SM ENERGY COMPANY
Reported value by year
What SM ENERGY 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 | 66 |
| SWR 3.91(d)(1) | Remediation of Soil | 18 |
| SWR 3.17(a) | Bradenhead Requirements | 7 |
| SWR 3.3(2) | Well Sign | 6 |
| SWR 3.14(d)(12) | Empty and Remove tanks, vessels, flowlines, junk, close pits. | 5 |
The five commonest of 17 rules cited against this operator.
What the Commission did
- Notice of Violation 127
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 117 inspections that found this operator out of compliance — they are counted from their own file. 2 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 | 806 |
| R38 | Rule 38 well-density exception | 28 |
| 7A8 | Rule 37 or 38 exception | 15 |
| R37 | Rule 37 docket | 15 |
| NGP | no published meaning for this code | 6 |
The five commonest of 13 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 — 30 Jul 2010 to 24 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 1,575 leases
| GUITAR NORTH08/48742 | Oil lease | $707.8 M |
| DORCUS7C/15489 | Oil lease | $317.9 M |
| LUMBERGH08/50218 | Oil lease | $307.1 M |
| TOP GUN08/48539 | Oil lease | $263.4 M |
| LASSARD08/53918 | Oil lease | $254.1 M |
| SMAILS D08/55304 | Oil lease | $236.4 M |
| MAVERICK08/49333 | Oil lease | $233.1 M |
| WILSON TXL POWELL7C/21678 | Oil lease | $226.9 M |
| SARAH CONNOR08/51911 | Oil lease | $223.3 M |
| FLENDERSON08/52954 | Oil lease | $218.9 M |
| SPACKLER08/50280 | Oil lease | $193.9 M |
| VIZZINI08/52681 | Oil lease | $193.2 M |
| BENES08/55188 | Oil lease | $191.4 M |
| BERNARD08/52880 | Oil lease | $190.9 M |
| BUTTERCUP08/52680 | Oil lease | $189.1 M |
| MILTON08/55072 | Oil lease | $188.7 M |
| ROBERT MICHAEL08/61648 | Oil lease | $182.1 M |
| COUGAR A08/50340 | Oil lease | $181.8 M |
| FEZZIK A08/49812 | Oil lease | $178.9 M |
| BERLINDA ANN08/49751 | Oil lease | $178.0 M |
| BLISSARD 20-2908/48207 | Oil lease | $169.5 M |
| MIRACLE MAX A08/51104 | Oil lease | $169.5 M |
| TACKLEBERRY 43-42 A08/48400 | Oil lease | $169.2 M |
| DUKE08/51011 | Oil lease | $157.2 M |
| WHITAKER 21-28 UNIT08/47701 | Oil lease | $151.4 M |
| MADADOR B08/56358 | Oil lease | $151.3 M |
| SHOOTER MCGAVIN B08/50753 | Oil lease | $143.8 M |
| JESTER08/49243 | Oil lease | $137.3 M |
| BRISCOE C01/20532 | Oil lease | $132.2 M |
| KATIE7C/15802 | Oil lease | $131.8 M |
| WHITAKER 22-27 UNIT08/47078 | Oil lease | $130.4 M |
| FEZZIK B08/50770 | Oil lease | $127.7 M |
| RAY KINSELLA08/51476 | Oil lease | $126.9 M |
| CALLAHAN08/55372 | Oil lease | $126.4 M |
| PHIL CONNORS08/50818 | Oil lease | $125.0 M |
| MADADOR A08/56371 | Oil lease | $122.5 M |
| ICEMAN08/49061 | Oil lease | $119.4 M |
| O'HAGEN B08/50509 | Oil lease | $118.2 M |
| CVX7C/15761 | Oil lease | $115.1 M |
| SUNDOWN08/49438 | Oil lease | $110.2 M |
| JESSUP08/52372 | Oil lease | $107.5 M |
| SHOOTER MCGAVIN A08/50752 | Oil lease | $107.2 M |
| FARVA B08/50284 | Oil lease | $103.4 M |
| FARVA A08/50291 | Oil lease | $97.6 M |
| NOONAN C08/60474 | Oil lease | $93.5 M |
| SMAILS C08/55338 | Oil lease | $90.0 M |
| BIG DADDY B08/50246 | Oil lease | $87.6 M |
| SPAULDING A08/56031 | Oil lease | $87.4 M |
| JAMIE SARAH CHAN D7C/22290 | Oil lease | $87.0 M |
| BRITAIN7C/15481 | Oil lease | $85.4 M |
Pipeline systems
The named networks SM ENERGY 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KLONDIKE | 106 | 108 | 5 |
| KLONDIKE | 1.9 | 1 | 1 |
| KLONDIKE | 1.9 | 1 | 1 |
| KLONDIKE | 1.6 | 1 | 1 |
| ENTERPRISE GAS OFFLOAD | 1.2 | 1 | 1 |
| BEESLY GATHERING LINE | 0.8 | 1 | 1 |
| KLONDIKE | 0.5 | 1 | 1 |