OPERATORS · RRC 53011 · P-5 STATUS Y

Big Four Oil and Gas

Early, TX

Big Four Oil And Gas has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued August 15, 1985.

The RRC wellbore file lists 7 wells under its operatorship.

27 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1979; its P-5 organization report was last filed October 5, 2007.

0: permits, last 12 months
—: vs prior 12 months (0)
0: counties, 12 months
0: producing wells, of 7 of record
1: 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.

48%: spud rate · 13 of 27 mature permits
14: median days permit to spud · middle half 4–62
0: spuds, last 180 days
0%: cancelled · 0 permits
14: expired undrilled
5: permits a year over 6 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
Brown county →	—	23	4	Aug 15, 1985
Coleman county →	—	4	3	May 10, 1985

All 27 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
Canyon	1	0
Caddo	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

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

How it got them

4: permitted itself
2: acquired from others
16: 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	25
Other	0	0	1
Recompletion	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
Brown County Regular12406001	3	0
Coleman County Regular (Gas)19511456	2	0
Brown Co. Regular (Marble Falls)12406500	1	0
Coleman County Regular19511001	1	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed Oct 5, 2007

Address: 411 Longhorn Dr; Early, TX 76802

Officers and agents: Barrett, Joe B. · Operator/Owner

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
282962	Aug 15, 1985	Aug 15, 1985	Barrett, Joe B.	Brown	Bowden, J. C. #2	1,600	04934443
274668	May 10, 1985	May 10, 1985	Barrett, Joe B.	Coleman	Harris #1	1,300	08334460
274544	May 9, 1985	May 9, 1985	Barrett, Joe B.	Brown	Holloway, James #4	1,750	04934378
269131	Mar 12, 1985	Mar 12, 1985	Barrett, Joe B.	Brown	Holloway, James #2	1,750	04934297
269129	Mar 12, 1985	Mar 12, 1985	Barrett, Joe B.	Brown	Holloway, James #3	1,750	04934296
266350	Feb 7, 1985	Feb 7, 1985	Barrett, Joe B.	Brown	Holloway, James #1	1,800	04934251
260407	Dec 11, 1984	Dec 11, 1984	Barrett, Joe B.	Coleman	Cozart #1	1,350	08334314
240714	May 31, 1984	May 31, 1984	Barrett, Joe B.	Brown	Boyd, W. #2	2,900	04934033
240716	May 31, 1984	May 31, 1984	Barrett, Joe B.	Brown	Arnold #1	2,900	04934034
227455	Jan 26, 1984	Jan 26, 1984	Barrett, Joe B.	Coleman	Lewis, David #2A	1,000	08331467
223443	Dec 12, 1983	Dec 12, 1983	Barrett, Joe B.	Brown	Bowden, J. C. #1	381	04933856
201593	Jul 5, 1983	Jul 5, 1983	Big Four Oil and Gas	Coleman	Lewis, Davis #3A	998	08333858
189509	Mar 24, 1983	Mar 24, 1983	Barrett, Joe B.	Brown	Taylor, Mildred #3	600	04933484
188408	Mar 11, 1983	Mar 11, 1983	Barrett, Joe B.	Brown	Taylor, Mildred #2	600	04933467
174477	Oct 15, 1982	Oct 15, 1982	Barrett, Joe B.	Brown	Chambers, R. G. #4	1,500	04933313

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/53011, documented in the API reference.