NICHOLS OIL CO.
Every Texas lease NICHOLS OIL CO. reports production on, valued at the published monthly benchmark.
Reported value by year
What NICHOLS OIL CO.'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 3.21(l) | Proper Construction and Maintenance of Power Line to Well | 41 |
| SWR 3.8(d)(1) | Unpermitted Disposal of Oil and Gas Wastes | 25 |
| SWR 3.3(2) | Well Sign | 9 |
| SWR 3.46 | Compliance with Permit Conditions | 6 |
| SWR 3.14(b)(2) | Inactive Unplugged Well | 4 |
The five commonest of 19 rules cited against this operator.
What the Commission did
- Notice of Violation 94
- Issued a Severance/Seal Order 12
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 89 inspections that found this operator out of compliance — they are counted from their own file. 3 of the violations were still uncorrected when the inspector returned.
The Railroad Commission's docket file published 2025-02-05 names no case against this operator. That is what the file holds. It is not a statement that none exists.
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.
9 leases
| KEMP & KEMPNER09/572 | Oil lease | $2.6 M |
| ORTON A09/573 | Oil lease | $2.0 M |
| GRIMSLEY, T. S.09/18289 | Oil lease | $801 k |
| LOCHRIDGE B09/21848 | Oil lease | $668 k |
| BICKLEY "B"09/21939 | Oil lease | $241 k |
| KEMPNER09/11367 | Oil lease | $43 k |
| KEMPNER D09/33864 | Oil lease | $19 k |
| KEMPNER, R. LEE09/18507 | Oil lease | $688 |
| KEMPNER LEE R.-A-09/18496 | Oil lease | $346 |