HIGHER STANDARD OIL COMPANY,INC.
Every Texas lease HIGHER STANDARD OIL COMPANY,INC. reports production on, valued at the published monthly benchmark.
Reported value by year
What HIGHER STANDARD OIL COMPANY,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 3.3(1) | Entrance Sign | 71 |
| SWR 3.3(2) | Well Sign | 71 |
| SWR 3.14(b)(2) | Inactive Unplugged Well | 70 |
| SWR 3.3(3) | Battery Sign; Commingling Permit | 58 |
| SWR 3.8(d)(1) | Unpermitted Disposal of Oil and Gas Wastes | 26 |
The five commonest of 15 rules cited against this operator.
What the Commission did
- Notice of Violation 119
- Referred to Austin Field Ops for possible legal enforcement 115
- Referred to State-Managed Plugging 100
- Referred to State-Managed Cleanup Program 35
- Issued a Severance/Seal Order 4
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 318 inspections that found this operator out of compliance — they are counted from their own file. 113 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 |
|---|---|---|
| PPP | Compliance order | 7 |
| RMB | no published meaning for this code | 5 |
| INW | no published meaning for this code | 4 |
| ENF | Enforcement and penalties | 2 |
| A37 | Rule 37 spacing exception | 1 |
The five commonest of 7 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 — 16 Sep 2013 to 11 Oct 2022. 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.
11 leases
| RHEINLANDER01/14703 | Oil lease | $1.8 M |
| RUDD GAS UNIT #106/190161 | Gas well | $1.0 M |
| HALE01/15202 | Oil lease | $939 k |
| PANAM RUDD06/83027 | Gas well | $803 k |
| TALLY UNIT01/14786 | Oil lease | $654 k |
| RUDD GAS UNIT 106/160697 | Gas well | $360 k |
| ALEXANDER "B"01/11349 | Oil lease | $104 k |
| SMITH, ORTELL01/15285 | Oil lease | $82 k |
| GAU03/176209 | Gas well | $67 k |
| ALEXANDER A01/18618 | Oil lease | $11 k |
| LANGLEY-ALLBRIGHT01/18621 | Oil lease | $0 |