WESTERN CHIEF OPERATING, L.L.C.
Every Texas lease WESTERN CHIEF OPERATING, L.L.C. reports production on, valued at the published monthly benchmark.
Reported value by year
What WESTERN CHIEF OPERATING, L.L.C.'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 | 38 |
| SWR 3.8(d)(1) | Unpermitted Disposal of Oil and Gas Wastes | 18 |
| SWR 3.3(2) | Well Sign | 10 |
| SWR 3.3(1) | Entrance Sign | 8 |
| SWR 3.91(d)(1) | Remediation of Soil | 7 |
The five commonest of 16 rules cited against this operator.
What the Commission did
- Notice of Violation 44
- Referred to State-Managed Plugging 44
- Referred to Austin Field Ops for possible legal enforcement 9
- Issued a Severance/Seal Order 7
- Referred to State-Managed Cleanup Program 2
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 98 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 |
|---|---|---|
| IRT | no published meaning for this code | 4 |
| 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 — 21 Oct 2020 to 22 Mar 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 51 leases
| SHANAFELT TRUST09/27745 | Oil lease | $12.4 M |
| POE-MANN09/188543 | Gas well | $9.9 M |
| POE-MANN09/188544 | Gas well | $8.0 M |
| MCCUTCHIN09/219513 | Gas well | $4.9 M |
| MCCUTCHIN09/219498 | Gas well | $4.2 M |
| MCCUTCHIN09/250176 | Gas well | $4.0 M |
| BLOCKER09/28777 | Oil lease | $3.7 M |
| HOUSTON09/28731 | Oil lease | $3.0 M |
| CARR09/213776 | Gas well | $2.7 M |
| POE-MANN09/203870 | Gas well | $2.5 M |
| VERSTRAETE-BURGOYNE UNIT09/219506 | Gas well | $2.4 M |
| MCDONALD09/28779 | Oil lease | $2.2 M |
| TAYLOR, DAISY09/28750 | Oil lease | $2.2 M |
| BASTIAN09/254715 | Gas well | $1.8 M |
| SMITH-EVANS UNIT09/234609 | Gas well | $1.7 M |
| BERGMAN09/230544 | Gas well | $1.7 M |
| CROSSLIN UNIT09/238399 | Gas well | $1.6 M |
| HOPKINS09/29342 | Oil lease | $1.6 M |
| BRISCOE09/190653 | Gas well | $1.4 M |
| BLOCKER09/174154 | Gas well | $1.4 M |
| POE-MANN09/205220 | Gas well | $1.2 M |
| EAGLE FARMS09/228798 | Gas well | $1.1 M |
| PASCHAL-HARRISON UNIT09/232994 | Gas well | $1.0 M |
| BRISCOE09/190985 | Gas well | $960 k |
| COOPER09/225975 | Gas well | $882 k |
| HANEY 27C/17466 | Oil lease | $880 k |
| SCHERTZ09/236140 | Gas well | $644 k |
| SHANAFELT TRUST09/141458 | Gas well | $590 k |
| PIERCE R.N.7B/58811 | Gas well | $576 k |
| BIRD09/25095 | Oil lease | $564 k |
| EAGLE FARMS09/251484 | Gas well | $544 k |
| BRICE09/23243 | Oil lease | $489 k |
| MCCUTCHIN09/247971 | Gas well | $438 k |
| SHANAFELT09/20927 | Oil lease | $423 k |
| SPINLER09/232880 | Gas well | $368 k |
| GOODSON, B. F.09/201172 | Gas well | $210 k |
| SCHERTZ09/215387 | Gas well | $196 k |
| KEYSER "G"09/24456 | Oil lease | $111 k |
| KING, B. W.09/18963 | Oil lease | $106 k |
| MCDONALD09/270456 | Gas well | $90 k |
| HOUSTON09/159297 | Gas well | $78 k |
| MOSLEY, PEARL "A"09/25110 | Oil lease | $59 k |
| KEMP-DERRICK UNIT09/30070 | Oil lease | $53 k |
| CARR09/208639 | Gas well | $22 k |
| PIERCE, R. N.7B/262216 | Gas well | $20 k |
| KING "A"09/21770 | Oil lease | $18 k |
| KING, B. W.09/20074 | Oil lease | $14 k |
| KEYSER "C"09/21591 | Oil lease | $13 k |
| MOSELY, PEARL "A"09/137582 | Gas well | $13 k |
| KEYSER "A"09/20834 | Oil lease | $5 k |