OPERATORS · RRC 450270 · P-5 STATUS Y

Kaler, Howard W

Gainesville, TX

Kaler, Howard W has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued January 2, 1986.

The RRC wellbore file lists 11 wells under its operatorship.

99 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1977; its P-5 organization report was last filed March 4, 1992.

0: permits, last 12 months
—: vs prior 12 months (0)
0: counties, 12 months
0: producing wells, of 11 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.

18%: spud rate · 18 of 99 mature permits
49: median days permit to spud · middle half 22–81
0: spuds, last 180 days
0%: cancelled · 0 permits
81: expired undrilled
11: permits a year over 9 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
Cooke county →	—	99	4	Jan 2, 1986

All 99 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	5	0
Goodland	2	0
Base Cretaceous (marker)	2	0
Canyon	1	0
Pennsylvanian	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

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

How it got them

1: permitted itself
0: acquired from others
45: 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 3
0: permitted bbl/day, active
0: bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025: reported through

By county

Grayson	0 active	0 bbl/d
Cooke	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	99

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
Cooke County Regular20350001	4	0
Whitesboro (Strawn 3600)97022830	4	0
Mackoy (Hickey Sand)56492150	2	0
Whitesboro (Bruhlmeyer)97022166	1	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed Mar 4, 1992

Address: P. O. Box 370; Gainesville, TX 76240

Officers and agents: Kaler, Howard W. · Owner

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
294126	Jan 2, 1986	Jan 2, 1986	Kaler, Howard W.	Cooke	Pace, Elizabeth #5	1,990	09732822
292299	Dec 10, 1985	Dec 10, 1985	Kaler, Howard W.	Cooke	Hobbs, Opal #2	4,990	09732812
292106	Dec 3, 1985	Dec 3, 1985	Kaler, Howard W.	Cooke	Brown, R. W. #3	2,990	09732810
291528	Dec 3, 1985	Dec 3, 1985	Kaler, Howard W.	Cooke	Pace, Elizabeth #4	1,990	09732808
283326	Aug 27, 1985	Aug 27, 1985	Kaler, Howard W.	Cooke	Pace, Elizabeth #3	1,990	09732766
282865	Aug 19, 1985	Aug 19, 1985	Kaler, Howard W.	Cooke	Hobbs, Opal #1	4,990	09732763
280469	Jul 16, 1985	Jul 16, 1985	Kaler, Howard W.	Cooke	Merrick, M. B. #4	1,990	09732753
278950	Jun 27, 1985	Jun 27, 1985	Kaler, Howard W.	Cooke	Brown, R. W. #2	4,990	09732745
277574	Jun 13, 1985	Jun 13, 1985	Kaler, Howard W.	Cooke	Whaley, James #4	1,990	09732742
274980	May 15, 1985	May 15, 1985	Kaler, Howard W.	Cooke	Odom Unit #3	2,990	09732732
275276	May 14, 1985	May 14, 1985	Kaler, Howard W.	Cooke	Allen Est. #3	2,990	09732734
275270	May 14, 1985	May 14, 1985	Kaler, Howard W.	Cooke	Allen Est. #2	2,990	09732733
268109	Feb 28, 1985	Feb 28, 1985	Kaler, Howard W.	Cooke	Whaley, James #3	1,990	09732711
266297	Feb 6, 1985	Feb 6, 1985	Kaler, Howard W.	Cooke	Odom Unit #2	2,990	09732703
261279	Dec 13, 1984	Dec 13, 1984	Kaler, Howard W.	Cooke	Allen Est. #1	2,990	09732684

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/450270, documented in the API reference.