OPERATORS · RRC 253470 · P-5 STATUS Y

Ernest Oil Co

Rockdale, TX

Ernest Oil CO has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued March 2, 1988.

The RRC wellbore file lists 8 wells under its operatorship.

74 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1977; its P-5 organization report was last filed January 3, 1992.

0: permits, last 12 months
—: vs prior 12 months (0)
0: counties, 12 months
0: producing wells, of 8 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.

16%: spud rate · 12 of 74 mature permits
13: median days permit to spud · middle half 3–112
0: spuds, last 180 days
0%: cancelled · 0 permits
62: expired undrilled
7: permits a year over 11 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
Lee county →	—	36	2	Feb 12, 1986
Burleson county →	—	25	0	Aug 28, 1985
Milam county →	—	13	6	Mar 2, 1988

All 74 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
Navarro	20	0
Wilcox	13	0
Midway	3	0
Austin Chalk	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

8: on the schedule
0: producing
0: shut in
0: injection
0: temp. abandoned
6: plugged

How it got them

1: permitted itself
0: acquired from others
53: 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	74

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
Minerva-Rockdale61858001	6	0
Noack Cow Herd East (Navarro)65609500	1	0
Noack Cowherd (Seg. B)65607200	1	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed Jan 3, 1992

Address: P O Box 1418; Rockdale, TX 76567

Officers and agents: Noack, Leon · Owner

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
343379	Mar 2, 1988	Mar 2, 1988	Ernest Oil Company	Milam	Herndon-Hensley #1A	2,300	33133193
337378	Oct 15, 1987	Oct 15, 1987	Ernest Oil Company	Milam	Herndon-Hensley #5	3,500	33133175
336944	Oct 9, 1987	Oct 9, 1987	Ernest Oil Company	Milam	Coffield-Hensley #4	3,500	33133173
329191	Apr 23, 1987	Apr 23, 1987	Ernest Oil Company	Milam	Herndon-Hensley #3	4,000	33133131
320278	Sep 10, 1986	Sep 10, 1986	Ernest Oil Company	Milam	Herndon-Hensley #2	3,300	33133064
297848	Feb 12, 1986	Feb 12, 1986	Ernest Oil Company	Milam	Herndon-Hensley #1	3,300	33133034
297848	Feb 12, 1986	Feb 12, 1986	Ernest Oil Company	Milam	Herndon-Hensley #1	3,300	33133034
297758	Feb 12, 1986	Feb 12, 1986	Ernest Oil Company	Lee	Wormley #1	9,000	28731910
288463	Oct 23, 1985	Oct 23, 1985	Ernest Oil Company	Lee	Parker, Ed #1	4,975	28731871
283500	Aug 28, 1985	Aug 28, 1985	Ernest Oil Company	Burleson	Tarwater #6	3,600	05132883
282761	Aug 20, 1985	Aug 20, 1985	Ernest Oil Company	Lee	Perry #2A	3,700	28731839
282720	Aug 19, 1985	Aug 19, 1985	Ernest Oil Company	Lee	Tarwater #10	3,600	28731838
276390	May 30, 1985	May 30, 1985	Ernest Oil Company	Milam	Page #1	3,800	33132881
270446	Mar 22, 1985	Mar 22, 1985	Ernest Oil Company	Burleson	Tarwater #22	3,800	05132831
249690	Aug 22, 1984	Aug 22, 1984	Ernest Oil Company	Lee	Noack #9	4,000	28731700

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/253470, documented in the API reference.