OPERATORS · RRC 72401 · P-5 STATUS Y

Birge Oil Co

Wichita Falls, TX

Birge Oil CO has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued May 30, 1990.

The RRC wellbore file lists 2 wells under its operatorship.

7 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1980; its P-5 organization report was last filed May 3, 1996.

0: permits, last 12 months
—: vs prior 12 months (0)
0: counties, 12 months
0: producing wells, of 2 of record
2: 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.

29%: spud rate · 2 of 7 mature permits
5: median days permit to spud · middle half 5–5
0: spuds, last 180 days
0%: cancelled · 0 permits
5: expired undrilled
1: permits a year over 11 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
Hardeman county →	—	2	0	Feb 7, 1990
King county →	—	2	0	May 27, 1980
Wichita county →	—	2	2	Feb 26, 1987
Young county →	—	1	0	May 30, 1990

All 7 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
Canyon	1	0
Gunsight	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 →

0: bbl oil, last 12 reported months
—: vs the 12 months before
0: mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
28.7K: 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

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

How it got them

0: permitted itself
2: acquired from others
2: 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 9
0: permitted bbl/day, active
0: bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025: reported through

By county

Young

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	6
Reenter	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
Wichita County Regular97155001	2	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed May 3, 1996

Address: 3101 Jacksboro Hwy; Wichita Falls, TX 76302

Officers and agents: Birge, Donald D. · Owner

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
391608	Sep 13, 1991	Sep 13, 1991	Eratz Investments Inc.	Wichita	Bishop "A" #2A	1,990	48542421
387691	May 9, 1991	May 9, 1991	Diamond Energy, Inc.	Wichita	Bishop "B" #1B	1,990	48542356
372369	May 30, 1990	May 30, 1990	Birge Oil Co.	Young	Cullers "A" #B 1	3,000	50300422
369461	Feb 7, 1990	Feb 7, 1990	Birge Oil Co.	Hardeman	McGowan #4	6,500	19731120
341345	Jan 14, 1988	Jan 14, 1988	Birge Oil Co.	Hardeman	McGowan #3	6,100	19731050
326992	Feb 26, 1987	Feb 26, 1987	Birge Oil Co.	Wichita	George, N. #15	1,900	48541295
325946	Feb 2, 1987	Feb 2, 1987	Birge Oil Co.	Wichita	George, N. #14	1,900	48541271
82117	May 27, 1980	May 27, 1980	Birge Oil Co.	King	Alexander Trust #2A	3,087	26930894
71661	Feb 4, 1980	Feb 4, 1980	Birge Oil Co.	King	Alexander Trust #1A	3,600	26930879

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/72401, documented in the API reference.