OPERATORS · RRC 711250 · P-5 INACTIVE

Ridley & Preston

Odessa, TX

Ridley & Preston has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued May 7, 1985.

8 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1982; its P-5 organization report was last filed October 20, 1992.

0: permits, last 12 months
—: vs prior 12 months (0)
0: counties, 12 months
0: producing wells, of 0 of record
0: leases it reports
—: horizontal, 12 months

WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 5, 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.

13%: spud rate · 1 of 8 mature permits
37: median days permit to spud · middle half 37–37
0: spuds, last 180 days
0%: cancelled · 0 permits
7: expired undrilled
2: permits a year over 4 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
Upton county →	—	7	0	May 7, 1985
Reagan county →	—	1	0	Mar 1, 1984

All 8 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	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
3.75K: 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

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

How it got them

0: permitted itself
0: acquired from others
5: permitted, now run by others

Acquired means the well's permit names a different operator than the schedule does today. Transfers and operator numbers →

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	6
Other	0	0	1
Recompletion	0	0	1

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status Inactive; Last filed Oct 20, 1992

Address: 201 W. 83RD Street; Odessa, TX 79764; (432) 366-8951

Officers and agents: Ridley, O. H. · Partner; Preston, Hugh B. · Partner; Preston, Bruce Cole · Partner

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
274561	May 7, 1985	May 7, 1985	Ridley & Preston	Upton	Greathouse #5	8,800	46132402
274384	May 7, 1985	May 7, 1985	Ridley & Preston	Upton	Massie "A" #7	8,800	46132401
273229	Apr 23, 1985	Apr 23, 1985	Ridley & Preston	Upton	Massie "A" #6	8,800	46132388
233883	Mar 29, 1984	Mar 29, 1984	Ridley & Preston	Upton	Massie "A" #5	8,800	46132168
231054	Mar 1, 1984	Mar 1, 1984	Ridley & Preston	Reagan	Massie "A" #4	8,800	38332959
217087	Oct 13, 1983	Oct 13, 1983	Ridley & Preston	Upton	Greathouse "A" #7	6,722	46100838
218115	Oct 11, 1983	Oct 11, 1983	Ridley & Preston	Upton	Massie "A" #3	8,800	46132077
148929	Jan 27, 1982	Jan 27, 1982	Ridley & Preston	Upton	Greathouse "A" #4	8,400	46103679

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/711250, documented in the API reference.