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OPERATORS · RRC 100189  · P-5 STATUS Y

Morningstar Oper LLC

Fort Worth, TX

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Morningstar Oper LLC has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued December 6, 2024.

The RRC wellbore file lists 167 wells under its operatorship (54 producing, 24 shut in).

Lease reports credit it with 308K barrels of oil and 269K mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, up 1% on the year before.

It holds 32 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 4.36M barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

12 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 2022; its P-5 organization report was last filed November 4, 2025.

0
permits, last 12 months
-100%
vs prior 12 months (1)
0
counties, 12 months
54
producing wells, of 167 of record
87
leases it reports
—
horizontal, 12 months

WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026

From permit to spud

FROM THE DATES ON ITS W-1 PERMITS · ALL TIME

A permit is a plan, not a well. These figures count only permits old enough to have spudded, six months and more, and read the spud, cancel, and expiry dates the RRC records on each one.

25%
spud rate · 3 of 12 mature permits
49
median days permit to spud · middle half 30–49
0
spuds, last 180 days
0%
cancelled · 0 permits
9
expired undrilled
4
permits a year over 3 active years

Permits issued by month

LAST 8 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 12

01232024

Where

Counties by permits in the last 12 months, with all-time permits and current wells of record there.

County12 moAll timeWellsLast
Andrews county →—12147Dec 6, 2024

All 12 permits, searchable → · Leases it reports → · On the map →

Formations in its completed wells

Tops reported on completion filings for wells it operates. RRC wellbore file. About tops →

FormationWellsPermitted last 3 yrs
Yates20
Seven Rivers20
Queen20
Grayburg20
San Andres20
Glorieta20
Clear Fork20
Holt20

Production by month

PDQ LEASE REPORTS · REPORTED THROUGH APR 2026

Barrels on leases where this operator filed the production report. Lease-level by design; the latest months are revised upward as late reports arrive. How production is reported →

308K
bbl oil, last 12 reported months
+1%
vs the 12 months before
269K
mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
1.28M
bbl oil since reporting began

Oil, barrels

Last 12 months 307,681 · prior 12 304,925(+1%)

020K40K202420252026

Gas, mcf

Last 12 months 268,882 · prior 12 375,286(-28%)

020K40K60K202420252026

Beyond the permit record

RRC wellbore file

Wells of record

167
on the schedule
54
producing
24
shut in
7
injection
0
temp. abandoned
67
plugged

How it got them

2
permitted itself
107
acquired from others
0
permitted, now run by others

Acquired means the well's permit names a different operator than the schedule does today. Transfers and operator numbers →

RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes

Disposal and injection

32
active UIC permits of 34
85K
permitted bbl/day, active
4.36M
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025
reported through

By county

Andrews31 active82.5K bbl/d
Ward1 active2.5K bbl/d

Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →

Permit types

Last 12 months against the prior 12, and all time. A type opens the permit history filtered to it. What the types mean →

Type12 moPrior 12All time
Drill018
Recompletion004

Fields

RRC regulatory fields with the most wells of record under this operator. The field opens its page; the count opens this operator's wells in it.

FieldWellsProducing
Parker (Grayburg San Andres)691934264619
Andrews (Wolfcamp-Penn.)2725760254
Deep Rock (Penn.)239077102213
Parker (Wolfcamp Consolidated)69193800180
War-Wink (Cherry Canyon)9512220095
Bakke (Ellenburger)516644490
University Block 9 (Penn.)9253450084
Wasson NE. (Clear Fork)9540033372
Shafter Lake (San Andres)8257050072
Parker West (Penn.)6920050041
Bakke (Devonian)516633320
Bakke (Penn.)516655520

P-5 organization report

As registered with the RRC. About the P-5 →

Registration
Status code Y
Last filed Nov 4, 2025
Gas operatorOil operator
Address
Attn Amy Byars 400 W. 7TH Street
Fort Worth, TX 76102
(817) 320-7919
Officers and agents
CT Corporations · Texas Resident Agent
Clum, Brent · Managing Member
Hutton, Keith A · President,secretary
Frey, William "Bill" F · Vice President
Pearson, Charles David · Vice President
Neely, Brandon L · Vice President
Agosta, Scott T · Vice President
Armstrong, Allen "Law" L Jr · Vice President

Latest permits

NEWEST FIRST BY ISSUE DATE · FILED OR ON WELLS IT NOW OPERATES

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorCountyLease / wellDepthAPI
904435Dec 6, 2024Dec 6, 2024Morningstar Operating LLCAndrewsParker, J.E. Fee 'K' #511,00000349087
899228Jun 14, 2024Jun 14, 2024Morningstar Operating LLCAndrewsParker, J.E. -E- #710,00000348952
896363Jan 9, 2024Jan 9, 2024Morningstar Operating LLCAndrewsParker, J.E. 'D' #610,00000348894
896361Jan 9, 2024Jan 9, 2024Morningstar Operating LLCAndrewsParker, J.E. 'D' #710,00000348892
884355Oct 4, 2022Oct 4, 2022Morningstar Operating LLCAndrewsSouthwest Andrews Unit #781811,00000348702
883997Sep 21, 2022Sep 21, 2022Morningstar Operating LLCAndrewsClark, Frank #1011,20000348696
883997Sep 21, 2022Sep 21, 2022Morningstar Operating LLCAndrewsClark, Frank #1011,20000348696
883990Sep 16, 2022Sep 16, 2022Morningstar Operating LLCAndrewsSouthwest Andrews Unit #721811,00000348695
882379Jul 26, 2022Jul 26, 2022Morningstar Operating LLCAndrewsSouthwest Andrews Unit #8201A12,47500304808
880662Jun 7, 2022Jun 7, 2022Morningstar Operating LLCAndrewsFrank Clark #610,41900305584
880662Jun 7, 2022Jun 7, 2022Morningstar Operating LLCAndrewsFrank Clark #610,41900305584
880231May 20, 2022May 20, 2022Morningstar Operating LLCAndrewsFrank Clark #610,41900305584
845320Oct 17, 2018Oct 17, 2018Brammer Engineering, Inc.AndrewsParker 18 #1HH4,70000347922
845309Oct 17, 2018Oct 17, 2018Brammer Engineering, Inc.AndrewsParker 2 #1HH4,60000347921
751449Nov 27, 2012Nov 27, 2012Chevron Midcontinent, L.P.AndrewsParker, J. E. -AA- #19,77000338571

Full permit history →

About this data

Registration from the RRC P-5 organization report, refreshed weekly. Permits from the OGA049M master and daily daf420 files; wells of record from the EWA wellbore schedule; production from PDQ lease reports at the last vintage; disposal from UIC permits and H-10 reports. Summary figures are rebuilt nightly.

Developers: this page as JSON is GET /v1/data/operators/tx/100189, documented in the API reference.