TRACER OPERATING, INC.
Reported value by year
What TRACER OPERATING, INC.'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 | 35 |
| SWR 3.3(2) | Well Sign | 34 |
| SWR 3.3(3) | Battery Sign; Commingling Permit | 23 |
| SWR 3.3(1) | Entrance Sign | 13 |
| SWR 3.13(a)(6)(A) | Surface Control of Well | 11 |
The five commonest of 22 rules cited against this operator.
What the Commission did
- Notice of Violation 152
- Referred to Austin Field Ops for possible legal enforcement 5
- Issued a Severance/Seal Order 4
- Referred to State-Managed Plugging 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 160 inspections that found this operator out of compliance — they are counted from their own file. 15 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 | 3 |
| GOR | no published meaning for this code | 2 |
| SP4 | no published meaning for this code | 2 |
| INW | no published meaning for this code | 1 |
| R46 | no published meaning for this code | 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 — 4 Nov 1997 to 25 Aug 2016. 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 83 leases
| RITCHIE-WHARTON "A"7B/26424 | Oil lease | $5.6 M |
| HARRIS7B/23347 | Oil lease | $4.1 M |
| HARRIS "A"7B/19804 | Oil lease | $4.1 M |
| COODY 407B/31283 | Oil lease | $4.0 M |
| RIEBE, H.7B/26014 | Oil lease | $3.6 M |
| TYLER09/30566 | Oil lease | $3.5 M |
| NOWAK-HOLUB7B/186427 | Gas well | $2.9 M |
| DAVID HOLUB7B/30414 | Oil lease | $2.8 M |
| DODSON PRAIRIE09/31789 | Oil lease | $2.4 M |
| BONNIE7B/272376 | Gas well | $2.3 M |
| COODY-44-A7B/259375 | Gas well | $2.3 M |
| FLETCHER LAKE SAND UNIT7B/28443 | Oil lease | $2.2 M |
| RITCHIE "B"7B/137745 | Gas well | $1.7 M |
| WALTER7B/255951 | Gas well | $1.5 M |
| RITCHIE, ANN7B/173724 | Gas well | $1.4 M |
| POPP7B/29818 | Oil lease | $1.2 M |
| LEO TEICHMAN09/31958 | Oil lease | $1.1 M |
| HARRIS "A"7B/17201 | Oil lease | $1.1 M |
| RIEBE, GEORGE7B/183609 | Gas well | $1.0 M |
| CONWAY, J. W.7B/28876 | Oil lease | $1.0 M |
| COODY "44"7B/30828 | Oil lease | $1.0 M |
| COODY, J.R. "C"7B/16603 | Oil lease | $1.0 M |
| SANDERS, WM.7B/34786 | Gas well | $940 k |
| POPP7B/225114 | Gas well | $845 k |
| POPP7B/225115 | Gas well | $799 k |
| MILLION7B/112338 | Gas well | $755 k |
| TYLER09/280798 | Gas well | $753 k |
| MADDUX-44-7B/221479 | Gas well | $752 k |
| RIEBE, H.7B/225915 | Gas well | $667 k |
| BRANT7B/277652 | Gas well | $659 k |
| HOLT, DELLA -A-7B/5560 | Oil lease | $642 k |
| MADDUX -44- A7B/221594 | Gas well | $635 k |
| COODY 407B/268209 | Gas well | $620 k |
| SANDERS 5-447B/180827 | Gas well | $553 k |
| RITCHIE-37-C7B/237653 | Gas well | $550 k |
| GUEST, J7B/30146 | Oil lease | $538 k |
| POPP7B/29941 | Oil lease | $524 k |
| COODY -44-7B/258418 | Gas well | $519 k |
| COODY "44"7B/280276 | Gas well | $500 k |
| BONNIE7B/285363 | Gas well | $467 k |
| LONG, C. B.7B/140803 | Gas well | $455 k |
| ROYE7B/170681 | Gas well | $436 k |
| HOLUB C-509/223738 | Gas well | $402 k |
| RIEBE09/241311 | Gas well | $371 k |
| COODY-44-A7B/29760 | Oil lease | $357 k |
| SANDERS 5-447B/175138 | Gas well | $353 k |
| WALTER7B/99960 | Gas well | $331 k |
| HOLUB, DAVID7B/30021 | Oil lease | $322 k |
| DAVID HOLUB7B/281123 | Gas well | $288 k |
| DAVID HOLUB7B/281137 | Gas well | $284 k |
Pipeline systems
The named networks TRACER OPERATING, INC. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WT-2438 | 2.0 | 5 | 1 |