BUFFCO PRODUCTION INC.

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Leases
650
Reported value
$2.09 bn
Last 12 filed months
$101.3 M
Counties
38

Reported value by year

What BUFFCO PRODUCTION INC.'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.

Inspections
5,138
2015–2026, 45 counties
Found out of compliance
9.1%
469 inspections · Texas 9.6%
Violations
421
33 rules cited
Major violations
0
none flagged major
RuleWhat the Commission cited it forViolations
SWR 3.8(d)(1)Unpermitted Disposal of Oil and Gas Wastes122
SWR 3.3(2)Well Sign49
SWR 3.3(3)Battery Sign; Commingling Permit32
SWR 3.3(1)Entrance Sign29
SWR 3.17(a)Bradenhead Requirements24

The five commonest of 33 rules cited against this operator.

What the Commission did

  • Notice of Violation 412
  • Issued a Severance/Seal Order 7
  • Referred to Austin Field Ops for possible legal enforcement 1
  • Violation Corrected 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 469 inspections that found this operator out of compliance — they are counted from their own file. 40 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.

Dockets
64
1986–2024
Compliance or penalty
3
PPP and ENF dockets
Docket types
10
commonest A37
Fields named
43
distinct RRC fields
TypeWhat the Commission's remarks call itDockets
A37Rule 37 spacing exception45
R10no published meaning for this code4
R37Rule 37 docket3
SP4no published meaning for this code3
AFRno published meaning for this code2

The five commonest of 10 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 — 6 May 1986 to 11 Mar 2024. 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 650 leases

HOWETT01/15772Oil lease$172.0 M
PRIEST-TRINKLE01/19958Oil lease$162.1 M
WILSON-GATES B01/21087Oil lease$58.0 M
STCH-JOHNSON01/20694Oil lease$56.1 M
J&M HOLDSWORTH ZAV01/18279Oil lease$41.2 M
TINSLEY06/258146Gas well$28.4 M
LOVELESS UNIT "E"09/27721Oil lease$23.5 M
LOVELESS "F"09/27879Oil lease$23.3 M
MCCASLIN-HALL06/211626Gas well$22.2 M
GRESHAM, CURTIS06/264502Gas well$21.9 M
COLEMAN01/16926Oil lease$21.5 M
WHITEHEAD "A"06/217202Gas well$18.1 M
POWELL01/16925Oil lease$16.7 M
WILSON-GATES-COGGINS-POWELL01/20819Oil lease$16.5 M
POWELL-STCH JOHNSON01/20448Oil lease$16.4 M
WILSON-GATES-COGGINS-POWELL-A01/20828Oil lease$15.8 M
DOUBLE K GAS UNIT06/259261Gas well$15.3 M
MUSSELMAN RANCHES, INC.02/174128Gas well$13.2 M
HARGROVE -C-01/17650Oil lease$13.0 M
CEDAR SPRINGS GAS UNIT 306/183530Gas well$12.3 M
WILSON-GATES B-HOLDSWORTH (AW)01/21447Oil lease$12.1 M
MELTON, DELLA06/235712Gas well$12.0 M
HIETT GAS UNIT06/263821Gas well$12.0 M
CARROLL-MCMANUS02/176015Gas well$12.0 M
JMH ZAV01/18370Oil lease$11.7 M
LONGVIEW NORTH GAS UNIT06/255954Gas well$11.4 M
JETERO INVESTMENTS COMPANY01/7491Oil lease$11.3 M
COLEMAN, TARTER ET AL06/247208Gas well$11.0 M
CX CATTLE COMPANY06/263729Gas well$10.5 M
KRISTEN03/24555Oil lease$10.3 M
DAYTON03/26402Oil lease$9.7 M
ERIN UNIT03/24014Oil lease$9.5 M
MEADOWS, PUGH GAS UNIT06/253814Gas well$9.0 M
CUTBIRTH ESTATE GAS UNIT06/214946Gas well$8.7 M
CEDAR SPRINGS GAS UNIT #306/99330Gas well$8.4 M
WILLOW LAKE CRIM (AW)06/300141Gas well$8.4 M
MCCASLIN-HALL06/247659Gas well$8.2 M
KEASLER, JOHN K.06/216138Gas well$8.2 M
SHELTON06/167092Gas well$8.0 M
SMITH, G.L. GAS UNIT06/213611Gas well$7.9 M
GRESHAM, CURTIS06/254568Gas well$7.7 M
CEDAR SPRINGS GAS UNIT #506/180349Gas well$7.6 M
TAYLOR-ANNE "A"06/178357Gas well$7.6 M
WILLIAMS GU06/264520Gas well$7.6 M
KEASLER, JOHN K.06/181244Gas well$7.5 M
WHITE-DAVID06/100274Gas well$7.4 M
WILLIAMS GU06/261584Gas well$7.3 M
SIMMONS, OCIE06/275825Gas well$7.2 M
TECARO WOOD06/209579Gas well$7.1 M
MACKEY, W D06/265638Gas well$7.0 M

Pipeline systems

The named networks BUFFCO PRODUCTION INC. operates. One physical pipeline is usually filed as hundreds of segments, so a system — not a segment — is the unit worth reading.

SystemMilesSegmentsCounties
SIMPSON E LEASE SYSTEM364911
HOWETT LINE2.011
EVANS-VARGA PIPELINE0.711

Counties (38)