OPERATORS · RRC 518265 · P-5 STATUS Y
M. E. Oper & Services, Inc
Fort Worth, TX
Watch this operatorM. E. Oper & Services, Inc has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued January 24, 2024.
The RRC wellbore file lists 91 wells under its operatorship (27 producing, 2 shut in).
Lease reports credit it with 14.4K barrels of oil and 195K mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, down 10% on the year before.
It holds 1 active disposal or injection permit, injecting 23.3K barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
99 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1989; its P-5 organization report was last filed January 5, 2026.
- 0
- permits, last 12 months
- —
- vs prior 12 months (0)
- 0
- counties, 12 months
- 27
- producing wells, of 91 of record
- 120
- 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.
- 86%
- spud rate · 85 of 99 mature permits
- 31
- median days permit to spud · middle half 12–96
- 0
- spuds, last 180 days
- 0%
- cancelled · 0 permits
- 14
- expired undrilled
- 3
- permits a year over 35 active years
Permits issued by month
LAST 2 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panola county → | — | 30 | 13 | Jul 27, 2020 |
| Harrison county → | — | 17 | 10 | May 27, 2022 |
| Rusk county → | — | 16 | 12 | Nov 30, 2021 |
| Knox county → | — | 9 | 7 | Sep 18, 2018 |
| Lamb county → | — | 5 | 2 | Aug 24, 2018 |
| Palo Pinto county → | — | 3 | 8 | Dec 14, 1992 |
| Parker county → | — | 3 | 10 | Jan 4, 1994 |
| Shelby county → | — | 3 | 6 | Feb 16, 2018 |
| Clay county → | — | 2 | 0 | Dec 6, 2007 |
| Rains county → | — | 2 | 0 | Dec 29, 2009 |
| Stonewall county → | — | 2 | 13 | Nov 9, 2018 |
| Anderson county → | — | 1 | 0 | Dec 18, 2003 |
| Cass county → | — | 1 | 0 | Nov 6, 2007 |
| Cherokee county → | — | 1 | 0 | Dec 15, 1997 |
| Freestone county → | — | 1 | 0 | Jul 10, 2003 |
| Jones county → | — | 1 | 0 | Jan 24, 2024 |
| Navarro county → | — | 1 | 0 | Feb 10, 1994 |
| Tom Green county → | — | 1 | 1 | Oct 7, 1996 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Travis Peak | 33 | 0 |
| Pettit | 33 | 0 |
| BMA | 28 | 0 |
| Rodessa | 13 | 0 |
| Cotton Valley | 12 | 0 |
| Taylor | 11 | 0 |
| Paluxy | 7 | 0 |
| Nacatoch | 7 | 0 |
| James Lime | 7 | 0 |
| Blossom | 6 | 0 |
| Glen Rose | 6 | 0 |
| Tannehill | 5 | 0 |
| Yates | 3 | 0 |
| San Andres | 3 | 0 |
| Strawn | 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 →
- 14.4K
- bbl oil, last 12 reported months
- -10%
- vs the 12 months before
- 195K
- mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
- 546K
- bbl oil since reporting began
Gas, mcf
Last 12 months 195,477 · prior 12 255,791(-24%)
Oil, barrels
Last 12 months 14,441 · prior 12 16,097(-10%)
Beyond the permit record
RRC wellbore file
Wells of record
- 91
- on the schedule
- 27
- producing
- 2
- shut in
- 1
- injection
- 6
- temp. abandoned
- 48
- plugged
How it got them
- 44
- permitted itself
- 47
- acquired from others
- 19
- 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
- 1
- active UIC permits of 2
- 400
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 23.3K
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
By county
| Stonewall | 1 active | 400 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 | 68 |
| Recompletion | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| Reenter | 0 | 0 | 7 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jayton E. (Tannehill)45986750 | 10 | 3 |
| Little Giant (Tannehill)53972500 | 7 | 5 |
| Bethesda (Big Saline)7565300 | 6 | 0 |
| Minden (Travis Peak Cons.)61792380 | 5 | 0 |
| Carthage (Travis Peak)16032812 | 4 | 2 |
| Waskom (Cotton Valley)95369160 | 4 | 4 |
| Carthage S. (Cotton Valley)16037200 | 3 | 1 |
| Loco Bayou (James Lime)54348235 | 3 | 3 |
| Tenaha (Jurassic)88781666 | 3 | 2 |
| Brachfield S.E. (Cotton Valley)11183500 | 2 | 1 |
| Pinehill (Travis Peak -C-)71590669 | 2 | 1 |
| Littlefield (San Andres)54098500 | 2 | 2 |
P-5 organization report
As registered with the RRC. About the P-5 →
- Registration
- Status code Y
- Last filed Jan 5, 2026
- CSGD/GCSGD/PG/PURGas gatheringGas operatorOil operator
- Address
- 401 W Leuda St
- Fort Worth, TX 76104
- (817) 980-5613
- Officers and agents
- Smith, Mark Evan · President,secretary
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.
Developers: this page as JSON is GET /v1/data/operators/tx/518265, documented in the API reference.