OPERATORS · RRC 684502 · P-5 STATUS Y
Quail Well Service, Inc
Abilene, TX · most active in Runnels County
Watch this operatorQuail Well Service, Inc was issued 1 drilling permit in the past 12 months, versus 4 in the prior year, all in Runnels County. 0% were horizontal.
None were issued in the past 90 days.
The RRC wellbore file lists 122 wells under its operatorship (11 producing).
Lease reports credit it with 11.1K barrels of oil and 10.2K mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, up 7% on the year before.
It holds 4 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 141K barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
92 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 2002; its P-5 organization report was last filed July 4, 2026.
- 1
- permits, last 12 months
- -75%
- vs prior 12 months (4)
- 1
- counties, 12 months
- 11
- producing wells, of 122 of record
- 80
- 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.
- 61%
- spud rate · 56 of 92 mature permits
- 34
- median days permit to spud · middle half 12–116
- 0
- spuds, last 180 days
- 0%
- cancelled · 0 permits
- 36
- expired undrilled
- 4
- permits a year over 24 active years
Permits issued by month
LAST 7 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 10
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runnels county → | 1 | 1 | 7 | Jan 26, 2026 |
| Callahan county → | — | 49 | 39 | Mar 25, 2013 |
| Taylor county → | — | 15 | 18 | Aug 19, 2025 |
| Stonewall county → | — | 12 | 29 | Jul 22, 2014 |
| Stephens county → | — | 9 | 6 | Apr 11, 2013 |
| Jones county → | — | 5 | 6 | Jan 25, 2008 |
| Haskell county → | — | 1 | 0 | Aug 1, 2003 |
All 92 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Saddle Creek | 19 | 4 |
| Coleman Junction | 10 | 4 |
| Palo Pinto | 10 | 4 |
| Caddo | 7 | 0 |
| Strawn | 7 | 0 |
| Duffer | 5 | 0 |
| Cisco | 3 | 3 |
| Tannehill | 2 | 0 |
| Marble Falls | 2 | 0 |
| Canyon | 1 | 0 |
| Mississippian | 1 | 0 |
| Ellenburger | 1 | 0 |
| Barnett | 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 →
- 11.1K
- bbl oil, last 12 reported months
- +7%
- vs the 12 months before
- 10.2K
- mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
- 465K
- bbl oil since reporting began
Oil, barrels
Last 12 months 11,145 · prior 12 10,390(+7%)
Gas, mcf
Last 12 months 10,166 · prior 12 7,849(+30%)
Beyond the permit record
RRC wellbore file
Wells of record
- 122
- on the schedule
- 11
- producing
- 0
- shut in
- 0
- injection
- 0
- temp. abandoned
- 104
- plugged
How it got them
- 31
- permitted itself
- 56
- acquired from others
- 23
- 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
- 4
- active UIC permits of 26
- 3.5K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 141K
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
By county
| Taylor | 3 active | 3K bbl/d |
| Callahan | 1 active | 500 bbl/d |
| Stonewall | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
| Stephens | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
| Runnels | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
| Fisher | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
| Jones | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reenter | 1 | 2 | 71 |
| Drill | 0 | 2 | 13 |
| Recompletion | 0 | 0 | 8 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Callahan County Regular14820001 | 14 | 0 |
| Flat Top 147 (Swastika LO)31334600 | 8 | 0 |
| Dyer (Moran)26862400 | 8 | 3 |
| Dyer (Strawn)26862800 | 7 | 0 |
| Taylor County Regular88520001 | 6 | 1 |
| Dyer (Flippen)26862200 | 6 | 0 |
| V. G. O. (Tannehill 2475)92847500 | 6 | 0 |
| Rough Ride (Strawn Sd.)78530375 | 5 | 0 |
| Robertson-Griffin (Gray Sand)77337500 | 5 | 3 |
| Eoc (Tannehill Lo.)27004500 | 3 | 0 |
| Novo-Allen (Morris)66263500 | 3 | 1 |
| Eureka (Duffer)29620400 | 3 | 1 |
P-5 organization report
As registered with the RRC. About the P-5 →
- Registration
- Status code Y
- Last filed Jul 4, 2026
- Gas operatorOil operator
- Address
- P O Box 2557
- Abilene, TX 79604
- (325) 201-7560
- Officers and agents
- Stearns, Katherine Diane · Secretary
- Stearns, John R Jr · Vice President
- Stearns, Josh · President
Latest permits
NEWEST FIRST BY ISSUE DATE · FILED OR ON WELLS IT NOW OPERATES
| Permit | Seen | Issued | Operator | County | Lease / well | Depth | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 913051 | Jan 26, 2026 | Jan 26, 2026 | Quail Well Service, Inc. | Runnels | Forman #1 | 5,000 | 39903066 |
| 909921 | Aug 19, 2025 | Aug 19, 2025 | Quail Well Service, Inc. | Taylor | Gray Line Gray Sand Unit #9 | 3,953 | 44103649 |
| 909837 | Aug 15, 2025 | Aug 15, 2025 | Quail Well Service, Inc. | Taylor | Gray Line Gray Sand Unit #10 | 4,100 | 44134727 |
| 909837 | Aug 15, 2025 | Aug 15, 2025 | Quail Well Service, Inc. | Taylor | Gray Line Gray Sand Unit #10 | 4,100 | 44134727 |
| 907165 | Apr 8, 2025 | Apr 8, 2025 | Quail Well Service, Inc. | Taylor | Gray Line Gray Sand Unit #8 | 4,010 | 44180568 |
| 897001 | Feb 9, 2024 | Feb 9, 2024 | Quail Well Service, Inc. | Taylor | Gray Line Gray Sand Unit #7 | 4,100 | 44134692 |
| 892900 | Aug 22, 2023 | Aug 22, 2023 | Quail Well Service, Inc. | Taylor | Gray Line Gray Sand Unit #6 | 4,100 | 44134688 |
| 879420 | May 18, 2022 | May 18, 2022 | Quail Well Service, Inc. | Taylor | Gray Line Gray Sand Unit #5 | 4,020 | 44105226 |
| 879743 | May 9, 2022 | May 9, 2022 | Quail Well Service, Inc. | Taylor | Gray Line Gray Sand Unit #1W | 5,629 | 44105194 |
| 873467 | Dec 28, 2021 | Dec 28, 2021 | Quail Well Service, Inc. | Taylor | Gray Line Gray Sand Unit #3 | 4,000 | 44105227 |
| 873466 | Nov 18, 2021 | Nov 18, 2021 | Quail Well Service, Inc. | Taylor | Gray Line Gray Sand Unit #2 | 3,950 | 44101768 |
| 873307 | Oct 7, 2021 | Oct 7, 2021 | Quail Well Service, Inc. | Taylor | Gray Line Gray Sand Unit #4 | 4,000 | 44101810 |
| 805562 | Apr 16, 2015 | Apr 16, 2015 | L.C.S. Production Company | Nolan | Oxo-Williams #5701 | 7,000 | 35333564 |
| 805562 | Apr 16, 2015 | Apr 16, 2015 | L.C.S. Production Company | Nolan | Oxo-Williams #5701 | 7,000 | 35333564 |
| 789400 | Jul 22, 2014 | Jul 22, 2014 | Quail Well Service, Inc. | Stonewall | Flat Top 166 #2 | 4,000 | 43300147 |
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/684502, documented in the API reference.