VANGUARD OPERATING, LLC
Every Texas lease VANGUARD OPERATING, LLC reports production on, valued at the published monthly benchmark.
Reported value by year
What VANGUARD OPERATING, LLC'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 | 40 |
| SWR 3.91(d)(1) | Remediation of Soil | 24 |
| SWR 3.3(2) | Well Sign | 21 |
| SWR 3.17(a) | Bradenhead Requirements | 20 |
| SWR 3.36(c)(8) | Safety Devices for H2S Detection | 15 |
The five commonest of 27 rules cited against this operator.
What the Commission did
- Notice of Violation 203
- Referred to State-Managed Plugging 3
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 186 inspections that found this operator out of compliance — they are counted from their own file. 9 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 | 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 — 5 Apr 2017 to 21 Apr 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.
32 leases
| QUINN08/37505 | Oil lease | $15.4 M |
| ORTA, AUGUSTIN01/83703 | Gas well | $12.7 M |
| ORTA, AUGUSTIN01/161893 | Gas well | $12.2 M |
| AMO, WANDA G.8A/63345 | Oil lease | $6.2 M |
| POWELL "2"08/36019 | Oil lease | $6.1 M |
| POWELL "15B"08/34266 | Oil lease | $5.7 M |
| FAIRWAY/JAMES LIME/UNIT06/211941 | Gas well | $5.4 M |
| CHADBOURNE, W. FT. /GRAY SD./UN.7C/5917 | Oil lease | $5.2 M |
| ZAMORA, ESTELLA04/210342 | Gas well | $4.3 M |
| SPENCER "33"08/155100 | Gas well | $4.3 M |
| FAIRWAY/JAMES LIME/UNIT06/218946 | Gas well | $3.0 M |
| HIGGINBOTHAM BROTHERS8A/63340 | Oil lease | $2.3 M |
| ORTA, AUGUSTIN01/161890 | Gas well | $2.3 M |
| AMERICAS08/31093 | Oil lease | $2.2 M |
| SAND HILLS JUDKINS UNIT08/27963 | Oil lease | $2.1 M |
| STANTON TOWNSITE UNIT I08/26913 | Oil lease | $2.1 M |
| TREADAWAY UNIT8A/63653 | Oil lease | $2.0 M |
| FORREST08/27102 | Oil lease | $1.7 M |
| NICHOLS UNIT08/27682 | Oil lease | $1.7 M |
| SAND HILLS JUDKINS UNIT08/20740 | Gas well | $1.4 M |
| KLOH -D-08/35608 | Gas well | $1.2 M |
| WADDELL, W. N.08/14968 | Oil lease | $1.1 M |
| WADDELL, W. N., ETAL -C-08/15887 | Oil lease | $805 k |
| JOHNSON7C/6290 | Oil lease | $648 k |
| CRUMP08/44420 | Oil lease | $561 k |
| ORTA, AUGUSTIN01/65311 | Gas well | $473 k |
| DORR, ERMA08/30775 | Oil lease | $297 k |
| HEBERT-BROUSSARD -B-03/172687 | Gas well | $148 k |
| NIXON-STEINLE01/192005 | Gas well | $109 k |
| CREDO-OLIX08/26692 | Oil lease | $95 k |
| ORTA, AUGUSTIN01/214311 | Gas well | $12 k |
| SPENCER '33'08/275746 | Gas well | $10 k |