PREMIUM EXPLORATION COMPANY
Every Texas lease PREMIUM EXPLORATION COMPANY reports production on, valued at the published monthly benchmark.
Reported value by year
What PREMIUM EXPLORATION COMPANY'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 3.14(b)(2) | Inactive Unplugged Well | 13 |
| SWR 3.8(d)(1) | Unpermitted Disposal of Oil and Gas Wastes | 9 |
| SWR 3.13(a)(6)(A) | Surface Control of Well | 2 |
| SWR 3.2(a) | Access to Property | 2 |
| SWR 3.3(1) | Entrance Sign | 2 |
The five commonest of 12 rules cited against this operator.
What the Commission did
- Referred to Austin Field Ops for possible legal enforcement 20
- Notice of Violation 10
- Referred to State-Managed Plugging 4
- Referred to State-Managed Cleanup Program 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 49 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.
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 | 2 |
| INW | no published meaning for this code | 2 |
| PPP | Compliance order | 2 |
| ENF | Enforcement and penalties | 1 |
| IRT | 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 — 11 Feb 1985 to 6 Dec 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.
26 leases
| RODEN UNIT02/163962 | Gas well | $5.2 M |
| WILLBERN02/112738 | Gas well | $2.4 M |
| ARCO RAFFERTY03/174036 | Gas well | $1.3 M |
| TAUCH, DAVID R. ET UX01/10550 | Oil lease | $971 k |
| ARCO HOOKS OIL UNIT03/21911 | Oil lease | $650 k |
| ARCO STERNE FEE03/178039 | Gas well | $614 k |
| ARCO STERNE FEE03/168104 | Gas well | $588 k |
| ARCO HOOKS UNIT03/165925 | Gas well | $337 k |
| ARCO HOOKS UNIT03/23716 | Oil lease | $228 k |
| ARCO RAFFERTY03/11250 | Oil lease | $225 k |
| ARCO STERNE FEE03/20560 | Oil lease | $177 k |
| ARCO STERNE FEE03/152531 | Gas well | $123 k |
| ARCO STERNE FEE03/22448 | Oil lease | $53 k |
| ARCO STERNE FEE03/23337 | Oil lease | $50 k |
| KINABREW, W. R.05/2990 | Oil lease | $32 k |
| PILLOWS C7B/30188 | Oil lease | $25 k |
| PILLOWS B7B/30196 | Oil lease | $25 k |
| ARCO STERNE FEE03/10708 | Oil lease | $18 k |
| PILLOWS A7B/30189 | Oil lease | $17 k |
| ARCO STERNE FEE03/148009 | Gas well | $12 k |
| ARCO HOOKS UNIT03/214183 | Gas well | $9 k |
| HAMPTON, A.R. & S. FEE03/9883 | Oil lease | $2 k |
| PARSONAGE UNIT01/11459 | Oil lease | $1 k |
| LONG, W. G. UNIT04/109515 | Gas well | $556 |
| HAGIST RANCH UNIT NO. 101/108220 | Gas well | $0 |
| RODEN UNIT02/112475 | Gas well | $0 |