20,614
Oct 20241962,69571.372.28$20,137
Sep 20248452,71969.612.36$65,249
Aug 20243,1773,22575.632.06$246,932
Jul 20247202,88279.932.15$63,736
Jun 20247484,56378.082.63$70,423
May 20247733,26478.812.20$68,096
Apr 20246674,09284.451.66$63,118
Mar 20244372,99780.301.55$39,722
Feb 20243862,34276.091.78$33,548
Jan 20242561,70173.023.30$24,302
Dec 20233393,29871.262.61$32,767
Nov 20234994,07777.892.81$50,314
Oct 20238618,06185.443.09$98,450
Sep 20231,1628,52089.042.74$126,767
Aug 20231,0866,69480.522.67$105,337
Jul 20231,2715,40474.852.64$109,411
Jun 20231,1874,78768.962.26$92,667
May 20231,0244,57870.622.23$82,512
Apr 20237563,24278.122.24$66,314
Mar 20237453,39472.852.39$62,396
Feb 20236493,88475.112.47$58,323
Jan 20234504,33476.533.39$49,121
Dec 20224513,84476.415.73$56,483
Nov 20225325,63085.005.65$77,008
Oct 20227543,77587.185.86$87,869
Sep 20228642,95384.888.16$97,444
Aug 20229773,07294.529.13$120,385
Jul 20221,0823,281101.587.54$134,655
Jun 20229383,075115.097.98$132,484
May 20229005,136109.378.43$141,745
Apr 20227865,002104.226.84$116,119
Mar 20225914,481108.885.08$87,095
Feb 20224154,15591.054.86$57,974
Jan 20223103,92981.844.54$43,199
Dec 20213084,56571.323.90$39,766
Nov 20213163,61377.435.24$43,389
Oct 20213444,20079.795.71$51,446
Sep 20213632,81469.865.35$40,417
Aug 20217003,94066.024.22$62,843
Jul 20217724,27670.783.98$71,670
Jun 20214894,21369.493.38$48,223
May 20214615,12263.483.02$44,721
Apr 20214144,56760.362.76$37,587
Mar 20219395,36461.302.72$72,134
Feb 20217654,17957.805.55$67,402
Jan 20218374,62750.412.81$55,196
Dec 20209754,94544.642.68$56,754
Nov 20201,0484,83838.772.71$53,725
Oct 20201,0636,16136.972.48$54,569
Sep 20208755,82937.091.99$44,060
Aug 20206816,03339.982.39$41,616
Jul 20205295,95338.371.83$31,163
Jun 20205405,88034.901.69$28,785
May 20206106,16016.921.81$21,500
Apr 20205306,51614.751.80$19,575
Mar 20205636,35130.341.86$28,870
Feb 20205785,80549.881.98$40,328
Jan 20206396,55857.252.09$50,320
Dec 20196856,93659.012.30$56,405
Nov 20197007,09955.302.75$58,237
Oct 20198288,39753.472.42$64,582
Sep 20191,0629,94955.052.66$84,900
Aug 20192,14922,69553.112.30$166,431
Jul 20193652,90156.272.46$27,675
Jun 20198077,88652.782.49$62,239
May 20199458,31658.482.74$78,052
Apr 20198728,91262.632.75$79,128
Mar 201970610,40156.803.06$71,950
Feb 201972111,26750.852.79$68,123
Jan 20191,01616,84546.033.23$101,145
Dec 20183414,30146.594.19$33,889
Nov 201882311,09352.934.24$90,565
Oct 201894911,34361.443.40$96,851
Sep 20181,09311,76659.543.11$101,646
Aug 20181,10713,42159.403.07$106,912
Jul 20181,22512,69565.142.93$117,017
Jun 20181,47112,88560.183.08$128,171
May 201889912,62965.382.90$95,411
Apr 201891112,90663.842.90$95,596
Mar 20181,03914,46361.222.79$103,914
Feb 201898512,52161.782.77$95,488
Jan 20181,10614,33662.874.01$127,012
Dec 20171,16916,01757.272.92$113,743
Nov 20171,23716,56155.423.12$120,198
Oct 20171,31818,75749.292.98$120,929
Sep 20171,41421,46347.523.09$133,456
Aug 20171,44923,59945.373.00$136,642
Jul 20171,63022,40643.873.09$140,682
Jun 20171,69022,93642.493.09$142,618
May 20171,92625,58545.373.26$170,877
Apr 20172,03326,53447.933.21$182,658
Mar 20172,12524,68446.772.98$173,035
Feb 20172,06624,73950.452.95$177,274
Jan 20172,40229,47049.413.42$219,435
Dec 20162,61530,14248.763.72$239,721
Nov 20163,31731,19742.492.64$223,435
Oct 20163,70932,19346.193.09$270,803
Sep 20164,15728,78941.553.10$261,987
Aug 20165,50435,98841.442.92$333,327
Jul 20166,33241,51641.622.92$384,945
Jun 20167,06346,24245.352.69$444,505
May 20168,78955,44842.521.99$484,107
Apr 201610,23560,41436.561.99$494,478
Mar 201611,51366,68133.011.79$499,671
Feb 201614,52573,41326.472.06$535,974
Jan 201614,64180,29827.352.36$590,285

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            83 bbl  × $106.41 =     $8,832
Gas                1,968 Mcf  × $  3.05 =     $5,994

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Month total                                  $14,826

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/279840 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.