MERICA OIL OPERATING COMPANY LLC
Every Texas lease MERICA OIL OPERATING COMPANY LLC 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(2) | Well Sign | 20 |
| SWR 3.3(1) | Entrance Sign | 16 |
| SWR 3.14(b)(2) | Inactive Unplugged Well | 12 |
| SWR 3.3(3) | Battery Sign; Commingling Permit | 9 |
| SWR 3.2(a) | Access to Property | 4 |
The five commonest of 10 rules cited against this operator.
What the Commission did
- Notice of Violation 35
- Referred to Austin Field Ops for possible legal enforcement 27
- Issued a Severance/Seal Order 3
- Referred to State-Managed Plugging 3
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 86 inspections that found this operator out of compliance — they are counted from their own file. 16 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.
22 leases
| HESTER UNIT03/23604 | Oil lease | $5.0 M |
| KLEIBER03/21658 | Oil lease | $3.5 M |
| ELLISOR "B"03/22658 | Oil lease | $2.4 M |
| TYRA03/25053 | Oil lease | $2.0 M |
| WEBB03/25071 | Oil lease | $1.5 M |
| MCFARLAND-MCFARLAND UNIT03/20773 | Oil lease | $1.5 M |
| BURNS, ANN -A-01/12014 | Oil lease | $1.1 M |
| JACKSON, HELEN03/158635 | Gas well | $942 k |
| FOSTER01/4385 | Oil lease | $798 k |
| MAGGIE03/24900 | Oil lease | $660 k |
| BLACK03/25070 | Oil lease | $493 k |
| BURNS, JANE -C-01/64 | Oil lease | $333 k |
| BURNS, JANE -B-01/63 | Oil lease | $294 k |
| TYRA03/25096 | Oil lease | $260 k |
| CROWTHER01/10368 | Oil lease | $236 k |
| BURNS, JANE -E-01/4551 | Oil lease | $210 k |
| BURNS, ANN01/4430 | Oil lease | $182 k |
| BURNS, JANE -D-01/4449 | Oil lease | $180 k |
| MCPHAUL03/25329 | Oil lease | $129 k |
| TOMBLIN, R.W.01/10421 | Oil lease | $83 k |
| WACHSMANN03/25373 | Oil lease | $14 k |
| GBR03/25350 | Oil lease | $90 |