OPERATORS · RRC 100263  · P-5 STATUS Y

Brown, H.L. Oper, L.L.C

Midland, TX · most active in Lubbock County

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Brown, H.L. Oper, L.L.C was issued 1 drilling permit in the past 12 months, versus 3 in the prior year, all in Lubbock County. 0% were horizontal.

None were issued in the past 90 days.

The RRC wellbore file lists 84 wells under its operatorship (32 producing, 1 shut in).

Lease reports credit it with 135K barrels of oil and 0 mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, up 12% on the year before.

It holds 10 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 1.33M barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

75 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 2001; its P-5 organization report was last filed April 4, 2026.

1
permits, last 12 months
-67%
vs prior 12 months (3)
1
counties, 12 months
32
producing wells, of 84 of record
39
leases it reports
0%
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.

78%
spud rate · 58 of 74 mature permits
46
median days permit to spud · middle half 18–106
0
spuds, last 180 days
1%
cancelled · 1 permits
16
expired undrilled
3
permits a year over 25 active years

Permits issued by month

LAST 4 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 7

01232022202420252026

Where

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

County12 moAll timeWellsLast
Lubbock county →14368May 7, 2026
Gaines county →—102Aug 2, 2017
Montgomery county →—51Jan 27, 2003
Howard county →—30Aug 16, 2005
Andrews county →—21Dec 9, 2005
Borden county →—22Jun 28, 2005
Crane county →—20Jun 6, 2006
Cochran county →—17Jan 24, 2019
Coke county →—10Oct 2, 2014
Dawson county →—10Aug 2, 2004
Ector county →—10Mar 7, 2003
Hockley county →—11Jul 12, 2018
Lynn county →—10Jul 29, 2008
Martin county →—10Aug 2, 2004
Terry county →—10Aug 2, 2010

All 75 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 →

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 →

135K
bbl oil, last 12 reported months
+12%
vs the 12 months before
0
mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
4.31M
bbl oil since reporting began

Oil, barrels

Last 12 months 134,947 · prior 12 120,505(+12%)

05K10K15K202420252026

Beyond the permit record

RRC wellbore file

Wells of record

84
on the schedule
32
producing
1
shut in
8
injection
0
temp. abandoned
41
plugged

How it got them

26
permitted itself
56
acquired from others
12
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

10
active UIC permits of 16
10.2K
permitted bbl/day, active
1.33M
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025
reported through

By county

Lubbock9 active9.15K bbl/d
Cochran1 active1K 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
Recompletion1320
Drill0050
Reenter005

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.

P-5 organization report

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

Registration
Status code Y
Last filed Apr 4, 2026
Oil operator
Address
PO Box 2237
Midland, TX 79702
(432) 683-5216
Officers and agents
Courtney, Quintard Peter III · President
Fowlkes, Annabelle E Brown · Secretary
Brown, Hubert Leon III · Treasurer

Latest permits

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

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorCountyLease / wellDepthAPI
915373May 7, 2026May 7, 2026Brown, H.L. Operating, L.L.C.LubbockWright #36,20030331583
909743Aug 11, 2025Aug 11, 2025Brown, H.L. Operating, L.L.C.LubbockMcMenamy Farms #16,10030331626
909745Aug 8, 2025Aug 8, 2025Brown, H.L. Operating, L.L.C.LubbockStanton-McLeod #76,10030331531
909744Aug 8, 2025Aug 8, 2025Brown, H.L. Operating, L.L.C.LubbockL.P. Hastings #246,10030331603
902775Sep 27, 2024Sep 27, 2024Brown, H.L. Operating, L.L.C.LubbockHastings, L. P. #255,80030331648
902786Sep 20, 2024Sep 20, 2024Brown, H.L. Operating, L.L.C.LubbockStanton-McLeod #85,80030331649
874247Jan 3, 2022Jan 3, 2022Brown, H.L. Operating, L.L.C.LubbockMcMenamy Farms #15,80030331626
848910Jan 24, 2019Jan 24, 2019Brown, H.L. Operating, L.L.C.CochranFrost D #65,20007933405
842190Jul 12, 2018Jul 12, 2018Brown, H.L. Operating, L.L.C.HockleyWhite Rice 25 #15,20021937446
829303Aug 2, 2017Aug 2, 2017Brown, H.L. Operating, L.L.C.GainesLast Chance #60111,40016538602
829303Aug 2, 2017Aug 2, 2017Brown, H.L. Operating, L.L.C.GainesLast Chance #60111,40016538602
816504Jun 23, 2016Jun 23, 2016Brown, H.L. Operating, L.L.C.GainesMalone Ranch #30110,50016538411
808537Jul 24, 2015Jul 24, 2015Brown, H.L. Operating, L.L.C.LubbockStettner #75,80030331602
808536Jul 24, 2015Jul 24, 2015Brown, H.L. Operating, L.L.C.LubbockL.P. Hastings #245,80030331603
796340Oct 2, 2014Oct 2, 2014Brown, H.L. Operating, L.L.C.CokeMcClanahan #16,20008132126

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/100263, documented in the API reference.