EARNEST PRODUCING CORPORATION
Reported value by year
What EARNEST PRODUCING CORPORATION'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 | 14 |
| SWR 3.13(a)(6)(A) | Surface Control of Well | 8 |
| SWR 3.14(b)(2) | Inactive Unplugged Well | 6 |
| SWR 3.3(2) | Well Sign | 6 |
| SWR 3.36(c)(5)(B) | Storage Tank Warning Sign | 5 |
The five commonest of 13 rules cited against this operator.
What the Commission did
- Notice of Violation 40
- Referred to Austin Field Ops for possible legal enforcement 18
- Referred to State-Managed Plugging 3
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 46 inspections that found this operator out of compliance — they are counted from their own file. 4 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 |
|---|---|---|
| INW | no published meaning for this code | 2 |
| A37 | Rule 37 spacing exception | 1 |
| R37 | Rule 37 docket | 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 — 11 Mar 1998 to 2 Jan 2015. 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.
37 leases
| MASTERSON, M. I.08/323 | Oil lease | $8.7 M |
| MC DIVITT STATE08/205915 | Gas well | $6.5 M |
| STALLINGS, B. M.08/11490 | Oil lease | $1.6 M |
| MASTERSON, M. I.08/159599 | Gas well | $1.4 M |
| STANDARD OF TEXAS08/6251 | Oil lease | $1.0 M |
| RICHARDSON -B-08/9129 | Oil lease | $682 k |
| SMITH BROTHERS08/6252 | Oil lease | $628 k |
| WILKINSON -A-08/30206 | Oil lease | $584 k |
| PALMER "602" STATE08/227368 | Gas well | $576 k |
| PAUL "C"08/69416 | Gas well | $558 k |
| CRUM08/16080 | Oil lease | $496 k |
| WILKINSON NO.208/28064 | Oil lease | $487 k |
| MCDIVITT-STATE08/200649 | Gas well | $473 k |
| MCDIVITT STATE08/212572 | Gas well | $463 k |
| SHEARER08/168846 | Gas well | $444 k |
| JOHNSON 20 STATE08/39783 | Oil lease | $338 k |
| PAUL "A"08/61567 | Gas well | $223 k |
| CLARK, NORMA JEAN ET AL08/28239 | Oil lease | $185 k |
| MURCHISON-SPENCER08/6246 | Oil lease | $173 k |
| WRINKLE, WINSTON08/29456 | Oil lease | $159 k |
| PALMER " 602 " STATE08/37529 | Oil lease | $147 k |
| PRIOR08/8624 | Oil lease | $106 k |
| WEAVER-CHAPMAN08/25787 | Oil lease | $97 k |
| SHEARER08/320 | Oil lease | $75 k |
| CROCKETT, A. -VW-08/324 | Oil lease | $66 k |
| CROCKETT, V. W. "A"08/158298 | Gas well | $64 k |
| MASTERSON, M. I. B08/37702 | Oil lease | $62 k |
| MAY, MARTHA -A-08/29360 | Oil lease | $58 k |
| NELSON 14 STATE08/225841 | Gas well | $46 k |
| CROCKETT, VW08/325 | Oil lease | $44 k |
| NELSON 14 STATE08/37530 | Oil lease | $37 k |
| MASTERSON, M. I. B08/277119 | Gas well | $34 k |
| MASTERSON, M.I.08/62260 | Oil lease | $18 k |
| MCDIVITT-STATE UNIT08/65481 | Gas well | $15 k |
| QUEEN08/25394 | Oil lease | $9 k |
| GREGG -A-08/28108 | Oil lease | $3 k |
| GREGG08/66278 | Gas well | $701 |
Pipeline systems
The named networks EARNEST PRODUCING CORPORATION 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| APTEX GATHERING SYSTEM | 6.0 | 2 | 1 |