OPERATORS · RRC 670093 · P-5 STATUS Y
Ponderosa Oil & Gas, LLC
Houston, TX
Watch this operatorPonderosa Oil & Gas, LLC has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued July 14, 2025.
The RRC wellbore file lists 15 wells under its operatorship.
Lease reports credit it with 18.2K barrels of oil and 385K mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, up 10% on the year before.
It holds 2 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 199K barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
39 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 2009; its P-5 organization report was last filed April 4, 2026.
- 0
- permits, last 12 months
- -100%
- vs prior 12 months (4)
- 0
- counties, 12 months
- 0
- producing wells, of 15 of record
- 29
- 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.
- 69%
- spud rate · 27 of 39 mature permits
- 84
- median days permit to spud · middle half 44–250
- 0
- spuds, last 180 days
- 0%
- cancelled · 0 permits
- 12
- expired undrilled
- 2
- permits a year over 16 active years
Permits issued by month
LAST 10 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 13
Where
Counties by permits in the last 12 months, with all-time permits and current wells of record there.
All 39 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 →
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 →
- 18.2K
- bbl oil, last 12 reported months
- +10%
- vs the 12 months before
- 385K
- mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
- 180K
- bbl oil since reporting began
Gas, mcf
Last 12 months 384,741 · prior 12 307,903(+25%)
Oil, barrels
Last 12 months 18,185 · prior 12 16,605(+10%)
Beyond the permit record
RRC wellbore file
Wells of record
- 15
- on the schedule
- 0
- producing
- 0
- shut in
- 1
- injection
- 0
- temp. abandoned
- 10
- plugged
How it got them
- 10
- permitted itself
- 5
- acquired from others
- 7
- 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
- 2
- active UIC permits of 3
- 10K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 199K
- 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 | 24 |
| Recompletion | 0 | 3 | 13 |
| Reenter | 0 | 1 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Flagpond (Frio Lower)31194400 | 4 | 0 |
| Sugar Valley (Gravier)86960475 | 2 | 0 |
| Old Ocean North (9750)67014600 | 2 | 0 |
| Nance (Frio 9600)64423075 | 1 | 0 |
| Nance (Tex-Miss # 5)64423625 | 1 | 0 |
| Sugar Valley (8100)86960950 | 1 | 0 |
| Bay City (9050 Frio)6287890 | 1 | 0 |
| Wildcat6001 | 1 | 0 |
| Nance (AB-20)64423003 | 1 | 0 |
| Nance (Frio 11 400)64423250 | 1 | 0 |
P-5 organization report
As registered with the RRC. About the P-5 →
- Registration
- Status code Y
- Last filed Apr 4, 2026
- Gas operatorOil operator
- Address
- 1225 N Loop W Ste 1100
- Houston, TX 77008
- (713) 951-0096
- Officers and agents
- Barnes, Benjamin Keith · Managing Member
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.
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