OPERATORS · RRC 100515 · P-5 STATUS Y
Red Tail Expl, LLC
Midland, TX
Watch this operatorRed Tail Expl, LLC has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued April 24, 2025.
The RRC wellbore file lists 15 wells under its operatorship (8 producing).
Lease reports credit it with 38.9K barrels of oil and 21.1K mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, down 31% on the year before.
It holds 5 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 516K barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
6 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 2023; its P-5 organization report was last filed April 4, 2026.
- 0
- permits, last 12 months
- -100%
- vs prior 12 months (3)
- 0
- counties, 12 months
- 8
- producing wells, of 15 of record
- 9
- 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.
- 33%
- spud rate · 2 of 6 mature permits
- 36
- median days permit to spud · middle half 36–37
- 0
- spuds, last 180 days
- 0%
- cancelled · 0 permits
- 4
- expired undrilled
- 3
- permits a year over 2 active years
Permits issued by month
LAST 3 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 6
Where
Counties by permits in the last 12 months, with all-time permits and current wells of record there.
All 6 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 →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs |
|---|---|---|
| San Andres | 1 | 1 |
| Yates | 1 | 1 |
| Glorieta | 1 | 1 |
| Clear Fork | 1 | 1 |
| Leonard | 1 | 1 |
| Santa Rosa | 1 | 1 |
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 →
- 38.9K
- bbl oil, last 12 reported months
- -31%
- vs the 12 months before
- 21.1K
- mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
- 105K
- bbl oil since reporting began
Oil, barrels
Last 12 months 38,903 · prior 12 56,088(-31%)
Gas, mcf
Last 12 months 21,134 · prior 12 38,113(-45%)
Beyond the permit record
RRC wellbore file
Wells of record
- 15
- on the schedule
- 8
- producing
- 0
- shut in
- 3
- injection
- 0
- temp. abandoned
- 2
- plugged
How it got them
- 1
- permitted itself
- 4
- 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
- 5
- active UIC permits of 7
- 41.2K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 516K
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
By county
| Yoakum | 1 active | 20K bbl/d |
| Reagan | 1 active | 10K bbl/d |
| Pecos | 1 active | 8K bbl/d |
| Cochran | 1 active | 1.65K bbl/d |
| Midland | 1 active | 1.5K bbl/d |
| Terry | 0 active | 0 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 →
| Type | 12 mo | Prior 12 | All time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drill | 0 | 3 | 6 |
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.
| Field | Wells | Producing |
|---|---|---|
| Levelland53411001 | 9 | 6 |
| Tokio (Leonard)90365350 | 2 | 1 |
| Tokio South (Wolfcamp)90369666 | 2 | 1 |
| Benedum NE. (Bend Lime)7114300 | 1 | 0 |
| Bryant -G- (Strawn)12763666 | 1 | 0 |
P-5 organization report
As registered with the RRC. About the P-5 →
- Registration
- Status code Y
- Last filed Apr 4, 2026
- Gas operatorOil operator
- Address
- PO Box 2668
- Midland, TX 79702
- (432) 553-8762
- Officers and agents
- Coats, Richard Harlan · Texas Resident Agent
- Coats, Richard Harlan Jr · Manager
Latest permits
NEWEST FIRST BY ISSUE DATE · FILED OR ON WELLS IT NOW OPERATES
| Permit | Seen | Issued | Operator | County | Lease / well | Depth | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 907553 | Apr 24, 2025 | Apr 24, 2025 | Red Tail Exploration, LLC | Yoakum | Cotton #1HH | 9,900 | 50137612 |
| 907553 | Apr 24, 2025 | Apr 24, 2025 | Red Tail Exploration, LLC | Yoakum | Cotton #1HH | 9,900 | 50137612 |
| 904230 | Nov 25, 2024 | Nov 25, 2024 | Red Tail Exploration, LLC | Terry | LA Plata 46 #1D | 8,000 | 44532478 |
| 895256 | Nov 29, 2023 | Nov 29, 2023 | Red Tail Exploration, LLC | Yoakum | Vineyard #1HH | 13,500 | 50137500 |
| 895256 | Nov 29, 2023 | Nov 29, 2023 | Red Tail Exploration, LLC | Yoakum | Vineyard #1HH | 13,500 | 50137500 |
| 895256 | Nov 29, 2023 | Nov 29, 2023 | Red Tail Exploration, LLC | Yoakum | Vineyard #1HH | 13,500 | 50137500 |
| 868577 | Mar 25, 2021 | Mar 25, 2021 | Permian Aqua Logistics, LLC | Midland | Permian Aqua Brine #1 | 3,000 | 32944779 |
| 813118 | Jan 12, 2016 | Jan 12, 2016 | Boyd & McWilliams Operating, LLC | Yoakum | Turrentine #1 | 10,000 | 50136661 |
| 813118 | Jan 12, 2016 | Jan 12, 2016 | Boyd & McWilliams Operating, LLC | Yoakum | Turrentine #1 | 10,000 | 50136661 |
| 684679 | Sep 1, 2009 | Sep 1, 2009 | Bee-Jay Petro, Inc. | Cochran | M. H. Clouser #6A | 5,000 | 07933191 |
| 666942 | Aug 5, 2008 | Aug 5, 2008 | Bee-Jay Petro, Inc. | Cochran | Clouser, M. H. #7 | 5,000 | 07933161 |
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/100515, documented in the API reference.