DALE OPERATING COMPANY
Reported value by year
What DALE 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.
The line breaks where the operator filed nothing that year. A gap is a gap, never a zero — the Commission holds no report for those months, which is a different fact from a year of no production.
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 | 2 |
| SWR 3.14(d)(12) | Empty and Remove tanks, vessels, flowlines, junk, close pits. | 1 |
What the Commission did
- Notice of Violation 2
- Referred to Austin Field Ops for possible legal enforcement 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 8 inspections that found this operator out of compliance — they are counted from their own file.
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 | 12 |
| R10 | no published meaning for this code | 5 |
| R32 | no published meaning for this code | 2 |
| R37 | Rule 37 docket | 2 |
| FRL | Temporary field rules | 1 |
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 — 8 Mar 1991 to 22 Dec 2004. 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 89 leases
| THOMAS7B/160446 | Gas well | $4.7 M |
| BUCKLER, J. TRUST7B/187480 | Gas well | $4.4 M |
| BUCKLER-TRUST7B/95232 | Gas well | $4.3 M |
| SUMMERS02/166116 | Gas well | $4.3 M |
| NEW, J.K. ESTATE02/164545 | Gas well | $4.1 M |
| GOLDAPP04/182011 | Gas well | $3.6 M |
| WALKER 'A'7B/29546 | Oil lease | $3.2 M |
| WALKER-BUCKLER7B/161447 | Gas well | $3.0 M |
| WALKER, ALICE, -A-7B/18523 | Gas well | $2.7 M |
| WALKER, ALICE B7B/181989 | Gas well | $2.7 M |
| SCOTT7B/28087 | Oil lease | $2.6 M |
| WALKER-HALLWOOD "B"7B/57949 | Gas well | $2.4 M |
| BAASS02/164574 | Gas well | $2.4 M |
| BUCKLER TRUST GAS UNIT 27B/139202 | Gas well | $2.3 M |
| J. K. NEW ESTATE "A"02/169997 | Gas well | $2.2 M |
| ALLEN03/175695 | Gas well | $1.8 M |
| GORDON EQUITIES "A"02/167050 | Gas well | $1.6 M |
| J. K. NEW ESTATE02/164539 | Gas well | $1.5 M |
| NEW, J. K. ESTATE02/181642 | Gas well | $1.5 M |
| WALKER, ALICE, -B-7B/18530 | Gas well | $1.5 M |
| BUCKLER7B/165006 | Gas well | $1.4 M |
| SMITH02/166343 | Gas well | $1.3 M |
| DOC - GORDON EQUITIES, INC.02/164573 | Gas well | $1.3 M |
| LIVINGSTON02/181656 | Gas well | $1.2 M |
| WALKER, ALICE, -A-7B/18529 | Gas well | $1.1 M |
| WALKER, ALICE, -B-7B/18521 | Gas well | $1.1 M |
| PONDEROSA7B/182933 | Gas well | $987 k |
| O'CONNOR02/180195 | Gas well | $977 k |
| WALKER-HALLWOOD "A"7B/56383 | Gas well | $800 k |
| NEW, J. K. ESTATE02/183619 | Gas well | $764 k |
| HUBER02/182922 | Gas well | $758 k |
| RUBACH-BRAVENEC UNIT03/20709 | Oil lease | $731 k |
| NEW, J. K. ESTATE02/164251 | Gas well | $716 k |
| YEGUA UNIT03/142329 | Gas well | $689 k |
| GORDON EQUITIES02/167041 | Gas well | $642 k |
| BUCKLER TRUST7B/217082 | Gas well | $598 k |
| BUCKLER TRUST7B/66891 | Gas well | $594 k |
| NEW, J. K. ESTATE02/164546 | Gas well | $553 k |
| JANAN01/10228 | Oil lease | $531 k |
| GOLDAPP04/187963 | Gas well | $521 k |
| BENBOW02/167026 | Gas well | $487 k |
| GREER02/181985 | Gas well | $472 k |
| WALKER-HALLWOOD "A"7B/267603 | Gas well | $375 k |
| BOSSE UNIT03/152687 | Gas well | $370 k |
| BLUNTZER04/170932 | Gas well | $367 k |
| O'CONNOR02/183384 | Gas well | $357 k |
| BLACK STONE MINERALS03/198193 | Gas well | $348 k |
| NEW, J. K. ESTATE "G" I02/166114 | Gas well | $344 k |
| NEW, J. K. ESTATE02/181986 | Gas well | $329 k |
| NEW, J. K. ESTATE "G"02/166129 | Gas well | $315 k |
Pipeline systems
The named networks DALE 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GAFFNEY SYSTEM | 0.8 | 1 | 1 |