OPERATORS · RRC 404660 · P-5 STATUS Y

Houtchens, D. D

Gainesville, TX

Houtchens, D. D has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued April 12, 1993.

The RRC wellbore file lists 224 wells under its operatorship.

142 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1978; its P-5 organization report was last filed March 8, 2013.

0: permits, last 12 months
—: vs prior 12 months (0)
0: counties, 12 months
0: producing wells, of 224 of record
18: 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.

49%: spud rate · 69 of 142 mature permits
22: median days permit to spud · middle half 5–68
0: spuds, last 180 days
2%: cancelled · 3 permits
70: expired undrilled
9: permits a year over 16 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
Montague county →	—	60	20	Aug 14, 1989
Cooke county →	—	41	85	Apr 12, 1993
Collingsworth county →	—	22	0	Apr 12, 1991
Grayson county →	—	7	4	Jul 8, 1980
Wilbarger county →	—	6	107	Oct 9, 1979
Eastland county →	—	2	0	Sep 20, 1982
Palo Pinto county →	—	2	0	Nov 26, 1984
Jack county →	—	1	0	Jun 12, 1981
Wise county →	—	1	0	Dec 9, 1982

All 142 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
Strawn	8	0
Ellenburger	3	0
Caddo	2	0
Smithwick	1	0
Palo Pinto	1	0
Marble Falls	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
44.4K: 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

224: on the schedule
0: producing
0: shut in
0: injection
0: temp. abandoned
165: plugged

How it got them

27: permitted itself
1: acquired from others
39: 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 53
0: permitted bbl/day, active
0: bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025: reported through

By county

Wilbarger	0 active	0 bbl/d
Cooke	0 active	0 bbl/d
Montague	0 active	0 bbl/d
Wichita	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	110
Other	0	0	22
Recompletion	0	0	9
Reenter	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
Wilbarger County Regular97331001	105	0
Cooke County Regular20350001	71	0
Montague County Regular62528001	18	0
Wichita County Regular97155001	8	0
Meador (Strawn Lower)60074500	7	0
Kimbell-Sims (Sharelene Sand)49276200	6	0
Grayback Southeast (Strawn)36537500	2	0
Pottsboro South (Cordell 9800)72707500	1	0
Illinois (Bend)44299500	1	0
Bowers (Strawn)10870664	1	0
Sherman83162001	1	0
Sherman (Pennsylvanian 8900)83162595	1	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed Mar 8, 2013

Address: 119 Pontiac Drive; Gainesville, TX 76240; (940) 736-3317

Officers and agents: Houtchens, Douglas Dean · Owner; Block, Sonya · Filing Agent

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
410543	Apr 12, 1993	Apr 12, 1993	Houtchens, D. D.	Cooke	Solomon #12	1,780	09733263
410543	Apr 12, 1993	Apr 12, 1993	Houtchens, D. D.	Cooke	Solomon -B- #12	1,735	09733263
410376	Mar 31, 1993	Mar 31, 1993	Houtchens, D. D.	Cooke	Solomon B #11	1,650	09733260
410376	Mar 31, 1993	Mar 31, 1993	Houtchens, D. D.	Cooke	Solomon -B- #11	1,650	09733260
410375	Mar 31, 1993	Mar 31, 1993	Houtchens, D. D.	Cooke	Solomon B #10	1,680	09733261
410375	Mar 31, 1993	Mar 31, 1993	Houtchens, D. D.	Cooke	Solomon -B- #10	1,680	09733261
406131	Dec 1, 1992	Dec 1, 1992	Houtchens, D. D.	Cooke	Soloman B #5	1,999	09733243
406131	Dec 1, 1992	Dec 1, 1992	Houtchens, D. D.	Cooke	Solomon -B- #5	1,999	09733243
386462	Apr 12, 1991	Apr 12, 1991	Houtchens, D. D.	Collingsworth	Lutes C #1A	2,200	08730230
361930	Aug 14, 1989	Aug 14, 1989	Houtchens, D. D.	Montague	Parr Estate #1	5,950	33732124
304068	Jul 10, 1986	Jul 10, 1986	Houtchens, D. D.	Montague	Harmon #4	4,000	33732664
302139	May 15, 1986	May 15, 1986	Houtchens, D. D.	Montague	Harmon #3	4,000	33732652
300634	Apr 4, 1986	Apr 4, 1986	Houtchens, D. D.	Montague	Harmon #2	3,800	33732646
283698	Aug 28, 1985	Aug 28, 1985	Houtchens, D. D.	Cooke	Cannon Estate #2	1,950	09780613
261577	Dec 10, 1984	Dec 10, 1984	Houtchens, D. D.	Cooke	Cannon Estate #1	2,375	09732686

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/404660, documented in the API reference.