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OPERATORS · RRC 19779  · P-5 STATUS Y

Ames Oil

Cross Plains, TX

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Ames Oil has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued August 25, 2020.

The RRC wellbore file lists 16 wells under its operatorship (7 producing).

Lease reports credit it with 4.67K barrels of oil and 0 mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, down 3% on the year before.

It holds 1 active disposal or injection permit, injecting 200K barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

21 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1985; its P-5 organization report was last filed December 4, 2025.

0
permits, last 12 months
—
vs prior 12 months (0)
0
counties, 12 months
7
producing wells, of 16 of record
15
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.

67%
spud rate · 14 of 21 mature permits
56
median days permit to spud · middle half 19–119
0
spuds, last 180 days
0%
cancelled · 0 permits
7
expired undrilled
1
permits a year over 36 active years

Where

Counties by permits in the last 12 months, with all-time permits and current wells of record there.

County12 moAll timeWellsLast
Brown county →—1711Aug 25, 2020
Callahan county →—20Jul 29, 1985
Eastland county →—25Jun 22, 2001

All 21 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 →

FormationWellsPermitted last 3 yrs
Caddo60
Ellenburger40
Marble Falls30
Tannehill20
Duffer10

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 →

4.67K
bbl oil, last 12 reported months
-3%
vs the 12 months before
0
mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
210K
bbl oil since reporting began

Oil, barrels

Last 12 months 4,672 · prior 12 4,830(-3%)

0200400600202420252026

Beyond the permit record

RRC wellbore file

Wells of record

16
on the schedule
7
producing
0
shut in
1
injection
0
temp. abandoned
7
plugged

How it got them

7
permitted itself
7
acquired from others
13
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

1
active UIC permits of 4
1.5K
permitted bbl/day, active
200K
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025
reported through

By county

Eastland1 active1.5K bbl/d
Brown0 active0 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 →

Type12 moPrior 12All time
Drill0011
Recompletion006
Reenter004

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.

FieldWellsProducing
Eastland County Regular2735800154
Brown County Regular1240600143
Blind Hog (Cross Cut)888025030
Grimm (Ellenburger)3702355020
Lil Audrey (Comyn)5356550010
Mary Angela (Cross Cut)5787550010

P-5 organization report

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

Registration
Status code Y
Last filed Dec 4, 2025
Oil operator
Address
PO Box 412
Cross Plains, TX 76443
(325) 668-4157
Officers and agents
Ames, Thomas Sloat · Partner
Ames, Thomas G · Partner
Ames, James Michael · Partner

Latest permits

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

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorCountyLease / wellDepthAPI
864761Aug 25, 2020Aug 25, 2020Ames OilBrownMcClure #23,50004936188
863228Apr 6, 2020Apr 6, 2020Ames OilBrownMcClure #13,50004936187
822558Feb 8, 2017Feb 8, 2017Ames OilBrownLow Estate #13,50004936178
808231Jul 13, 2015Jul 13, 2015Ames OilBrownHickman #34,00004936175
772715Nov 8, 2013Nov 8, 2013Ames OilBrownHickman #24,00004936139
754589Jan 23, 2013Jan 23, 2013Ames OilBrownSteel 'F' #221,50004936121
665355Jul 17, 2008Jul 17, 2008Ames OilBrownJones, Gary #33,45304934859
645751Oct 19, 2007Oct 19, 2007Ames OilBrownJoe Brown #11,99904931877
645751Oct 19, 2007Oct 19, 2007Ames OilBrownJoe Brown #13,50004931877
619162May 18, 2006May 18, 2006Ames OilBrownSteel "F" #20EG72504935118
613859Feb 15, 2006Feb 15, 2006Ames OilBrownJones, Gary #170004931869
613856Feb 15, 2006Feb 15, 2006Ames OilBrownSteel "F" #8F70704935135
603255Jul 12, 2005Jul 12, 2005Ames OilBrownSteele "F" #4F1,28004935122
561183May 23, 2005May 23, 2005Ames OilBrownHickman #12,00004935823
558050Feb 24, 2005Feb 24, 2005Ames OilBrownSteel "F" #10F1,18504935331

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/19779, documented in the API reference.