OPERATORS · RRC 610375 · P-5 STATUS Y
Nichols Oil Co
Holliday, TX
Watch this operatorNichols Oil CO has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued November 17, 2020.
The RRC wellbore file lists 105 wells under its operatorship (40 producing, 1 shut in).
Lease reports credit it with 1.57K barrels of oil and 0 mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, down 27% on the year before.
It holds 10 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 108K barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
14 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1989; its P-5 organization report was last filed October 4, 2025.
- 0
- permits, last 12 months
- —
- vs prior 12 months (0)
- 0
- counties, 12 months
- 40
- producing wells, of 105 of record
- 9
- 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 · 12 of 14 mature permits
- 23
- median days permit to spud · middle half 12–69
- 0
- spuds, last 180 days
- 0%
- cancelled · 0 permits
- 2
- expired undrilled
- 0
- permits a year over 31 active years
Where
Counties by permits in the last 12 months, with all-time permits and current wells of record there.
All 14 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cisco | 9 | 0 |
| Thomas Sand | 5 | 0 |
| Gunsight | 4 | 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 →
- 1.57K
- bbl oil, last 12 reported months
- -27%
- vs the 12 months before
- 0
- mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
- 127K
- bbl oil since reporting began
Oil, barrels
Last 12 months 1,566 · prior 12 2,150(-27%)
Beyond the permit record
RRC wellbore file
Wells of record
- 105
- on the schedule
- 40
- producing
- 1
- shut in
- 10
- injection
- 0
- temp. abandoned
- 51
- plugged
How it got them
- 8
- permitted itself
- 25
- acquired from others
- 5
- 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
- 10
- active UIC permits of 19
- 2.59K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 108K
- 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 | 0 | 13 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Archer County Regular3446001 | 79 | 30 |
| Wichita County Regular97155001 | 24 | 10 |
| Ringgold E. (Congl. 5TH)76786800 | 2 | 0 |
P-5 organization report
As registered with the RRC. About the P-5 →
- Registration
- Status code Y
- Last filed Oct 4, 2025
- Oil operator
- Address
- P O Box 768
- Holliday, TX 76366
- (940) 636-0871
- Officers and agents
- Nichols, Weldon Dean · Sole Proprietor,operator/Owner
- Maxwell, Callie · Filing Agent
- Nichols, Judy · Filing Agent
Latest permits
NEWEST FIRST BY ISSUE DATE · FILED OR ON WELLS IT NOW OPERATES
| Permit | Seen | Issued | Operator | County | Lease / well | Depth | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 865919 | Nov 17, 2020 | Nov 17, 2020 | Nichols Oil Co. | Archer | Kemp & Kempner #53 | 2,000 | 00943258 |
| 845887 | Oct 19, 2018 | Oct 19, 2018 | Willowbend Investments, Inc. | Archer | Kempner D #1 | 4,999 | 00943183 |
| 823908 | Mar 13, 2017 | Mar 13, 2017 | Nichols Oil Co. | Archer | Orton A #58 | 1,900 | 00943092 |
| 812511 | Dec 15, 2015 | Dec 15, 2015 | Nichols Oil Co. | Archer | Kempner, R. Lee -C- #71 | 1,999 | 00943011 |
| 807732 | Jun 30, 2015 | Jun 30, 2015 | Nichols Oil Co. | Archer | Orton A #41 | 1,900 | 00982208 |
| 763987 | Jun 11, 2013 | Jun 11, 2013 | Nichols Oil Co. | Archer | Kemp and Kempner #71 | 1,999 | 00942595 |
| 746894 | Sep 13, 2012 | Sep 13, 2012 | Noc | Wichita | Bickley 'B' #7 | 2,200 | 48545334 |
| 628298 | Nov 9, 2006 | Nov 9, 2006 | Nichols Oil Co. | Archer | Orton "A" #53 | 750 | 00941618 |
| 559232 | Apr 25, 2005 | Apr 25, 2005 | Nichols Oil Co. | Archer | Aminex 87 #7 | 1,600 | 00941462 |
| 491965 | Feb 16, 2000 | Feb 16, 2000 | Nichols Oil Co. | Wichita | Weeth, A. #8 | 1,700 | 48543526 |
| 468545 | Oct 13, 1997 | Oct 13, 1997 | Nichols Oil Co. | Archer | Orton "A" #52 | 1,950 | 00941156 |
| 468544 | Oct 13, 1997 | Oct 13, 1997 | Nichols Oil Co. | Archer | Orton "A" #51 | 700 | 00941155 |
| 447824 | May 13, 1996 | May 13, 1996 | Nichols Oil Co. | Archer | Kemp-Kempner #50 | 700 | 00941043 |
| 444455 | Feb 21, 1996 | Feb 21, 1996 | Nichols Oil Co. | Archer | Orton "A" #50 | 1,900 | 00941016 |
| 378976 | Oct 12, 1990 | Oct 12, 1990 | Loc Mac Co. | Wichita | Lochridge B #25 | 1,999 | 48542213 |
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/610375, documented in the API reference.