OPERATORS · RRC 750189 · P-5 STATUS Y

Scates Expl Co., Inc

Denver, CO

Scates Expl CO., Inc has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued July 31, 1980.

35 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1977; its P-5 organization report was last filed August 17, 1982.

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 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.

60%: spud rate · 21 of 35 mature permits
4: median days permit to spud · middle half 1–44
0: spuds, last 180 days
0%: cancelled · 0 permits
14: expired undrilled
9: 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	Last
Parker county →	—	25	Feb 13, 1980
Jasper county →	—	5	Jul 31, 1980
Erath county →	—	3	Jul 3, 1979
Hood county →	—	2	Apr 8, 1980

All 35 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
Strawn	1	0
Marble Falls	1	0
Pennsylvanian	1	0
Atoka	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
0: 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
21: 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	33
Recompletion	0	0	2

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed Aug 17, 1982

Address: PO Box 2250-%petro-Lewis Corp.; Denver, CO 80201

Officers and agents: Scates, Joe F. · President; Scates, Marion B. · Secretary/Treasurer

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
88446	Jul 31, 1980	Jul 31, 1980	Scates Exploration Co., Inc.	Jasper	Arco Fee "B" #3	10,340	24130317
77597	Apr 8, 1980	Apr 8, 1980	Scates Exploration Co., Inc.	Hood	Lawrence, Clifton H. #1	5,350	22130192
73106	Feb 21, 1980	Feb 21, 1980	Scates Exploration Co., Inc.	Jasper	Arco Fee "B" #1	10,330	24130139
72517	Feb 13, 1980	Feb 13, 1980	Scates Exploration Co., Inc.	Parker	Corley Gas Unit #1	3,000	36731865
63245	Nov 8, 1979	Nov 8, 1979	Scates Exploration Co., Inc.	Hood	Priddy #2	1,300	22130583
52140	Jul 3, 1979	Jul 3, 1979	Scates Exploration Co., Inc.	Erath	Hammond, Fred W. #1	4,700	14330501
52142	Jun 29, 1979	Jun 29, 1979	Scates Exploration Co., Inc.	Erath	Dawson #1	4,700	14330502
50395	Jun 8, 1979	Jun 8, 1979	Scates Exploration Co., Inc.	Jasper	Arco Fee "B" #3	10,700	24130317
38586	Dec 8, 1978	Dec 8, 1978	Scates Exploration Co., Inc.	Jasper	Ferrell Gas Unit #1	11,000	24130312
34039	Oct 3, 1978	Oct 3, 1978	Scates Exploration Co., Inc.	Erath	Odom, E. Tom Jr. #1	5,000	14330401
32619	Aug 2, 1978	Aug 2, 1978	Scates Exploration Co., Inc.	Parker	H. R. Lockwood Gas Unit #A-2	2,900	36730866
31278	Aug 2, 1978	Aug 2, 1978	Scates Exploration Co., Inc.	Parker	Sallee, J. W. "a" Gas Unit #2	3,000	36730540
28825	Jul 20, 1978	Jul 20, 1978	Scates Exploration Co., Inc.	Parker	Prochnow, E. Gas Unit #1	4,000	36731290
28617	Jul 17, 1978	Jul 17, 1978	Scates Exploration Co., Inc.	Parker	Richards Gas Unit #1	3,000	36730546
28616	Jul 17, 1978	Jul 17, 1978	Scates Exploration Co., Inc.	Parker	Lockwood, Harold R. Gas Unit #1	4,200	36730516

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/750189, documented in the API reference.