OPERATORS · RRC 613760 · P-5 STATUS Y

North Central Oil Corp

Houston, TX

North Central Oil Corp has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued October 20, 2005.

The RRC wellbore file lists 186 wells under its operatorship.

558 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1977; its P-5 organization report was last filed May 4, 2007.

0: permits, last 12 months
—: vs prior 12 months (0)
0: counties, 12 months
0: producing wells, of 186 of record
103: 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.

63%: spud rate · 354 of 558 mature permits
40: median days permit to spud · middle half 16–79
0: spuds, last 180 days
0%: cancelled · 2 permits
202: expired undrilled
19: permits a year over 29 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
Zapata county →	—	253	15	Oct 20, 2005
Webb county →	—	52	21	May 9, 2003
Brazoria county →	—	45	48	Oct 13, 2003
Wharton county →	—	40	9	Dec 17, 1996
Brazos county →	—	26	7	Dec 9, 1986
Aransas county →	—	23	1	Aug 26, 1997
Newton county →	—	11	9	Jun 6, 1995
San Patricio county →	—	10	0	Nov 8, 1995
Hidalgo county →	—	9	4	Mar 21, 1986
Wise county →	—	9	29	Jun 20, 1983
Jasper county →	—	7	4	Mar 28, 1985
Jefferson county →	—	5	0	Dec 3, 1992
Colorado county →	—	4	1	Jul 21, 1992
Goliad county →	—	4	2	Jun 6, 1988
Henderson county →	—	4	2	Apr 24, 1985
Liberty county →	—	4	0	Jul 28, 1992
Concho county →	—	3	1	Jan 27, 1983
DE Witt county →	—	3	1	Sep 28, 1990
Frio county →	—	3	0	Oct 25, 1990
Hardin county →	—	3	1	Feb 10, 1989
Jackson county →	—	3	1	May 26, 1989
Leon county →	—	3	0	Apr 20, 1981
Live Oak county →	—	3	2	Mar 30, 1993
Austin county →	—	2	0	Jan 13, 1993
Brooks county →	—	2	3	Aug 17, 1993
Gaines county →	—	2	0	Aug 27, 1990
Jim Wells county →	—	2	0	Sep 10, 1986
Lavaca county →	—	2	3	Jul 29, 1992
Limestone county →	—	2	0	Mar 25, 1994
Navarro county →	—	2	1	Jan 31, 1986
Walker county →	—	2	0	Mar 14, 1991
Atascosa county →	—	1	1	Mar 28, 1991
Chambers county →	—	1	0	Dec 21, 1989
Crane county →	—	1	0	Mar 21, 1979
Dallam county →	—	1	1	Jul 22, 1981
Dawson county →	—	1	0	Dec 20, 1983
Freestone county →	—	1	0	Feb 19, 1982
Galveston county →	—	1	0	Mar 5, 1985
Grimes county →	—	1	0	Apr 26, 1993
Kenedy county →	—	1	0	Sep 27, 1993
Reagan county →	—	1	8	Jan 25, 1984
Refugio county →	—	1	0	Oct 9, 1980
Robertson county →	—	1	0	Jul 29, 1986
San Jacinto county →	—	1	0	Sep 7, 1989
Scurry county →	—	1	0	Aug 25, 1978
Terry county →	—	1	0	Jan 15, 1993

All 558 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
Wilcox	94	0
Queen City	44	0
Wills Point	36	0
Frio	33	0
Yegua	31	0
Vicksburg	14	0
Jackson	14	0
Miocene (undifferentiated)	13	0
Carrizo	12	0
Austin Chalk	11	0
Buda	10	0
Georgetown	10	0
Cook Mountain	7	0
Catahoula	6	0
Anahuac	5	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
4.24M: 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

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

How it got them

59: permitted itself
37: acquired from others
279: 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

0: active UIC permits of 29
0: permitted bbl/day, active
0: bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025: reported through

By county

Brazoria	0 active	0 bbl/d
Clay	0 active	0 bbl/d
Reagan	0 active	0 bbl/d
Wise	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	0	0	450
Recompletion	0	0	100
Field transfer	0	0	5
Other	0	0	3

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
Morris (Strawn)62970800	21	0
Manvel (Miocene)57233434	14	0
Spraberry (Trend Area)85279200	7	0
Manvel (F. B. 1 Oligocene E)57233196	6	0
Bashara-Hereford (7300)5993600	6	0
Big Cowboy (Lobo)7800200	5	0
Hundido (Lobo)43593500	5	0
Bryan (Woodbine)12697800	5	0
Manvel (Miocene Upper)57233527	5	0
Hokit (Queen)42042600	4	0
Manvel (F.B. I Oligocene)57233191	4	0
Blue Marsh (Wilcox 9400)9860450	3	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed May 4, 2007

Address: P O Box 2504; Houston, TX 77252

Officers and agents: Van Wagenen, Paul G. · Chairman/Ceo/President; McCoy, John O., Jr. · Vice President/Cao; Brunner, Stephen R. · Vice President

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
608108	Oct 20, 2005	Oct 20, 2005	North Central Oil Corp.	Zapata	Haynes, L. #156	10,500	50535398
608104	Oct 19, 2005	Oct 19, 2005	North Central Oil Corp.	Zapata	Haynes, L. #157	11,000	50535397
602604	Jul 28, 2005	Jul 28, 2005	North Central Oil Corp.	Zapata	Haynes, L. #60	9,216	50534280
602608	Jun 28, 2005	Jun 28, 2005	North Central Oil Corp.	Zapata	Haynes, L. #62	9,753	50534426
602603	Jun 28, 2005	Jun 28, 2005	North Central Oil Corp.	Zapata	Haynes, L. #64	10,900	50534425
556379	Feb 23, 2005	Feb 23, 2005	North Central Oil Corp.	Zapata	Haynes, L. #146	10,900	50535193
557551	Feb 16, 2005	Feb 16, 2005	North Central Oil Corp.	Zapata	Haynes, L. #150	10,000	50535216
557551	Feb 16, 2005	Feb 16, 2005	North Central Oil Corp.	Zapata	Haynes, L. #150	11,400	50535216
557550	Feb 15, 2005	Feb 15, 2005	North Central Oil Corp.	Zapata	Haynes, L. #151	10,600	50535215
556659	Jan 27, 2005	Jan 27, 2005	North Central Oil Corp.	Zapata	Haynes, L #149	11,400	50535198
556566	Jan 21, 2005	Jan 21, 2005	North Central Oil Corp.	Zapata	Haynes, L. #148	11,100	50535194
556213	Jan 14, 2005	Jan 14, 2005	North Central Oil Corp.	Zapata	Haynes, L #142	11,000	50535189
554972	Jan 14, 2005	Jan 14, 2005	North Central Oil Corp.	Zapata	Haynes, L. #144	11,000	50535170
554780	Jan 11, 2005	Jan 11, 2005	North Central Oil Corp.	Zapata	Haynes, L. #141	11,200	50535165
555319	Dec 28, 2004	Dec 28, 2004	North Central Oil Corp.	Zapata	Haynes, L. #145	11,000	50535176

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/613760, documented in the API reference.