OPERATORS · RRC 136850 · P-5 STATUS Y
Carter Expl Co
Corpus Christ, TX
Watch this operatorCarter Expl CO has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued April 21, 2011.
The RRC wellbore file lists 58 wells under its operatorship.
215 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1977; its P-5 organization report was last filed November 6, 2015.
- 0
- permits, last 12 months
- —
- vs prior 12 months (0)
- 0
- counties, 12 months
- 0
- producing wells, of 58 of record
- 30
- 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.
- 36%
- spud rate · 78 of 215 mature permits
- 17
- median days permit to spud · middle half 6–56
- 0
- spuds, last 180 days
- 2%
- cancelled · 4 permits
- 133
- expired undrilled
- 6
- permits a year over 34 active years
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson county → | — | 61 | 18 | Dec 20, 1991 |
| Bee county → | — | 29 | 9 | May 5, 1995 |
| Live Oak county → | — | 29 | 6 | May 4, 2004 |
| Nueces county → | — | 24 | 5 | Apr 21, 2011 |
| Wharton county → | — | 14 | 3 | Jun 28, 1985 |
| Victoria county → | — | 9 | 4 | Dec 28, 1983 |
| Hidalgo county → | — | 8 | 0 | Nov 29, 2000 |
| Starr county → | — | 8 | 1 | Nov 20, 1981 |
| Duval county → | — | 7 | 5 | Dec 23, 1987 |
| Jim Wells county → | — | 5 | 2 | Jun 30, 1994 |
| Karnes county → | — | 5 | 0 | Dec 7, 2001 |
| San Patricio county → | — | 5 | 1 | Aug 23, 1995 |
| Jim Hogg county → | — | 4 | 2 | Jul 12, 2001 |
| Goliad county → | — | 2 | 0 | Dec 21, 1982 |
| Colorado county → | — | 1 | 0 | Dec 17, 1984 |
| Jack county → | — | 1 | 0 | Dec 12, 1977 |
| Kleberg county → | — | 1 | 0 | Oct 18, 1984 |
| Matagorda county → | — | 1 | 0 | Oct 18, 1985 |
| Refugio county → | — | 1 | 2 | Oct 6, 1977 |
All 215 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 →
- 0
- bbl oil, last 12 reported months
- —
- vs the 12 months before
- 0
- mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
- 575K
- bbl oil since reporting began
No lease production reported under this operator number in the last three years.
Beyond the permit record
RRC wellbore file
Wells of record
- 58
- on the schedule
- 0
- producing
- 0
- shut in
- 0
- injection
- 0
- temp. abandoned
- 51
- plugged
How it got them
- 39
- permitted itself
- 7
- acquired from others
- 57
- 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 9
- 0
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 0
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
By county
| Bee | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
| Duval | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
| Nueces | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
| Jackson | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
| Live Oak | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
| San Patricio | 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 | 0 | 159 |
| Recompletion | 0 | 0 | 49 |
| Other | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Reenter | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jones E. (Hockley Sand)47094333 | 3 | 0 |
| Buckeye Knoll (Pettus 2ND)12927830 | 2 | 0 |
| Mission River62136001 | 2 | 0 |
| Strake (3700)86463800 | 2 | 0 |
| Romero Trap (Pettus)78073426 | 2 | 0 |
| Chapman Ranch (F-57)17075184 | 1 | 0 |
| Chapman Ranch (5600)17075667 | 1 | 0 |
| Carmichael (4658)15731860 | 1 | 0 |
| Collier East (3990)19668290 | 1 | 0 |
| Collier East (2815)19668250 | 1 | 0 |
| Cordele (3190)20585798 | 1 | 0 |
| Chapman Ranch (2450)17075398 | 1 | 0 |
P-5 organization report
As registered with the RRC. About the P-5 →
- Registration
- Status code Y
- Last filed Nov 6, 2015
- Address
- 4914 Wooldridge Road
- Corpus Christ, TX 78413
- (361) 293-6459
- Officers and agents
- Carter, Evelyn · President
- Cooper, Linda · Vice President/Secretary
- York, Glenda · Secretary
Latest permits
NEWEST FIRST BY ISSUE DATE · FILED OR ON WELLS IT NOW OPERATES
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/136850, documented in the API reference.