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FRANKE 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 281773District 02Field 86950600Hydrogen sulphide field2 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$10.1 M
Jan 2017 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$204 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
113
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 Gas112017-05-04220397
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
CondensateDisposition118,510 bbl$6,574,187
GasProduction1,087,860 Mcf$3,511,733
Total$10,085,920

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 28.7988, -97.9197. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.79883, -97.91969 · 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
12,712 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 12,712 ft.

Completions filed
Jan 2017
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-255349009H12,712 ftJan 2017——

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 (113)

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

113 months

May 20261446106.413.05$1,630
Apr 20261431,39598.932.87$18,150
Mar 20262983,67589.753.15$38,320
Feb 20265060363.503.75$5,436
Jan 20262703,46059.138.00$43,638
Dec 20251112,75156.664.41$18,430
Nov 20251411,52958.593.93$14,265
Oct 202510533759.383.30$7,349
Sep 20251241,97162.743.08$13,844
Aug 20251861,56363.933.01$16,603
Jul 20251061,34966.743.32$11,547
Jun 20251431,72366.483.13$14,897
May 20252423,04360.553.23$24,489
Apr 20252233,49762.363.54$26,297
Mar 20252463,94967.704.27$33,510
Feb 20252443,77770.884.34$33,690
Jan 20252282,55274.324.28$27,864
Dec 20242313,11368.993.12$25,654
Nov 20242362,98469.052.20$22,856
Oct 20243063,60571.372.28$30,064
Sep 20242683,19669.612.36$26,212
Aug 20242503,19075.632.06$25,490
Jul 20242593,11279.932.15$27,382
Jun 20242543,12178.082.63$28,053
May 20242903,32078.812.20$30,154
Apr 20242674,50384.451.66$30,020
Mar 20242513,39380.301.55$25,398
Feb 20242703,63276.091.78$27,022
Jan 20243123,64173.023.30$34,789
Dec 20232643,13971.262.61$27,008
Nov 20232382,93677.892.81$26,781
Oct 20232352,94085.443.09$29,155
Sep 20232362,90889.042.74$28,967
Aug 20231903,42380.522.67$24,448
Jul 20231624,05274.852.64$22,830
Jun 20231104,13368.962.26$16,920
May 20231594,84770.622.23$22,025
Apr 20232564,19978.122.24$29,395
Mar 20233234,23672.852.39$33,668
Feb 20233983,63475.112.47$38,854
Jan 20234502,99676.533.39$44,588
Dec 20221,3753,82676.415.73$126,983
Nov 20225014,30485.005.65$66,886
Oct 20226224,74187.185.86$82,026
Sep 20225594,54384.888.16$84,536
Aug 20226074,77994.529.13$100,992
Jul 20226335,272101.587.54$104,062
Jun 20226325,264115.097.98$114,729
May 20227476,056109.378.43$132,770
Apr 20226896,116104.226.84$113,626
Mar 20226034,596108.885.08$88,986
Feb 20224466,31891.054.86$71,306
Jan 20228747,07481.844.54$103,628
Dec 20219927,94071.323.90$101,708
Nov 20211,4528,11577.435.24$154,925
Oct 20211,70611,69079.795.71$202,917
Sep 20216893,31069.865.35$65,845
Aug 20210066.024.22$0
Jul 20210070.783.98$0
Jun 20215069.493.38$347
May 20212491,02563.483.02$18,900
Apr 2021871,65060.362.76$9,803
Mar 20212426,90961.302.72$33,606
Feb 20219407,30557.805.55$94,860
Jan 20213653,50950.412.81$28,261
Dec 20204112,07344.642.68$23,893
Nov 20208563,24038.772.71$41,956
Oct 20203633,99536.972.48$23,321
Sep 20206657,06937.091.99$38,740
Aug 20207357,71739.982.39$47,791
Jul 20209599,69538.371.83$54,491
Jun 20201,02710,24334.901.69$53,156
May 202097710,07516.921.81$34,814
Apr 20201,02221,20714.751.80$53,340
Mar 20206499,82830.341.86$37,934
Feb 20204934,75449.881.98$34,007
Jan 20205445,97857.252.09$43,666
Dec 20196795,43859.012.30$52,599
Nov 20195565,22555.302.75$45,119
Oct 20196146,02853.472.42$47,410
Sep 20196896,69455.052.66$55,717
Aug 20197295,99353.112.30$52,527
Jul 20198786,85756.272.46$66,274
Jun 20197127,26852.782.49$55,685
May 20197377,73658.482.74$64,299
Apr 20197048,56062.632.75$67,638
Mar 20194499,66356.803.06$55,092
Feb 20196249,46250.852.79$58,150
Jan 201985912,03946.033.23$78,404
Dec 20181,11212,79346.594.19$105,352
Nov 20186546,14252.934.24$60,641
Oct 20185417,66761.443.40$59,292
Sep 201877610,70059.543.11$79,459
Aug 201880012,51059.403.07$85,883
Jul 20181,00116,63165.142.93$113,965
Jun 20181,89327,39260.183.08$198,204
May 20181,87526,26665.382.90$198,780
Apr 201893718,51763.842.90$113,532
Mar 20181,25321,81361.222.79$137,498
Feb 20181,48817,69961.782.77$140,886
Jan 20181,79121,27162.874.01$197,882
Dec 20172,27226,15457.272.92$206,527
Nov 20172,64228,59255.423.12$235,580
Oct 20173,17135,30949.292.98$261,649
Sep 20172,76827,86647.523.09$217,566
Aug 20172,94028,46645.373.00$218,911
Jul 20174,12428,68843.873.09$269,488
Jun 20174,53334,02642.493.09$297,655
May 20176,03444,27445.373.26$418,246
Apr 20177,43751,62147.933.21$522,241
Mar 20179,62463,73646.772.98$640,282
Feb 201712,99173,68450.452.95$872,955
Jan 20174,81823,39149.413.42$318,027

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            14 bbl  × $106.41 =     $1,490
Gas                   46 Mcf  × $  3.05 =       $140

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Month total                                   $1,630

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/281773 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.