SOUTH TEXAS OPERATING COMPANY
Reported value by year
What SOUTH TEXAS 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 | 7 |
| SWR 3.3(1) | Entrance Sign | 6 |
| SWR 3.3(2) | Well Sign | 6 |
| SWR 3.3(3) | Battery Sign; Commingling Permit | 5 |
| SWR 3.13(a)(6)(A) | Surface Control of Well | 1 |
The five commonest of 6 rules cited against this operator.
What the Commission did
- Notice of Violation 26
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 21 inspections that found this operator out of compliance — they are counted from their own file.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| R16 | no published meaning for this code | 2 |
| A37 | Rule 37 spacing exception | 1 |
| R37 | Rule 37 docket | 1 |
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 — 31 Dec 1991 to 23 Aug 2006. 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.
32 leases
| VAN DEVENTER GAS UNIT03/254240 | Gas well | $58.3 M |
| BONNER03/197758 | Gas well | $56.9 M |
| DANIEL, GOVERNOR BILL 161 GU03/202078 | Gas well | $31.2 M |
| DANIEL GAS UNIT03/258904 | Gas well | $17.2 M |
| WELDER HEIRS04/208121 | Gas well | $15.5 M |
| BONNER03/201778 | Gas well | $13.3 M |
| PECAN03/25886 | Oil lease | $10.0 M |
| OBRIEN, J. M.02/4921 | Oil lease | $8.2 M |
| HORNED FROG03/25384 | Oil lease | $7.5 M |
| REDBUD UNIT03/25802 | Oil lease | $6.3 M |
| BOOKMAN PETERS03/25385 | Oil lease | $6.1 M |
| BRIGHT SKY RANCH03/25588 | Oil lease | $6.0 M |
| ZAMORA04/223397 | Gas well | $4.7 M |
| J.M. O'BRIEN JLB02/12584 | Oil lease | $4.3 M |
| OBRIEN, J. M.02/3984 | Oil lease | $4.2 M |
| BARNES03/25551 | Oil lease | $3.7 M |
| MAGNOLIA03/25833 | Oil lease | $3.0 M |
| BDM03/25801 | Oil lease | $2.9 M |
| DR. HANK03/25903 | Oil lease | $2.3 M |
| RIGGS "E"01/14749 | Oil lease | $1.5 M |
| ROSS04/101852 | Gas well | $1.3 M |
| HOSKINS UNIT01/15189 | Oil lease | $943 k |
| ZAMORA04/187591 | Gas well | $864 k |
| RIGGS "G"01/9768 | Oil lease | $229 k |
| VAN DEVENTER GAS UNIT03/28202 | Oil lease | $213 k |
| DANIEL GAS UNIT03/28203 | Oil lease | $207 k |
| VILLARREAL "E"04/258350 | Gas well | $107 k |
| ZAMORA04/13049 | Oil lease | $93 k |
| CASAS UNIT04/115205 | Gas well | $64 k |
| WELDER, LEO J. ETAL04/10894 | Oil lease | $26 k |
| CHAPA04/151352 | Gas well | $2 k |
| WELDER, LEO J. ET AL04/142555 | Gas well | $0 |
Pipeline systems
The named networks SOUTH TEXAS 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VACATION GATHERING SYSTEM | 0.3 | 1 | 1 |