KING OPERATING CORPORATION
Reported value by year
What KING OPERATING 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 3.3(3) | Battery Sign; Commingling Permit | 33 |
| SWR 3.8(d)(1) | Unpermitted Disposal of Oil and Gas Wastes | 33 |
| SWR 3.3(2) | Well Sign | 30 |
| SWR 3.14(b)(2) | Inactive Unplugged Well | 27 |
| SWR 3.3(1) | Entrance Sign | 26 |
The five commonest of 24 rules cited against this operator.
What the Commission did
- Notice of Violation 201
- Referred to Austin Field Ops for possible legal enforcement 10
- Referred to State-Managed Plugging 2
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 197 inspections that found this operator out of compliance — they are counted from their own file. 26 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 | 12 |
| ENF | Enforcement and penalties | 3 |
| INW | no published meaning for this code | 2 |
| AFR | no published meaning for this code | 1 |
| CMP | no published meaning for this code | 1 |
The five commonest of 8 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 — 9 Jan 2001 to 12 Jan 2023. 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 106 leases
| AYRES10/221187 | Gas well | $9.8 M |
| CHUNN10/57419 | Gas well | $9.5 M |
| SCHOENHALS10/160354 | Gas well | $9.5 M |
| IRVIN SISTERS 53M10/9800 | Oil lease | $8.9 M |
| WILLIE 2508/55288 | Oil lease | $8.5 M |
| OBANION UNIT06/1847 | Oil lease | $7.4 M |
| SANTA FE10/127570 | Gas well | $6.5 M |
| HUNTER10/151915 | Gas well | $5.7 M |
| SEITZ10/83274 | Gas well | $5.6 M |
| BROWN, L.D.06/243210 | Gas well | $5.6 M |
| DUKE10/141693 | Gas well | $5.5 M |
| O'BANION "A"06/11924 | Oil lease | $5.3 M |
| SMITH-LINDSEY UNIT06/1897 | Oil lease | $5.2 M |
| BACLE, A. V.6E/6006 | Oil lease | $5.0 M |
| PSHIGODA10/88916 | Gas well | $4.9 M |
| BROWN, L.D.06/10061 | Oil lease | $4.8 M |
| FOSTER, HENRY L.06/10228 | Oil lease | $4.6 M |
| CAMPBELL UNIT10/60429 | Gas well | $4.5 M |
| JACKSON, PAT10/55290 | Gas well | $4.5 M |
| KING-ERNEST -B-8A/69158 | Oil lease | $4.0 M |
| ENTREKIN10/98952 | Gas well | $3.9 M |
| FURRH06/1846 | Oil lease | $3.8 M |
| CRH CORP03/16107 | Oil lease | $3.7 M |
| PSHIGODA, H.10/55476 | Gas well | $3.3 M |
| MEEK10/56053 | Gas well | $3.2 M |
| MCLAIN10/67110 | Gas well | $3.2 M |
| HOBART RANCH10/171404 | Gas well | $2.8 M |
| KING CV A199 SOUTH UNIT06/296907 | Gas well | $2.7 M |
| PSHIGODA 752M10/9798 | Oil lease | $2.7 M |
| HOLMES 23-4 UNIT08/43871 | Oil lease | $2.6 M |
| ABNEY -C-06/1845 | Oil lease | $2.5 M |
| THURMAN 23V10/78337 | Gas well | $2.3 M |
| PORTER10/96150 | Gas well | $2.3 M |
| MORRISON10/77530 | Gas well | $2.3 M |
| CORDE, MARY J.06/71190 | Gas well | $2.3 M |
| CHUNN, IRENE10/64513 | Gas well | $2.2 M |
| COOK, A. F.10/67957 | Gas well | $2.2 M |
| KELTON10/8170 | Oil lease | $2.2 M |
| HOOPER, E. S.06/13397 | Oil lease | $2.2 M |
| LEWIS GAS UNIT -B-06/17036 | Gas well | $2.1 M |
| PSHIGODA10/136579 | Gas well | $2.0 M |
| REYNOLDS-WILMETH10/126795 | Gas well | $2.0 M |
| ENDERLI, BUSCH03/17378 | Oil lease | $2.0 M |
| KEY, HOBART06/5981 | Oil lease | $1.9 M |
| AYRES10/63712 | Gas well | $1.9 M |
| PSHIGODA10/172959 | Gas well | $1.7 M |
| HOBART RANCH10/164720 | Gas well | $1.6 M |
| GRAY10/161388 | Gas well | $1.5 M |
| KING CV A199 NORTH UNIT06/297130 | Gas well | $1.4 M |
| CAZEY UNIT03/23605 | Oil lease | $1.4 M |
Pipeline systems
The named networks KING OPERATING 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOOCH FIELD GATHERING SYSTEM | 5.3 | 1 | 1 |