OPERATORS · RRC 356450 · P-5 STATUS Y

Harding Expl, Inc

Wichita Falls, TX

Harding Expl, Inc has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued April 1, 2014.

The RRC wellbore file lists 23 wells under its operatorship.

27 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1984; its P-5 organization report was last filed July 7, 2017.

0: permits, last 12 months
—: vs prior 12 months (0)
0: counties, 12 months
0: producing wells, of 23 of record
5: 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.

67%: spud rate · 18 of 27 mature permits
11: median days permit to spud · middle half 6–17
0: spuds, last 180 days
0%: cancelled · 0 permits
9: expired undrilled
1: permits a year over 30 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
Clay county →	—	16	21	Apr 1, 2014
Wilbarger county →	—	5	2	Jul 27, 1993
Young county →	—	3	0	Dec 27, 2005
Baylor county →	—	2	0	May 6, 1991
Hardeman county →	—	1	0	Aug 30, 1984

All 27 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
Cisco	3	0
Strawn	2	0
Mississippian	1	0
Ellenburger	1	0
Bryson	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
10.2K: 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

23: on the schedule
0: producing
0: shut in
0: injection
0: temp. abandoned
21: plugged

How it got them

3: permitted itself
8: acquired from others
14: 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

0: active UIC permits of 2
0: permitted bbl/day, active
0: bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025: reported through

By county

Clay

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	23
Reenter	0	0	2
Other	0	0	1
Recompletion	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
Clay County Regular18707001	20	0
King North (1600 Sand)49399500	1	0
Poulsen (Strawn)72735500	1	0
Wilbarger County Regular97331001	1	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed Jul 7, 2017

Address: P O Box 4014; Wichita Falls, TX 76308; (940) 692-1000

Officers and agents: Harding, Andy · Texas Resident Agent; Harding, Andy · President; Payne, Mary Neale · Secretary/Treasurer

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
781086	Apr 1, 2014	Apr 1, 2014	Harding Exploration, Inc.	Clay	Halsell #2	6,200	07735209
772468	Nov 14, 2013	Nov 14, 2013	Harding Exploration, Inc.	Clay	Halsell #1	6,000	07735201
754102	Jan 11, 2013	Jan 11, 2013	Harding Exploration, Inc.	Clay	Russell #6	4,800	07735183
754099	Jan 11, 2013	Jan 11, 2013	Harding Exploration, Inc.	Clay	Russell #7	1,800	07735182
698833	Jul 14, 2010	Jul 14, 2010	Harding Exploration, Inc.	Clay	Texaco #1	6,000	07735092
693504	May 11, 2010	May 11, 2010	Harding Exploration, Inc.	Clay	Ferguson #3	4,600	07735086
685763	Oct 15, 2009	Oct 15, 2009	Harding Exploration, Inc.	Clay	Ferguson #2	4,600	07735075
681893	Jun 10, 2009	Jun 10, 2009	Harding Exploration, Inc.	Clay	Ferguson #1	4,600	07735068
609547	Dec 27, 2005	Dec 27, 2005	Harding Exploration, Inc.	Young	Daws, Jim Bob 750 #1	4,950	50335838
609547	Dec 27, 2005	Dec 27, 2005	Harding Exploration, Inc.	Young	Daws, Jim Bob 750 #1	4,950	50335838
446801	Apr 15, 1996	Apr 15, 1996	Harding Exploration, Inc.	Clay	Panhandle "A" #19P	1,000	07734692
414184	Jul 27, 1993	Jul 27, 1993	Harding Exploration, Inc.	Wilbarger	Jackson #6	1,999	48732194
399337	May 26, 1992	May 26, 1992	Felty, F. T. Operating Company	Clay	Hamilton #13	1,500	07780614
399338	May 25, 1992	May 25, 1992	Felty, F. T. Operating Company	Clay	Hamilton #5	1,500	07780607
394956	Dec 11, 1991	Dec 11, 1991	Harding Exploration, Inc.	Wilbarger	Jackson Brothers #1 JB	1,999	48732228

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/356450, documented in the API reference.