BLACKBEARD OPERATING, LLC
Every Texas lease BLACKBEARD OPERATING, LLC reports production on, valued at the published monthly benchmark.
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 | 214 |
| SWR 3.8(d)(2) | Unpermitted Use of Pit | 28 |
| SWR 3.8(d)(4)(H)(i) | Pit Backfill Requirements | 27 |
| SWR 3.3(2) | Well Sign | 25 |
| SWR 3.46 | Compliance with Permit Conditions | 24 |
The five commonest of 35 rules cited against this operator.
What the Commission did
- Notice of Violation 473
- Referred to Austin Field Ops for possible legal enforcement 6
- Issued a Severance/Seal Order 5
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 478 inspections that found this operator out of compliance — they are counted from their own file. 10 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 | 500 |
| FRL | Temporary field rules | 4 |
| 7A8 | Rule 37 or 38 exception | 2 |
| AFR | no published meaning for this code | 2 |
| R10 | no published meaning for this code | 2 |
The five commonest of 11 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 — 3 Dec 1992 to 26 Apr 2024. 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 565 leases
| WADDELL TR A08/5263 | Oil lease | $1.33 bn |
| WADDELL TR A08/5294 | Oil lease | $1.25 bn |
| WADDELL TR A08/18745 | Oil lease | $575.0 M |
| WADDELL TR A08/15266 | Oil lease | $477.6 M |
| WADDELL TR A08/12207 | Oil lease | $468.6 M |
| WADDELL TR 108/1224 | Oil lease | $418.6 M |
| WADDEL TR 1-W08/7155 | Oil lease | $387.6 M |
| WADDELL TR 308/7061 | Oil lease | $295.4 M |
| WADDELL TR A08/12508 | Oil lease | $187.1 M |
| SEALY SMITH FOUNDATION -A-08/49490 | Oil lease | $156.3 M |
| SEALY-SMITH FOUNDATION "B"08/50028 | Oil lease | $145.6 M |
| WADDEL TR 108/60000 | Oil lease | $108.6 M |
| WADDELL TR A08/45532 | Oil lease | $94.5 M |
| SEALY SMITH FOUNDATION -A-08/51099 | Oil lease | $76.9 M |
| WADDELL TR 308/21511 | Oil lease | $71.2 M |
| BUCCANEER08/57132 | Oil lease | $68.0 M |
| LANDLUBBER08/48393 | Oil lease | $64.2 M |
| LANDLUBBER08/48999 | Oil lease | $62.8 M |
| WADDELL TR A08/10932 | Oil lease | $61.8 M |
| MCKNIGHT SAND HILLS UNIT08/44089 | Oil lease | $61.1 M |
| WADDELL TR 108/8732 | Oil lease | $53.1 M |
| SPANISH MAIN E08/57356 | Oil lease | $48.5 M |
| TUBB-STATE, J. B.08/33368 | Oil lease | $46.7 M |
| WILLIAM LARUE WELLER08/58079 | Oil lease | $45.9 M |
| WADDELL TR A08/20914 | Oil lease | $41.2 M |
| WADDELL TR I08/19608 | Oil lease | $39.3 M |
| MAROONER08/49301 | Oil lease | $34.8 M |
| HORNSWOGGLE08/49561 | Oil lease | $33.1 M |
| BILLY BONES08/59126 | Oil lease | $32.3 M |
| DINGHY08/53084 | Oil lease | $31.6 M |
| SPANISH MAIN W08/52357 | Oil lease | $30.1 M |
| WIDOW MAKER08/55852 | Oil lease | $28.1 M |
| 6 POUNDER NW08/53674 | Oil lease | $27.3 M |
| COMMANDEER08/50130 | Oil lease | $26.9 M |
| FRANCIS DRAKE08/49353 | Oil lease | $26.6 M |
| STEDE BONNET08/55115 | Oil lease | $25.8 M |
| WADDELL TR 12-13 1UD08/64159 | Oil lease | $25.5 M |
| WADDELL TR I08/24059 | Oil lease | $24.6 M |
| ISAACS10/54448 | Gas well | $24.4 M |
| FRANCIS DRAKE N08/50423 | Oil lease | $24.1 M |
| WALK THE PLANK08/48675 | Oil lease | $23.7 M |
| STEDE BONNET08/53161 | Oil lease | $23.2 M |
| BUCCANEER08/56585 | Oil lease | $22.6 M |
| THE DOCTOR08/55690 | Oil lease | $21.3 M |
| MITCHELL "D"08/41270 | Oil lease | $21.3 M |
| BILLY BONES08/60102 | Oil lease | $20.3 M |
| MITCHELL 'D'08/57513 | Oil lease | $20.2 M |
| LANDLUBBER N08/50748 | Oil lease | $20.2 M |
| NELSON'S FOLLY08/56991 | Oil lease | $20.0 M |
| CAPTAIN MORGAN08/51202 | Oil lease | $19.1 M |