APPROACH OPERATING LLC
Every Texas lease APPROACH OPERATING LLC reports production on, valued at the published monthly benchmark.
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 | 23 |
| SWR 3.91(d)(1) | Remediation of Soil | 17 |
| SWR 3.3(2) | Well Sign | 14 |
| SWR 3.3(1) | Entrance Sign | 9 |
| SWR 3.3(3) | Battery Sign; Commingling Permit | 4 |
The five commonest of 13 rules cited against this operator.
What the Commission did
- Notice of Violation 76
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. 9 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 | 73 |
| R9P | no published meaning for this code | 5 |
| AFR | no published meaning for this code | 3 |
| FRL | Temporary field rules | 3 |
| FDC | no published meaning for this code | 2 |
The five commonest of 11 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 Feb 2004 to 10 Jan 2019. 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 55 leases
| UNIVERSITY "45 F"7C/17756 | Oil lease | $27.3 M |
| UNIVERSITY 45 C7C/17765 | Oil lease | $26.0 M |
| UNIVERSITY 45 A7C/17407 | Oil lease | $25.9 M |
| UNIVERSITY '45 G'7C/18057 | Oil lease | $23.1 M |
| UNIVERSITY 45 B7C/17700 | Oil lease | $14.2 M |
| UNIVERSITY 45 "E"7C/17753 | Oil lease | $11.3 M |
| UNIVERSITY 42-237C/17258 | Oil lease | $10.6 M |
| UNIVERSITY 42-147C/17279 | Oil lease | $4.7 M |
| UNIVERSITY 42-227C/17261 | Oil lease | $4.7 M |
| UNIVERSITY 42 "B"7C/17752 | Oil lease | $4.4 M |
| UNIVERSITY '42 C'7C/18004 | Oil lease | $4.2 M |
| ELLIOTT, M.7C/10333 | Oil lease | $3.2 M |
| CINCO TERRY "A"7C/16183 | Oil lease | $3.1 M |
| BAKER 1 AW7C/18871 | Oil lease | $2.8 M |
| UNIVERSITY 42-157C/17259 | Oil lease | $2.5 M |
| UNIVERSITY 42-137C/16879 | Oil lease | $2.3 M |
| UNIVERSITY 42-217C/17578 | Oil lease | $2.1 M |
| CINCO TERRY "A"7C/16500 | Oil lease | $1.7 M |
| UNIVERSITY 54-207C/17821 | Oil lease | $1.5 M |
| WEST7C/16658 | Oil lease | $1.4 M |
| BAKER 2 AW7C/19026 | Oil lease | $1.4 M |
| UNIVERSITY 45-297C/17264 | Oil lease | $1.4 M |
| UNIVERSITY 56-147C/17872 | Oil lease | $1.4 M |
| UNIVERSITY 42-227C/17028 | Oil lease | $1.2 M |
| UNIVERSITY 56-67C/17904 | Oil lease | $1.0 M |
| UNIVERSITY 42-237C/16861 | Oil lease | $1.0 M |
| UNIVERSITY 56-157C/17948 | Oil lease | $1.0 M |
| UNIVERSITY 42-157C/16867 | Oil lease | $1.0 M |
| UNIVERSITY 42-117C/17439 | Oil lease | $991 k |
| UNIVERSITY 54-97C/17731 | Oil lease | $965 k |
| UNIVERSITY 54-197C/17881 | Oil lease | $955 k |
| ROUSSELOT "A"7C/86092 | Gas well | $826 k |
| CINCO TERRY "B"7C/219861 | Gas well | $783 k |
| UNIVERSITY 55-217C/17803 | Oil lease | $740 k |
| WEST7C/11473 | Oil lease | $663 k |
| UNIVERSITY 54-87C/17730 | Oil lease | $647 k |
| UNIVERSITY 42-237C/16864 | Oil lease | $630 k |
| UNIVERSITY 54-167C/17885 | Oil lease | $628 k |
| UNIVERSITY "54-18"7C/17864 | Oil lease | $625 k |
| BAKER "B"7C/17093 | Oil lease | $609 k |
| UNIVERSITY "45-21"7C/17801 | Oil lease | $599 k |
| UNIVERSITY 54-157C/17434 | Oil lease | $587 k |
| UNIVERSITY 45-307C/17262 | Oil lease | $485 k |
| UNIVERSITY 54-127C/17709 | Oil lease | $474 k |
| MYERS ESTATE7C/11749 | Oil lease | $468 k |
| UNIVERSITY 45-307C/17029 | Oil lease | $406 k |
| BAILEY, J. R. "A"7C/62566 | Gas well | $391 k |
| BAKER "A"7C/16878 | Oil lease | $381 k |
| UNIVERSITY 45-297C/17103 | Oil lease | $378 k |
| UNIVERSITY 42-227C/258243 | Gas well | $319 k |