OPERATORS · RRC 258410 · P-5 STATUS Y
Fair Oil, Ltd
Tyler, TX · most active in Franklin County
Watch this operatorFair Oil, Ltd was issued 4 drilling permits in the past 12 months, versus 1 in the prior year, across 2 counties led by Franklin with 3. 0% were horizontal.
1 was issued in the past 90 days, after a quiet prior quarter.
The RRC wellbore file lists 54 wells under its operatorship (8 producing).
Lease reports credit it with 36.6K barrels of oil and 22.2K mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, down 24% on the year before.
It holds 4 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 1.39M barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
92 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1977; its P-5 organization report was last filed August 4, 2025.
- 4
- permits, last 12 months
- +300%
- vs prior 12 months (1)
- 2
- counties, 12 months
- 8
- producing wells, of 54 of record
- 74
- leases it reports
- 0%
- 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.
- 71%
- spud rate · 65 of 91 mature permits
- 35
- median days permit to spud · middle half 16–65
- 0
- spuds, last 180 days
- 1%
- cancelled · 1 permits
- 26
- expired undrilled
- 2
- permits a year over 50 active years
Permits issued by month
LAST 9 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 12
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin county → | 3 | 13 | 7 | Apr 23, 2026 |
| Wood county → | 1 | 23 | 12 | Aug 13, 2026 |
| Frio county → | — | 20 | 3 | May 30, 2008 |
| Marion county → | — | 8 | 9 | Sep 8, 2006 |
| Cherokee county → | — | 7 | 3 | Apr 21, 2022 |
| Nacogdoches county → | — | 7 | 12 | Aug 2, 2007 |
| Smith county → | — | 3 | 4 | Jul 8, 2015 |
| Anderson county → | — | 2 | 1 | Mar 30, 2022 |
| Panola county → | — | 2 | 0 | Sep 13, 2001 |
| Archer county → | — | 1 | 1 | May 13, 2022 |
| Camp county → | — | 1 | 0 | Feb 5, 1979 |
| Garza county → | — | 1 | 0 | Dec 8, 1999 |
| Harrison county → | — | 1 | 0 | Aug 27, 2003 |
| Henderson county → | — | 1 | 0 | Oct 5, 1978 |
| Hopkins county → | — | 1 | 0 | Oct 23, 2017 |
| Van Zandt county → | — | 1 | 0 | Apr 25, 2017 |
All 92 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Travis Peak | 15 | 3 |
| Pettit | 14 | 3 |
| Rodessa | 11 | 2 |
| Woodbine | 9 | 2 |
| Paluxy | 9 | 2 |
| Austin Chalk | 8 | 1 |
| Sub-Clarksville | 5 | 1 |
| Massive Anhydrite (marker) | 5 | 0 |
| Goodland | 5 | 1 |
| Pecan Gap | 5 | 0 |
| Blossom | 3 | 1 |
| Glen Rose | 2 | 0 |
| Buda | 1 | 0 |
| BMA | 1 | 0 |
| Gunsight | 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 →
- 36.6K
- bbl oil, last 12 reported months
- -24%
- vs the 12 months before
- 22.2K
- mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
- 1.82M
- bbl oil since reporting began
Oil, barrels
Last 12 months 36,642 · prior 12 47,926(-24%)
Gas, mcf
Last 12 months 22,199 · prior 12 29,523(-25%)
Beyond the permit record
RRC wellbore file
Wells of record
- 54
- on the schedule
- 8
- producing
- 0
- shut in
- 1
- injection
- 0
- temp. abandoned
- 35
- plugged
How it got them
- 23
- permitted itself
- 17
- acquired from others
- 31
- 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
- 4
- active UIC permits of 10
- 9.5K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 1.39M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
By county
| Wood | 2 active | 6K bbl/d |
| Cherokee | 1 active | 2.5K bbl/d |
| Franklin | 1 active | 1K bbl/d |
| Marion | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recompletion | 4 | 1 | 24 |
| Drill | 0 | 0 | 62 |
| Reenter | 0 | 0 | 6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Douglass W. (Travis Peak)25864471 | 7 | 2 |
| Mt. Vernon (Travis Peak)63452777 | 4 | 0 |
| Merigale-Paul (Paluxy)60652010 | 4 | 2 |
| Pearsall (Austin Chalk)69981125 | 3 | 0 |
| Green Fox (Pettit 6200)36663608 | 3 | 0 |
| Mt. Vernon (Pettit)63452333 | 3 | 0 |
| Douglass SW. (Pettit Upper)25863500 | 3 | 0 |
| Green Fox (Travis Peak-Braden36663760 | 2 | 0 |
| Green Fox (Smith)36663684 | 2 | 0 |
| Manziel57255001 | 2 | 0 |
| Manziel SE. (Travis Peak)57260700 | 2 | 0 |
| Fender (Rodessa Upper)30605500 | 1 | 0 |
P-5 organization report
As registered with the RRC. About the P-5 →
- Registration
- Status code Y
- Last filed Aug 4, 2025
- G/PURGas operatorOil operator
- Address
- P O Box 689
- Tyler, TX 75710
- (888) 648-9818
- Officers and agents
- Fair Oil Company of Texas · General Partner
- Garrett, John R. · Manager,president
- Hills, John D · Vice President
- Hollenshead, Cassie · Vice President
Latest permits
NEWEST FIRST BY ISSUE DATE · FILED OR ON WELLS IT NOW OPERATES
| Permit | Seen | Issued | Operator | County | Lease / well | Depth | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 917790 | Aug 15, 2026 | Aug 13, 2026 | Fair Oil, Ltd. | Wood | McAllister #1 | 8,415 | 49931547 |
| 915015 | Apr 23, 2026 | Apr 23, 2026 | Fair Oil, Ltd. | Franklin | Mary Ida Stone #1 | 7,262 | 15930594 |
| 915000 | Apr 23, 2026 | Apr 23, 2026 | Fair Oil, Ltd. | Franklin | L. D. Stewart #2 | 7,250 | 15930629 |
| 914563 | Apr 6, 2026 | Apr 6, 2026 | Fair Oil, Ltd. | Franklin | Stewart-Brody, et AL #1 | 7,250 | 15930592 |
| 905394 | Jan 27, 2025 | Jan 27, 2025 | Fair Oil, Ltd. | Franklin | M Hernandez #2 | 7,283 | 15930567 |
| 894042 | Sep 27, 2023 | Sep 27, 2023 | Fair Oil, Ltd. | Franklin | Ripley Creek #1 | 7,400 | 15930644 |
| 886295 | Dec 22, 2022 | Dec 22, 2022 | Fair Oil, Ltd. | Wood | Bagby Heirs #1 | 7,800 | 49931414 |
| 885677 | Nov 21, 2022 | Nov 21, 2022 | Fair Oil, Ltd. | Franklin | Hernandez #1 | 7,500 | 15930558 |
| 885529 | Nov 8, 2022 | Nov 8, 2022 | Fair Oil, Ltd. | Franklin | Hernandez #2 | 7,283 | 15930567 |
| 879629 | May 13, 2022 | May 13, 2022 | Fair Oil, Ltd. | Archer | B Lindemann #1 | 4,100 | 00943297 |
| 878161 | Apr 21, 2022 | Apr 21, 2022 | Fair Oil, Ltd. | Cherokee | Persevere #1 | 5,700 | 07331585 |
| 878385 | Mar 30, 2022 | Mar 30, 2022 | Fair Oil, Ltd. | Anderson | Boy Howdy #1 R | 5,600 | 00132825 |
| 869944 | May 20, 2021 | May 20, 2021 | Fair Oil, Ltd. | Anderson | Boy Howdy #1 | 5,600 | 00132807 |
| 859775 | Dec 16, 2019 | Dec 16, 2019 | Fair Oil, Ltd. | Cherokee | Taf Mineral Trust #1 | 5,350 | 07331505 |
| 858157 | Oct 28, 2019 | Oct 28, 2019 | Fair Oil, Ltd. | Cherokee | Taf Mineral Trust #2 | 5,000 | 07331513 |
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/258410, documented in the API reference.