OPERATORS · RRC 197624 · P-5 STATUS Y

Dale Oper Co

Dallas, TX

Dale Oper CO has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued October 6, 2014.

The RRC wellbore file lists 81 wells under its operatorship.

424 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1987; 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 81 of record
98: 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.

57%: spud rate · 242 of 424 mature permits
16: median days permit to spud · middle half 7–63
0: spuds, last 180 days
0%: cancelled · 1 permits
181: expired undrilled
15: permits a year over 28 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
Tarrant county →	—	114	0	Sep 28, 2006
Victoria county →	—	53	29	Oct 8, 2007
Refugio county →	—	49	1	May 1, 2002
Frio county →	—	35	5	Sep 13, 2001
Smith county →	—	26	0	Jan 13, 2004
Brazos county →	—	23	0	Oct 26, 1993
Lavaca county →	—	21	2	Jun 30, 1999
McMullen county →	—	21	10	Apr 14, 1993
Cherokee county →	—	16	0	May 17, 2005
Dallas county →	—	11	0	Mar 31, 2008
Goliad county →	—	9	0	Nov 4, 1997
Jim Wells county →	—	6	1	Feb 12, 2003
Rusk county →	—	6	0	Mar 9, 2005
Duval county →	—	4	2	Dec 21, 2000
Hockley county →	—	4	0	Oct 6, 2014
DE Witt county →	—	3	0	Oct 16, 1997
Nueces county →	—	3	1	Dec 21, 2000
Shelby county →	—	3	1	Jan 17, 2006
Atascosa county →	—	2	0	May 30, 1991
Karnes county →	—	2	0	Mar 22, 2000
LA Salle county →	—	2	2	Jan 22, 1991
Polk county →	—	2	1	Dec 5, 2001
Wharton county →	—	2	1	Sep 30, 1999
Calhoun county →	—	1	0	Jun 15, 2001
Dimmit county →	—	1	4	Jan 18, 1990
Henderson county →	—	1	0	Oct 22, 2007
Jim Hogg county →	—	1	0	Nov 9, 2001
Matagorda county →	—	1	0	Oct 30, 2003
Sabine county →	—	1	1	Oct 23, 1991
Zapata county →	—	1	1	Nov 14, 1994

All 424 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	44	0
Atoka	44	0
Austin Chalk	29	0
Olmos	23	0
Paluxy	23	0
Glen Rose	20	0
Wilcox	15	0
Frio	14	0
Marble Falls	14	0
Carrizo	11	0
Georgetown	11	0
Queen City	11	0
Buda	8	0
Travis Peak	8	0
San Miguel	7	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
565K: bbl oil since reporting began

Gas, mcf

Last 12 months 0 · prior 12 193(-100%)

Oil, barrels

Last 12 months 0 · prior 12 1(-100%)

Beyond the permit record

RRC wellbore file

Wells of record

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

How it got them

48: permitted itself
28: acquired from others
131: 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 4
0: permitted bbl/day, active
0: bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025: reported through

By county

Brazos	0 active	0 bbl/d
Stephens	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	402
Recompletion	0	0	20
Other	0	0	1
Field transfer	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
Johnstone (Middle Frio)47065250	16	0
Pearsall (Austin Chalk)69981125	8	0
Johnstone (Lower Frio)47065240	7	0
Wheeler-Mag (Huff)96775380	6	0
Walker-Davis (Marble Falls)94762830	4	0
Walker-Davis (Duffer Lime)94762498	3	0
Moon (Duffer Lime)62691250	3	0
Big Wells (San Miguel)8072500	2	0
Stephens County Regular85948001	2	0
Giddings (Austin Chalk Gas)34773550	2	0
Stephens County Regular (Gas)85948100	2	0
Double a Wells (Woodbine)25645100	1	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed Nov 4, 2025

Address: 110 Manufacturing Street; Dallas, TX 75207; (940) 642-6602

Officers and agents: Capital Corporate Services Co. · Texas Resident Agent; Dale, Lawrence B. · Founder/Chairman; Miller, Cody L. · Ceo/General Counsel; Abney, Stephen T. · President,ceo; Urbanic, Matthew T · Vice President,controller

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
796952	Oct 6, 2014	Oct 6, 2014	Dale Operating Company	Hockley	Deloache #2HH	5,000	21937346
796952	Oct 6, 2014	Oct 6, 2014	Dale Operating Company	Hockley	Deloache #2HH	5,000	21937346
796952	Oct 6, 2014	Oct 6, 2014	Dale Operating Company	Hockley	Deloache #2HH	5,000	21937346
770336	Sep 24, 2013	Sep 24, 2013	Dale Operating Company	Hockley	Deloache #1HH	5,000	21937298
728512	Nov 23, 2011	Nov 23, 2011	T-N-T Engineering, Inc.	Stephens	Walker-Hallwood A #2	4,400	42936715
657669	Mar 31, 2008	Mar 31, 2008	Dale Operating Company	Dallas	Staphs J. V. #1HH	10,000	11330138
657668	Mar 31, 2008	Mar 31, 2008	Dale Operating Company	Dallas	Hardrock Properties, Ltd. #1HH	10,000	11330137
656050	Mar 5, 2008	Mar 5, 2008	Dale Operating Company	Dallas	M Enterprises #1HH	10,000	11330135
652104	Jan 4, 2008	Jan 4, 2008	Dale Operating Company	Dallas	Equitable #1HH	10,000	11330131
652104	Jan 4, 2008	Jan 4, 2008	Dale Operating Company	Dallas	Equitable #1HH	10,000	11330131
650472	Dec 8, 2007	Dec 8, 2007	Dale Operating Company	Dallas	Sadeghian #1HH	8,730	11330129
648051	Oct 22, 2007	Oct 22, 2007	Dale Operating Company	Henderson	Nelson #1	12,000	21330937
647182	Oct 8, 2007	Oct 8, 2007	Dale Operating Company	Victoria	New, J.K. Estate "A" #11	5,700	46933334
647182	Oct 8, 2007	Oct 8, 2007	Dale Operating Company	Victoria	New, J.K. Estate "A" #11	5,700	46933334
647181	Oct 8, 2007	Oct 8, 2007	Dale Operating Company	Victoria	New, J.K. Estate #12	5,650	46933507

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/197624, documented in the API reference.