AMERICAN EXPLORATION COMPANY
Every Texas lease AMERICAN EXPLORATION COMPANY reports production on, valued at the published monthly benchmark.
Inspections and violations
What the Railroad Commission's field inspectors recorded at this operator's facilities. An inspection count tracks how much this operator runs in Texas; the rate beside it is what the inspectors found.
| Rule | What the Commission cited it for | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| SWR 3.3(1) | Entrance Sign | 1 |
What the Commission did
- Notice of Violation 1
From the Commission's inspection and violation files, covering Aug 1 2015 to Aug 7 2026. The two are separate files with no key between them, so the violations here are not a subset of the 3 inspections that found this operator out of compliance — they are counted from their own file. 1 of the violations were still uncorrected when the inspector returned.
Commission dockets
Cases the Railroad Commission opened naming this operator. Most dockets are applications — commonly for an exception to the statewide spacing rule — and a small number are compliance orders.
| Type | What the Commission's remarks call it | Dockets |
|---|---|---|
| A37 | Rule 37 spacing exception | 28 |
| R37 | Rule 37 docket | 19 |
| R38 | Rule 38 well-density exception | 15 |
| R10 | no published meaning for this code | 9 |
| 7A8 | Rule 37 or 38 exception | 3 |
The five commonest of 10 types this operator carries.
From the Commission's docket file published 2025-02-05. It is the only copy on the Commission's link, so nothing filed after that date appears here. The dates shown are the earliest and latest the record carries — 21 Aug 1985 to 28 Oct 1996. The file holds eight date fields per docket and the Commission publishes no key to which is which, so none is named here.
Leases
Every lease is a page of its own: the monthly volumes the state published, multiplied by the monthly price. Value is lifetime, from Jan 1993.
40 leases
| LONGORIA04/144771 | Gas well | $479 k |
| UNIVERSITY -J-08/12523 | Oil lease | $199 k |
| WEYERHAEUSER04/157170 | Gas well | $150 k |
| RIO NATIONAL BANK04/154511 | Gas well | $130 k |
| WEYERHAEUSER04/151527 | Gas well | $124 k |
| OLSON-ZAPP NO. 1 UNIT03/5876 | Oil lease | $124 k |
| FEE04/148562 | Gas well | $85 k |
| ETCHISON, HORACE04/148563 | Gas well | $74 k |
| BAILEY, JAMES TRUSTEE03/138329 | Gas well | $69 k |
| ROLLER02/125059 | Gas well | $18 k |
| HILBRICH-SELLERS02/125528 | Gas well | $9 k |
| RED BLUFF "8"08/94413 | Gas well | $9 k |
| LONGORIA04/139995 | Gas well | $8 k |
| RED BLUFF "8"08/97499 | Gas well | $7 k |
| HILBRICH-SELLERS02/52866 | Gas well | $6 k |
| WEYERHAEUSER04/157085 | Gas well | $4 k |
| SUGATEX CORP.04/11898 | Gas well | $3 k |
| FEE04/11897 | Gas well | $3 k |
| KRUSEMARK, H. F. UNIT #104/45341 | Gas well | $3 k |
| ETCHISON, HORACE04/11905 | Gas well | $3 k |
| BROWN-ALTMAN -B- /QUEEN/08/15443 | Oil lease | $2 k |
| COKER09/15332 | Oil lease | $2 k |
| BARRY7B/17935 | Oil lease | $1 k |
| MEEK, J.W.08/23780 | Oil lease | $1 k |
| BROWN-ALTMAN -E- A/C #208/1331 | Oil lease | $778 |
| BORCHERS, WILLIAMS02/134962 | Gas well | $484 |
| RAUCHLE ET AL7B/18179 | Oil lease | $285 |
| KIRBY -183-7C/59858 | Gas well | $218 |
| EVANS, M. P.04/43256 | Gas well | $157 |
| WALLACE 767C/82546 | Gas well | $54 |
| 440-L UNIT03/118619 | Gas well | $0 |
| 440-L UNIT03/119941 | Gas well | $0 |
| STATE TRACT 440-L03/121037 | Gas well | $0 |
| STATE TRACT 405-L03/127709 | Gas well | $0 |
| STATE TRACT 440-L03/128307 | Gas well | $0 |
| 440-L UNIT03/128869 | Gas well | $0 |
| BORCHERS, WILLIAM02/129014 | Gas well | $0 |
| 440 L UNIT03/131007 | Gas well | $0 |
| BORCHERS, WILLIAM02/134988 | Gas well | $0 |
| BORCHERS, WILLIAM02/70709 | Gas well | $0 |