VARAS ENERGY OPERATING COMPANY,
Reported value by year
What VARAS ENERGY OPERATING COMPANY,'s leases reported, valued at the published monthly benchmark and summed by year. This is the state's volume times a published price — not what the company was paid, which no free source publishes.
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 | 43 |
| SWR 3.3(2) | Well Sign | 20 |
| SWR 4.103(a) | Unpermitted Disposal of Oil and Gas Wastes | 13 |
| SWR 3.13(a)(6)(A) | Surface Control of Well | 6 |
| SWR 3.15(f)(2)(A)(ii)(I) | W-3C: Removal of Equipment, Piping, Tanks, Trash | 6 |
The five commonest of 17 rules cited against this operator.
What the Commission did
- Notice of Violation 109
- Issued a Severance/Seal Order 5
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 116 inspections that found this operator out of compliance — they are counted from their own file. 34 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 953 leases
| BRACKEN ET AL01/8288 | Oil lease | $111.5 M |
| AMARILLA, ROSA04/169717 | Gas well | $78.8 M |
| WHITEHURST01/14138 | Oil lease | $63.2 M |
| SOUTHWEST TEXAS CORP "A"04/208309 | Gas well | $61.4 M |
| EIA PROPERTIES04/215176 | Gas well | $61.1 M |
| SANTA ANA04/169296 | Gas well | $47.3 M |
| LINDHOLM-HANSON GU01/208364 | Gas well | $44.7 M |
| SOUTHWEST TEXAS CORP "C"04/208781 | Gas well | $38.3 M |
| GUTIERREZ HEIRS 3704/164759 | Gas well | $37.6 M |
| BIGLER-FLORES GU04/200026 | Gas well | $35.0 M |
| YEAGER GAS UNIT01/206696 | Gas well | $34.3 M |
| BENAVIDES, ROSA V. "C"04/176812 | Gas well | $33.9 M |
| LINDHOLM-HANSON GAS UNIT01/215680 | Gas well | $31.6 M |
| COOPER FOUNDATION04/212176 | Gas well | $31.0 M |
| DEATRICK04/191420 | Gas well | $28.7 M |
| COOPER FOUNDATION04/209900 | Gas well | $28.0 M |
| BENAVIDES, ROSA V. "C"04/170028 | Gas well | $27.9 M |
| WHITFIELD-MARTIN GU01/198806 | Gas well | $26.9 M |
| YEAGER GAS UNIT01/220744 | Gas well | $25.6 M |
| SOUTHWEST TEXAS CORP "B"04/208311 | Gas well | $23.7 M |
| ATCHISON ESTATE04/237076 | Gas well | $23.3 M |
| SBR01/14305 | Oil lease | $23.2 M |
| MARSHALL-STATE04/199123 | Gas well | $22.4 M |
| MARSHALL STATE04/201335 | Gas well | $22.1 M |
| GARCIA 104/143177 | Gas well | $22.1 M |
| JUANA04/161398 | Gas well | $22.1 M |
| LINDHOLM GAS UNIT01/167676 | Gas well | $21.9 M |
| LAUREL, F. D.04/179902 | Gas well | $21.5 M |
| YEAGER GAS UNIT01/210692 | Gas well | $21.1 M |
| SOUTHWEST TEXAS CORP "D"04/209457 | Gas well | $20.8 M |
| GRUY, DAGMAR04/229012 | Gas well | $20.1 M |
| EIA PROPERTIES04/213818 | Gas well | $19.8 M |
| LINDHOLM-HANSON GU01/215494 | Gas well | $19.6 M |
| DEATRICK04/193373 | Gas well | $19.6 M |
| MCCLURE04/229049 | Gas well | $18.8 M |
| BENAVIDES, ROSA V. "C"04/180012 | Gas well | $18.6 M |
| FGG RANCHES04/180622 | Gas well | $18.1 M |
| TREVINO, A.04/160212 | Gas well | $18.0 M |
| MORENO GU04/236615 | Gas well | $17.6 M |
| GRUY, DAGMAR04/222674 | Gas well | $17.5 M |
| VILLARREAL04/181118 | Gas well | $17.4 M |
| BENAVIDES, ROSA V. "C'04/173548 | Gas well | $17.1 M |
| GUTIERREZ HEIRS04/113810 | Gas well | $17.0 M |
| ATCHISON ESTATE04/237445 | Gas well | $16.7 M |
| FLORES, DANIEL 76204/167446 | Gas well | $16.6 M |
| BRACKEN, R.01/261613 | Gas well | $16.5 M |
| PENA04/137147 | Gas well | $16.4 M |
| DULANEY-BRUNI04/251652 | Gas well | $16.2 M |
| VILLARREAL04/179707 | Gas well | $16.2 M |
| BRACKEN, R.01/256159 | Gas well | $16.1 M |
Pipeline systems
The named networks VARAS ENERGY OPERATING COMPANY, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOSTETTER FIELD SYSTEM | 126 | 215 | 7 |
| MCCLURE PRODUCTION FACILITY | 15 | 3 | 1 |
| TRANS-ZAPATA GATHERIING SYSTEM | 6.7 | 7 | 1 |
| SANTA ANA SALES LINE | 3.7 | 1 | 1 |
| CUBA LIBRE SYSTEM | 3.5 | 1 | 1 |
| ALTA MESA SYSTEM | 1.9 | 1 | 1 |
| BIGLER FLORES FACILITY | 1.7 | 1 | 1 |
| FRANCISCO GATHERING SYSTEM | 1.2 | 1 | 1 |