OPERATORS · RRC 48169 · P-5 STATUS Y
Ballard Expl Co,inc
Houston, TX
Watch this operatorBallard Expl CO,Inc has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued April 29, 2025.
The RRC wellbore file lists 147 wells under its operatorship (28 producing).
Lease reports credit it with 6.63K barrels of oil and 4.25M mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, down 59% on the year before.
It holds 4 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 798K barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
464 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1982; its P-5 organization report was last filed December 4, 2025.
- 0
- permits, last 12 months
- -100%
- vs prior 12 months (2)
- 0
- counties, 12 months
- 28
- producing wells, of 147 of record
- 173
- 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.
- 70%
- spud rate · 327 of 464 mature permits
- 11
- median days permit to spud · middle half 4–28
- 0
- spuds, last 180 days
- 0%
- cancelled · 0 permits
- 137
- expired undrilled
- 11
- permits a year over 44 active years
Permits issued by month
LAST 10 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 11
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson county → | — | 94 | 36 | Apr 29, 2025 |
| Harris county → | — | 80 | 35 | May 24, 2024 |
| Liberty county → | — | 77 | 32 | Sep 14, 2021 |
| Orange county → | — | 34 | 2 | Jul 29, 2024 |
| Jasper county → | — | 27 | 4 | Dec 28, 1990 |
| Wharton county → | — | 25 | 8 | Jan 3, 2023 |
| Fort Bend county → | — | 21 | 4 | Oct 21, 2016 |
| Brooks county → | — | 18 | 5 | May 7, 2010 |
| Chambers county → | — | 12 | 1 | Sep 29, 2011 |
| Tyler county → | — | 8 | 2 | Oct 6, 1989 |
| Galveston county → | — | 7 | 2 | Mar 11, 1991 |
| Colorado county → | — | 6 | 5 | Apr 11, 2017 |
| Henderson county → | — | 5 | 0 | Dec 1, 1983 |
| Lavaca county → | — | 5 | 3 | Jun 10, 2014 |
| Goliad county → | — | 4 | 1 | May 13, 2013 |
| Hardin county → | — | 4 | 1 | Apr 19, 1989 |
| Matagorda county → | — | 4 | 3 | Oct 13, 2014 |
| Brazoria county → | — | 3 | 1 | Mar 19, 1999 |
| Grimes county → | — | 3 | 0 | Nov 19, 1986 |
| Karnes county → | — | 3 | 0 | Oct 26, 2010 |
| Madison county → | — | 3 | 0 | Jul 24, 1986 |
| Montgomery county → | — | 3 | 1 | Aug 20, 2013 |
| Freestone county → | — | 2 | 0 | Jul 2, 1985 |
| Kaufman county → | — | 2 | 0 | Aug 20, 1984 |
| Anderson county → | — | 1 | 0 | Aug 23, 1985 |
| Bowie county → | — | 1 | 0 | Nov 19, 1986 |
| Calhoun county → | — | 1 | 0 | Nov 28, 2006 |
| DE Witt county → | — | 1 | 0 | Jun 24, 1985 |
| Duval county → | — | 1 | 0 | Feb 24, 2015 |
| Leon county → | — | 1 | 0 | Jul 25, 1986 |
| Limestone county → | — | 1 | 0 | Aug 26, 1982 |
| Navarro county → | — | 1 | 0 | Sep 30, 1982 |
| Polk county → | — | 1 | 0 | Jun 29, 2006 |
| Rains county → | — | 1 | 0 | Jun 7, 1985 |
| Terry county → | — | 1 | 0 | Sep 18, 1984 |
| Trinity county → | — | 1 | 1 | Feb 27, 1986 |
| Wood county → | — | 1 | 0 | Oct 23, 1987 |
| Yoakum county → | — | 1 | 0 | May 1, 1987 |
All 464 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Frio | 107 | 2 |
| Yegua | 102 | 1 |
| Vicksburg | 83 | 0 |
| Jackson | 28 | 0 |
| Wilcox | 19 | 0 |
| Miocene (undifferentiated) | 18 | 1 |
| Cook Mountain | 12 | 0 |
| Anahuac | 12 | 0 |
| Catahoula | 4 | 0 |
| Austin Chalk | 4 | 0 |
| Buda | 3 | 0 |
| Rodessa | 3 | 0 |
| Woodbine | 3 | 0 |
| Midway | 3 | 0 |
| Reklaw | 2 | 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 →
- 6.63K
- bbl oil, last 12 reported months
- -59%
- vs the 12 months before
- 4.25M
- mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
- 1.32M
- bbl oil since reporting began
Gas, mcf
Last 12 months 4,253,676 · prior 12 4,334,187(-2%)
Oil, barrels
Last 12 months 6,633 · prior 12 15,993(-59%)
Beyond the permit record
RRC wellbore file
Wells of record
- 147
- on the schedule
- 28
- producing
- 0
- shut in
- 4
- injection
- 8
- temp. abandoned
- 100
- plugged
How it got them
- 145
- permitted itself
- 2
- acquired from others
- 99
- 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
- 4
- active UIC permits of 5
- 35.5K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 798K
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
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 | 2 | 403 |
| Recompletion | 0 | 0 | 59 |
| Reenter | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Field transfer | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Wildcat6001 | 15 | 0 |
| Channelview (Yegua 10 000)16931495 | 7 | 4 |
| China (Yegua Cons.)17798590 | 7 | 2 |
| Devers SW (Cook Mountain)24432075 | 4 | 1 |
| Constitution South (Yegua)20255700 | 4 | 1 |
| Gulf Terrace (Yegua EY-2)37400500 | 4 | 0 |
| Devers NW. (Lower Cook Mtn. 1)24430240 | 3 | 1 |
| Yellow Rose (Yegua Y-2)99334100 | 3 | 2 |
| Pierce Ridge (Yegua 12150)71452800 | 3 | 0 |
| Gum Bayou (Cook Mtn. Lo.)37426166 | 3 | 1 |
| Deusson Estate (Cook Mntn 2)24423500 | 3 | 1 |
| Dyersdale (Wilcox 12100)26876700 | 2 | 0 |
P-5 organization report
As registered with the RRC. About the P-5 →
- Registration
- Status code Y
- Last filed Dec 4, 2025
- Gas operatorOil operator
- Address
- 712 Main Street Suite 1300
- Houston, TX 77002
- (800) 992-8924
- Officers and agents
- Ballard, Andrew L · President
- Snow, Nancy W · Corp Secretary and Controller
- Hull, Mark · President of Operations
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.
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