MDC TEXAS OPERATOR LLC
Reported value by year
What MDC TEXAS OPERATOR LLC'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 | 43 |
| SWR 3.32(h) | Permit Required for Flaring | 14 |
| SWR 3.8(d)(4)(H)(i)(II) | Reserve/Mud pits Backfill Requirements > 6,100 mg/liter | 13 |
| SWR 3.36(c)(5)(B) | Storage Tank Warning Sign | 7 |
| SWR 3.91(d)(1) | Remediation of Soil | 6 |
The five commonest of 17 rules cited against this operator.
What the Commission did
- Notice of Violation 103
- Referred to Austin Field Ops for possible legal enforcement 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 126 inspections that found this operator out of compliance — they are counted from their own file. 7 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 | 77 |
| R46 | no published meaning for this code | 8 |
| R9P | no published meaning for this code | 7 |
| MIS | no published meaning for this code | 2 |
| R37 | Rule 37 docket | 2 |
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 — 8 Jul 2015 to 4 Mar 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.
22 leases
| SMARTY JONES 2608/50442 | Oil lease | $20.8 M |
| OMAHA 1108/49844 | Oil lease | $20.5 M |
| COPPERHEAD 2308/46211 | Oil lease | $20.3 M |
| AFFIRMED 608/49761 | Oil lease | $11.4 M |
| YUCCA08/42331 | Oil lease | $8.9 M |
| YUCCA08/46527 | Oil lease | $8.7 M |
| A CLASSIC DASH 1808/51555 | Oil lease | $8.0 M |
| SEATTLE SLEW08/47354 | Oil lease | $7.8 M |
| SPECIAL EFFORT 1808/51170 | Oil lease | $7.3 M |
| IMPERIAL EAGLE 2408/50575 | Oil lease | $7.1 M |
| ROCKET WRANGLER 1108/51076 | Oil lease | $7.0 M |
| WHIRLAWAY 2408/51607 | Oil lease | $5.6 M |
| BIG BROWN 1508/50351 | Oil lease | $5.0 M |
| DIAMOND BACK 1708/45611 | Oil lease | $4.8 M |
| AMERICAN PHAROAH08/47777 | Oil lease | $4.5 M |
| SIR BARTON 2408/51540 | Oil lease | $4.1 M |
| RUNAWAY GHOST 2308/51248 | Oil lease | $3.8 M |
| REPENT 2308/52173 | Oil lease | $2.2 M |
| PICKPOCKET 2108/50447 | Oil lease | $2.2 M |
| RUNAWAY GHOST 23-208/52123 | Oil lease | $2.1 M |
| TOYAH 'B'08/276042 | Gas well | $275 k |
| TOYAH B08/110069 | Gas well | $17 k |
Pipeline systems
The named networks MDC TEXAS OPERATOR LLC 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOYAH GATHERING SYSTEM | 7.2 | 6 | 1 |