OPERATORS · RRC 18870 · P-5 STATUS Y

American Oper Co

Kilgore, TX

American Oper CO has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued May 28, 1998.

The RRC wellbore file lists 4 wells under its operatorship.

16 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1981; its P-5 organization report was last filed July 11, 2003.

0: permits, last 12 months
—: vs prior 12 months (0)
0: counties, 12 months
0: producing wells, of 4 of record
6: 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.

38%: spud rate · 6 of 16 mature permits
22: median days permit to spud · middle half 15–44
0: spuds, last 180 days
0%: cancelled · 0 permits
10: expired undrilled
1: 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
Galveston county →	—	6	2	Jul 1, 1985
Rusk county →	—	5	1	May 28, 1998
Orange county →	—	2	1	Oct 25, 1995
Colorado county →	—	1	0	May 23, 1983
Jefferson county →	—	1	0	Nov 3, 1981
Montgomery county →	—	1	0	Aug 9, 1984

All 16 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	3	0
Miocene (undifferentiated)	2	0
Cotton Valley	1	0
Taylor	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
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

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

How it got them

3: permitted itself
1: acquired from others
3: 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	15
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
League City Townsite (10300)52677750	1	0
League City Townsite (Andrau U.)52677100	1	0
Monroe(cotton Valley)62490300	1	0
Wildcat6001	1	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed Jul 11, 2003

Address: P O Box 921; Kilgore, TX 75663

Officers and agents: Rolph, Charla Watson Report Ser · Texas Resident Agent; Littlejohn, John J · President; Littlejohn, Susan · Secretary/Treasurer

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
476268	May 28, 1998	May 28, 1998	American Operating Company	Rusk	Toon GU 1 #8	11,800	40132872
476267	May 28, 1998	May 28, 1998	American Operating Company	Rusk	Toon GU 1 #6	11,800	40132871
476266	May 28, 1998	May 28, 1998	American Operating Company	Rusk	Toon GU 1 #7	11,800	40132870
476265	May 28, 1998	May 28, 1998	American Operating Company	Rusk	Toon GU 1 #5	11,800	40132869
441255	Oct 25, 1995	Oct 25, 1995	American Operating Company	Orange	Bailey, Fred #1	10,600	36130715
433862	Apr 20, 1995	Apr 20, 1995	American Operating Company	Rusk	Bacon Creek Gas Unit #1 #1	11,000	40132604
279151	Jul 1, 1985	Jul 1, 1985	American Operating Company	Galveston	Rogers, Bertha #1	12,500	16731065
263277	Jan 7, 1985	Jan 7, 1985	American Operating Company	Galveston	Alta Loma Townsite, et AL #1	12,000	16731041
247901	Aug 9, 1984	Aug 9, 1984	American Operating Company	Montgomery	Champion Realty Corp. #1	8,000	33930670
242684	Jun 20, 1984	Jun 20, 1984	American Operating Company	Orange	Stark, Nelda C. #1	12,500	36130505
219308	Nov 1, 1983	Nov 1, 1983	American Operating Company	Galveston	TX. Commer. Bank Trust, et. Al. #1	11,000	16730966
196038	May 23, 1983	May 23, 1983	American Operating Company	Colorado	Noska, J. Est. #1	10,715	08900014
182741	Jan 4, 1983	Jan 4, 1983	American Operating Company	Galveston	Eisler, Jim and Mary #1	11,500	16730923
172894	Sep 21, 1982	Sep 21, 1982	American Operating Company	Galveston	Col. Wm. E. Lobit, et AL #1A	10,550	16730903
147987	Jan 4, 1982	Jan 4, 1982	American Operating Company	Galveston	Col. Wm. E. Lobit et AL #1	13,500	16730883

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/18870, documented in the API reference.