BOWLES ENERGY, 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 3.8(d)(1) | Unpermitted Disposal of Oil and Gas Wastes | 63 |
| SWR 3.17(a) | Bradenhead Requirements | 14 |
| SWR 3.21(j) | Dike or Fire Wall Requirements | 14 |
| SWR 3.3(2) | Well Sign | 10 |
| SWR 3.3(3) | Battery Sign; Commingling Permit | 9 |
The five commonest of 18 rules cited against this operator.
What the Commission did
- Notice of Violation 147
- Referred to Austin Field Ops for possible legal enforcement 1
- 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 154 inspections that found this operator out of compliance — they are counted from their own file. 12 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 | 11 |
| USR | no published meaning for this code | 2 |
| ENF | Enforcement and penalties | 1 |
| R10 | no published meaning for this code | 1 |
| R38 | Rule 38 well-density exception | 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 — 25 Oct 1979 to 6 Nov 2015. 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 101 leases
| JERNIGAN, IRA L.06/216236 | Gas well | $5.5 M |
| BOLTON "A-5"06/14111 | Oil lease | $5.3 M |
| ROBERTS "B"06/11109 | Oil lease | $4.8 M |
| KANGERGA06/12858 | Oil lease | $3.9 M |
| WILLEY, LOUIS06/192346 | Gas well | $3.7 M |
| DOWNS06/220980 | Gas well | $3.6 M |
| STARR, EDGAR06/12263 | Oil lease | $3.4 M |
| MEEKS, F. B.09/19339 | Oil lease | $3.2 M |
| DOUTHIT06/213527 | Gas well | $3.1 M |
| JONES, W. J.06/11630 | Oil lease | $3.0 M |
| MCNEELEY06/126166 | Gas well | $2.9 M |
| GALES06/176645 | Gas well | $2.8 M |
| CHERRY GAS UNIT06/115306 | Gas well | $2.8 M |
| CHRISTIAN06/140632 | Gas well | $2.8 M |
| WEATHERSBY-BLACK HEIRS06/12187 | Oil lease | $2.7 M |
| GRAY06/210770 | Gas well | $2.7 M |
| HOLSEY, J. W.06/73710 | Gas well | $2.7 M |
| F.B. MEEKS09/33511 | Oil lease | $2.6 M |
| SPEIGHT06/119579 | Gas well | $2.6 M |
| RAVEN, THOMAS06/185336 | Gas well | $2.6 M |
| WIENER ESTATE ET AL "X"06/219335 | Gas well | $2.6 M |
| HEMPHILL, B.W. GAS UNIT06/184766 | Gas well | $2.5 M |
| WILLEY, LOUIS06/184596 | Gas well | $2.5 M |
| BERNICE ANDERSON06/14683 | Oil lease | $2.4 M |
| MITCHELL, RUFUS06/14778 | Oil lease | $2.2 M |
| MOBLEY06/201239 | Gas well | $2.2 M |
| WATERS06/10979 | Oil lease | $2.2 M |
| GREEN, C.B.06/222645 | Gas well | $2.1 M |
| FREEMAN HEIRS06/14534 | Oil lease | $2.1 M |
| MITCHELL, RUFUS06/14312 | Oil lease | $2.1 M |
| MASSEY06/73711 | Gas well | $1.7 M |
| MANNING06/12321 | Oil lease | $1.6 M |
| MOTLEY HEIRS06/193604 | Gas well | $1.6 M |
| BRIGGS, W.F.06/132204 | Gas well | $1.6 M |
| BYRD06/10112 | Oil lease | $1.5 M |
| PARKER-CARROLL06/94632 | Gas well | $1.4 M |
| STARNES, J. N.06/10067 | Oil lease | $1.4 M |
| RICHARDSON, E. A.06/73712 | Gas well | $1.4 M |
| HEMPHILL, B.W. GAS UNIT06/126547 | Gas well | $1.3 M |
| HARRELL GAS UNIT06/221605 | Gas well | $1.3 M |
| FREEMAN HEIRS06/188324 | Gas well | $1.2 M |
| KNAUTH06/12538 | Oil lease | $1.2 M |
| TWOMEY-ROWE06/234154 | Gas well | $1.2 M |
| EVANS ET AL06/199846 | Gas well | $1.1 M |
| DURAN, J.06/221734 | Gas well | $1.1 M |
| STARNES06/11788 | Oil lease | $1.0 M |
| BISHOP06/116792 | Gas well | $1.0 M |
| COOKE, MARY06/123185 | Gas well | $995 k |
| FURRH, W. K.06/84696 | Gas well | $992 k |
| MOBLEY06/118763 | Gas well | $968 k |
Pipeline systems
The named networks BOWLES ENERGY, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELYSIAN FIELD | 36 | 41 | 4 |
| BERTHA BRANTLEY | 0.9 | 1 | 1 |