MODERN EXPLORATION, INC.
Reported value by year
What MODERN EXPLORATION, 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 3.8(d)(1) | Unpermitted Disposal of Oil and Gas Wastes | 12 |
| SWR 3.3(2) | Well Sign | 11 |
| SWR 3.3(1) | Entrance Sign | 9 |
| SWR 3.14(b)(2) | Inactive Unplugged Well | 5 |
| SWR 3.3(3) | Battery Sign; Commingling Permit | 5 |
The five commonest of 15 rules cited against this operator.
What the Commission did
- Notice of Violation 47
- Issued a Severance/Seal Order 4
- Referred to Austin Field Ops for possible legal enforcement 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 54 inspections that found this operator out of compliance — they are counted from their own file. 6 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 | 4 |
| ENF | Enforcement and penalties | 4 |
| 7A8 | Rule 37 or 38 exception | 1 |
| PPP | Compliance order | 1 |
| R11 | no published meaning for this code | 1 |
The five commonest of 6 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 — 17 Dec 1984 to 13 Sep 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 104 leases
| GROVER02/12068 | Oil lease | $29.0 M |
| ELLIS01/14224 | Oil lease | $7.4 M |
| BLOCK09/30812 | Oil lease | $7.3 M |
| SOUTHERN CROSS01/21767 | Oil lease | $7.0 M |
| MOSTYN01/15273 | Oil lease | $6.5 M |
| HARRISON01/13778 | Oil lease | $5.6 M |
| MISSION VALLEY02/261990 | Gas well | $5.3 M |
| HUSEMAN01/21046 | Oil lease | $5.0 M |
| TEXAS TWO STEP01/15272 | Oil lease | $4.6 M |
| BOUCHER UNIT01/13543 | Oil lease | $4.3 M |
| NELL, EMMA01/13629 | Oil lease | $3.9 M |
| EMOGENE UNIT01/13359 | Oil lease | $3.7 M |
| LESTER-BRUNS UNIT01/13193 | Oil lease | $3.6 M |
| GRAND SLAM UNIT01/13843 | Oil lease | $3.5 M |
| OHRT02/212401 | Gas well | $3.1 M |
| PISTOL HILL04/244695 | Gas well | $2.8 M |
| DAVE HUSEMAN01/21344 | Oil lease | $2.7 M |
| GENTRY UNIT03/19277 | Oil lease | $2.5 M |
| JACOBS02/221482 | Gas well | $2.2 M |
| ZENGERLE02/208011 | Gas well | $2.0 M |
| EICHMAN02/205571 | Gas well | $2.0 M |
| MOSTYN02/9537 | Oil lease | $1.9 M |
| TEXAS TWO STEP01/13701 | Oil lease | $1.5 M |
| DIEBEL02/203114 | Gas well | $1.5 M |
| BITTERLY02/212440 | Gas well | $1.4 M |
| CAMPBELL01/14057 | Oil lease | $1.4 M |
| JEWETT, C. E.01/12828 | Oil lease | $1.4 M |
| WENDEL UNIT02/198572 | Gas well | $1.3 M |
| PILGREEN02/156854 | Gas well | $1.2 M |
| LANGE, LARRY02/203115 | Gas well | $1.1 M |
| RHODE RANCH01/179900 | Gas well | $1.1 M |
| ROOT, JOHN01/12146 | Oil lease | $1.0 M |
| KASPER, DON01/5707 | Oil lease | $967 k |
| ZENGERLE, W.O.02/98790 | Gas well | $888 k |
| PARNELL09/31398 | Oil lease | $872 k |
| ODAM02/206786 | Gas well | $865 k |
| BRUNS-MILLER UNIT01/15447 | Oil lease | $819 k |
| TEXAS TWO STEP02/9478 | Oil lease | $769 k |
| TRINITY UNIT 303/177363 | Gas well | $740 k |
| LANGE, LARRY02/221671 | Gas well | $710 k |
| FISHBECK02/207913 | Gas well | $701 k |
| MISSION02/212320 | Gas well | $667 k |
| TWO SISTERS02/208010 | Gas well | $667 k |
| OWEN, HERB03/19646 | Oil lease | $663 k |
| STEGLICH "A"03/19905 | Oil lease | $659 k |
| DELILAH02/178221 | Gas well | $634 k |
| BRUNS-MILLER UNIT01/13167 | Oil lease | $624 k |
| R. P. SCHERER UNIT01/13071 | Oil lease | $607 k |
| PARHAM, ELLIE04/180288 | Gas well | $594 k |
| RENFRO02/226787 | Gas well | $587 k |
Pipeline systems
The named networks MODERN EXPLORATION, INC. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORTH RANCHERIAS FIELD | 12 | 1 | 1 |