DISCOVERY OPERATING, INC.
Reported value by year
What DISCOVERY 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 | 65 |
| SWR 3.91(d)(1) | Remediation of Soil | 19 |
| SWR 3.14(d)(12) | Empty and Remove tanks, vessels, flowlines, junk, close pits. | 16 |
| SWR 3.22(b) | Bird Protection | 9 |
| SWR 3.3(1) | Entrance Sign | 6 |
The five commonest of 21 rules cited against this operator.
What the Commission did
- Notice of Violation 152
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 152 inspections that found this operator out of compliance — they are counted from their own file. 8 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 | 140 |
| R38 | Rule 38 well-density exception | 46 |
| R37 | Rule 37 docket | 20 |
| 7A8 | Rule 37 or 38 exception | 8 |
| R10 | no published meaning for this code | 6 |
The five commonest of 15 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 — 25 Apr 1980 to 22 Apr 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 289 leases
| JW B08/55650 | Oil lease | $149.1 M |
| HOLZGRAF GERONIMO A08/57918 | Oil lease | $124.8 M |
| JW E08/60301 | Oil lease | $98.9 M |
| DIRE WOLF UNIT 108/58451 | Oil lease | $95.2 M |
| GREAT DIVIDE A08/56094 | Oil lease | $87.4 M |
| JW C08/56299 | Oil lease | $76.1 M |
| HOLZGRAF GERONIMO (SA) A7C/21315 | Oil lease | $73.1 M |
| JW A08/55735 | Oil lease | $69.6 M |
| JW (SA) B08/58616 | Oil lease | $68.7 M |
| HOLZGRAF GERONIMO B08/62301 | Oil lease | $67.5 M |
| GREAT DIVIDE B08/56059 | Oil lease | $65.6 M |
| SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY Y08/58710 | Oil lease | $65.6 M |
| JW 908/37618 | Oil lease | $61.8 M |
| JW D08/60281 | Oil lease | $59.9 M |
| JW 708/37639 | Oil lease | $59.6 M |
| JW L08/53276 | Oil lease | $59.2 M |
| JW V08/53507 | Oil lease | $58.2 M |
| BUTTER CRUNCH K08/59877 | Oil lease | $57.1 M |
| SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY Z08/58684 | Oil lease | $55.6 M |
| JW (SA) C08/58682 | Oil lease | $55.5 M |
| GREAT DIVIDE D08/58161 | Oil lease | $55.3 M |
| JW (SA) I08/50925 | Oil lease | $50.2 M |
| BUTTER CRUNCH L08/59889 | Oil lease | $49.5 M |
| HOLZGRAF CT (SA) H7C/20928 | Oil lease | $49.2 M |
| GERONIMO (SA) A08/48301 | Oil lease | $46.7 M |
| JW 808/37623 | Oil lease | $44.8 M |
| HOLZGRAF 347C/15429 | Oil lease | $42.0 M |
| HOLZGRAF 2208/37005 | Oil lease | $40.7 M |
| GERONIMO 2708/36874 | Oil lease | $40.6 M |
| CT 397C/15671 | Oil lease | $39.9 M |
| JW (SA) J08/49834 | Oil lease | $39.3 M |
| HOLZGRAF CT (SA) S7C/20475 | Oil lease | $38.3 M |
| JW 1608/37855 | Oil lease | $36.0 M |
| UNIVERSITY 11A08/36516 | Oil lease | $35.9 M |
| JW (SA) A08/51565 | Oil lease | $33.4 M |
| WINDHAM 4008/36561 | Oil lease | $32.5 M |
| HOLZGRAF CT (SA) R7C/20476 | Oil lease | $30.4 M |
| BUTTER CRUNCH J08/59860 | Oil lease | $29.8 M |
| WINDHAM 3808/36457 | Oil lease | $27.7 M |
| UNIVERSITY 1108/36498 | Oil lease | $26.7 M |
| JW (SA) R08/52509 | Oil lease | $26.7 M |
| HOLZGRAF (SA) G7C/19835 | Oil lease | $26.5 M |
| JW (SA) AF08/50926 | Oil lease | $26.0 M |
| JW G08/63985 | Oil lease | $25.7 M |
| HOLZGRAF (SA) C7C/19106 | Oil lease | $25.2 M |
| TXL-V "39"08/36408 | Oil lease | $24.9 M |
| HOLZGRAF CT (SA) U7C/20449 | Oil lease | $24.2 M |
| GERONIMO 1508/36655 | Oil lease | $24.0 M |
| BUTTER CRUNCH N08/62005 | Oil lease | $23.1 M |
| JW (SA) AG08/50924 | Oil lease | $23.1 M |
Pipeline systems
The named networks DISCOVERY OPERATING, INC. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUTHERING LINE | 12 | 11 | 2 |