OPERATORS · RRC 441128 · P-5 STATUS Y

Jones Expl Co

Houston, TX

Jones Expl CO has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued November 5, 1984.

The RRC wellbore file lists 3 wells under its operatorship.

9 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1980; its P-5 organization report was last filed April 13, 1990.

0: permits, last 12 months
—: vs prior 12 months (0)
0: counties, 12 months
0: producing wells, of 3 of record
0: 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.

22%: spud rate · 2 of 9 mature permits
24: median days permit to spud · middle half 21–26
0: spuds, last 180 days
0%: cancelled · 0 permits
7: expired undrilled
2: permits a year over 5 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
Victoria county →	—	3	2	Dec 29, 1983
Calhoun county →	—	2	0	Sep 20, 1984
Brazoria county →	—	1	0	Sep 17, 1980
Chambers county →	—	1	1	Aug 4, 1982
Colorado county →	—	1	0	Nov 21, 1983
Matagorda county →	—	1	0	Nov 5, 1984

All 9 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
Wilcox	1	0
Yegua	1	0
Frio	1	0
Miocene (undifferentiated)	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
0: 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

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

How it got them

2: permitted itself
1: acquired from others
1: permitted, now run by others

Acquired means the well's permit names a different operator than the schedule does today. Transfers and operator numbers →

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	5
Recompletion	0	0	4

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
Double Bayou S. (F-15C FB 2)25655304	1	0
Nursery (3260)66310626	1	0
Nursery (8940)66310830	1	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed Apr 13, 1990

Address: 815 Walker #1700/Mellie Esperso; Houston, TX 77002

Officers and agents: Jones, Sterling B. · President; Mitchell, James L. · Vice President/Secretary

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
256610	Nov 5, 1984	Nov 5, 1984	Jones Exploration Company	Matagorda	Born, Sidney Leroy et AL #1	15,650	32131417
251834	Sep 20, 1984	Sep 20, 1984	Jones Exploration Company	Calhoun	State of Texas T-A #2	5,100	05700899
225085	Dec 29, 1983	Dec 29, 1983	Jones Exploration Company	Victoria	Kyle, W. A. Jr. #1	9,531	46931846
221304	Nov 21, 1983	Nov 21, 1983	Jones Exploration Company	Colorado	Grodhaus, Betty #1	9,000	08931438
216496	Oct 6, 1983	Oct 6, 1983	Jones Exploration Company	Calhoun	State of Texas "T" A #1A	5,721	05700901
205740	Aug 16, 1983	Aug 16, 1983	Jones Exploration Company	Victoria	Kyle, W. A., Jr. #1	9,531	46931846
168142	Aug 4, 1982	Aug 4, 1982	Jones Exploration Company	Chambers	Jackson, J. et AL #1	13,210	07131362
141174	Nov 19, 1981	Nov 19, 1981	Jones Exploration Company	Victoria	Kyle, W.A. Jr. #1	9,700	46931846
140113	Nov 10, 1981	Nov 10, 1981	Jones Exploration Co.	Victoria	Victoria Bank & Trust Co. #1	9,500	46931840
92905	Sep 17, 1980	Sep 17, 1980	Jones Exploration Company	Brazoria	Hurlock, C. H., Jr. #1	9,500	03931600

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/441128, documented in the API reference.