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OPERATORS · RRC 760725  · P-5 STATUS Y

Surge Oper, LLC

Houston, TX · most active in Howard County

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Surge Oper, LLC was issued 64 drilling permits in the past 12 months, down 3% on the prior year, across 2 counties led by Howard with 41. 97% were horizontal.

15 were issued in the past 90 days, down 17% on the prior quarter.

The RRC wellbore file lists 1,295 wells under its operatorship (782 producing, 270 shut in).

Lease reports credit it with 16.7M barrels of oil and 64.7M mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, down 19% on the year before.

It holds 123 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 45.5M barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

1,228 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 2014; its P-5 organization report was last filed May 4, 2026.

64
permits, last 12 months
-3%
vs prior 12 months (66)
2
counties, 12 months
782
producing wells, of 1.3K of record
330
leases it reports
97%
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.

82%
spud rate · 982 of 1,196 mature permits
40
median days permit to spud · middle half 23–70
0
spuds, last 180 days -100%
0%
cancelled · 0 permits
245
expired undrilled
95
permits a year over 13 active years

Permits issued by month

LAST 49 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 70 · prior 12 123(-43%)

010203020222023202420252026

Where

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

County12 moAll timeWellsLast
Howard county →41904792Oct 9, 2026
Borden county →23253196Aug 25, 2026
Crosby county →—71294Dec 17, 2019

All 1,228 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 Andres732119
Clear Fork711120
Yates698118
Spraberry692119
Rustler411120
Dean38570
Glorieta343109
Wolfcamp32611
Santa Rosa640
Queen160
Seven Rivers150
Leonard70
Coleman Junction30
Grayburg20
Pennsylvanian11

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 →

16.7M
bbl oil, last 12 reported months
-19%
vs the 12 months before
64.7M
mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
172M
bbl oil since reporting began

Oil, barrels

Last 12 months 16,686,314 · prior 12 20,560,894(-19%)

01M2M202420252026

Gas, mcf

Last 12 months 64,746,274 · prior 12 62,069,983(+4%)

05M10M202420252026

Beyond the permit record

RRC wellbore file

Wells of record

1,295
on the schedule
782
producing
270
shut in
57
injection
0
temp. abandoned
156
plugged

How it got them

712
permitted itself
535
acquired from others
3
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

123
active UIC permits of 202
683K
permitted bbl/day, active
45.5M
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025
reported through

By county

Howard17 active268K bbl/d
Crosby99 active260K bbl/d
Borden6 active140K bbl/d
Gaines1 active15K 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
Drill62661,187
Recompletion2037
Field transfer004
Reclass001

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)85280300902654
Hoople (Clear Fork)42499500292122
Vealmoor East93310001610
JO-Mill (Spraberry)46564750196
Luther SE. (Silurian-Devonian)55822500100
Oceanic (Pennsylvanian)6666950020
Forbes (Glorieta)3189333320
Big Spring (Fusselman)804440020
Howard Glasscock (Clear Fork MI)4297116610
Clara Good (Fusselman)1853550010
Vealmoor9330800110
China Beach (Penn Reef)1781027510

P-5 organization report

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

Registration
Status code Y
Last filed May 4, 2026
Oil operator
Address
11330 Clay Road Ste 200
Houston, TX 77041
(832) 495-6024
Officers and agents
C T Corporation System · Texas Resident Agent
Guan, Linhua · Managing Member
Waters, Weldon · Filing Agent
Daly, Kyle · Filing Agent
Gartner, Emily · Filing Agent

Latest permits

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

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorCountyLease / wellDepthAPI
919167Oct 11, 2026Oct 9, 2026Surge Operating, LLCHowardTubb 39 #310,17022737425
919166Oct 11, 2026Oct 9, 2026Surge Operating, LLCHowardTubb 39 #19,90022736348
918979Oct 3, 2026Oct 1, 2026Surge Operating, LLCHowardMiyagi E 38-35 #2AHH9,00022742930
918977Oct 3, 2026Oct 1, 2026Surge Operating, LLCHowardMiyagi D 38-35 #1AHH9,00022742929
918748Sep 24, 2026Sep 21, 2026Surge Operating, LLCHowardNewdge B 06-43 #7MHH9,00022742928
918747Sep 24, 2026Sep 21, 2026Surge Operating, LLCHowardNewdge a 06-43 #6NHH9,00022742927
918463Sep 13, 2026Sep 11, 2026Surge Operating, LLCHowardMiddleton Unit a 47-38 #3MHH9,00022742926
918461Sep 13, 2026Sep 11, 2026Surge Operating, LLCHowardMiddleton Unit a 47-38 #3CHH9,00022742925
918456Sep 13, 2026Sep 11, 2026Surge Operating, LLCHowardMiddleton Unit a 47-38 #2MHH9,00022742924
918218Sep 6, 2026Sep 4, 2026Surge Operating, LLCHowardPalpatine B 46-03 #2DHH9,00022742922
918217Sep 4, 2026Sep 2, 2026Surge Operating, LLCHowardPalpatine a 46-03 #1DHH9,00022742921
918030Aug 27, 2026Aug 25, 2026Surge Operating, LLCBordenJotunn Unit a 25-24 #1JHH9,00003332868
918029Aug 27, 2026Aug 25, 2026Surge Operating, LLCBordenJotunn Unit a 25-24 #1AHH9,00003332867
917729Aug 14, 2026Aug 12, 2026Surge Operating, LLCBordenChimera Unit a 07-18 #3AHH9,00003332864
917735Aug 13, 2026Aug 11, 2026Surge Operating, LLCBordenChimera Unit B 07-18 #4NHH9,00003332865

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.

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