OPERATORS · RRC 643374 · P-5 STATUS Y

Patterson, Ben M., Jr

San Antonio, TX

Patterson, Ben M., JR has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued June 15, 1999.

The RRC wellbore file lists 14 wells under its operatorship.

5 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1987; its P-5 organization report was last filed April 4, 2003.

0: permits, last 12 months
—: vs prior 12 months (0)
0: counties, 12 months
0: producing wells, of 14 of record
8: 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.

80%: spud rate · 4 of 5 mature permits
129: median days permit to spud · middle half 129–129
0: spuds, last 180 days
0%: cancelled · 0 permits
1: expired undrilled
0: permits a year over 12 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
Goliad county →	—	3	4	May 25, 1999
Coke county →	—	1	2	Jun 15, 1999
Nolan county →	—	1	7	Mar 22, 1996

All 5 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	2	0
Yegua	1	0
Vicksburg	1	0
Frio	1	0
Coleman Junction	1	0
Ellenburger	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
156K: 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

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

How it got them

2: permitted itself
6: acquired from others
0: 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 3
0: permitted bbl/day, active
0: bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025: reported through

By county

Nolan

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
Recompletion	0	0	5

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
White Hat (Ellenburger)96922500	6	0
Hordes Creek South (2420)42580680	2	0
Ray (Ellenburger)74898350	2	0
Dial (Hockley 3380)24525150	1	0
Dial (Pettus 4240)24525200	1	0
Suggs (Ellenburger)87019200	1	0
Gilmer(jurassic)34943750	1	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed Apr 4, 2003

Address: 613 N W Loop 410 Ste 680; San Antonio, TX 78216

Officers and agents: Patterson, Ben M., Jr · Owner

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
778149	Feb 24, 2014	Feb 24, 2014	Clear Fork, Incorporated	Coke	J. Douglas Thorn #3270	6,800	08131234
485210	Jun 15, 1999	Jun 15, 1999	Patterson, Ben M., Jr.	Coke	Thorn, J. D. #3270	6,800	08131234
484734	May 25, 1999	May 25, 1999	Patterson, Ben M., Jr.	Goliad	Pereira, Desmond R. #3G	3,000	17531363
446104	Mar 22, 1996	Mar 22, 1996	Patterson, Ben M., Jr.	Nolan	Smith, Cecil L. #1	6,630	35331642
425166	Jul 5, 1994	Jul 5, 1994	Patterson, Ben M., Jr.	Goliad	Pereira, Desmond R. #3G	4,460	17531363
335556	Sep 11, 1987	Sep 11, 1987	Patterson, Ben M., Jr.	Goliad	Pereira, Desmond R. #2	5,200	17530542
285265	Sep 17, 1985	Sep 17, 1985	Frost Oil Company, Inc.	Nolan	White Hat Ranch #1021	7,000	35331863
220119	Nov 7, 1983	Nov 7, 1983	Frost Oil Company, Inc.	Coke	Thorn, J. D. #3270	7,000	08131234
201879	Jul 18, 1983	Jul 18, 1983	Frost Oil Company, Inc.	Coke	Frost, Adele #2269	7,000	08131196
127714	Jul 30, 1981	Jul 30, 1981	Staples, Tommy Oil Co.	Goliad	Pereira, Desmond R. #2	3,700	17531517
92781	Sep 16, 1980	Sep 16, 1980	Frost Oil Company, Inc.	Upshur	Trammell, H. J. Gas Unit No. 1 #2	12,000	45930475
86452	Jul 14, 1980	Jul 14, 1980	Gulfstream Petroleum Corp.	Goliad	Pereira, Desmond R. #3	5,500	17531363
58901	Sep 25, 1979	Sep 25, 1979	Gulfstream Petroleum Corp.	Goliad	Pereira, Desmond R. #1	8,500	17531266

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/643374, documented in the API reference.