OPERATORS · RRC 196936 · P-5 STATUS Y
Daco Oper, LLC
Lubbock, TX
Watch this operatorDaco Oper, LLC has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued March 16, 2023.
The RRC wellbore file lists 4 wells under its operatorship.
It holds 4 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 4.24M barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
10 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 2013; its P-5 organization report was last filed November 4, 2025.
- 0
- permits, last 12 months
- —
- vs prior 12 months (0)
- 0
- counties, 12 months
- 0
- producing wells, of 4 of record
- 3
- leases it reports
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- 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.
- 90%
- spud rate · 9 of 10 mature permits
- 34
- median days permit to spud · middle half 22–136
- 0
- spuds, last 180 days
- 0%
- cancelled · 0 permits
- 1
- expired undrilled
- 1
- permits a year over 10 active years
Permits issued by month
LAST 1 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 2
Where
Counties by permits in the last 12 months, with all-time permits and current wells of record there.
All 10 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bell Canyon | 6 | 0 |
| Delaware | 6 | 0 |
| Cherry Canyon | 6 | 0 |
| Brushy Canyon | 5 | 0 |
| Red Bluff | 5 | 0 |
| Wolfcamp | 3 | 0 |
| Pennsylvanian | 3 | 0 |
| Bone Spring | 3 | 0 |
| Strawn | 2 | 0 |
| Atoka | 2 | 0 |
| Mississippian | 1 | 0 |
| Devonian | 1 | 0 |
| Fusselman | 1 | 0 |
| Ellenburger | 1 | 0 |
| Permian (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 →
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- bbl oil, last 12 reported months
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- 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
- 4
- injection
- 0
- temp. abandoned
- 0
- plugged
How it got them
- 4
- permitted itself
- 0
- 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 →
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 4
- active UIC permits of 12
- 125K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 4.24M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
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 | 10 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Battleaxe (Delaware)6157500 | 3 | 0 |
| Balmorhea Ranch (Cherry Canyon)5348200 | 1 | 0 |
P-5 organization report
As registered with the RRC. About the P-5 →
- Registration
- Status code Y
- Last filed Nov 4, 2025
- Oil operator
- Address
- PO Box 64442
- Lubbock, TX 79464
- (806) 863-3280
- Officers and agents
- Cowan, David · Managing Member
- Cowan, Kendall · Managing Member
Latest permits
NEWEST FIRST BY ISSUE DATE · FILED OR ON WELLS IT NOW OPERATES
| Permit | Seen | Issued | Operator | County | Lease / well | Depth | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 888990 | Mar 16, 2023 | Mar 16, 2023 | Daco Operating, LLC | Loving | Stateline SWD #5 | 6,600 | 30136318 |
| 888992 | Mar 15, 2023 | Mar 15, 2023 | Daco Operating, LLC | Reeves | EL Diablo SWD #2 | 7,850 | 38940516 |
| 843441 | Dec 31, 2018 | Dec 31, 2018 | Daco Operating, LLC | Loving | North Loving SWD #1 | 7,600 | 30134127 |
| 825925 | May 2, 2017 | May 2, 2017 | Daco Operating, LLC | Loving | Stateline SWD #3 | 7,450 | 30133338 |
| 824388 | Mar 20, 2017 | Mar 20, 2017 | Daco Operating, LLC | Loving | Challenger Fortress SWD #3 | 7,850 | 30133280 |
| 822226 | Jan 27, 2017 | Jan 27, 2017 | Daco Operating, LLC | Loving | Challenger Fortress SWD #4 | 7,850 | 30133186 |
| 818207 | Sep 8, 2016 | Sep 8, 2016 | Daco Operating, LLC | Loving | Challenger Fortress SWD #1 | 8,000 | 30132997 |
| 807317 | Jun 9, 2015 | Jun 9, 2015 | Daco Operating, LLC | Loving | Stateline SWD #2 | 7,450 | 30132626 |
| 778023 | Sep 29, 2014 | Sep 29, 2014 | Daco Operating, LLC | Reeves | EL Diablo SWD #1 | 7,000 | 38934128 |
| 760909 | Apr 19, 2013 | Apr 19, 2013 | Daco Operating, LLC | Loving | Stateline SWD #1 | 6,000 | 30131952 |
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/196936, documented in the API reference.