OPERATORS · RRC 784148 · P-5 STATUS Y

Sims, John S

Lawn, TX

Sims, John S has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued November 18, 1998.

The RRC wellbore file lists 20 wells under its operatorship.

6 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1988; its P-5 organization report was last filed December 7, 2001.

0: permits, last 12 months
—: vs prior 12 months (0)
0: counties, 12 months
0: producing wells, of 20 of record
6: 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.

17%: spud rate · 1 of 6 mature permits
—: median days permit to spud
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
Taylor county →	—	4	3	Nov 18, 1998
Runnels county →	—	2	17	Jun 23, 1988

All 6 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
Ellenburger	1	0
Palo Pinto	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
28.1K: 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

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

How it got them

3: permitted itself
14: acquired from others
0: 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
Reenter	0	0	2
Field transfer	0	0	2
Recompletion	0	0	2

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
Ashton (Dog Bend)4121333	3	0
Lawn Southwest52468001	3	0
Freeman32908001	2	0
Cecile (Gardner)16520500	1	0
Chris (Gardner Upper)17955500	1	0
Crews South (Dog Bend Lime)21735125	1	0
Crews South (Fry Lo.)21735375	1	0
Bernard (Gardner Lower)7300500	1	0
Kendrick (Gardner)48830333	1	0
King (Ellenburger)49398500	1	0
Bernard (Fry Lo.)7300300	1	0
N.A.M. (Fry)64230500	1	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed Dec 7, 2001

Address: PO Box 7; Lawn, TX 79530

Officers and agents: Sims, John S. · Owner

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
480827	Nov 18, 1998	Nov 18, 1998	Sims, John S.	Taylor	Patterson, C. O. #2	4,825	44131758
480825	Nov 18, 1998	Nov 18, 1998	Sims, John S.	Taylor	Patterson, C. O. #3	4,554	44132095
412305	Jun 15, 1993	Jun 15, 1993	Sims, John S.	Taylor	Lake Kirby Unit #301	2,000	44101937
412304	Jun 15, 1993	Jun 15, 1993	Sims, John S.	Taylor	Lake Kirby Unit #303	1,872	44101938
347787	Jun 23, 1988	Jun 23, 1988	Sims, John S.	Runnels	McCord #1	3,440	39932170
347786	Jun 16, 1988	Jun 16, 1988	Sims, John S.	Runnels	Wilkerson #2	4,700	39933235
300876	Apr 10, 1986	Apr 10, 1986	Doan Oil Company	Runnels	Sims #3	4,000	39933708
275707	May 22, 1985	May 22, 1985	Doan Oil Company	Runnels	Sims #2	3,600	39933540
248297	Aug 14, 1984	Aug 14, 1984	J & R Petroleum Inc	Runnels	McCord #1	4,800	39933297
240944	Jun 4, 1984	Jun 4, 1984	J & R Petroleum Inc	Runnels	Wilkerson #2	5,000	39933235
212997	Sep 19, 1983	Sep 19, 1983	Doan Oil Company	Runnels	Grissom, Adeline #2	3,450	39932944
212735	Sep 16, 1983	Sep 16, 1983	Doan Oil Company	Runnels	Sims #7	3,480	39932915
188703	Mar 16, 1983	Mar 16, 1983	Doan Oil Company	Runnels	Grissom, Adeline #1	3,450	39932695
160316	May 6, 1982	May 6, 1982	Texcan Resources Corp.	Runnels	McCord #3-A	4,000	39932447
158709	Apr 20, 1982	Apr 20, 1982	Pace Operating, Inc.	Runnels	Klutts, I #1	3,785	39931754

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/784148, documented in the API reference.