OPERATORS · RRC 220865 · P-5 STATUS Y
Discovery Oper, Inc
Midland, TX · most active in Midland County
Watch this operatorDiscovery Oper, Inc was issued 18 drilling permits in the past 12 months, versus 7 in the prior year, across 2 counties led by Midland with 11. 100% were horizontal.
None were issued in the past 90 days.
The RRC wellbore file lists 539 wells under its operatorship (223 producing, 57 shut in).
Lease reports credit it with 5.15M barrels of oil and 15.4M mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, up 2% on the year before.
It holds 8 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 3.82M barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
712 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1977; its P-5 organization report was last filed December 4, 2025.
- 18
- permits, last 12 months
- +157%
- vs prior 12 months (7)
- 2
- counties, 12 months
- 223
- producing wells, of 539 of record
- 316
- leases it reports
- 100%
- 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.
- 78%
- spud rate · 543 of 694 mature permits
- 23
- median days permit to spud · middle half 13–52
- 4
- spuds, last 180 days
- 0%
- cancelled · 1 permits
- 164
- expired undrilled
- 15
- permits a year over 49 active years
Permits issued by month
LAST 16 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 62
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midland county → | 11 | 329 | 232 | Jul 20, 2026 |
| Upton county → | 7 | 93 | 56 | Jun 16, 2026 |
| Schleicher county → | — | 117 | 98 | Jun 5, 2025 |
| Andrews county → | — | 47 | 38 | Oct 1, 2013 |
| Martin county → | — | 31 | 31 | Oct 19, 2011 |
| Reagan county → | — | 16 | 12 | Jan 29, 2014 |
| Winkler county → | — | 10 | 5 | May 17, 2005 |
| Dawson county → | — | 8 | 4 | Dec 5, 2013 |
| Howard county → | — | 8 | 4 | Dec 1, 2011 |
| Hansford county → | — | 5 | 20 | Mar 6, 1997 |
| Lipscomb county → | — | 5 | 1 | Oct 18, 2011 |
| Pecos county → | — | 5 | 5 | May 19, 2007 |
| Hockley county → | — | 4 | 1 | Apr 25, 2000 |
| McCulloch county → | — | 4 | 3 | Dec 18, 2020 |
| Reeves county → | — | 4 | 3 | Mar 8, 2014 |
| Coleman county → | — | 3 | 5 | Oct 5, 1984 |
| Menard county → | — | 3 | 1 | Jul 19, 2016 |
| Scurry county → | — | 3 | 2 | Mar 12, 2024 |
| Garza county → | — | 2 | 1 | Jan 19, 2023 |
| Glasscock county → | — | 2 | 1 | Sep 10, 2004 |
| Irion county → | — | 2 | 2 | Oct 9, 1992 |
| Moore county → | — | 2 | 2 | Aug 8, 2002 |
| Runnels county → | — | 2 | 1 | Dec 4, 1985 |
| Sherman county → | — | 2 | 3 | Apr 21, 2004 |
| Tom Green county → | — | 2 | 0 | Apr 5, 2005 |
| Coke county → | — | 1 | 0 | Dec 3, 1979 |
| Kent county → | — | 1 | 0 | Nov 15, 1982 |
| Mitchell county → | — | 1 | 0 | Mar 9, 2005 |
All 712 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 | 314 | 16 |
| Wolfcamp | 232 | 4 |
| San Andres | 151 | 17 |
| Clear Fork | 136 | 14 |
| Glorieta | 109 | 15 |
| Seven Rivers | 107 | 14 |
| Queen | 107 | 14 |
| Yates | 95 | 16 |
| Grayburg | 77 | 15 |
| Dean | 66 | 1 |
| Canyon | 60 | 1 |
| Santa Rosa | 42 | 14 |
| Wichita-Albany | 37 | 0 |
| Rustler | 33 | 14 |
| Ellenburger | 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 →
- 5.15M
- bbl oil, last 12 reported months
- +2%
- vs the 12 months before
- 15.4M
- mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
- 41.5M
- bbl oil since reporting began
Oil, barrels
Last 12 months 5,147,063 · prior 12 5,022,715(+2%)
Gas, mcf
Last 12 months 15,448,146 · prior 12 13,790,055(+12%)
Beyond the permit record
RRC wellbore file
Wells of record
- 539
- on the schedule
- 223
- producing
- 57
- shut in
- 4
- injection
- 2
- temp. abandoned
- 199
- plugged
How it got them
- 467
- permitted itself
- 27
- acquired from others
- 51
- 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
- 8
- active UIC permits of 18
- 100K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 3.82M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
By county
| Midland | 5 active | 92K bbl/d |
| Andrews | 2 active | 4K bbl/d |
| Martin | 1 active | 4K bbl/d |
| Reagan | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
| Dawson | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
| Irion | 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 | 18 | 6 | 654 |
| Recompletion | 0 | 1 | 47 |
| Other | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Reenter | 0 | 0 | 4 |
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)85280300 | 319 | 150 |
| W.O.D. (Canyon)94353500 | 21 | 14 |
| Martin (Consolidated)57774275 | 20 | 16 |
| Ackerly (Dean Sand)448200 | 11 | 4 |
| Twin (Des Moines)92038444 | 11 | 0 |
| Block 11 (Wichita LO)9230852 | 10 | 0 |
| Velrex (Canyon Sand)93410142 | 8 | 4 |
| Cody Bell (Canyon)19303180 | 7 | 3 |
| Gustav (Canyon)37505200 | 7 | 4 |
| Velrex (Henderson Upper)93410710 | 7 | 1 |
| Wildcat24001 | 6 | 0 |
| Hartley Hugoton(krider Dolomite)39480500 | 5 | 0 |
P-5 organization report
As registered with the RRC. About the P-5 →
- Registration
- Status code Y
- Last filed Dec 4, 2025
- Gas gatheringGas operatorOil operator
- Address
- 2600 Mockingbird Lane
- Midland, TX 79705
- (432) 683-5203
- Officers and agents
- Sparks, Kevin D. · Ceo
- Sparks, William Jerrod · Vice President,of Business Devel
- Sparks, William Jeffrey · President
- Sparks, Christopher Todd · Cfo
Latest permits
NEWEST FIRST BY ISSUE DATE · FILED OR ON WELLS IT NOW OPERATES
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/220865, documented in the API reference.