OPERATORS · RRC 100951 · P-5 STATUS Y
Vital Engy, Inc
Houston, TX · most active in Ward County
Watch this operatorVital Engy, Inc was issued 18 drilling permits in the past 12 months, down 84% on the prior year, across 3 counties led by Ward with 8. 100% were horizontal.
None were issued in the past 90 days.
The RRC wellbore file lists 60 wells under its operatorship (5 producing, 6 shut in).
Lease reports credit it with 24.5M barrels of oil and 139M mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, down 34% on the year before.
337 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 2012; its P-5 organization report was last filed December 4, 2025.
- 18
- permits, last 12 months
- -84%
- vs prior 12 months (116)
- 3
- counties, 12 months
- 5
- producing wells, of 60 of record
- 47
- leases it reports
- 100%
- 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 · 263 of 337 mature permits
- 43
- median days permit to spud · middle half 25–72
- 0
- spuds, last 180 days -100%
- 0%
- cancelled · 0 permits
- 74
- expired undrilled
- 24
- permits a year over 14 active years
Permits issued by month
LAST 36 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 93 · prior 12 143(-35%)
Where
Counties by permits in the last 12 months, with all-time permits and current wells of record there.
| County | 12 mo | All time | Wells | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ward county → | 8 | 76 | 3 | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Upton county → | 6 | 27 | 17 | Jan 6, 2026 |
| Glasscock county → | 4 | 70 | 20 | Nov 13, 2025 |
| Reeves county → | — | 86 | 9 | Oct 13, 2025 |
| Howard county → | — | 39 | 3 | Oct 7, 2024 |
| Midland county → | — | 30 | 1 | Aug 13, 2025 |
| Reagan county → | — | 3 | 6 | Oct 9, 2025 |
| Borden county → | — | 2 | 1 | Dec 3, 2024 |
| Crane county → | — | 2 | 0 | Apr 4, 2024 |
| Winkler county → | — | 2 | 0 | Sep 26, 2025 |
All 337 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 | 66 | 47 |
| Yates | 65 | 45 |
| Clear Fork | 62 | 43 |
| Seven Rivers | 59 | 39 |
| Grayburg | 59 | 39 |
| Glorieta | 57 | 38 |
| Queen | 57 | 38 |
| Spraberry | 53 | 37 |
| Bone Spring | 47 | 47 |
| Rustler | 45 | 45 |
| Cherry Canyon | 45 | 45 |
| Salado | 42 | 22 |
| Bell Canyon | 36 | 36 |
| Wolfcamp | 32 | 27 |
| Castile | 26 | 26 |
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 →
- 24.5M
- bbl oil, last 12 reported months
- -34%
- vs the 12 months before
- 139M
- mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
- 101M
- bbl oil since reporting began
Oil, barrels
Last 12 months 24,475,567 · prior 12 37,238,620(-34%)
Gas, mcf
Last 12 months 138,696,464 · prior 12 203,947,220(-32%)
Beyond the permit record
RRC wellbore file
Wells of record
- 60
- on the schedule
- 5
- producing
- 6
- shut in
- 0
- injection
- 0
- temp. abandoned
- 24
- plugged
How it got them
- 12
- permitted itself
- 44
- acquired from others
- 155
- 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
- 0
- active UIC permits of 10
- 0
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 0
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
By county
| Howard | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
| Reagan | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
| Ward | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
| Borden | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
| Glasscock | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
| Reeves | 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 | 18 | 112 | 332 |
| Recompletion | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Field transfer | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Reclass | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spraberry (Trend Area)85280300 | 38 | 2 |
| Hoefs T-K (Wolfcamp)41911500 | 6 | 3 |
| Phantom (Wolfcamp)71052900 | 3 | 0 |
| Oceanic (Pennsylvanian)66669500 | 3 | 0 |
| Wolfbone (Trend Area)98359800 | 3 | 0 |
| Iva Lee (Clearfork)44837200 | 2 | 0 |
| Wildcat16001 | 2 | 0 |
| Saint Lawrence (Strawn)79689700 | 1 | 0 |
| Dewey Lake S. (Wolfcamp)24489385 | 1 | 0 |
| Vealmoor93308001 | 1 | 0 |
P-5 organization report
As registered with the RRC. About the P-5 →
- Registration
- Status code Y
- Last filed Dec 4, 2025
- Oil operator
- Address
- 600 Travis St Ste 7200
- Houston, TX 77002
- (713) 953-8604
- Officers and agents
- CT Corporation System · Texas Resident Agent
- Pigott, Jason · President,ceo
- Denny, Mark · Secretary,vice President,gen Cou
- Coldiron, Kyle · Vice President
- Ferris, David · Vice President
- Hill, Katie · Coo
- Klein, Benjamin · Vice President
- Temple, Daniel · Vice President
Latest permits
NEWEST FIRST BY ISSUE DATE · FILED OR ON WELLS IT NOW OPERATES
| Permit | Seen | Issued | Operator | County | Lease / well | Depth | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 912130 | Jan 6, 2026 | Jan 6, 2026 | Vital Energy, Inc. | Upton | Ponderosa West D #3BH | 9,000 | 46143388 |
| 912129 | Jan 6, 2026 | Jan 6, 2026 | Vital Energy, Inc. | Upton | Ponderosa West B #2BH | 9,000 | 46143387 |
| 912127 | Jan 6, 2026 | Jan 6, 2026 | Vital Energy, Inc. | Upton | Ponderosa West A #1BH | 9,000 | 46143386 |
| 912479 | Dec 31, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | Vital Energy, Inc. | Ward | UL Air Force #5AH | 12,500 | 47539031 |
| 912482 | Dec 29, 2025 | Dec 29, 2025 | Vital Energy, Inc. | Ward | UL Air Force #7FBH | 10,500 | 47539033 |
| 912480 | Dec 29, 2025 | Dec 29, 2025 | Vital Energy, Inc. | Ward | UL Air Force #3TBH | 11,750 | 47539032 |
| 912478 | Dec 29, 2025 | Dec 29, 2025 | Vital Energy, Inc. | Ward | UL Air Force #1BH | 12,500 | 47539030 |
| 912147 | Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 16, 2025 | Vital Energy, Inc. | Upton | Juniper East H #3BH | 9,200 | 46143391 |
| 912146 | Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 16, 2025 | Vital Energy, Inc. | Upton | Juniper East G #2BH | 9,000 | 46143390 |
| 912133 | Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 12, 2025 | Vital Energy, Inc. | Upton | Juniper East E #1BH | 9,000 | 46143389 |
| 911273 | Dec 2, 2025 | Dec 2, 2025 | Vital Energy, Inc. | Ward | Dire Wolf H #11BH | 13,000 | 47539018 |
| 911272 | Dec 2, 2025 | Dec 2, 2025 | Vital Energy, Inc. | Ward | Dire Wolf G #10AH | 12,000 | 47539017 |
| 911270 | Dec 2, 2025 | Dec 2, 2025 | Vital Energy, Inc. | Ward | Dire Wolf E #8AH | 12,000 | 47539016 |
| 911269 | Dec 2, 2025 | Dec 2, 2025 | Vital Energy, Inc. | Ward | Dire Wolf F #9FBH | 10,000 | 47539015 |
| 911683 | Nov 13, 2025 | Nov 13, 2025 | Vital Energy, Inc. | Glasscock | Cook E D #16CH | 10,500 | 17339387 |
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/100951, documented in the API reference.