VAQUERO OPERATING
Reported value by year
What VAQUERO OPERATING'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 3.14(b)(2) | Inactive Unplugged Well | 99 |
| SWR 3.3(2) | Well Sign | 71 |
| SWR 3.8(d)(1) | Unpermitted Disposal of Oil and Gas Wastes | 58 |
| SWR 3.3(1) | Entrance Sign | 49 |
| SWR 3.3(3) | Battery Sign; Commingling Permit | 22 |
The five commonest of 23 rules cited against this operator.
What the Commission did
- Notice of Violation 282
- Referred to Austin Field Ops for possible legal enforcement 99
- Issued a Severance/Seal Order 11
- Referred to State-Managed Plugging 4
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 443 inspections that found this operator out of compliance — they are counted from their own file. 88 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 |
|---|---|---|
| INW | no published meaning for this code | 5 |
| ENF | Enforcement and penalties | 2 |
| IRT | no published meaning for this code | 2 |
| PPP | Compliance order | 2 |
| 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 — 20 Jan 2016 to 13 Dec 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 145 leases
| PRICE -B-08/57529 | Gas well | $62.8 M |
| FOSTER FARMS, INC03/208026 | Gas well | $25.8 M |
| KENEDY RANCH04/187698 | Gas well | $20.9 M |
| KENEDY RANCH04/184938 | Gas well | $16.4 M |
| SHERBINO HEIRS 0163 UNIT08/38711 | Oil lease | $14.1 M |
| MEW04/180326 | Gas well | $12.6 M |
| GRANDE JV-P08/228680 | Gas well | $11.0 M |
| SLAUGHTER 2608/203741 | Gas well | $9.0 M |
| SERNA, DONATO "A"04/184975 | Gas well | $9.0 M |
| SCOTT & HOPPER G.U. 104/167771 | Gas well | $8.4 M |
| GRANDE UNIT08/39734 | Oil lease | $8.1 M |
| SEALY-SMITH08/23338 | Oil lease | $7.2 M |
| MEW04/200308 | Gas well | $6.9 M |
| BLACKSTONE SLAUGHTER7C/200178 | Gas well | $5.5 M |
| BLACKSTONE-SLAUGHTER08/21113 | Gas well | $5.0 M |
| FRANEK02/151108 | Gas well | $4.5 M |
| RAPE, J.M. ESTATE08/24996 | Oil lease | $4.2 M |
| SLAUGHTER "18"7C/15315 | Oil lease | $3.8 M |
| PERRY, FRANK A.08/21280 | Oil lease | $3.7 M |
| CLINTON02/209665 | Gas well | $3.1 M |
| BLACKSTONE-SLAUGHTER08/21121 | Gas well | $3.1 M |
| SCOTT & HOPPER04/165728 | Gas well | $2.7 M |
| SLAUGHTER 267C/188189 | Gas well | $2.6 M |
| SCOTT & HOPPER G.U. 104/242509 | Gas well | $2.5 M |
| PAGE-EDWARDS08/33158 | Oil lease | $2.5 M |
| AMADO TRAD GAS UNIT #104/162982 | Gas well | $2.5 M |
| COATES -A-08/24529 | Oil lease | $2.5 M |
| DUDLEY "A"7C/206220 | Gas well | $2.3 M |
| BLACKSTONE-SLAUGHTER "J"08/180896 | Gas well | $2.3 M |
| SCOTT & HOPPER GAS UNIT #104/161046 | Gas well | $2.3 M |
| BLOCKER RANCH-STATE B04/93604 | Gas well | $2.3 M |
| BORCHERS, WILLIAM02/130922 | Gas well | $2.2 M |
| UNIVERSITY "A"08/32590 | Oil lease | $2.2 M |
| ONEY BROS. (SUN)08/132403 | Gas well | $2.2 M |
| KENEDY RANCH04/192351 | Gas well | $2.1 M |
| KENEDY RANCH "A"04/178898 | Gas well | $2.1 M |
| PARKER "100"7C/209328 | Gas well | $2.0 M |
| SCOTT & HOPPER FIELD GU #104/151962 | Gas well | $2.0 M |
| BRISCOE -F-04/86790 | Gas well | $2.0 M |
| BLOCKER RANCH-STATE A04/210375 | Gas well | $1.9 M |
| DUDLEY "26"7C/215597 | Gas well | $1.9 M |
| BLOCKER RANCH-STATE A04/215032 | Gas well | $1.8 M |
| SCOTT & HOPPER 'A'04/193837 | Gas well | $1.6 M |
| ONEY BROS.08/84584 | Gas well | $1.5 M |
| MENDEL ESTATE -38-08/282494 | Gas well | $1.4 M |
| BRISCOE -F-04/86796 | Gas well | $1.3 M |
| COATES, P. C. -64-08/25403 | Oil lease | $1.3 M |
| BRISCOE 3-3404/215119 | Gas well | $1.3 M |
| WEARDEN02/230673 | Gas well | $1.3 M |
| CLINTON02/169417 | Gas well | $1.2 M |
Pipeline systems
The named networks VAQUERO OPERATING 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOSTER FARMS GAS GATHERING LINE | 5.3 | 3 | 3 |