VESS OIL CORPORATION
Reported value by year
What VESS OIL CORPORATION'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 | 50 |
| SWR 3.46 | Compliance with Permit Conditions | 7 |
| SWR 3.14(b)(2) | Inactive Unplugged Well | 5 |
| SWR 3.21(j) | Dike or Fire Wall Requirements | 5 |
| SWR 3.3(2) | Well Sign | 5 |
The five commonest of 16 rules cited against this operator.
What the Commission did
- Notice of Violation 84
- Referred to Austin Field Ops for possible legal enforcement 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 95 inspections that found this operator out of compliance — they are counted from their own file. 3 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 | 16 |
| 7A8 | Rule 37 or 38 exception | 1 |
| AFR | 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 — 30 Mar 2007 to 2 Aug 2023. 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 54 leases
| KURTEN WOODBINE UNIT03/17583 | Oil lease | $583.9 M |
| SAND FLAT UNIT06/4884 | Oil lease | $218.7 M |
| PRUITT, J. J.06/12790 | Oil lease | $61.7 M |
| TYLER STATE PARK "C"06/12766 | Oil lease | $55.0 M |
| MALDONADO03/27243 | Oil lease | $35.9 M |
| WILSON-PAYNE03/26226 | Oil lease | $34.7 M |
| THE GROVE UNIT05/4079 | Oil lease | $30.7 M |
| ELLISON UNIT05/4019 | Oil lease | $20.4 M |
| LEWIS03/28121 | Oil lease | $19.4 M |
| ANN ADAMS MELVIN UNIT03/25679 | Oil lease | $19.4 M |
| LOTT-WILSON03/26129 | Oil lease | $18.9 M |
| BARRETT03/25687 | Oil lease | $18.1 M |
| SULLY UNIT05/4037 | Oil lease | $16.3 M |
| SMITH03/28119 | Oil lease | $16.0 M |
| BAYOU BENGALS UNIT05/4063 | Oil lease | $13.0 M |
| REA UNIT05/4014 | Oil lease | $12.8 M |
| LEONA UNIT03/26650 | Oil lease | $12.5 M |
| LOIS WILLIAMS03/27070 | Oil lease | $11.7 M |
| BONIFAZI UNIT03/26798 | Oil lease | $11.6 M |
| PLOTTS UNIT03/26643 | Oil lease | $11.1 M |
| HOWARD-MOORE UNIT03/28010 | Oil lease | $10.9 M |
| MOORE UNIT03/26722 | Oil lease | $10.8 M |
| LYNE, T.B.03/26024 | Oil lease | $10.6 M |
| BARRETT-MARKS03/26280 | Oil lease | $10.4 M |
| HOWARD-PIERCE UNIT03/26391 | Oil lease | $9.9 M |
| BLAZEK-PETERS05/4006 | Oil lease | $9.4 M |
| GALL03/26161 | Oil lease | $9.4 M |
| ELLWOOD BARRETT03/25867 | Oil lease | $9.1 M |
| LEONA-HOWARD (ALLOCATION)03/28003 | Oil lease | $8.7 M |
| LANG-GUERRERO UNIT WELL NO203/11671 | Oil lease | $8.7 M |
| DONAHO UNIT05/3973 | Oil lease | $8.6 M |
| LANG, JAMES03/11584 | Oil lease | $7.9 M |
| TRIPLE M03/26556 | Oil lease | $7.8 M |
| STRAKE03/26371 | Oil lease | $7.7 M |
| HOWARD-MOORE UNIT A03/28004 | Oil lease | $6.8 M |
| HITTS LAKE OIL UNIT06/12723 | Oil lease | $5.5 M |
| LONG HOLLOW03/26245 | Oil lease | $4.6 M |
| DOUGLAS03/26489 | Oil lease | $4.3 M |
| THE GOLDEN WAVE UNIT03/26595 | Oil lease | $4.3 M |
| TEX BAR RANCH, LTD.03/26365 | Oil lease | $4.2 M |
| PAYNE UNIT03/26493 | Oil lease | $4.0 M |
| GILPIN UNIT II03/22824 | Oil lease | $3.0 M |
| WATSON-HOWARD03/26366 | Oil lease | $2.5 M |
| FEATHER CREST FARMS03/22876 | Oil lease | $2.3 M |
| ANN ADAMS MELVIN "A" UNIT03/27431 | Oil lease | $2.3 M |
| LANG, JAMES "A"03/11646 | Oil lease | $1.5 M |
| PHILLIPS06/12724 | Oil lease | $159 k |
| B . G . R . S .03/17206 | Oil lease | $140 k |
| WYNNE-SULLIVAN03/13519 | Oil lease | $129 k |
| ODOM, W.F. UNIT III03/18371 | Oil lease | $75 k |
Pipeline systems
The named networks VESS OIL CORPORATION 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOTT-WILSON PIPELINE | 123 | 205 | 2 |