OPERATORS · RRC 566121 · P-5 STATUS Y
Mid-States Oper Co
Midland, TX · most active in Midland County
Watch this operatorMid-States Oper CO was issued 7 drilling permits in the past 12 months, versus 1 in the prior year, all in Midland County. 0% were horizontal.
2 were issued in the past 90 days, after a quiet prior quarter.
The RRC wellbore file lists 40 wells under its operatorship (5 producing, 5 shut in).
Lease reports credit it with 2.31K barrels of oil and 9.98K mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, down 19% on the year before.
It holds 17 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 43.1M barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
107 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 2002; its P-5 organization report was last filed December 4, 2025.
- 7
- permits, last 12 months
- +600%
- vs prior 12 months (1)
- 1
- counties, 12 months
- 5
- producing wells, of 40 of record
- 33
- leases it reports
- 0%
- 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.
- 75%
- spud rate · 79 of 105 mature permits
- 30
- median days permit to spud · middle half 10–56
- 0
- spuds, last 180 days
- 0%
- cancelled · 0 permits
- 28
- expired undrilled
- 4
- permits a year over 24 active years
Permits issued by month
LAST 8 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 14
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midland county → | 7 | 63 | 13 | Aug 17, 2026 |
| Pecos county → | — | 18 | 13 | Jul 29, 2014 |
| Upton county → | — | 14 | 6 | Dec 6, 2021 |
| Martin county → | — | 5 | 4 | Oct 17, 2022 |
| Glasscock county → | — | 4 | 1 | Nov 18, 2013 |
| Andrews county → | — | 1 | 1 | Oct 4, 2013 |
| Dawson county → | — | 1 | 2 | May 26, 2022 |
| Howard county → | — | 1 | 0 | Oct 8, 2014 |
All 107 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spraberry | 31 | 0 |
| San Andres | 30 | 4 |
| Strawn | 21 | 0 |
| Yates | 20 | 4 |
| Wolfcamp | 19 | 0 |
| Queen | 17 | 4 |
| Seven Rivers | 16 | 4 |
| Dean | 15 | 0 |
| Grayburg | 14 | 4 |
| Bend | 12 | 0 |
| Clear Fork | 10 | 0 |
| Rustler | 10 | 4 |
| Fusselman | 10 | 0 |
| Pennsylvanian | 8 | 0 |
| Santa Rosa | 8 | 3 |
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 →
- 2.31K
- bbl oil, last 12 reported months
- -19%
- vs the 12 months before
- 9.98K
- mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
- 1.81M
- bbl oil since reporting began
Oil, barrels
Last 12 months 2,306 · prior 12 2,864(-19%)
Gas, mcf
Last 12 months 9,983 · prior 12 11,570(-14%)
Beyond the permit record
RRC wellbore file
Wells of record
- 40
- on the schedule
- 5
- producing
- 5
- shut in
- 13
- injection
- 0
- temp. abandoned
- 4
- plugged
How it got them
- 26
- permitted itself
- 5
- acquired from others
- 37
- 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
- 17
- active UIC permits of 48
- 401K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 43.1M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
By county
| Midland | 8 active | 220K bbl/d |
| Martin | 3 active | 80K bbl/d |
| Dawson | 2 active | 50K bbl/d |
| Upton | 1 active | 30K bbl/d |
| Andrews | 1 active | 20K bbl/d |
| Pecos | 2 active | 1K bbl/d |
| Glasscock | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
| Howard | 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 | 7 | 1 | 82 |
| Recompletion | 0 | 0 | 23 |
| Reenter | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Taylor Link88562001 | 12 | 4 |
| Spraberry (Trend Area)85280300 | 11 | 0 |
| Benedum (Fusselman)7109500 | 5 | 0 |
| Spraberry E.(tr. Area 7400-8860)85283500 | 4 | 0 |
| Azalea (Grayburg)4605444 | 3 | 0 |
| Shafter Lake (San Andres)82570500 | 1 | 0 |
| Garden City S. (Wolfcamp)33998500 | 1 | 0 |
| Spraberry (Trend Area CL. Fk.)85279400 | 1 | 0 |
| Betty Sue (Devonian)7629300 | 1 | 1 |
| Taylor-Link (Yates)88562666 | 1 | 0 |
P-5 organization report
As registered with the RRC. About the P-5 →
- Registration
- Status code Y
- Last filed Dec 4, 2025
- Oil operator
- Address
- PO Box 10747
- Midland, TX 79702
- (432) 684-5881
- Officers and agents
- Rathbone, Monroe J IV · President
- Holmes, William L · Secretary,vice President
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/566121, documented in the API reference.