OPERATORS · RRC 16888 · P-5 STATUS Y

Amber Engy, Inc

Midland, TX

Amber Engy, Inc has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued November 6, 1991.

The RRC wellbore file lists 1 well under its operatorship.

9 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1981; its P-5 organization report was last filed October 22, 1991.

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

67%: spud rate · 6 of 9 mature permits
51: median days permit to spud · middle half 18–93
0: spuds, last 180 days
0%: cancelled · 0 permits
3: expired undrilled
1: permits a year over 11 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	Last
Ward county →	—	3	Nov 6, 1991
Concho county →	—	1	Jan 12, 1989
Crane county →	—	1	Apr 15, 1982
Ector county →	—	1	Jan 15, 1982
Howard county →	—	1	Dec 17, 1981
Pecos county →	—	1	Feb 14, 1991
Scurry county →	—	1	Jul 21, 1981

All 9 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
No completion tops on file.

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
0: 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

1: on the schedule
0: producing
0: shut in
0: injection
0: temp. abandoned
0: plugged

How it got them

0: permitted itself
1: acquired from others
4: permitted, now run by others

Acquired means the well's permit names a different operator than the schedule does today. Transfers and operator numbers →

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	5
Reenter	0	0	3
Other	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
Hamon (5270)38581666	1	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed Oct 22, 1991

Address: P. O. Box 11227; Midland, TX 79702

Officers and agents: Hightower, Jack · President; Hightower, Robin M · Secretary; Hightower, William H., Jr. · 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
393323	Nov 6, 1991	Nov 6, 1991	Amber Energy, Inc.	Ward	Howe State #2	12,450	47532114
393321	Nov 6, 1991	Nov 6, 1991	Amber Energy, Inc.	Ward	Howe #4-1 #1	12,650	47530620
389923	Jul 19, 1991	Jul 19, 1991	Amber Energy, Inc.	Ward	Howe, Jospeh #2 #302	17,350	47530468
384553	Feb 14, 1991	Feb 14, 1991	Amber Energy, Inc.	Pecos	Kenower #2	5,350	37136297
358934	May 8, 1989	May 8, 1989	Giebel Petroleum Ltd.	Reeves	Platter, Waples #1	5,270	38931888
355072	Jan 12, 1989	Jan 12, 1989	Amber Energy, Inc.	Concho	Hammack #1	3,900	09530990
156909	Apr 15, 1982	Apr 15, 1982	Amber Energy, Inc.	Crane	Carter, M. K. Trust #1	10,500	10332892
147725	Jan 15, 1982	Jan 15, 1982	Amber Energy, Inc.	Ector	Edwards #1	9,357	13533859
144650	Dec 17, 1981	Dec 17, 1981	Amber Energy, Inc.	Howard	Phillips, Fred #1	10,537	22732104
125856	Jul 21, 1981	Jul 21, 1981	Amber Energy, Inc.	Scurry	West, J D #1	7,580	41532040

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/16888, documented in the API reference.