CRATON OPERATING LLC

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Leases
296
Reported value
$1.22 bn
Last 12 filed months
$11.6 M
Counties
11

Reported value by year

What CRATON OPERATING LLC'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
1,963
2020–2026, 11 counties
Found out of compliance
4.4%
87 inspections · Texas 9.6%
Violations
58
12 rules cited
Major violations
0
none flagged major
RuleWhat the Commission cited it forViolations
SWR 3.14(b)(2)Inactive Unplugged Well15
SWR 3.17(a)Bradenhead Requirements12
SWR 3.3(2)Well Sign6
SWR 3.8(d)(1)Unpermitted Disposal of Oil and Gas Wastes6
SWR 3.3(1)Entrance Sign4

The five commonest of 12 rules cited against this operator.

What the Commission did

  • Notice of Violation 58

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 87 inspections that found this operator out of compliance — they are counted from their own file. 17 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 296 leases

BOISE SOUTHERN ET AL06/235280Gas well$21.5 M
D'ASTO06/263233Gas well$17.7 M
PORTER DEEP GU06/263552Gas well$17.4 M
D'ASTO06/263330Gas well$17.0 M
MOORE, JEMIMA06/255116Gas well$16.4 M
WOODLEY06/254039Gas well$15.9 M
GLADNEY06/13804Oil lease$15.7 M
WOODLEY06/262203Gas well$15.4 M
BARTLEY GU06/255051Gas well$14.5 M
HARRIS-MUNDEN GU06/264376Gas well$14.1 M
BARTLEY GU06/251179Gas well$13.9 M
HARRIS-MUNDEN GU06/260573Gas well$13.2 M
BARTLEY GU06/255581Gas well$12.8 M
HARRIS-MUNDEN GU06/261274Gas well$12.6 M
HARRIS-MUNDEN GU06/261580Gas well$12.4 M
BODENHEIM, G. A.06/154967Gas well$11.9 M
RAGLE06/261098Gas well$10.9 M
TOLER GAS UNIT06/151190Gas well$10.7 M
SUNDAY, R. GERRY05/224900Gas well$10.5 M
LAWRENCE-CHEVRON GAS UNIT06/264112Gas well$10.4 M
CHEROKEE WATER COMPANY06/165477Gas well$9.9 M
FIELDS, C. W. GAS UNIT06/274754Gas well$9.8 M
HICKEY, F.S. ET AL06/245810Gas well$9.1 M
FIELDS, C.W. GAS UNIT06/267816Gas well$9.0 M
TOLER GAS UNIT06/157547Gas well$8.9 M
GLADNEY GAS UNIT06/215804Gas well$8.7 M
WOODLEY06/254990Gas well$8.7 M
HARRIS-MUNDEN GU06/260572Gas well$8.7 M
TOLER GAS UNIT06/13982Oil lease$8.4 M
HICKEY, F.S. ET AL06/247523Gas well$8.3 M
ADAMS G.U. 106/200675Gas well$8.0 M
HULAN HEIRS05/219230Gas well$8.0 M
HARRIS-MUNDEN GU06/247391Gas well$8.0 M
CHEROKEE WATER COMPANY06/165476Gas well$7.9 M
BOISE SOUTHERN ET AL06/242061Gas well$7.8 M
HARPER06/252624Gas well$7.5 M
CHEROKEE WATER COMPANY06/214067Gas well$7.5 M
CHEROKEE WATER COMPANY06/213709Gas well$7.4 M
GLADNEY GAS UNIT06/161560Gas well$7.2 M
CHEROKEE WATER COMPANY06/156922Gas well$7.1 M
MCWHORTER, E.O.06/63589Gas well$7.1 M
ADAMS G.U. 106/210068Gas well$7.1 M
WINSTON CLARK GU 106/264493Gas well$7.1 M
PELLHAM G.U. 106/201668Gas well$7.0 M
MCMAHON, RICHARD L.05/241375Gas well$7.0 M
FORD, HUGH M.05/173431Gas well$6.9 M
FAIR, D. P. GU06/277268Gas well$6.9 M
CHEROKEE WATER COMPANY06/165896Gas well$6.9 M
BURTON, BERTHA GU 106/197535Gas well$6.9 M
INMON, J.C.05/227284Gas well$6.8 M

Pipeline systems

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

SystemMilesSegmentsCounties
LITTLE BUDDY NORTH791288
STEVENS SYSTEM1.731
GLADNEY 111.431
THRASHER0.911
TOLAR SYSTEM0.431
THRASHER0.411
MCWHORTER0.311
D'ASTO SYSTEM0.211

Counties (11)