ARETE OPERATING COMPANY, LLC
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(2) | Well Sign | 8 |
| SWR 3.14(b)(2) | Inactive Unplugged Well | 7 |
| SWR 3.3(3) | Battery Sign; Commingling Permit | 7 |
| SWR 3.3(1) | Entrance Sign | 6 |
| SWR 3.15(f)(2)(A)(ii)(I) | W-3C: Removal of Equipment, Piping, Tanks, Trash | 5 |
The five commonest of 14 rules cited against this operator.
What the Commission did
- Notice of Violation 46
- Issued a Severance/Seal Order 3
- Referred to State-Managed Plugging 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 61 inspections that found this operator out of compliance — they are counted from their own file. 2 of the violations were still uncorrected when the inspector returned.
The Railroad Commission's docket file published 2025-02-05 names no case against this operator. That is what the file holds. It is not a statement that none exists.
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.
50 of 60 leases
| STEWART01/15635 | Oil lease | $37.8 M |
| BRUNI MINERAL TRUST04/178876 | Gas well | $16.4 M |
| RUSSELL-WINCH04/151909 | Gas well | $14.0 M |
| RUSSELL - WINCH04/196183 | Gas well | $13.0 M |
| HEIN, LUZ A. ESTATE04/142846 | Gas well | $9.2 M |
| RUSSELL-WINCH04/166302 | Gas well | $8.4 M |
| RUSSELL - WINCH04/193163 | Gas well | $8.2 M |
| STEWART - MICHAEL UNIT01/16563 | Oil lease | $7.7 M |
| RUSSELL - WINCH04/132796 | Gas well | $7.2 M |
| WELHAUSEN, J. R.04/167838 | Gas well | $7.1 M |
| BRUNI MINERAL TRUST A-B04/134065 | Gas well | $7.1 M |
| RUSSELL-WINCH04/169843 | Gas well | $6.7 M |
| NEAL UNIT01/17431 | Oil lease | $6.4 M |
| RUSSELL - WINCH STATE04/128572 | Gas well | $5.6 M |
| BRUNI-HEIN GAS UNIT04/191848 | Gas well | $5.6 M |
| GILL, F. J.04/191685 | Gas well | $5.6 M |
| WINCH, L.-STATE04/192926 | Gas well | $5.5 M |
| BRUNI MINERAL TRUST AB04/146526 | Gas well | $5.4 M |
| PENA, H. L.04/159403 | Gas well | $5.2 M |
| M. M. A. CATTLE CO.04/201857 | Gas well | $4.8 M |
| MAYERS04/186073 | Gas well | $4.8 M |
| GILL, F. J.04/190597 | Gas well | $4.7 M |
| RUSSELL-WINCH04/111905 | Gas well | $4.6 M |
| STEWART - MICHAEL 2H UNIT01/16397 | Oil lease | $4.5 M |
| HEIN, A. O.04/189389 | Gas well | $4.2 M |
| RUSSELL-WINCH04/143764 | Gas well | $4.2 M |
| M.M.A. CATTLE CO.04/183997 | Gas well | $4.2 M |
| RUSSELL-WINCH04/143294 | Gas well | $3.8 M |
| MAYERS04/188875 | Gas well | $3.5 M |
| RUSSELL-WINCH04/192943 | Gas well | $3.5 M |
| GILL, F. J.04/182637 | Gas well | $3.4 M |
| HAYNES ESTATE04/11580 | Gas well | $3.1 M |
| PENA, H. L.04/160639 | Gas well | $2.9 M |
| L. WINCH STATE04/100947 | Gas well | $2.9 M |
| LEWIS02/9678 | Oil lease | $2.6 M |
| RUSSELL-WINCH04/120415 | Gas well | $2.5 M |
| BRUNI MINERAL TRUST AB04/139464 | Gas well | $2.1 M |
| ROTTERSMAN04/143721 | Gas well | $2.0 M |
| RUSSELL - WINCH STATE04/98216 | Gas well | $1.8 M |
| MAYERS GAS UNIT 404/216942 | Gas well | $1.6 M |
| MARTIN, SOPHIE J. "B"04/140492 | Gas well | $1.5 M |
| RUSSELL-WINCH04/108652 | Gas well | $1.4 M |
| WELHAUSEN, J.R.04/146609 | Gas well | $1.4 M |
| HEIN, A.O.04/131965 | Gas well | $1.4 M |
| MAYERS04/186736 | Gas well | $1.3 M |
| MAYERS04/166273 | Gas well | $1.1 M |
| GILL, F. J.04/186644 | Gas well | $1.0 M |
| HEIN, LUZ A. ESTATE04/171852 | Gas well | $783 k |
| MAYERS04/170760 | Gas well | $674 k |
| MONSON02/9024 | Oil lease | $651 k |
Pipeline systems
The named networks ARETE OPERATING COMPANY, LLC operates. One physical pipeline is usually filed as hundreds of segments, so a system — not a segment — is the unit worth reading.
| System | Miles | Segments | Counties |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUJERES CREEK (VAQUILLAS RANCH) | 46 | 79 | 2 |