OPERATORS · RRC 196900 · P-5 STATUS Y

DST Expl Corp

Midland, TX

Dst Expl Corp has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued September 6, 1985.

The RRC wellbore file lists 16 wells under its operatorship.

8 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1977; its P-5 organization report was last filed January 13, 1989.

0: permits, last 12 months
—: vs prior 12 months (0)
0: counties, 12 months
0: producing wells, of 16 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.

38%: spud rate · 3 of 8 mature permits
26: median days permit to spud · middle half 15–33
0: spuds, last 180 days
0%: cancelled · 0 permits
5: expired undrilled
1: permits a year over 8 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
Upton county →	—	8	11	Sep 6, 1985

All 8 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
Spraberry	5	0
Dean	2	0
Clear Fork	1	0
Wolfcamp	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

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

How it got them

5: permitted itself
0: 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 →

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

Upton

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
Recompletion	0	0	6
Drill	0	0	2

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
Spraberry (Trend Area CL. Fk.)85280400	15	0
Spraberry (Trend Area)85279200	1	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed Jan 13, 1989

Address: P.O. Box 683; Midland, TX 79702

Officers and agents: Saxe, Richard B. · President; Booker, Paula · Secretary

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
284165	Sep 6, 1985	Sep 6, 1985	DST Exploration Corp.	Upton	Elkin #1	8,465	46101767
283811	Sep 3, 1985	Sep 3, 1985	DST Exploration Corp.	Upton	Shaw, Clint #1	8,414	46101672
222434	Dec 1, 1983	Dec 1, 1983	DST Exploration Corp.	Upton	Meiners, E. W. 31 #1	8,600	46102875
222433	Dec 1, 1983	Dec 1, 1983	DST Exploration Corp.	Upton	Meiners, E. W. 31 #4	8,600	46103866
105827	Jan 22, 1981	Jan 22, 1981	DST Exploration Corp.	Upton	Meiners, E W. 31 #2	8,600	46102876
105826	Jan 22, 1981	Jan 22, 1981	DST Exploration Corp.	Upton	Windham, John "B" #2	8,600	46103902
63254	Nov 8, 1979	Nov 8, 1979	DST Exploration Corp.	Upton	Windham, John "B" #1	9,100	46103986
14801	Dec 28, 1977	Dec 28, 1977	DST Exploration Corp.	Upton	Windham, John "F" #1	9,500	46101864

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/196900, documented in the API reference.