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OPERATORS · RRC 131827  · P-5 STATUS Y

Caribou Oper, Inc

Granbury, TX · most active in Jack County

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Caribou Oper, Inc was issued 1 drilling permit in the past 12 months, after a quiet prior year, all in Jack County. 0% were horizontal.

None were issued in the past 90 days.

The RRC wellbore file lists 35 wells under its operatorship (12 producing, 5 shut in).

Lease reports credit it with 14.5K barrels of oil and 531K mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, down 21% on the year before.

It holds 3 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 398K barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

29 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 2010; its P-5 organization report was last filed February 4, 2026.

1
permits, last 12 months
—
vs prior 12 months (0)
1
counties, 12 months
12
producing wells, of 35 of record
31
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.

69%
spud rate · 20 of 29 mature permits
38
median days permit to spud · middle half 9–100
0
spuds, last 180 days
0%
cancelled · 0 permits
9
expired undrilled
2
permits a year over 16 active years

Permits issued by month

LAST 6 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 7

012202320242026

Where

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

County12 moAll timeWellsLast
Jack county →12933Mar 26, 2026

All 29 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
Caddo172
Strawn41
Atoka41
Bryson31
Palo Pinto21
Gunsight21
Canyon11
Marble Falls10

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 →

14.5K
bbl oil, last 12 reported months
-21%
vs the 12 months before
531K
mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
214K
bbl oil since reporting began

Gas, mcf

Last 12 months 531,419 · prior 12 741,455(-28%)

050K100K202420252026

Oil, barrels

Last 12 months 14,512 · prior 12 18,479(-21%)

01K2K3K202420252026

Beyond the permit record

RRC wellbore file

Wells of record

35
on the schedule
12
producing
5
shut in
1
injection
1
temp. abandoned
13
plugged

How it got them

13
permitted itself
22
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

3
active UIC permits of 4
4.3K
permitted bbl/day, active
398K
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025
reported through

By county

Jack3 active4.3K 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
Recompletion108
Drill0020
Reenter001

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
Antelope S.E. (Marble Falls)3086400109
Wildcat2200150
Kramberger (Atoka Congl.)5025250040
West Fork (Weir)9652560030
AL-Vinc (Caddo)102411122
Banter Strawn (Weir)550750020
Fern (Congl.)3069507521
Jack County Regular4527400120
Corry (Conglomerate)2079925010
Science (E. Conglomerate)8170440010
Caribou (Mississipian)1566340010
Butts (Congl.)1406230010

P-5 organization report

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

Registration
Status code Y
Last filed Feb 4, 2026
Gas operatorOil operator
Address
P O Box 1941
Granbury, TX 76048
(817) 573-8663
Officers and agents
Watson, Dale L. · President
Watson, Charlotte · Secretary

Latest permits

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

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorCountyLease / wellDepthAPI
914345Mar 26, 2026Mar 26, 2026Caribou Operating, Inc.JackBriscoe #26,50023740383
900637Jun 25, 2024Jun 25, 2024Caribou Operating, Inc.JackJohnson #46,50023740658
890406May 9, 2023May 9, 2023Caribou Operating, Inc.JackJohnson #36,50023740636
889861Apr 18, 2023Apr 18, 2023Caribou Operating, Inc.JackJohnson #26,50023740632
879478May 5, 2022May 5, 2022Caribou Operating, Inc.JackJohnson #16,50023740606
879478May 5, 2022May 5, 2022Caribou Operating, Inc.JackJohnson #16,50023740606
878553Apr 27, 2022Apr 27, 2022Caribou Operating, Inc.JackConway #26,50023740605
864323Jul 22, 2020Jul 22, 2020Caribou Operating, Inc.JackBriscoe #86,50023740570
858206Oct 22, 2019Oct 22, 2019Caribou Operating, Inc.JackBriscoe #76,50023740549
858206Oct 22, 2019Oct 22, 2019Caribou Operating, Inc.JackBriscoe #76,50023740549
853408May 24, 2019May 24, 2019Caribou Operating, Inc.JackBriscoe #66,50023740539
840024Sep 30, 2018Sep 30, 2018Caribou Operating, Inc.JackBriscoe #56,50023740506
844800Sep 20, 2018Sep 20, 2018Caribou Operating, Inc.JackPace #35,09623739172
838403Apr 12, 2018Apr 12, 2018Caribou Operating, Inc.JackBriscoe #46,50023740410
825210Apr 21, 2017Apr 21, 2017Caribou Operating, Inc.JackPace #16,50023740344

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/131827, documented in the API reference.