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OPERATORS · RRC 817394  · P-5 STATUS Y

Stelzer Drilling Co. Inc

Post, TX

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Stelzer Drilling CO. Inc has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued October 17, 2024.

The RRC wellbore file lists 79 wells under its operatorship (45 producing).

Lease reports credit it with 48.5K barrels of oil and 0 mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, down 1% on the year before.

It holds 9 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 791K barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

18 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1997; its P-5 organization report was last filed July 4, 2026.

0
permits, last 12 months
—
vs prior 12 months (0)
0
counties, 12 months
45
producing wells, of 79 of record
16
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.

72%
spud rate · 13 of 18 mature permits
63
median days permit to spud · middle half 26–290
0
spuds, last 180 days
0%
cancelled · 0 permits
5
expired undrilled
1
permits a year over 28 active years

Permits issued by month

LAST 1 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 2

012

Where

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

County12 moAll timeWellsLast
Garza county →—1354Apr 24, 2008
Crosby county →—525Oct 17, 2024

All 18 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 Andres90
Glorieta50
Clear Fork30
Santa Rosa30
Yates10

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 →

48.5K
bbl oil, last 12 reported months
-1%
vs the 12 months before
0
mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
3.13M
bbl oil since reporting began

Oil, barrels

Last 12 months 48,483 · prior 12 48,973(-1%)

02K4K6K202420252026

Beyond the permit record

RRC wellbore file

Wells of record

79
on the schedule
45
producing
0
shut in
7
injection
0
temp. abandoned
16
plugged

How it got them

10
permitted itself
60
acquired from others
1
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

9
active UIC permits of 12
6.95K
permitted bbl/day, active
791K
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025
reported through

By county

Garza7 active5.45K bbl/d
Crosby2 active1.5K 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
Drill0017
Reenter001

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
Garza341130013022
Ridge South (Clear Fork)76599500150
Post (Glorieta)72552500159
Ridge South (Glorieta)7659960075
Aycock (Glorieta)457733333
Forbes (San Andres)3189366633
Hoople (Clear Fork)4249950033
Forbes (Glorieta)3189333320
Garza East (Glorieta)3411450010

P-5 organization report

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

Registration
Status code Y
Last filed Jul 4, 2026
Oil operator
Address
PO Box 884
Post, TX 79356
(806) 269-4836
Officers and agents
Stelzer, Christopher J · President
Barner, James Trey · Secretary
Samsel, Kimberly · Filing Agent

Latest permits

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

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorCountyLease / wellDepthAPI
903269Oct 17, 2024Oct 17, 2024Stelzer Drilling Co. Inc.CrosbyPrice #203,98510732197
903262Oct 17, 2024Oct 17, 2024Stelzer Drilling Co. Inc.CrosbyPrice #213,98510732196
674594Dec 30, 2008Dec 30, 2008Stelzer Drilling Co. Inc.CrosbyPrice #184,00010731122
673792Nov 12, 2008Nov 12, 2008Stelzer Drilling Co. Inc.CrosbyPrice #194,00010731121
658918Apr 24, 2008Apr 24, 2008Stelzer Drilling Co. Inc.GarzaCole, R.D. #74,00016900734
653824Mar 28, 2008Mar 28, 2008Stelzer Drilling Co. Inc.GarzaR.D. Cole #64,00016933891
657370Mar 14, 2008Mar 14, 2008Stelzer Drilling Co. Inc.CrosbyPrice #174,00010731088
653825Feb 28, 2008Feb 28, 2008Stelzer Drilling Co. Inc.GarzaR.D. Cole #54,00016933892
553382Nov 16, 2004Nov 16, 2004Stelzer Drilling Co. Inc.GarzaKirkpatrick "A" #103,50016933741
553381Nov 16, 2004Nov 16, 2004Stelzer Drilling Co. Inc.GarzaKirkpatrick "A" #113,50016933740
520371May 30, 2002May 30, 2002Stelzer Drilling Co. Inc.GarzaKirkpatrick "A" #93,50016933671
520162May 22, 2002May 22, 2002Stelzer Drilling Co. Inc.GarzaStoker, K. #113,50016933669
499256Sep 12, 2000Sep 12, 2000Stelzer Drilling Co. Inc.GarzaKirkpatrick "A" #83,50016933609
495501Jun 7, 2000Jun 7, 2000Stelzer Drilling Co. Inc.GarzaFranklin, O. B. #74,00016933591
495500May 31, 2000May 31, 2000Stelzer Drilling Co. Inc.GarzaKirkpatrick A #73,50016933592

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/817394, documented in the API reference.