VAN OPERATING, LTD.
Every Texas lease VAN OPERATING, LTD. reports production on, valued at the published monthly benchmark.
Reported value by year
What VAN OPERATING, LTD.'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 | 26 |
| SWR 3.3(2) | Well Sign | 9 |
| SWR 3.8(d)(4)(H)(i)(III) | Completion/Workover Pits Backfill Requirements | 5 |
| SWR 3.3(1) | Entrance Sign | 4 |
| SWR 3.3(3) | Battery Sign; Commingling Permit | 4 |
The five commonest of 9 rules cited against this operator.
What the Commission did
- Notice of Violation 43
- Issued a Severance/Seal Order 15
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 52 inspections that found this operator out of compliance — they are counted from their own file. 1 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 | 4 |
| FRL | Temporary field rules | 2 |
| GOR | no published meaning for this code | 2 |
| 49B | no published meaning for this code | 1 |
| MIS | no published meaning for this code | 1 |
The five commonest of 6 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 — 18 Aug 1995 to 22 Mar 2017. 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 255 leases
| NE SHACKELFORD UNIT7B/16041 | Oil lease | $21.7 M |
| NAIL "M"7B/22523 | Oil lease | $11.1 M |
| DYER "2988"7B/97136 | Gas well | $6.1 M |
| HERR-KING FIELD UNIT7B/8482 | Oil lease | $5.4 M |
| SOUTH GREEN "58"7B/13322 | Oil lease | $3.8 M |
| WINDHAM, JAMES "10"7B/115127 | Gas well | $3.6 M |
| BLACKBURN7B/19783 | Oil lease | $3.1 M |
| WALKER-BUCKLER "135" UNIT7B/28886 | Oil lease | $3.0 M |
| JETER "15" UNIT7B/156563 | Gas well | $2.7 M |
| CASEY "33-R"7B/190297 | Gas well | $2.5 M |
| HENDRICK, T. G. EST.7B/6417 | Oil lease | $2.3 M |
| NEWELL E-587B/175375 | Gas well | $2.0 M |
| WALKER-BUCKLER "136"7B/26553 | Oil lease | $2.0 M |
| DOSS, FRANK7B/90386 | Gas well | $1.9 M |
| SOUTH GREEN "68B"7B/29401 | Oil lease | $1.9 M |
| NEWELL "58" UNIT7B/162881 | Gas well | $1.9 M |
| RANCH, P. K.7B/17652 | Gas well | $1.8 M |
| NEWELL "12"7B/22810 | Oil lease | $1.8 M |
| NEWELL G-57B/156134 | Gas well | $1.6 M |
| WALKER-BUCKLER "135" UNIT7B/27037 | Oil lease | $1.6 M |
| RANCH, P. K.7B/17653 | Gas well | $1.6 M |
| STUNKARD UNIT7B/184198 | Gas well | $1.5 M |
| TOMLIN, MYRTLE7B/23814 | Oil lease | $1.5 M |
| DYER "2988"7B/171327 | Gas well | $1.5 M |
| SIMMONS SAMUEL7B/60769 | Gas well | $1.4 M |
| STUNKARD UNIT7B/27265 | Oil lease | $1.4 M |
| DOSS, FRANK7B/181398 | Gas well | $1.3 M |
| RANCH, P. K.7B/17650 | Gas well | $1.3 M |
| SMITH, W. R.7B/187429 | Gas well | $1.3 M |
| NEWELL E-877B/157217 | Gas well | $1.3 M |
| WALKER-BUCKLER "78"7B/153906 | Gas well | $1.3 M |
| WALKER-BUCKLER "DC"7B/28656 | Oil lease | $1.1 M |
| STUNKARD UNIT7B/166135 | Gas well | $1.1 M |
| RANCH, P. K.7B/180760 | Gas well | $1.0 M |
| SOUTH GREEN "71"7B/26849 | Oil lease | $996 k |
| RANCH, P. K.7B/17651 | Gas well | $958 k |
| PITTMAN 8267B/65998 | Gas well | $922 k |
| NEWELL 12-57B/155627 | Gas well | $916 k |
| VALDEZ7B/175653 | Gas well | $910 k |
| SNYDER "32A"7B/29211 | Oil lease | $878 k |
| DELAFOSSE "28"7B/194335 | Gas well | $877 k |
| SNYDER "32A"7B/185894 | Gas well | $817 k |
| LEDBETTER "FB"7B/26768 | Oil lease | $765 k |
| DYER 4647B/94533 | Gas well | $743 k |
| PICO "508"09/31491 | Oil lease | $730 k |
| GRANT, OPAL7B/192161 | Gas well | $726 k |
| SOUTH GREEN "61"7B/28614 | Oil lease | $723 k |
| NEWELL 12-87B/204324 | Gas well | $722 k |
| BURLESON "34"7B/181397 | Gas well | $717 k |
| SNYDER "32A"7B/18235 | Oil lease | $717 k |