OPERATORS · RRC 250120 · P-5 STATUS Y

Elms Oil Co

Kilgore, TX

Elms Oil CO has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued April 10, 2024.

The RRC wellbore file lists 467 wells under its operatorship (110 producing, 117 shut in).

Lease reports credit it with 18.2K barrels of oil and 13.7K mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, down 3% on the year before.

It holds 12 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 1.94M barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

1 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 2024; its P-5 organization report was last filed August 4, 2025.

0: permits, last 12 months
—: vs prior 12 months (0)
0: counties, 12 months
110: producing wells, of 467 of record
70: leases it reports
—: horizontal, 12 months

WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026

Permits issued by month

LAST 1 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 1

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
Cherokee county →	—	1	1	Apr 10, 2024

All 1 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
No completion tops on file.

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 →

18.2K: bbl oil, last 12 reported months
-3%: vs the 12 months before
13.7K: mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
61.5K: bbl oil since reporting began

Oil, barrels

Last 12 months 18,202 · prior 12 18,825(-3%)

Gas, mcf

Last 12 months 13,724 · prior 12 14,402(-5%)

Beyond the permit record

RRC wellbore file

Wells of record

467: on the schedule
110: producing
117: shut in
1: injection
3: temp. abandoned
154: plugged

How it got them

1: permitted itself
51: acquired from others
0: 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

12: active UIC permits of 12
19.5K: permitted bbl/day, active
1.94M: bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025: reported through

By county

Rusk

12 active

19.5K 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
Reclass	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
East Texas27302001	417	98
Nacogdoches64296001	32	0
White Oak (Cotton Valley Sand)96969150	3	1
Bethany (Blossom)7527062	2	2
Bethany (Nacatosh)7527310	2	2
Overton (Cotton Valley Sand)67849150	2	1
Shea (Rodessa)82815500	2	1
Bethany (Pettit)7527403	1	1
Overton E. (Travis Peak)67850500	1	0
Overton NE (Pettit)67852500	1	0
Percy Wheeler (Travis Peak)70577500	1	1
Willow Springs (Pettit)97752332	1	1

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed Aug 4, 2025; Gas operatorOil operator

Address: PO Box 921; Kilgore, TX 75663; (903) 841-8402

Officers and agents: Elms, Chip Steven · Sole Proprietor,other; Rolph, Charla · Filing Agent; Warnick, Pamela · Filing Agent; Wolf, Karen · Filing Agent; Sipes, Terri · Filing Agent; McAlister, Robin · Filing Agent

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
898293	Apr 10, 2024	Apr 10, 2024	Elms Oil Company	Cherokee	Armstrong #1	9,568	07330569
608809	Nov 1, 2005	Nov 1, 2005	Chesapeake Operating, Inc.	Smith	Overton Gas Unit #16 #4	13,000	42332032
608808	Nov 1, 2005	Nov 1, 2005	Chesapeake Operating, Inc.	Smith	Overton Gas Unit #16 #3	13,000	42332031
558804	Mar 14, 2005	Mar 14, 2005	Chevron U. S. A. Inc.	Gregg	Tooke, A. #21	12,500	18331283
519025	Apr 16, 2002	Apr 16, 2002	Endurance Oil & Gas, Inc.	Panola	Brumble, G. W. #1	2,100	36534834
489549	Nov 24, 1999	Nov 24, 1999	Endurance Oil & Gas, Inc.	Panola	Adams, T. C. #2	1,100	36534279
489548	Nov 24, 1999	Nov 24, 1999	Endurance Oil & Gas, Inc.	Panola	Adams, T. C. #1	1,100	36534277
460494	Mar 31, 1997	Mar 31, 1997	Texaco E & P Inc.	Gregg	Tooke, A. #21	12,500	18331283
430596	Feb 24, 1995	Feb 24, 1995	Chinn Exploration Company	Upshur	South Loden #2	11,500	45930773
428109	Sep 20, 1994	Sep 20, 1994	CNS Energy, Inc.	Upshur	Richardson, J.D. #1	11,300	45930762
428109	Sep 20, 1994	Sep 20, 1994	Chinn Exploration Company	Upshur	Richardson #1	12,000	45930762
426617	Aug 12, 1994	Aug 12, 1994	Chinn Exploration Company	Gregg	South Loden #1	11,200	18331118
404396	Oct 12, 1992	Oct 12, 1992	R & C Petroleum, Inc.	Smith	Turner #1	9,000	42331387
404396	Oct 12, 1992	Oct 12, 1992	R & C Petroleum, Inc.	Smith	Turner #1	9,000	42331387
393049	Oct 21, 1991	Oct 21, 1991	R & C Petroleum, Inc.	Smith	Roberson #1	9,000	42331347

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/250120, documented in the API reference.