CHESAPEAKE OPERATING, INC.
Every Texas lease CHESAPEAKE OPERATING, INC. reports production on, valued at the published monthly benchmark.
Reported value by year
What CHESAPEAKE OPERATING, 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.
| Rule | What the Commission cited it for | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| SWR 3.8(d)(1) | Unpermitted Disposal of Oil and Gas Wastes | 12 |
| SWR 3.91(d)(1) | Remediation of Soil | 6 |
| SWR 3.8(d)(4)(H)(i)(I) | Reserve/Mud pits Backfill Requirements < 6,100 mg/liter | 3 |
| SWR 3.3(3) | Battery Sign; Commingling Permit | 2 |
| SWR 3.8(d)(4)(H)(i) | Pit Backfill Requirements | 2 |
The five commonest of 7 rules cited against this operator.
What the Commission did
- Notice of Violation 27
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 24 inspections that found this operator out of compliance — they are counted from their own file. 2 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 | 2,553 |
| R37 | Rule 37 docket | 340 |
| R38 | Rule 38 well-density exception | 91 |
| 7A8 | Rule 37 or 38 exception | 65 |
| NGP | no published meaning for this code | 38 |
The five commonest of 24 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 — 20 Dec 1987 to 7 Nov 2022. 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 442 leases
| CAVAZOS04/182216 | Gas well | $86.9 M |
| BELL, W. T. GAS UNIT02/200573 | Gas well | $58.9 M |
| BOWERS10/164749 | Gas well | $27.4 M |
| KEMP10/8014 | Oil lease | $19.1 M |
| CAVAZOS04/179100 | Gas well | $16.8 M |
| ZAMORA-VELA04/194250 | Gas well | $13.4 M |
| CALLAGHAN RANCH04/146072 | Gas well | $11.1 M |
| LIEPE10/7970 | Oil lease | $11.0 M |
| CALLAGHAN RANCH04/208789 | Gas well | $10.6 M |
| TUBB10/7969 | Oil lease | $10.4 M |
| LANICEK OL03/149094 | Gas well | $10.3 M |
| ELMORE 3210/201516 | Gas well | $9.5 M |
| SHELL FEE 2510/158574 | Gas well | $8.3 M |
| GARY10/8129 | Oil lease | $8.0 M |
| ABRAHAM NW10/7771 | Oil lease | $7.6 M |
| LOCKWOOD09/240517 | Gas well | $7.4 M |
| KARNES10/7954 | Oil lease | $7.0 M |
| HODGSON, M. UNIT10/157405 | Gas well | $7.0 M |
| FARRIS GAS UNIT02/198737 | Gas well | $6.9 M |
| REDELSPERGER 104310/8158 | Oil lease | $6.8 M |
| LOCKWOOD09/245920 | Gas well | $6.2 M |
| LOCKWOOD09/247552 | Gas well | $6.2 M |
| BORN 107110/8342 | Oil lease | $6.0 M |
| LAH09/239949 | Gas well | $6.0 M |
| LOCKWOOD09/248651 | Gas well | $6.0 M |
| RMT "A"04/199947 | Gas well | $5.9 M |
| PLETCHER10/8578 | Oil lease | $5.6 M |
| HARBAUGH10/8218 | Oil lease | $5.4 M |
| DILWORTH, FRANCES01/15181 | Oil lease | $5.3 M |
| MILLER10/199859 | Gas well | $5.1 M |
| CULPEPPER "A"01/13478 | Oil lease | $5.1 M |
| LOCKWOOD09/245924 | Gas well | $5.0 M |
| JR. ALLEN OL03/149216 | Gas well | $5.0 M |
| CALLAGHAN RANCH04/134212 | Gas well | $4.9 M |
| ABEL VELA-STATE GAS UNIT04/132354 | Gas well | $4.8 M |
| BURNETT, S. B.10/83 | Oil lease | $4.6 M |
| FRANKS OL03/153549 | Gas well | $4.6 M |
| BRITT 510/219131 | Gas well | $4.6 M |
| DICKERSON04/213324 | Gas well | $4.6 M |
| BASS TXL -39-08/28611 | Oil lease | $4.3 M |
| CIS02/202458 | Gas well | $4.3 M |
| CALLAGHAN RANCH04/207604 | Gas well | $4.2 M |
| MILLER 210/202249 | Gas well | $4.2 M |
| GILES03/156485 | Gas well | $4.1 M |
| INDEPENDENCE03/184597 | Gas well | $4.0 M |
| TRAYLOR NORTH01/15229 | Oil lease | $3.7 M |
| BRUNI MINERAL TRUST "A"04/80719 | Gas well | $3.7 M |
| DFW BJ09/233938 | Gas well | $3.6 M |
| CHRISTOPHER -38-08/28537 | Oil lease | $3.6 M |
| THURMAN01/15341 | Oil lease | $3.4 M |