OPERATORS · RRC 36931 · P-5 STATUS Y
Aurora Res Corp
Corpus Christ, TX · most active in Live Oak County
Watch this operatorAurora Res Corp was issued 6 drilling permits in the past 12 months, versus 4 in the prior year, across 3 counties led by Live Oak with 4. 0% were horizontal.
None were issued in the past 90 days.
The RRC wellbore file lists 170 wells under its operatorship (25 producing, 14 shut in).
Lease reports credit it with 99.6K barrels of oil and 37.2K mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, up 17% on the year before.
It holds 15 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 9.74M barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
223 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1998; its P-5 organization report was last filed January 4, 2026.
- 6
- permits, last 12 months
- +50%
- vs prior 12 months (4)
- 3
- counties, 12 months
- 25
- producing wells, of 170 of record
- 97
- 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.
- 73%
- spud rate · 160 of 220 mature permits
- 29
- median days permit to spud · middle half 9–57
- 0
- spuds, last 180 days -100%
- 0%
- cancelled · 0 permits
- 63
- expired undrilled
- 8
- permits a year over 28 active years
Permits issued by month
LAST 16 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 16
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live Oak county → | 4 | 27 | 14 | Jun 26, 2026 |
| Duval county → | 1 | 68 | 92 | Nov 17, 2025 |
| San Patricio county → | 1 | 4 | 1 | Jul 20, 2026 |
| Colorado county → | — | 32 | 6 | Feb 17, 2017 |
| McMullen county → | — | 30 | 9 | May 22, 2019 |
| Bee county → | — | 20 | 24 | Aug 19, 2021 |
| Wharton county → | — | 11 | 1 | Jan 26, 2010 |
| Jackson county → | — | 9 | 1 | Dec 3, 2015 |
| Victoria county → | — | 7 | 8 | May 1, 2025 |
| Goliad county → | — | 5 | 4 | Nov 3, 2008 |
| Refugio county → | — | 4 | 2 | Sep 11, 2014 |
| Calhoun county → | — | 2 | 4 | Sep 7, 2007 |
| Lavaca county → | — | 2 | 2 | Jul 28, 2005 |
| Brooks county → | — | 1 | 0 | Dec 13, 2021 |
| Jim Wells county → | — | 1 | 1 | Aug 17, 1998 |
All 223 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jackson | 27 | 2 |
| Frio | 26 | 5 |
| Olmos | 14 | 0 |
| Wilcox | 14 | 1 |
| Miocene (undifferentiated) | 12 | 1 |
| Catahoula | 10 | 2 |
| Yegua | 9 | 0 |
| Carrizo | 7 | 0 |
| Vicksburg | 7 | 0 |
| Queen City | 5 | 1 |
| Eagle Ford | 3 | 0 |
| Greta | 3 | 0 |
| Cook Mountain | 2 | 1 |
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 →
- 99.6K
- bbl oil, last 12 reported months
- +17%
- vs the 12 months before
- 37.2K
- mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
- 2.78M
- bbl oil since reporting began
Oil, barrels
Last 12 months 99,558 · prior 12 85,085(+17%)
Gas, mcf
Last 12 months 37,186 · prior 12 41,980(-11%)
Beyond the permit record
RRC wellbore file
Wells of record
- 170
- on the schedule
- 25
- producing
- 14
- shut in
- 12
- injection
- 1
- temp. abandoned
- 95
- plugged
How it got them
- 76
- permitted itself
- 27
- acquired from others
- 55
- 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
- 15
- active UIC permits of 35
- 171K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 9.74M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
By county
| Duval | 11 active | 142K bbl/d |
| Bee | 3 active | 27K bbl/d |
| Live Oak | 1 active | 2K bbl/d |
| Victoria | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
| Wharton | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
| DE Witt | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
| Goliad | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
| Jim Wells | 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 | 4 | 3 | 195 |
| Reenter | 2 | 1 | 11 |
| Recompletion | 0 | 0 | 17 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Govt. Wells N.36108001 | 41 | 0 |
| Dinn24902001 | 29 | 10 |
| Laura Thomson (5600 #4 Sand)52285830 | 14 | 0 |
| Kohler50084001 | 9 | 6 |
| Wheeler-Mag (1200)96775666 | 6 | 2 |
| Simmons City (Govt. Wells)83682500 | 4 | 0 |
| Orlee67623001 | 3 | 0 |
| Tarancahuas S. (2150)88369500 | 3 | 0 |
| Eagle Hill27080001 | 3 | 2 |
| Loma Novia54506001 | 2 | 0 |
| Englehart (3300)29110722 | 2 | 0 |
| Clayton (Wilcox 7370-Herring SD)18765942 | 2 | 0 |
P-5 organization report
As registered with the RRC. About the P-5 →
- Registration
- Status code Y
- Last filed Jan 4, 2026
- Gas operatorOil operator
- Address
- 500 N Water St Ste 401
- Corpus Christ, TX 78401
- (361) 947-3730
- Officers and agents
- Hines, Scott · Texas Resident Agent
- Hines, Brian Scott · President,secretary
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/36931, documented in the API reference.