OPERATORS · RRC 70445 · P-5 STATUS Y

Big Star Oil & Gas, LLC

Midland, TX

Big Star Oil & Gas, LLC has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued November 19, 2015.

The RRC wellbore file lists 17 wells under its operatorship.

173 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 2006; its P-5 organization report was last filed September 8, 2017.

0: permits, last 12 months
—: vs prior 12 months (0)
0: counties, 12 months
0: producing wells, of 17 of record
20: 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.

82%: spud rate · 141 of 173 mature permits
24: median days permit to spud · middle half 9–50
0: spuds, last 180 days
0%: cancelled · 0 permits
32: expired undrilled
19: permits a year over 9 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
Howard county →	—	84	3	Nov 19, 2015
Dawson county →	—	56	4	Dec 22, 2014
Borden county →	—	14	0	May 15, 2014
Martin county →	—	12	2	Nov 6, 2013
Ector county →	—	3	0	May 27, 2014
Mitchell county →	—	3	0	May 10, 2012
Garza county →	—	1	4	Apr 8, 2009

All 173 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
Spraberry	69	0
Yates	48	0
San Andres	47	0
Wolfcamp	43	0
Mississippian	29	0
Leonard	29	0
Dean	28	0
Strawn	25	0
Clear Fork	25	0
Rustler	23	0
Cline	22	0
Glorieta	20	0
Seven Rivers	18	0
Coleman Junction	15	0
Atoka	12	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
2.72M: 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

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

How it got them

4: permitted itself
12: acquired from others
102: 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 1
0: permitted bbl/day, active
0: bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025: reported through

By county

Culberson

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	159
Recompletion	0	0	6
Reenter	0	0	5
Field transfer	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
Kirkpatrick (Penn.)49678500	3	0
Spraberry (Trend Area)85280300	3	0
Ackerly (Dean Sand)448200	2	0
Watco (Gray Burg)95440300	2	0
Gin (Spraberry)34961750	1	0
Kirkpatrick South49686001	1	0
Lamesa West (Spraberry)51742666	1	0
Los Ybanez (Spraberry)55018500	1	0
Perriwinkle (Canyon)70661300	1	0
Ford West (4100)31913500	1	0
Key West (Spraberry)49125500	1	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed Sep 8, 2017

Address: PO Box 51470; Midland, TX 79710; (432) 288-2187

Officers and agents: Cross, Bradley C. · Member/Manager; Swanson, Stella M. · Member/Manager

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
811843	Nov 19, 2015	Nov 19, 2015	Big Star Oil & Gas, LLC	Howard	Silver City Unit #A 1HH	10,000	22738674
808843	Jul 31, 2015	Jul 31, 2015	Big Star Oil & Gas, LLC	Howard	Masters Unit #A 1HH	10,000	22738594
808151	Jul 16, 2015	Jul 16, 2015	Big Star Oil & Gas, LLC	Howard	Ponderosa Unit #L 1HH	10,000	22738582
803535	Feb 17, 2015	Feb 17, 2015	Big Star Oil & Gas, LLC	Howard	Gunslinger Unit #L 4HH	10,000	22738483
802816	Jan 16, 2015	Jan 16, 2015	Big Star Oil & Gas, LLC	Howard	Lita Green 27 #1	12,000	22738460
802077	Dec 22, 2014	Dec 22, 2014	Big Star Oil & Gas, LLC	Dawson	Brown 37 A #1	12,000	11533711
802076	Dec 22, 2014	Dec 22, 2014	Big Star Oil & Gas, LLC	Howard	Jaguar 28 #2	12,000	22738440
799874	Nov 7, 2014	Nov 7, 2014	Big Star Oil & Gas, LLC	Howard	Cates 24 #2	11,000	22738378
798619	Oct 23, 2014	Oct 23, 2014	Big Star Oil & Gas, LLC	Howard	Gunslinger Unit #A 3HH	10,000	22738357
797324	Oct 8, 2014	Oct 8, 2014	Big Star Oil & Gas, LLC	Howard	Oakmont 23 #1	12,000	22738306
794621	Sep 30, 2014	Sep 30, 2014	Big Star Oil & Gas, LLC	Howard	Pebble Beach 28 #2	12,000	22738243
795256	Sep 29, 2014	Sep 29, 2014	Big Star Oil & Gas, LLC	Howard	Ryder Unit #A 2HH	10,000	22738257
795256	Sep 29, 2014	Sep 29, 2014	Big Star Oil & Gas, LLC	Howard	Ryder Unit #A 2HH	10,000	22738257
795261	Sep 19, 2014	Sep 19, 2014	Big Star Oil & Gas, LLC	Howard	Open Unit #A 2HH	10,000	22738258
793244	Aug 27, 2014	Aug 27, 2014	Big Star Oil & Gas, LLC	Howard	Mountain Cat 26 #2	1,200	22738218

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/70445, documented in the API reference.