BALLARD EXPLORATION COMPANY,INC.
Every Texas lease BALLARD EXPLORATION COMPANY,INC. 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 3.3(2) | Well Sign | 12 |
| SWR 3.14(b)(2) | Inactive Unplugged Well | 6 |
| SWR 3.3(1) | Entrance Sign | 6 |
| SWR 3.14(d)(12) | Empty and Remove tanks, vessels, flowlines, junk, close pits. | 5 |
| SWR 3.3(3) | Battery Sign; Commingling Permit | 5 |
The five commonest of 9 rules cited against this operator.
What the Commission did
- Notice of Violation 42
- Referred to Austin Field Ops for possible legal enforcement 1
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 47 inspections that found this operator out of compliance — they are counted from their own file.
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 | 25 |
| R37 | Rule 37 docket | 13 |
| FRL | Temporary field rules | 10 |
| MIS | no published meaning for this code | 9 |
| R41 | no published meaning for this code | 8 |
The five commonest of 10 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 — 29 Mar 1982 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 151 leases
| WEST CHANNELVIEW TOWNSITE03/177910 | Gas well | $178.3 M |
| HOUSTON SHIP CHANNEL UNIT03/192683 | Gas well | $175.8 M |
| CHANNELVIEW TOWNSITE "B"03/171232 | Gas well | $164.9 M |
| HOUSTON SHIP CHANNEL UNIT -A-03/234163 | Gas well | $145.3 M |
| KERR-MCGEE03/222830 | Gas well | $95.2 M |
| TEXACO FEE "B"03/212211 | Gas well | $79.7 M |
| STATE TRACT 2903/223735 | Gas well | $77.5 M |
| MCFADDIN03/257094 | Gas well | $76.0 M |
| STONE 'B'03/262652 | Gas well | $75.8 M |
| TYRRELL-COMBEST03/258813 | Gas well | $71.0 M |
| ABSHIER03/213831 | Gas well | $67.6 M |
| GULF TERRACE 'B'03/255651 | Gas well | $65.2 M |
| CHANNELVIEW TOWNSITE "A"03/168102 | Gas well | $63.5 M |
| TEXACO FEE "C"03/188558 | Gas well | $60.7 M |
| TEXACO FEE "B"03/187354 | Gas well | $59.9 M |
| JACINTOPORT03/197519 | Gas well | $55.2 M |
| REIN TRUST03/247874 | Gas well | $50.5 M |
| CHANNELVIEW TOWNSITE03/167123 | Gas well | $46.7 M |
| STATE TRACT 2903/259671 | Gas well | $46.7 M |
| OSAGE03/235086 | Gas well | $46.5 M |
| PIERCE ESTATE "B"03/249561 | Gas well | $46.2 M |
| UNDERWOOD ESTATE02/269437 | Gas well | $45.4 M |
| TYRRELL-COMBEST 'A'03/263245 | Gas well | $45.0 M |
| PERRYMAN TRUST03/209600 | Gas well | $44.9 M |
| AGRO-DYNAMICS03/189844 | Gas well | $44.5 M |
| STATE TRACT 2903/269162 | Gas well | $41.9 M |
| MCCORD03/223078 | Gas well | $41.1 M |
| TEMPLE INLAND "A"03/208692 | Gas well | $39.7 M |
| PROSPECT COMPANY03/24936 | Oil lease | $38.3 M |
| HARRISON03/224093 | Gas well | $38.1 M |
| CHANNELVIEW TOWNSITE03/168260 | Gas well | $37.9 M |
| RDH FARMS03/231762 | Gas well | $37.7 M |
| TURNER-BOGAN03/233770 | Gas well | $36.8 M |
| GULF TERRACE 'C'03/257971 | Gas well | $36.5 M |
| WALTER COMPANY "D"03/221521 | Gas well | $35.8 M |
| LEVIGNE03/278319 | Gas well | $35.5 M |
| HARRISON, T. K.03/230613 | Gas well | $33.9 M |
| MOORE'S BLUFF 'A'03/280619 | Gas well | $32.9 M |
| BOWER, JONES03/197048 | Gas well | $32.6 M |
| HOEGEMEYER A03/279573 | Gas well | $30.9 M |
| STATE TRACT 2903/246229 | Gas well | $30.7 M |
| STATE LEASE 10875003/255232 | Gas well | $29.1 M |
| BROUSSARD-HEBERT "B"03/226398 | Gas well | $29.1 M |
| STATE LURA MIRE03/212436 | Gas well | $28.5 M |
| PIERCE ESTATE A03/263198 | Gas well | $27.1 M |
| STATE LEASE 10887803/262026 | Gas well | $26.9 M |
| AGRO-DYNAMICS03/221506 | Gas well | $26.7 M |
| NASH03/263518 | Gas well | $26.5 M |
| HOLBROOK03/176366 | Gas well | $25.9 M |
| KERR-MCGEE03/211128 | Gas well | $25.7 M |