BLACK ELK ENERGY OFFSHORE OP 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 | 6 |
What the Commission did
- Referred to Austin Field Ops for possible legal enforcement 8
- Referred to State-Managed Plugging 5
- 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 14 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 |
|---|---|---|
| R10 | no published meaning for this code | 1 |
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 — 28 Jul 2010 to 30 Jul 2010. 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.
25 leases
| COVE MCPAC03/161719 | Gas well | $30.9 M |
| COVE MCPAC03/161720 | Gas well | $12.8 M |
| TEXAS GULF 5768603/180122 | Gas well | $10.5 M |
| TEXAS GULF 5768603/158190 | Gas well | $6.3 M |
| TEXAS GULF 5768603/251456 | Gas well | $5.2 M |
| TEXAS GULF 5768603/161307 | Gas well | $4.4 M |
| TEXAS GULF 5768603/180367 | Gas well | $4.0 M |
| TEXAS GULF 5768603/124564 | Gas well | $3.8 M |
| TEXAS GULF 5768603/59010 | Gas well | $3.8 M |
| ST 369 L NE/403/206394 | Gas well | $3.5 M |
| STATE TRACT 369-L NE/403/149105 | Gas well | $3.3 M |
| STATE TRACT 369-L NE/403/236965 | Gas well | $3.2 M |
| TEXAS GULF 5768603/161302 | Gas well | $3.1 M |
| TEXAS GULF #5768603/179560 | Gas well | $2.9 M |
| STATE TRACT 369-L N/2 SE/403/235388 | Gas well | $2.4 M |
| TEXAS GULF 5768603/123824 | Gas well | $2.4 M |
| STATE TRACT 369-L NE/403/206393 | Gas well | $2.2 M |
| STATE TRACT 369-L N/2 SE/403/262240 | Gas well | $1.9 M |
| TEXAS GULF 5768603/179923 | Gas well | $1.8 M |
| STATE TRACT 369-L NE/403/251454 | Gas well | $834 k |
| STATE TRACT 369-L N/2 SE/403/233351 | Gas well | $667 k |
| TEXAS GULF #5768603/179563 | Gas well | $427 k |
| TEXAS GULF 5768603/116062 | Gas well | $0 |
| TEXAS GULF 5768603/45562 | Gas well | $0 |
| TEXAS GULF # 5768603/64597 | Gas well | $0 |
Pipeline systems
The named networks BLACK ELK ENERGY OFFSHORE OP 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COWTRAP OFFSHORE GATHERING | 8.9 | 7 | 1 |
| ST 368-ST 340 | 7.0 | 3 | 2 |
| COVE-MCPAC UNIT #1 | 2.1 | 2 | 1 |
| TEXAS GULF 57686 #15 | 1.4 | 2 | 1 |
| NORTH COVE UNIT #1 | 1.3 | 2 | 1 |
| TEXAS GULF 57686 #16 | 1.2 | 2 | 1 |
| 6" GAS FWS TIE-IN | 0.7 | 1 | 1 |
| TEXAS GULF 57686 #10 | 0.5 | 2 | 1 |