OPERATORS · RRC 459175 · P-5 STATUS Y

Kiel, O. B. Jr

Alice, TX

Kiel, O. B. JR has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued July 19, 1985.

The RRC wellbore file lists 5 wells under its operatorship.

13 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1977; its P-5 organization report was last filed August 15, 1986.

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

69%: spud rate · 9 of 13 mature permits
14: median days permit to spud · middle half 12–17
0: spuds, last 180 days
0%: cancelled · 0 permits
4: expired undrilled
1: 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
Live Oak county →	—	8	3	Jul 19, 1985
Brooks county →	—	3	2	Apr 26, 1978
Bee county →	—	2	0	Mar 19, 1985

All 13 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
No completion tops on file.

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

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

How it got them

5: permitted itself
0: acquired from others
6: 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	13

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
July 4TH (Pettus 4720)47639600	2	0
July 4TH (Pettus 4710)47639590	1	0
Rachal (6850)74120960	1	0
Rachal SW.(3700)74127500	1	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed Aug 15, 1986

Address: P. O. Box 6; Alice, TX 78333

Officers and agents: Kiel, O. B. Jr. · Operator

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
280767	Jul 19, 1985	Jul 19, 1985	Kiel, O. B. Jr.	Live Oak	Hailey, J. I. "E" #1	4,800	29733609
272254	Apr 15, 1985	Apr 15, 1985	Kiel, O. B. Jr.	Live Oak	Grant, D. W. #1	5,000	29733571
272191	Apr 12, 1985	Apr 12, 1985	Kiel, O. B. Jr.	Live Oak	Hailey, J. I. "B" #3	4,800	29733570
269859	Mar 19, 1985	Mar 19, 1985	Kiel, O. B. Jr.	Bee	Smith, Wm. S. #1	4,700	02532264
269198	Mar 12, 1985	Mar 12, 1985	Kiel, O. B. Jr.	Bee	Hughes, H. A. #1	5,500	02532261
267760	Feb 25, 1985	Feb 25, 1985	Kiel, O. B. Jr.	Live Oak	Hailey, J. I. "B" #2	4,800	29733559
263784	Jan 10, 1985	Jan 10, 1985	Kiel, O. B. Jr.	Live Oak	Hailey, J. I. "D" #1	5,100	29733538
257142	Nov 5, 1984	Nov 5, 1984	Kiel, O. B. Jr.	Live Oak	Hailey, J. I. "C" #1	5,000	29733510
256181	Oct 30, 1984	Oct 30, 1984	Kiel, O. B. Jr.	Live Oak	Hailey, J. I. "A" #1	5,000	29733506
256188	Oct 30, 1984	Oct 30, 1984	Kiel, O. B. Jr.	Live Oak	Hailey, J. I. "B" #1	5,000	29733507
22925	Apr 26, 1978	Apr 26, 1978	Kiel, O. B. Jr.	Brooks	Ramirez Gas Unit #1	7,300	04730668
14059	Dec 19, 1977	Dec 19, 1977	Kiel, O. B. Jr.	Brooks	Lopez, Hector #1	4,505	04730619
1989	Jun 29, 1977	Jun 29, 1977	Kiel, O. B. Jr.	Brooks	Scott, Lois R. #1	7,215	04730583

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/459175, documented in the API reference.