OPERATORS · RRC 773842 · P-5 STATUS Y

Shell Western E&P Inc

Houston, TX

Shell Western E&P Inc has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued December 30, 1996.

31 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1995; its P-5 organization report was last filed October 3, 1997.

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.

90%: spud rate · 28 of 31 mature permits
20: median days permit to spud · middle half 10–36
0: spuds, last 180 days
3%: cancelled · 1 permits
2: expired undrilled
16: permits a year over 2 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
Hockley county →	—	31	0	Dec 30, 1996

All 31 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
San Andres	27	0
Yates	3	0
Santa Rosa	1	0
Rustler	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
4.68M: 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
26: 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 2
0: permitted bbl/day, active
0: bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025: reported through

By county

Hockley

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	31

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed Oct 3, 1997

Address: P O Box 576; Houston, TX 77001

Officers and agents: Esquivel, J.M. · Texas Resident Agent; Little, Jack E. · President; Cook, L.Z. · Vice President; Strebel, D.W. · Vice President

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
456585	Dec 30, 1996	Dec 30, 1996	Shell Land & Energy Co.	Hockley	Southeast Levelland Unit #352	5,000	21936310
455655	Dec 3, 1996	Dec 3, 1996	Shell Land & Energy Co.	Hockley	Southeast Levelland Unit #348	5,000	21936305
454458	Oct 30, 1996	Oct 30, 1996	Shell Land & Energy Co.	Hockley	Southeast Levelland Unit #351	5,000	21936297
454457	Oct 30, 1996	Oct 30, 1996	Shell Land & Energy Co.	Hockley	Southeast Levelland Unit #350	5,000	21936296
453577	Oct 10, 1996	Oct 10, 1996	Shell Land & Energy Co.	Hockley	Southeast Levelland Unit #347	5,000	21936292
453576	Oct 10, 1996	Oct 10, 1996	Shell Land & Energy Co.	Hockley	Southeast Levelland Unit #346	5,000	21936291
453575	Oct 10, 1996	Oct 10, 1996	Shell Land & Energy Co.	Hockley	Southeast Levelland Unit #207AW	5,000	21936290
453574	Oct 10, 1996	Oct 10, 1996	Shell Land & Energy Co.	Hockley	Southeast Levelland Unit #349	5,000	21936289
448584	Jun 3, 1996	Jun 3, 1996	Shell Land & Energy Co.	Hockley	Central Levelland Unit #311	5,000	21936262
447259	Apr 30, 1996	Apr 30, 1996	Shell Land & Energy Co.	Hockley	Central Levelland Unit #312	5,000	21936260
447247	Apr 30, 1996	Apr 30, 1996	Shell Land & Energy Co.	Hockley	Central Levelland Unit #310	5,000	21936252
446787	Apr 12, 1996	Apr 12, 1996	Shell Land & Energy Co.	Hockley	Central Levelland Unit #312	5,000	21936260
446788	Apr 10, 1996	Apr 10, 1996	Shell Land & Energy Co.	Hockley	Central Levelland Unit #308	5,000	21936241
446786	Apr 10, 1996	Apr 10, 1996	Shell Land & Energy Co.	Hockley	Central Levelland Unit #309	5,000	21936242
446785	Apr 10, 1996	Apr 10, 1996	Shell Land & Energy Co.	Hockley	Central Levelland Unit #307	5,000	21936243

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/773842, documented in the API reference.