PRIME OPERATING COMPANY
Reported value by year
What PRIME OPERATING 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 3.8(d)(1) | Unpermitted Disposal of Oil and Gas Wastes | 33 |
| SWR 3.17(a) | Bradenhead Requirements | 30 |
| SWR 3.14(b)(2) | Inactive Unplugged Well | 15 |
| SWR 3.91(d)(1) | Remediation of Soil | 14 |
| SWR 3.3(2) | Well Sign | 9 |
The five commonest of 20 rules cited against this operator.
What the Commission did
- Notice of Violation 138
- Referred to Austin Field Ops for possible legal enforcement 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 137 inspections that found this operator out of compliance — they are counted from their own file. 4 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 |
|---|---|---|
| R38 | Rule 38 well-density exception | 72 |
| A37 | Rule 37 spacing exception | 42 |
| 7A8 | Rule 37 or 38 exception | 7 |
| 7H8 | no published meaning for this code | 3 |
| PPP | Compliance order | 3 |
The five commonest of 17 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 — 5 Aug 1992 to 31 May 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.
50 of 350 leases
| NORTH STILES SPRABERRY UNIT7C/6393 | Oil lease | $191.0 M |
| SOUTH STILES SPRABERRY UNIT7C/6162 | Oil lease | $163.7 M |
| SAN PEDRO RANCH01/4762 | Oil lease | $61.3 M |
| WEATHERBY 12167C/16357 | Oil lease | $43.8 M |
| WING, SARAH F.03/3768 | Oil lease | $40.7 M |
| CONNELL EST. "A"7C/8402 | Oil lease | $39.8 M |
| HUNT7C/16551 | Oil lease | $39.4 M |
| HAM RANCH7C/17092 | Oil lease | $39.0 M |
| CONNELL ESTATE7C/8107 | Oil lease | $38.5 M |
| BROWN7C/17341 | Oil lease | $35.8 M |
| STANLEY7C/17491 | Oil lease | $34.3 M |
| WEATHERBY "1219"7C/15217 | Oil lease | $32.1 M |
| TURNER RANCH7C/18064 | Oil lease | $26.4 M |
| CC 4045 WEST A7C/19458 | Oil lease | $25.9 M |
| WATKINS7C/17427 | Oil lease | $23.5 M |
| LUCY LINDSEY7C/17109 | Oil lease | $23.3 M |
| CC 4144 EAST7C/19352 | Oil lease | $22.8 M |
| JULIE7C/16077 | Oil lease | $22.4 M |
| HUGHES ALPINE WEST 197C/17078 | Oil lease | $20.7 M |
| FITZSIMMONS, HUGH "A"01/14145 | Oil lease | $20.1 M |
| HUGHES, CHARLES '21'7C/16502 | Oil lease | $20.0 M |
| CC 4132B7C/19199 | Oil lease | $19.8 M |
| WING, SARAH F.03/6080 | Oil lease | $18.7 M |
| SCHENECKER -13-08/29816 | Oil lease | $18.4 M |
| CC 4132D7C/19300 | Oil lease | $18.2 M |
| CC 4132C7C/19395 | Oil lease | $18.0 M |
| CC 4132A7C/19071 | Oil lease | $16.6 M |
| HEIDELBERG08/28565 | Oil lease | $15.9 M |
| GPS7C/15786 | Oil lease | $15.4 M |
| LAW ST03/25753 | Oil lease | $14.5 M |
| MILLER, GEORGE ESTATE03/150383 | Gas well | $14.4 M |
| SAN PEDRO RANCH-CONOCO01/4325 | Oil lease | $13.1 M |
| WING, SARAH F.03/22547 | Oil lease | $12.3 M |
| DE GOLYER02/159802 | Gas well | $11.9 M |
| HUNT 137C/16808 | Oil lease | $11.5 M |
| HUGH A FITZSIMONS, ET AL01/11382 | Oil lease | $10.9 M |
| NEAL "22"7C/10726 | Oil lease | $10.7 M |
| T. X. L. -5-08/29959 | Oil lease | $10.1 M |
| KUHNERT03/23710 | Oil lease | $9.9 M |
| LATTNER7C/8207 | Oil lease | $9.7 M |
| SAN PEDRO RANCH DS01/2543 | Oil lease | $9.7 M |
| DEGOLYER02/162765 | Gas well | $9.5 M |
| SLAUGHTER7C/18009 | Oil lease | $9.4 M |
| COUGAR03/25040 | Oil lease | $9.0 M |
| HUGHES ALPINE WEST 187C/17111 | Oil lease | $8.9 M |
| MEL K.03/23255 | Oil lease | $8.7 M |
| HANKAMER BOBCAT03/25564 | Oil lease | $8.6 M |
| WING, SARAH F.03/25808 | Oil lease | $8.0 M |
| MILLER, GEORGE ESTATE03/126721 | Gas well | $7.9 M |
| COWDEN "45"7C/10904 | Oil lease | $7.7 M |
Pipeline systems
The named networks PRIME OPERATING COMPANY 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOORNBOS SYSTEM | 23 | 15 | 5 |