OPERATORS · RRC 182140 · P-5 STATUS Y

Couch, Gilbert

Kilgore, TX

Couch, Gilbert has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued January 28, 2021.

The RRC wellbore file lists 20 wells under its operatorship (1 producing).

Lease reports credit it with 619 barrels of oil and 0 mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026.

36 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1991; its P-5 organization report was last filed September 4, 2025.

0: permits, last 12 months
—: vs prior 12 months (0)
0: counties, 12 months
1: producing wells, of 20 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.

75%: spud rate · 27 of 36 mature permits
6: median days permit to spud · middle half 1–10
0: spuds, last 180 days
0%: cancelled · 0 permits
9: expired undrilled
1: permits a year over 30 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
Eastland county →	—	13	1	Oct 31, 2006
Callahan county →	—	6	15	Jan 17, 1995
Brown county →	—	5	0	Nov 16, 2005
Harrison county →	—	4	3	Jun 3, 2003
McCulloch county →	—	3	0	Feb 17, 1998
Pecos county →	—	2	0	May 13, 2004
Shelby county →	—	1	1	Apr 8, 1991
Smith county →	—	1	0	Jan 28, 2021
Taylor county →	—	1	0	Mar 29, 2007

All 36 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
Barnett	3	0
Marble Falls	3	0
Caddo	3	0
James Lime	3	0
Rodessa	3	0
Travis Peak	3	0
Cisco	2	0
Pettit	1	0
Tannehill	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 →

619: bbl oil, last 12 reported months
—: vs the 12 months before
0: mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
46.5K: bbl oil since reporting began

Oil, barrels

Last 12 months 619 · prior 12 220(+181%)

Beyond the permit record

RRC wellbore file

Wells of record

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

How it got them

7: 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 2
0: permitted bbl/day, active
0: bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025: reported through

By county

Callahan

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	35
Recompletion	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
Callahan County Regular14820001	15	0
Carthage (Burnett Sand)16032116	3	1
Eastland County Regular27358001	1	0
Joaquin (Navarro)46597600	1	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed Sep 4, 2025; Oil operator

Address: P O Box 921; Kilgore, TX 75663; (903) 987-0534

Officers and agents: Couch, Gilbert · Sole Proprietor; McAlister, Robin · Filing Agent; Sipes, Terri · Filing Agent; Rolph, Charla · Filing Agent; Wolf, Karen · Filing Agent; Warnick, Pamela · Filing Agent

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
867224	Jan 28, 2021	Jan 28, 2021	Couch, Gilbert	Smith	Joel Bell #1	7,500	42332445
635782	Mar 29, 2007	Mar 29, 2007	Couch, Gilbert	Taylor	Montgomery #1	2,000	44134179
628327	Oct 31, 2006	Oct 31, 2006	Couch, Gilbert	Eastland	Kirsch #1	2,000	13337993
609400	Nov 16, 2005	Nov 16, 2005	Couch, Gilbert	Brown	Newman #3	2,000	04935835
609400	Nov 16, 2005	Nov 16, 2005	Couch, Gilbert	Brown	Newman #3	2,000	04935835
609179	Nov 8, 2005	Nov 8, 2005	Couch, Gilbert	Brown	Newman #2	2,000	04935834
609179	Nov 8, 2005	Nov 8, 2005	Couch, Gilbert	Brown	Newman #2	4,000	04935834
608374	Oct 27, 2005	Oct 27, 2005	Couch, Gilbert	Brown	Newman #1	4,000	04935833
545647	May 13, 2004	May 13, 2004	Couch, Gilbert	Pecos	Irt #2	2,500	37137406
545646	May 13, 2004	May 13, 2004	Couch, Gilbert	Pecos	Irt #1	2,500	37137407
532709	Jun 3, 2003	Jun 3, 2003	Couch, Gilbert	Harrison	Adams #1	7,000	20332728
526964	Jan 6, 2003	Jan 6, 2003	Couch, Gilbert	Harrison	Chalmers #1	7,000	20332778
521763	Aug 14, 2002	Aug 14, 2002	Couch, Gilbert	Harrison	Spencer #1	7,000	20332742
519744	May 7, 2002	May 7, 2002	Couch, Gilbert	Harrison	Adams #1	7,000	20332728
486261	Jul 30, 1999	Jul 30, 1999	Couch, Gilbert	Eastland	J-S Day #1	1,500	13337781

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/182140, documented in the API reference.