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OPERATORS · RRC 732229  · P-5 STATUS Y

RP Oper, L.L.C

Houston, TX · most active in Reagan County

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RP Oper, L.L.C was issued 1 drilling permit in the past 12 months, down 97% on the prior year, all in Reagan County. 0% were horizontal.

None were issued in the past 90 days.

The RRC wellbore file lists 174 wells under its operatorship (82 producing, 33 shut in).

Lease reports credit it with 2.68M barrels of oil and 15.9M mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, down 34% on the year before.

It holds 5 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 5.81M barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

219 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 2015; its P-5 organization report was last filed February 4, 2026.

1
permits, last 12 months
-97%
vs prior 12 months (30)
1
counties, 12 months
82
producing wells, of 174 of record
119
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.

75%
spud rate · 164 of 219 mature permits
45
median days permit to spud · middle half 16–85
0
spuds, last 180 days
0%
cancelled · 0 permits
55
expired undrilled
20
permits a year over 11 active years

Permits issued by month

LAST 20 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 83

010203020222023202420252026

Where

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

County12 moAll timeWellsLast
Reagan county →1181156Jan 20, 2026
Upton county →—3313Aug 3, 2021
Glasscock county →—23Dec 16, 2015
Midland county →—21Nov 4, 2015
Howard county →—11Nov 8, 2019

All 219 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 Andres9831
Spraberry9427
Grayburg9231
Clear Fork8527
Queen7829
Wolfcamp7019
Dean5216
Seven Rivers20
Yates20
Glorieta20
Santa Rosa10

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 →

2.68M
bbl oil, last 12 reported months
-34%
vs the 12 months before
15.9M
mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
15.8M
bbl oil since reporting began

Oil, barrels

Last 12 months 2,676,075 · prior 12 4,074,007(-34%)

0200K400K600K202420252026

Gas, mcf

Last 12 months 15,940,428 · prior 12 14,311,675(+11%)

0500K1M1.5M202420252026

Beyond the permit record

RRC wellbore file

Wells of record

174
on the schedule
82
producing
33
shut in
5
injection
0
temp. abandoned
47
plugged

How it got them

88
permitted itself
57
acquired from others
4
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

5
active UIC permits of 13
100K
permitted bbl/day, active
5.81M
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025
reported through

By county

Reagan5 active100K bbl/d
Glasscock0 active0 bbl/d
Upton0 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
Drill125219

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)8528030016481
Benedum (Fusselman)710950020
F.G. (Strawn)2988745020
John Scott (Grayburg)4693550020
Weger West (Grayburg)9587450010
Big Lake N. (Fusselman)792166611
Big Lake (San Andres)791958110
Spraberry (Trend Area Dev.)8528060010

P-5 organization report

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

Registration
Status code Y
Last filed Feb 4, 2026
Gas operatorOil operator
Address
1200 Smith St Ste 1950
Houston, TX 77002
(713) 614-2214
Officers and agents
Riverbend Permian, L.L.C. · Governing Person
Newcomer, Randolph Jr · President,ceo
Rice, Scott · Vice President

Latest permits

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

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorCountyLease / wellDepthAPI
912887Jan 20, 2026Jan 20, 2026RP Operating, L.L.C.ReaganBig Gulp SWD 9 #1D3,37738342277
903682Apr 14, 2025Apr 14, 2025RP Operating, L.L.C.ReaganCoates SWD 2 #3D3,22038342031
907100Apr 7, 2025Apr 7, 2025RP Operating, L.L.C.ReaganUniversity CR 31-19 LB #3HH12,00038342049
907100Apr 7, 2025Apr 7, 2025RP Operating, L.L.C.ReaganUniversity CR 31-19 LB #3HH12,00038342049
906143Feb 27, 2025Feb 27, 2025RP Operating, L.L.C.ReaganTangelo E 1-4 #5HH10,00038341990
906142Feb 27, 2025Feb 27, 2025RP Operating, L.L.C.ReaganTangelo D 1-4 #4HH10,00038341989
906140Feb 27, 2025Feb 27, 2025RP Operating, L.L.C.ReaganTangelo C 1-4 #3HH10,00038341988
906139Feb 27, 2025Feb 27, 2025RP Operating, L.L.C.ReaganTangelo B 1-4 #2HH10,00038341987
904026Nov 15, 2024Nov 15, 2024RP Operating, L.L.C.ReaganCheddar E 202-176 #5HH10,00038341906
904026Nov 15, 2024Nov 15, 2024RP Operating, L.L.C.ReaganCheddar E 202-176 #5HH10,00038341906
904024Nov 15, 2024Nov 15, 2024RP Operating, L.L.C.ReaganCheddar D 202-176 #4HH10,00038341905
904024Nov 15, 2024Nov 15, 2024RP Operating, L.L.C.ReaganCheddar D 202-176 #4HH10,00038341905
904023Nov 15, 2024Nov 15, 2024RP Operating, L.L.C.ReaganCheddar C 202-176 #3HH10,00038341904
904023Nov 15, 2024Nov 15, 2024RP Operating, L.L.C.ReaganCheddar C 202-176 #3HH10,00038341904
904022Nov 15, 2024Nov 15, 2024RP Operating, L.L.C.ReaganCheddar B 202-176 #2HH10,00038341903

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/732229, documented in the API reference.