OPERATORS · RRC 292850 · P-5 STATUS Y
Gaither Petro Corp
Katy, TX
Watch this operatorGaither Petro Corp has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued December 1, 2023.
The RRC wellbore file lists 421 wells under its operatorship (71 producing, 29 shut in).
Lease reports credit it with 115K barrels of oil and 13.5K mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, down 6% on the year before.
It holds 12 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 895K barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
117 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1993; its P-5 organization report was last filed November 4, 2025.
- 0
- permits, last 12 months
- —
- vs prior 12 months (0)
- 0
- counties, 12 months
- 71
- producing wells, of 421 of record
- 197
- 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.
- 73%
- spud rate · 85 of 117 mature permits
- 27
- median days permit to spud · middle half 11–64
- 0
- spuds, last 180 days
- 1%
- cancelled · 1 permits
- 31
- expired undrilled
- 4
- permits a year over 31 active years
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brooks county → | — | 28 | 24 | Nov 15, 2017 |
| Liberty county → | — | 24 | 160 | Dec 2, 2014 |
| Brazoria county → | — | 15 | 3 | Jul 24, 2007 |
| Bee county → | — | 11 | 5 | Sep 25, 2012 |
| Harris county → | — | 10 | 104 | Oct 3, 2002 |
| Wood county → | — | 9 | 102 | Dec 1, 2014 |
| Hardin county → | — | 8 | 1 | Apr 29, 2016 |
| Colorado county → | — | 3 | 0 | Jun 3, 2005 |
| Tyler county → | — | 3 | 1 | Nov 16, 2012 |
| Chambers county → | — | 2 | 0 | Dec 1, 2023 |
| Duval county → | — | 1 | 0 | Aug 16, 2006 |
| Fort Bend county → | — | 1 | 5 | Sep 4, 2013 |
| Grimes county → | — | 1 | 0 | May 14, 1998 |
| Matagorda county → | — | 1 | 3 | Jun 9, 2017 |
All 117 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Miocene (undifferentiated) | 12 | 1 |
| Frio | 12 | 1 |
| Yegua | 7 | 0 |
| Vicksburg | 4 | 0 |
| Jackson | 3 | 0 |
| Catahoula | 2 | 0 |
| Woodbine | 2 | 0 |
| Wilcox | 2 | 0 |
| Eagle Ford | 2 | 0 |
| Sub-Clarksville | 2 | 0 |
| Caprock | 2 | 0 |
| Paluxy | 2 | 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 →
- 115K
- bbl oil, last 12 reported months
- -6%
- vs the 12 months before
- 13.5K
- mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
- 7.07M
- bbl oil since reporting began
Oil, barrels
Last 12 months 114,792 · prior 12 121,539(-6%)
Gas, mcf
Last 12 months 13,523 · prior 12 20,496(-34%)
Beyond the permit record
RRC wellbore file
Wells of record
- 421
- on the schedule
- 71
- producing
- 29
- shut in
- 3
- injection
- 4
- temp. abandoned
- 179
- plugged
How it got them
- 28
- permitted itself
- 183
- acquired from others
- 35
- 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 36
- 51.5K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 895K
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
By county
| Liberty | 6 active | 39K bbl/d |
| Harris | 3 active | 7K bbl/d |
| Wood | 2 active | 4.5K bbl/d |
| Montgomery | 1 active | 1K bbl/d |
| Brooks | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
| Brazoria | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
| Matagorda | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
| Jasper | 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 | 0 | 0 | 67 |
| Recompletion | 0 | 0 | 36 |
| Reenter | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Other | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Reclass | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hankamer (Miocene Sand)38693380 | 141 | 35 |
| Goose Creek35862001 | 101 | 34 |
| Forest Hill (Harris Sand)31941100 | 93 | 0 |
| Hankamer38693001 | 16 | 0 |
| Midway Lake61190001 | 5 | 1 |
| Mills Bennett ( E Sand)61673483 | 4 | 0 |
| Forest Hill(sub-Clarksville 1ST)31941800 | 4 | 0 |
| Mills Bennett ( D Sand)61673276 | 3 | 0 |
| Duncan Slough (Frio Cons.)26506050 | 2 | 0 |
| Mills Bennett (13-C)61673955 | 2 | 0 |
| Deckers Prairie (Wilcox 9120)23861950 | 2 | 0 |
| Cornerstone N.E. (Clodine)20652300 | 2 | 0 |
P-5 organization report
As registered with the RRC. About the P-5 →
- Registration
- Status code Y
- Last filed Nov 4, 2025
- CSGD/GCSGD/PG/PURGas gatheringOil gatheringGas operatorOil operator
- Address
- 5250 FM 2855
- Katy, TX 77493
- (281) 830-7878
- Officers and agents
- Gaither, Orville Duane II · President,ceo
- Gaither, Douglas Wayne · Vice President
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/292850, documented in the API reference.