OPERATORS · RRC 712840 · P-5 STATUS Y

Rio Petro, Inc

Amarillo, TX

Rio Petro, Inc has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued August 27, 2020.

The RRC wellbore file lists 83 wells under its operatorship (24 producing).

Lease reports credit it with 58.8K barrels of oil and 163K mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, down 36% on the year before.

It holds 3 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 556K barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

128 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1980; its P-5 organization report was last filed July 4, 2026.

0: permits, last 12 months
—: vs prior 12 months (0)
0: counties, 12 months
24: producing wells, of 83 of record
80: 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.

55%: spud rate · 70 of 128 mature permits
39: median days permit to spud · middle half 20–63
0: spuds, last 180 days
2%: cancelled · 2 permits
56: expired undrilled
3: permits a year over 41 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
Gray county →	—	31	31	Aug 20, 1999
Hardeman county →	—	25	7	Jan 24, 2013
Wheeler county →	—	13	6	Jul 23, 2019
Oldham county →	—	10	4	Mar 19, 2007
Hartley county →	—	9	7	Aug 27, 2020
Hemphill county →	—	8	1	Sep 19, 1997
Ochiltree county →	—	5	7	Mar 28, 2002
Carson county →	—	4	4	Jan 20, 2010
Brazoria county →	—	3	0	Jul 23, 1982
Lipscomb county →	—	3	0	Sep 26, 1984
Roberts county →	—	3	0	Mar 19, 2002
Bandera county →	—	2	0	Oct 30, 2000
Galveston county →	—	2	0	Nov 8, 1984
Hutchinson county →	—	2	4	Mar 17, 1992
Sherman county →	—	2	7	Nov 5, 2014
Gaines county →	—	1	1	Aug 24, 1994
Hansford county →	—	1	1	Nov 4, 1988
Kent county →	—	1	0	May 20, 2002
Liberty county →	—	1	0	Aug 7, 1996
Lubbock county →	—	1	0	Dec 31, 1992
Wilbarger county →	—	1	1	Jun 23, 1997

All 128 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
Granite Wash	23	0
Brown Dolomite	19	0
Pennsylvanian	10	0
Panhandle Lime	9	0
Douglas	6	0
Red Cave	6	0
Palo Pinto	5	0
Atoka	4	0
Canyon	4	0
Ellenburger	3	0
Chester	3	0
Tubb	3	0
Glorieta	3	0
Morrow	2	0
Barnett	2	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 →

58.8K: bbl oil, last 12 reported months
-36%: vs the 12 months before
163K: mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
7.34M: bbl oil since reporting began

Oil, barrels

Last 12 months 58,776 · prior 12 91,987(-36%)

Gas, mcf

Last 12 months 163,179 · prior 12 158,795(+3%)

Beyond the permit record

RRC wellbore file

Wells of record

83: on the schedule
24: producing
0: shut in
2: injection
1: temp. abandoned
48: plugged

How it got them

23: permitted itself
27: acquired from others
44: 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

3: active UIC permits of 18
2.4K: permitted bbl/day, active
556K: bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025: reported through

By county

Hardeman	1 active	1K bbl/d
Wheeler	1 active	1K bbl/d
Gray	1 active	400 bbl/d
Hartley	0 active	0 bbl/d
Carson	0 active	0 bbl/d
Oldham	0 active	0 bbl/d
Ochiltree	0 active	0 bbl/d
Reeves	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	78
Recompletion	0	0	26
Reenter	0	0	14
Other	0	0	7
Reclass	0	0	2
Field transfer	0	0	1

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
Panhandle Gray County Field68873001	30	20
Texas Hugoton89120001	5	2
Ricks (Morrow Upper)76541500	5	0
Lathem (Canyon Granite Wash)52260500	5	0
Panhandle West68831001	4	1
Rio (Chappel)76805075	3	1
Thorndike (Kinderhook)89560500	2	0
Panhandle Wheeler County Field68929001	2	0
Panhandle Carson County Field68845001	2	0
Panhandle West (Red Cave)68831200	2	0
Chapman Deep (Atoka)17030180	1	0
Kyle & Tapp(mississippian)50462500	1	0

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: 2805 SW 15TH Ave; Amarillo, TX 79102; (806) 290-4855

Officers and agents: Pierce, Barrett W. · President; Salgado, Stephen · Vice President; Pierce, Julia · Vice President; Nava, Michelle · Secretary

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
864699	Aug 27, 2020	Aug 27, 2020	Rio Petroleum, Inc.	Hartley	Powell E Unit #1	6,750	20530174
864699	Aug 27, 2020	Aug 27, 2020	Rio Petroleum, Inc.	Hartley	Powell E Unit #1	6,750	20530174
854281	Jul 23, 2019	Jul 23, 2019	Rio Petroleum, Inc.	Wheeler	Bailey #1092	13,250	48332244
796932	Nov 5, 2014	Nov 5, 2014	Rio Petroleum, Inc.	Sherman	Bryan #4	3,423	42131222
753572	Jan 24, 2013	Jan 24, 2013	Rio Petroleum, Inc.	Hardeman	Ms. Bettye A #4136	8,600	19731694
730624	Jan 3, 2012	Jan 3, 2012	Rio Petroleum, Inc.	Hartley	Kenneth L. Powell Estate #3	6,550	20530350
712912	Mar 30, 2011	Mar 30, 2011	Rio Petroleum, Inc.	Wheeler	Lohberger #1	12,150	48332050
687977	Jan 20, 2010	Jan 20, 2010	Rio Petroleum, Inc.	Carson	Sheridan #1	2,950	06531124
658695	Apr 14, 2008	Apr 14, 2008	Rio Petroleum, Inc.	Hardeman	Magee #2	8,500	19731625
655420	Feb 25, 2008	Feb 25, 2008	Rio Petroleum, Inc.	Hardeman	Atnip #1	9,000	19731624
654616	Feb 12, 2008	Feb 12, 2008	Rio Petroleum, Inc.	Hardeman	Ramey #1	9,000	19731623
653881	Feb 2, 2008	Feb 2, 2008	Chaparral Energy, L.L.C.	Sherman	Texhoma #1	6,900	42131085
644410	Aug 17, 2007	Aug 17, 2007	Rio Petroleum, Inc.	Wheeler	Bailey #2092	14,500	48330525
634547	Mar 19, 2007	Mar 19, 2007	Rio Petroleum, Inc.	Oldham	Rafter "O" #2028	7,000	35930307
634684	Mar 13, 2007	Mar 13, 2007	Rio Petroleum, Inc.	Wheeler	Bailey "E" #1	12,350	48331006

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/712840, documented in the API reference.