VENTEX OPERATING CORP.
Reported value by year
What VENTEX OPERATING CORP.'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 | 23 |
| SWR 3.3(2) | Well Sign | 5 |
| SWR 3.14(d)(12) | Empty and Remove tanks, vessels, flowlines, junk, close pits. | 4 |
| SWR 3.3(1) | Entrance Sign | 4 |
| SWR 3.14(b)(2) | Inactive Unplugged Well | 3 |
The five commonest of 18 rules cited against this operator.
What the Commission did
- Notice of Violation 56
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 55 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 |
|---|---|---|
| R10 | no published meaning for this code | 6 |
| A37 | Rule 37 spacing exception | 5 |
| FRL | Temporary field rules | 4 |
| 7A8 | Rule 37 or 38 exception | 1 |
| ENF | Enforcement and penalties | 1 |
The five commonest of 9 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 — 20 Nov 1995 to 20 Apr 2022. 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 61 leases
| SCHENDEL A02/222473 | Gas well | $63.0 M |
| SCHENDEL02/207971 | Gas well | $61.8 M |
| CHAPMAN04/194035 | Gas well | $54.6 M |
| CHAPMAN04/188010 | Gas well | $36.0 M |
| GRAGG GU 306/177997 | Gas well | $29.1 M |
| CHAPMAN COWLES04/198403 | Gas well | $20.8 M |
| CHAPMAN04/194234 | Gas well | $13.5 M |
| ROSS UNIT04/218546 | Gas well | $10.7 M |
| LIMON04/217008 | Gas well | $9.9 M |
| WHITTINGTON02/190498 | Gas well | $9.8 M |
| LIMON UNIT04/222023 | Gas well | $9.1 M |
| ST. GEORGE GAS UNIT03/168733 | Gas well | $8.8 M |
| CHAPMAN04/13104 | Oil lease | $8.1 M |
| WOOLVERTON06/181829 | Gas well | $6.1 M |
| CHAPMAN04/210014 | Gas well | $6.0 M |
| WHITTINGTON02/224964 | Gas well | $5.8 M |
| CHAPMAN04/198094 | Gas well | $5.2 M |
| CHAPMAN04/195886 | Gas well | $4.9 M |
| COPELAND08/36185 | Oil lease | $4.3 M |
| CHAPMAN04/249353 | Gas well | $3.8 M |
| CHAPMAN04/13487 | Oil lease | $3.8 M |
| FLOYD-PATTERSON UNIT04/191699 | Gas well | $3.7 M |
| ANEFF7B/31042 | Oil lease | $3.6 M |
| BOGGESS09/24449 | Oil lease | $2.7 M |
| REYNOLDS7B/29032 | Oil lease | $2.2 M |
| FARMER7B/31134 | Oil lease | $2.2 M |
| IRVIN UNIT7B/28147 | Oil lease | $1.7 M |
| NOLLEY G.U.06/221984 | Gas well | $1.6 M |
| REYNOLDS7B/27674 | Oil lease | $1.6 M |
| REYNOLDS UNIT7B/27899 | Oil lease | $1.6 M |
| RICHTER GAS UNIT02/254065 | Gas well | $1.5 M |
| CHAPMAN04/13173 | Oil lease | $1.2 M |
| YOUNG7B/28071 | Oil lease | $1.0 M |
| EDB08/35103 | Oil lease | $842 k |
| GSR02/182914 | Gas well | $820 k |
| WHITTINGTON02/221086 | Gas well | $805 k |
| THIGPEN UNIT02/250372 | Gas well | $779 k |
| CHAPMAN04/211076 | Gas well | $665 k |
| ST. ANDREW03/174467 | Gas well | $614 k |
| HOVDA UNIT04/212376 | Gas well | $590 k |
| THIGPEN02/261533 | Gas well | $565 k |
| CHAPMAN HEIRS "A"04/75659 | Gas well | $503 k |
| PATTON02/229837 | Gas well | $498 k |
| MUHLSTEIN UNIT02/251334 | Gas well | $393 k |
| SCHENDEL02/220922 | Gas well | $362 k |
| CHAPMAN04/13382 | Oil lease | $319 k |
| EDB08/36601 | Oil lease | $297 k |
| MCCALL "C"09/25865 | Oil lease | $231 k |
| CHAPMAN - HEIRS "A"04/73725 | Gas well | $227 k |
| SCHENDEL A02/220054 | Gas well | $198 k |
Pipeline systems
The named networks VENTEX OPERATING CORP. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUSTIN EAST/WEST SYSTEM | 23 | 16 | 1 |
| AUSTIN EAST/WEST SYSTEM | 1.4 | 1 | 1 |