ASHTOLA EXPLORATION COMPANY,INC.
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 3.14(b)(2) | Inactive Unplugged Well | 34 |
| SWR 3.8(d)(1) | Unpermitted Disposal of Oil and Gas Wastes | 18 |
| SWR 3.36(d)(1)(G) | Form H-9 Filing Requirement | 6 |
| SWR 3.2(a) | Access to Property | 4 |
| SWR 3.3(3) | Battery Sign; Commingling Permit | 4 |
The five commonest of 12 rules cited against this operator.
What the Commission did
- Referred to State-Managed Plugging 34
- Notice of Violation 31
- Referred to State-Managed Cleanup Program 8
- Referred to Austin Field Ops for possible legal enforcement 4
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 54 inspections that found this operator out of compliance — they are counted from their own file.
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 | 14 |
| R37 | Rule 37 docket | 7 |
| FRL | Temporary field rules | 6 |
| R50 | no published meaning for this code | 3 |
| USR | no published meaning for this code | 2 |
The five commonest of 15 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 Jan 1983 to 3 Jun 2020. 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.
50 of 68 leases
| MENG, JAMES "B"7B/25187 | Oil lease | $11.5 M |
| CARMACK "1693"7B/26919 | Oil lease | $3.2 M |
| CARMACK "1693" UNIT C7B/27112 | Oil lease | $3.2 M |
| ALKEK01/12759 | Oil lease | $2.8 M |
| CARMACK "1693", UNIT B7B/27007 | Oil lease | $2.7 M |
| KEETER RANCHES "2109"7B/24277 | Oil lease | $2.2 M |
| JOHNSTON UNIT01/192739 | Gas well | $1.6 M |
| ALKEK UNIT "A"01/150905 | Gas well | $1.2 M |
| LEE "1306"7B/27137 | Oil lease | $1.1 M |
| PALMER, MIKE7B/23015 | Oil lease | $964 k |
| JOHNSTON, ANNIE7B/4970 | Oil lease | $917 k |
| DAWS, F. ESTATE "1680"09/21953 | Oil lease | $895 k |
| DAWS, NAN "1677"09/23666 | Oil lease | $866 k |
| VIOLA HUNT09/30892 | Oil lease | $777 k |
| DAWS, F. EST. "1680"09/20137 | Oil lease | $580 k |
| COKER "1688" UNIT7B/29483 | Oil lease | $508 k |
| ALKEK01/143920 | Gas well | $498 k |
| BELLAH "2116"7B/25922 | Oil lease | $434 k |
| ALKEK01/140183 | Gas well | $406 k |
| ALKEK01/146888 | Gas well | $374 k |
| LEE "1306"7B/29956 | Oil lease | $356 k |
| DAWS, J.B. "2378"7B/20211 | Oil lease | $346 k |
| MCCLELLAN-PHILLIPS09/29790 | Oil lease | $334 k |
| COKER "1688"7B/29579 | Oil lease | $247 k |
| MENG, JAMES "B"7B/25186 | Oil lease | $237 k |
| ALKEK01/197031 | Gas well | $191 k |
| JOHNSTON, ANNIE7B/4965 | Oil lease | $152 k |
| LEAGUE-ROSS09/26192 | Oil lease | $144 k |
| CARMACK "1685"7B/19835 | Oil lease | $130 k |
| NASH7B/80556 | Gas well | $106 k |
| DAWS, JIM BOB "1683"09/23108 | Oil lease | $95 k |
| DAWS, J. B. "2379"09/17209 | Oil lease | $84 k |
| DAWS, J. B. "2379"09/17257 | Oil lease | $76 k |
| BULLOCK "261"09/26795 | Oil lease | $73 k |
| HARDIN-FORTUNE09/27963 | Oil lease | $63 k |
| DAWS, W. D. ETAL "770"09/21192 | Oil lease | $55 k |
| WILKINSON "724" UNIT09/22888 | Oil lease | $49 k |
| KELL-HARMONSON09/26282 | Oil lease | $46 k |
| REMINGTON, A. T. "361" UNIT09/26859 | Oil lease | $38 k |
| TIMMONS-KEETER UNIT7B/16144 | Oil lease | $35 k |
| MENG, JAMES "B"7B/25334 | Oil lease | $33 k |
| WILKINSON "724" UNIT09/22917 | Oil lease | $32 k |
| JOHNSTON UNIT01/195515 | Gas well | $31 k |
| KEETER RANCHES7B/19653 | Oil lease | $27 k |
| TIMMONS "2161"7B/24147 | Oil lease | $23 k |
| DAWS "C"09/23493 | Oil lease | $20 k |
| WOODRUFF-HARDIN UNIT09/26647 | Oil lease | $15 k |
| SANER RANCH01/13790 | Oil lease | $15 k |
| MENG "2146"7B/11089 | Oil lease | $10 k |
| JONES, ANNIS7B/13044 | Oil lease | $10 k |
Pipeline systems
The named networks ASHTOLA EXPLORATION COMPANY,INC. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALKEK FLOWLINE SYSTEM | 5.4 | 6 | 1 |