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OPERATORS · RRC 71331  · P-5 STATUS Y

Birch Operations, Inc

Houston, TX · most active in Dawson County

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Birch Operations, Inc was issued 8 drilling permits in the past 12 months, versus 5 in the prior year, all in Dawson County. 0% were horizontal.

None were issued in the past 90 days.

The RRC wellbore file lists 460 wells under its operatorship (190 producing, 236 shut in).

Lease reports credit it with 9.23M barrels of oil and 84M mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, down 42% on the year before.

It holds 3 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 12.6M barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

619 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 2018; its P-5 organization report was last filed January 4, 2026.

8
permits, last 12 months
+60%
vs prior 12 months (5)
1
counties, 12 months
190
producing wells, of 460 of record
212
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.

93%
spud rate · 575 of 619 mature permits
12
median days permit to spud · middle half 6–32
0
spuds, last 180 days
0%
cancelled · 0 permits
44
expired undrilled
77
permits a year over 8 active years

Permits issued by month

LAST 24 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 44 · prior 12 149(-70%)

020402022202320242025

Where

Counties by permits in the last 12 months, with all-time permits and current wells of record there.

County12 moAll timeWellsLast
Dawson county →84931Dec 19, 2025
Howard county →—357303Jun 18, 2024
Martin county →—199126May 13, 2025
Andrews county →—140Jan 6, 2023

All 619 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 →

FormationWellsPermitted last 3 yrs
San Andres44419
Yates44319
Spraberry43019
Clear Fork32715
Santa Rosa3077
Seven Rivers2902
Glorieta2882
Dean23417
Rustler1932
Queen1435
Grayburg1425
Wolfcamp976
Leonard350
Pennsylvanian20
Cisco10

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 →

9.23M
bbl oil, last 12 reported months
-42%
vs the 12 months before
84M
mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
119M
bbl oil since reporting began

Oil, barrels

Last 12 months 9,230,887 · prior 12 15,866,250(-42%)

01M2M3M202420252026

Gas, mcf

Last 12 months 83,963,119 · prior 12 80,987,138(+4%)

05M10M202420252026

Beyond the permit record

RRC wellbore file

Wells of record

460
on the schedule
190
producing
236
shut in
3
injection
0
temp. abandoned
25
plugged

How it got them

437
permitted itself
23
acquired from others
14
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 13
220K
permitted bbl/day, active
12.6M
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025
reported through

By county

Howard2 active140K bbl/d
Martin1 active80K bbl/d
Dawson0 active0 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 →

Type12 moPrior 12All time
Drill65617
Recompletion202

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.

FieldWellsProducing
Spraberry (Trend Area)85280300454187
Joy Snell S. (Canyon Reef)4738407552
Ackerly North (Canyon 9166)45031711

P-5 organization report

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

Registration
Status code Y
Last filed Jan 4, 2026
Oil operator
Address
2 Houston Center Suite 1400 909 Fannin Street
Houston, TX 77010
(713) 238-6071
Officers and agents
DE Los Santos, Vanessa · Filing Agent
Cansler, Jason Richard · President,ceo
Smythe, Julien Ravenel · Vice President
Frazier, David Marshall · Vice President
Alberter, Michael Edward III · Vice President
Dillett, Peter Michael · Vice President
McKamey, Jeremy Paul · Other
Hiemstra, Erik John · Vice President
All 9 on the P-5 →

Latest permits

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

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorCountyLease / wellDepthAPI
912221Dec 19, 2025Dec 19, 2025Birch Operations, Inc.DawsonHamil B #1WI9,40111532880
912210Dec 17, 2025Dec 17, 2025Birch Operations, Inc.DawsonHorne 47 #2WI9,28911533449
911615Nov 19, 2025Nov 19, 2025Birch Operations, Inc.DawsonHeartsbane 38 #3WI8,60011534099
911615Nov 19, 2025Nov 19, 2025Birch Operations, Inc.DawsonHeartsbane 38 #3WI8,60011534099
911614Nov 19, 2025Nov 19, 2025Birch Operations, Inc.DawsonHeartsbane 38 #2WI8,60011534098
911613Nov 19, 2025Nov 19, 2025Birch Operations, Inc.DawsonHeartsbane 38 #1WI8,60011534097
911613Nov 19, 2025Nov 19, 2025Birch Operations, Inc.DawsonHeartsbane 38 #1WI8,60011534097
911616Nov 7, 2025Nov 7, 2025Birch Operations, Inc.DawsonHeartsbane 47 #1WI8,60011534100
907854May 13, 2025May 13, 2025Birch Operations, Inc.MartinSuperfrog 12-24 F #7WDH9,70031746806
907854May 13, 2025May 13, 2025Birch Operations, Inc.MartinSuperfrog 12-24 E #7WDH9,70031746806
907822May 9, 2025May 9, 2025Birch Operations, Inc.MartinWillie the Wildcat 3-15 F #7WDH10,50031746804
907816May 9, 2025May 9, 2025Birch Operations, Inc.DawsonBreaker of Chains 42-43 C #6DNH8,50011534072
907815May 8, 2025May 8, 2025Birch Operations, Inc.DawsonBreaker of Chains 42-43 A #2DNH8,50011534071
900459Jun 18, 2024Jun 18, 2024Birch Operations, Inc.HowardDemon Deacon 22-25 E #7WDH10,00022742522
900436Jun 18, 2024Jun 18, 2024Birch Operations, Inc.HowardCharlie Oredigger 22-25 E #7WDH10,00022742517

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/71331, documented in the API reference.