OPERATORS · RRC 182070 · P-5 STATUS Y

Cotton, W. L

Hebbronville, TX

Cotton, W. L has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued February 15, 1995.

The RRC wellbore file lists 22 wells under its operatorship.

61 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1978; its P-5 organization report was last filed December 2, 1995.

0: permits, last 12 months
—: vs prior 12 months (0)
0: counties, 12 months
0: producing wells, of 22 of record
7: 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.

44%: spud rate · 27 of 61 mature permits
25: median days permit to spud · middle half 10–48
0: spuds, last 180 days
0%: cancelled · 0 permits
34: expired undrilled
4: permits a year over 17 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
Jim Hogg county →	—	18	8	Jan 17, 1989
Brooks county →	—	11	2	Nov 10, 1994
Duval county →	—	11	2	Feb 15, 1995
San Patricio county →	—	10	3	Aug 27, 1985
McMullen county →	—	5	0	Feb 9, 1988
Webb county →	—	3	4	Jul 8, 1982
Zapata county →	—	3	3	Jul 7, 1987

All 61 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
Frio	13	0
Catahoula	11	0
Jackson	7	0
Oakville	6	0
Yegua	6	0
Vicksburg	6	0
Cook Mountain	5	0
Greta	4	0
Wilcox	1	0
Miocene (undifferentiated)	1	0

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
61.6K: 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

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

How it got them

11: permitted itself
6: acquired from others
22: 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 1
0: permitted bbl/day, active
0: bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025: reported through

By county

McMullen

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	44
Recompletion	0	0	14
Other	0	0	2
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
Staggs (700)85471100	2	0
Staggs (823)85471200	2	0
Romeo S. (2500)78048600	2	0
Davis South (1100)23389498	1	0
Hellen40253001	1	0
Labbe (2800)51124945	1	0
Labbe (Cole Sand)51124090	1	0
Mathis East (5100)58271864	1	0
Mathis E. (Vanecek Sand)58271460	1	0
Romeo S. (2660)78048700	1	0
Romeo S. (2750)78048775	1	0
Scott & Hopper (7400-B S)81752850	1	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed Dec 2, 1995

Address: Box 396; Hebbronville, TX 78361

Officers and agents: Cotton, W. L. · Operator/Owner

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
500870	Oct 17, 2000	Oct 17, 2000	Anderson Oil Ltd	Brooks	Garcia, Abraham #2	8,500	04731560
475365	Apr 20, 1998	Apr 20, 1998	Cotton, W.L. Gems & Minerals Ltd	Duval	Henderson-State #1	3,260	13137299
432900	Feb 15, 1995	Feb 15, 1995	Cotton, W. L.	Duval	Henderson-State #1	3,260	13137299
429570	Nov 10, 1994	Nov 10, 1994	Cotton, W. L.	Brooks	Garcia Gas Unit #2	8,500	04731560
416124	Sep 22, 1993	Sep 22, 1993	Cotton, W. L.	Duval	Henderson-State #6A	2,924	13110805
408040	Jan 14, 1993	Jan 14, 1993	Cotton, W. L.	Duval	Henderson-State #1	3,260	13137299
406164	Dec 29, 1992	Dec 29, 1992	Cotton, W. L.	Duval	Henderson-State #5 A	1,938	13100909
396297	Jan 31, 1992	Jan 31, 1992	Cotton, W. L.	Brooks	Trad/Kalifa #2	8,500	04731605
390322	Sep 25, 1991	Sep 25, 1991	Cotton, W. L.	Duval	Henderson-State #3	3,105	13100908
390320	Aug 14, 1991	Aug 14, 1991	Cotton, W. L.	Duval	Henderson-State #4A	1,946	13100911
379060	Oct 12, 1990	Oct 12, 1990	Cotton, W. L.	Brooks	Trad/Kalifa #1	8,500	04731583
379060	Oct 12, 1990	Oct 12, 1990	Cotton, W. L.	Brooks	Trad/Kalifa #1	8,500	04731583
367782	Jan 4, 1990	Jan 4, 1990	Cotton, W. L.	Duval	Henderson-State #1	3,300	13137299
364598	Oct 4, 1989	Oct 4, 1989	Cotton, W. L.	Brooks	Garcia Gas Unit #2	9,200	04731560
352440	Jan 17, 1989	Jan 17, 1989	Cotton, W. L.	Jim Hogg	Adams, L. M. "A" #1	5,400	24731916

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/182070, documented in the API reference.