OPERATORS · RRC 216545 · P-5 STATUS Y

Desert Oil Co

EL Paso, TX

Desert Oil CO has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued November 9, 1978.

The RRC wellbore file lists 2 wells under its operatorship.

11 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1977; its P-5 organization report was last filed January 13, 1987.

0: permits, last 12 months
—: vs prior 12 months (0)
0: counties, 12 months
0: producing wells, of 2 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.

36%: spud rate · 4 of 11 mature permits
20: median days permit to spud · middle half 20–28
0: spuds, last 180 days
0%: cancelled · 0 permits
7: expired undrilled
6: permits a year over 2 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
Runnels county →	—	11	2	Nov 9, 1978

All 11 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
Palo Pinto	1	0
Saddle Creek	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

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

How it got them

1: 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 →

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	5
Other	0	0	3
Recompletion	0	0	3

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
Dorman (Goen)25465500	1	0
Norton E. (Palo Pinto Lo.)66157800	1	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed Jan 13, 1987

Address: P O Box 12585; EL Paso, TX 79912

Officers and agents: Bowen, James L. · President; Trujillo, Bertha · Vice President/Secretary/Treasur

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
36537	Nov 9, 1978	Nov 9, 1978	Desert Oil Company	Runnels	King #1	4,031	39931281
28231	Jul 3, 1978	Jul 3, 1978	Desert Oil Company	Runnels	Alexander, S. #1	3,898	39900341
18846	Feb 21, 1978	Feb 21, 1978	Desert Oil Company	Runnels	Kruse, Delbert #1	4,029	39931124
19076	Feb 16, 1978	Feb 16, 1978	Desert Oil Company	Runnels	Callison, Ruth #2	4,100	39931112
15702	Jan 6, 1978	Jan 6, 1978	Desert Oil Company	Runnels	Robinson, C. J. #2	4,850	39931088
8715	Sep 16, 1977	Sep 16, 1977	Desert Oil Company	Runnels	Alexander, S. #1	4,022	39900341
5731	Aug 9, 1977	Aug 9, 1977	Desert Oil Company	Runnels	Callison, Ruth White #1	3,990	39903547
4481	Aug 2, 1977	Aug 2, 1977	Desert Oil Company	Runnels	Templin, Walter #2-A	4,842	39930566
4477	Aug 2, 1977	Aug 2, 1977	Desert Oil Company	Runnels	Templin, Walter #3-A	4,850	39930568
4475	Aug 2, 1977	Aug 2, 1977	Desert Oil Company	Runnels	Templin, Walter #1-A	4,830	39930546
3214	Jul 18, 1977	Jul 18, 1977	Desert Oil Company	Runnels	Robinson, C.J. #1	3,948	39920077

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/216545, documented in the API reference.