SOJOURNER DRILLING CORPORATION

RRC operator 800750Natural gasNatural gas FWSSaveExport
Leases
475
Reported value
$1.09 bn
Last 12 filed months
$27.0 M
Counties
29

Reported value by year

What SOJOURNER DRILLING CORPORATION'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.

Inspections
8,182
2015–2026, 28 counties
Found out of compliance
8.4%
691 inspections · Texas 9.6%
Violations
814
47 rules cited
Major violations
2
flagged major by the inspector
RuleWhat the Commission cited it forViolations
SWR 3.8(d)(1)Unpermitted Disposal of Oil and Gas Wastes321
SWR 3.3(2)Well Sign62
SWR 3.13(a)(6)(A)Surface Control of Well51
SWR 3.8(d)(4)(H)(i)(III)Completion/Workover Pits Backfill Requirements34
SWR 3.21(j)Dike or Fire Wall Requirements30

The five commonest of 47 rules cited against this operator.

What the Commission did

  • Notice of Violation 778
  • Issued a Severance/Seal Order 23
  • Referred to Austin Field Ops for possible legal enforcement 11
  • Violation Corrected 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 691 inspections that found this operator out of compliance — they are counted from their own file. 25 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.

Dockets
143
1981–2024
Compliance or penalty
12
PPP and ENF dockets
Docket types
13
commonest A37
Fields named
56
distinct RRC fields
TypeWhat the Commission's remarks call itDockets
A37Rule 37 spacing exception83
R37Rule 37 docket20
ENFEnforcement and penalties9
FRLTemporary field rules8
R50no published meaning for this code7

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 — 17 Feb 1981 to 5 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 475 leases

HUGHES7B/27726Oil lease$92.6 M
TEXACO FEE7B/28534Oil lease$59.9 M
MABEN CISCO UNIT8A/68530Oil lease$55.0 M
SPRINGER "A"8A/68849Oil lease$24.9 M
JAY (CANYON LIME) UNIT7B/23260Oil lease$23.4 M
Y67B/17470Oil lease$23.0 M
RICE BROS. (CANYON) UNIT7B/17742Oil lease$16.0 M
CAMILLE7B/32508Oil lease$14.3 M
GIRARD (TANNEHILL) UNIT8A/70738Oil lease$14.0 M
AMERSON, C. P.7B/2515Oil lease$13.3 M
NIBLO "48"8A/67370Oil lease$12.5 M
J. P. & TRAVIS MARTIN -B-7B/31378Oil lease$12.3 M
CITY OF ABILENE7B/31402Oil lease$11.4 M
GODFREY8A/65329Oil lease$11.1 M
FREEMAN-FARMER7B/28354Oil lease$11.1 M
ALTMAN, R.F.7B/25623Oil lease$10.7 M
GARTH8A/69736Oil lease$9.5 M
IMPACT UNIT 37B/30846Oil lease$9.3 M
BRENDA GAIL8A/69180Oil lease$8.8 M
CAMILLE7B/31821Oil lease$8.6 M
SHOTWELL-ROBINSON7B/27318Oil lease$8.5 M
J.P. & TRAVIS MARTIN -A-7B/31329Oil lease$8.4 M
NORTHWEST SAGERTON UNIT7B/28108Oil lease$8.4 M
MABEN, E. L.8A/66375Oil lease$7.7 M
WEST VOGEL UNIT7B/32054Oil lease$7.6 M
CHAMBERS7B/30690Oil lease$7.4 M
GILES8A/70235Oil lease$7.3 M
BAILEY, NETTIE7B/1807Oil lease$7.3 M
BARBEE SECTION 1807B/27088Oil lease$7.1 M
LOU ANN8A/69006Oil lease$6.9 M
BEVEL7B/16339Oil lease$6.9 M
WILLINGHAM8A/70804Oil lease$6.8 M
NIBLO, SYDNEY8A/65703Oil lease$6.7 M
BEGGS8A/70089Oil lease$6.7 M
HUDSPETH, W. R. -C-7B/6685Oil lease$6.7 M
MCBEATH, KATHLEEN JONES7B/24514Oil lease$6.4 M
BISSETT,N(PARFET,STRAWN,LWR)UNIT7B/26318Oil lease$6.1 M
TINER, ZUMALT7B/19609Oil lease$5.8 M
GINNY8A/69696Oil lease$5.7 M
NELL8A/69308Oil lease$5.7 M
SPRINGER BG UNIT8A/69069Oil lease$5.6 M
ALTA JEAN8A/69238Oil lease$5.6 M
MORROW UNIT7B/28717Oil lease$5.2 M
GAMBLE7B/28070Oil lease$5.1 M
BECKER, A.H.7B/16303Oil lease$5.1 M
BIG CREEK8A/69441Oil lease$5.1 M
NELL -A-8A/69346Oil lease$5.0 M
STILES TRUST06/14814Oil lease$4.9 M
SOJOURNER UNIT7B/16688Oil lease$4.9 M
HAMLIN UNIT7B/31344Oil lease$4.8 M

Pipeline systems

The named networks SOJOURNER DRILLING CORPORATION operates. One physical pipeline is usually filed as hundreds of segments, so a system — not a segment — is the unit worth reading.

SystemMilesSegmentsCounties
2-INCH FROM MEADOR WELL TO EAGER WELL16135

Counties (29)