DIRECT ASSETS UNIT AC

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

Gas lease lease 279863District 02Field 869503002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$12.1 M
Sep 2015 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$466 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
129
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 527 leases and 806 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
2006-09-07
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 2016-01-12.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: INTO SUGARKANE (AUSTIN CHALK) EFF. 11/07/17.

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 Gas112017-02-21219514
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
CondensateDisposition192,859 bbl$9,541,355
GasProduction880,395 Mcf$2,597,011
Total$12,138,366

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 28.8068, -97.9827. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.80679, -97.98268 · 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
11,898 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 11,898 ft.

Completions filed
Sep 2015
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-255344242H11,898 ftSep 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 (129)

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

129 months

May 20262161,391106.413.05$27,221
Apr 20263252,83798.932.87$40,294
Mar 20262502,55889.753.15$30,494
Feb 20263401,98463.503.75$29,031
Jan 20264462,80759.138.00$48,822
Dec 20257102,76256.664.41$52,418
Nov 20254992,94258.593.93$40,788
Oct 20254533,11459.383.30$37,190
Sep 20254692,12162.743.08$35,951
Aug 20257982,22463.933.01$57,721
Jul 20255471,67766.743.32$42,066
Jun 20253071,07566.483.13$23,773
May 202534893360.553.23$24,087
Apr 202537024162.363.54$23,927
Mar 20253807867.704.27$26,059
Feb 20252334970.884.34$16,728
Jan 20252514674.324.28$18,851
Dec 20243192,40268.993.12$29,505
Nov 20243723,59669.052.20$33,592
Oct 20244527,04871.372.28$48,339
Sep 20244826,74169.612.36$49,490
Aug 20243935,61375.632.06$41,306
Jul 20243434,24879.932.15$36,535
Jun 20243705,13678.082.63$42,418
May 20243484,43878.812.20$37,183
Apr 20243294,26084.451.66$34,852
Mar 20244154,39280.301.55$40,111
Feb 20243482,58976.091.78$31,097
Jan 20242991,67873.023.30$27,366
Dec 202351168271.262.61$38,194
Nov 20235091,51477.892.81$43,897
Oct 20237005,48085.443.09$76,726
Sep 20238414,11589.042.74$86,137
Aug 20237711,15080.522.67$65,155
Jul 202360365074.852.64$46,852
Jun 20237616,23268.962.26$66,553
May 20236247,68370.622.23$61,180
Apr 20235316,16178.122.24$55,269
Mar 20237166,86672.852.39$68,592
Feb 20237535,00375.112.47$68,894
Jan 20237585,48776.533.39$76,598
Dec 20227854,25376.415.73$84,348
Nov 20227713,76785.005.65$86,804
Oct 20227813,57887.185.86$89,068
Sep 20227384,66984.888.16$100,758
Aug 20228365,07694.529.13$125,348
Jul 20227804,880101.587.54$116,038
Jun 20228534,557115.097.98$134,524
May 20228854,102109.378.43$131,385
Apr 20228403,610104.226.84$112,229
Mar 20229612,479108.885.08$117,218
Feb 20227501,85091.054.86$77,276
Jan 202279831681.844.54$66,742
Dec 202175542371.323.90$55,496
Nov 202184852277.435.24$68,394
Oct 202177850479.795.71$64,956
Sep 202182454069.865.35$60,454
Aug 202162745966.024.22$43,332
Jul 202144255370.783.98$33,487
Jun 20217627169.493.38$6,197
May 202156249663.483.02$37,173
Apr 202137432660.362.76$23,474
Mar 202137624661.302.72$23,717
Feb 202144820557.805.55$27,032
Jan 202145929750.412.81$23,973
Dec 202050532344.642.68$23,407
Nov 202052226238.772.71$20,947
Oct 202055147136.972.48$21,538
Sep 202052436037.091.99$20,152
Aug 202054844739.982.39$22,975
Jul 20207354,14638.371.83$35,769
Jun 202098869034.901.69$35,648
May 202086994516.921.81$16,418
Apr 202091979214.751.80$14,984
Mar 202061976330.341.86$20,197
Feb 20205742,18849.881.98$32,965
Jan 20201,1004,17557.252.09$71,721
Dec 20191,4333,81459.012.30$93,350
Nov 20191,4643,45155.302.75$90,452
Oct 20191,0025,14553.472.42$66,020
Sep 20191,1863,80255.052.66$75,392
Aug 20191,0954,04253.112.30$67,470
Jul 201962878656.272.46$37,271
Jun 201970552152.782.49$38,508
May 201999080658.482.74$60,104
Apr 20191,0762,16862.632.75$73,353
Mar 20191,40182956.803.06$82,115
Feb 20191,1612,48950.852.79$65,987
Jan 20199582,79746.033.23$53,126
Dec 20189204,18246.594.19$60,366
Nov 20181,36969952.934.24$75,423
Oct 20181,1362,88161.443.40$79,586
Sep 20181,0726,86959.543.11$85,176
Aug 20181,2245,21959.403.07$88,710
Jul 20181,1764,90865.142.93$90,994
Jun 20181,2895,84860.183.08$95,566
May 20181,2794,84965.382.90$97,687
Apr 20181,2574,57863.842.90$93,527
Mar 20181,4399,61361.222.79$114,885
Feb 20181,1648,89061.782.77$96,503
Jan 20181,59110,51862.874.01$142,196
Dec 20171,4939,90957.272.92$114,453
Nov 20171,49710,08055.423.12$114,397
Oct 20171,4599,55949.292.98$100,435
Sep 20171,70213,69647.523.09$123,162
Aug 20171,4365,61645.373.00$82,024
Jul 20172,24615,64643.873.09$146,836
Jun 20171,95514,27242.493.09$127,130
May 20172,54417,30045.373.26$171,878
Apr 20172,90619,83747.933.21$202,993
Mar 20172,25519,80146.772.98$164,546
Feb 20171,97515,32650.452.95$144,890
Jan 20172,90322,45249.413.42$220,196
Dec 20162,55321,43548.763.72$204,283
Nov 20162,48018,67742.492.64$154,764
Oct 20163,47722,40046.193.09$229,824
Sep 20164,65328,94841.553.10$283,089
Aug 20162,98323,50941.442.92$192,364
Jul 20163,48324,21641.622.92$215,778
Jun 20163,61924,53045.352.69$230,005
May 20165,16028,77742.521.99$276,699
Apr 20166,69220,33236.561.99$285,141
Mar 20168,95024,57033.011.79$339,518
Feb 20168,15523,86726.472.06$265,116
Jan 20169,07027,02127.352.36$311,952
Dec 20158,34924,20232.362.00$318,612
Nov 20155,86724,29438.792.17$280,234
Oct 201514,63352,32943.552.43$764,248
Sep 20156,05822,54642.992.76$322,625

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           216 bbl  × $106.41 =    $22,985
Gas                1,391 Mcf  × $  3.05 =     $4,237

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Month total                                  $27,221

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/279863 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.