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OPERATORS · RRC 82443  · P-5 STATUS Y

Bonfire Oper LLC

Cresson, TX · most active in Wichita County

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Bonfire Oper LLC was issued 2 drilling permits in the past 12 months, after a quiet prior year, all in Wichita County. 0% were horizontal.

None were issued in the past 90 days.

The RRC wellbore file lists 89 wells under its operatorship (22 producing, 11 shut in).

Lease reports credit it with 4.05K barrels of oil and 59.8K mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, down 21% on the year before.

It holds 3 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 909K barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

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

2
permits, last 12 months
—
vs prior 12 months (0)
1
counties, 12 months
22
producing wells, of 89 of record
83
leases it reports
0%
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 · 37 of 41 mature permits
18
median days permit to spud · middle half 7–32
2
spuds, last 180 days
0%
cancelled · 0 permits
4
expired undrilled
3
permits a year over 13 active years

Permits issued by month

LAST 8 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 11

012202220232026

Where

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

County12 moAll timeWellsLast
Wichita county →21119May 12, 2026
Archer county →—1410Mar 7, 2023
Crockett county →—813May 26, 2017
Edwards county →—60Jun 1, 2015
Schleicher county →—42Feb 4, 2016

All 43 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
Thomas Sand170
Gunsight160
Strawn100
Canyon100
Cisco80
KMA70
Tannehill60
Paluxy50
Queen30
San Andres30
Clear Fork20
Bryson20
Caddo10
San Angelo10
Wolfcamp10

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 →

4.05K
bbl oil, last 12 reported months
-21%
vs the 12 months before
59.8K
mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
71.8K
bbl oil since reporting began

Gas, mcf

Last 12 months 59,792 · prior 12 87,651(-32%)

05K10K15K202420252026

Oil, barrels

Last 12 months 4,050 · prior 12 5,120(-21%)

05001K1.5K202420252026

Beyond the permit record

RRC wellbore file

Wells of record

89
on the schedule
22
producing
11
shut in
3
injection
19
temp. abandoned
25
plugged

How it got them

22
permitted itself
59
acquired from others
9
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

3
active UIC permits of 6
25.2K
permitted bbl/day, active
909K
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025
reported through

By county

Parker1 active25K bbl/d
Wichita2 active160 bbl/d
Archer0 active0 bbl/d
Clay0 active0 bbl/d
Young0 active0 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
Drill2037
Recompletion004
Reenter002

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
Brookeland (Austin Chalk 8800)12193500300
Wichita County Regular971550011811
Archer County Regular344600190
Dudley East (Devonian)2631950077
Clay County Regular1870700140
Eastland County Regular2735800130
Wildflower (Strawn)9736837522
Maxey (Strawn 1900)5850575020
Vaughn Consolidated9326415020
Kadane Cato (Congl)4799030010
Hammon (Vogtsberger)3855380010
Newark East (Barnett Shale)6528020010

P-5 organization report

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

Registration
Status code Y
Last filed Jun 4, 2026
Gas operatorOil operator
Address
PO Box 615
Cresson, TX 76035
(214) 998-4334
Officers and agents
Rockwell, Richard · President
Rockwell, Donnal Everett · Vice President

Latest permits

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

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorCountyLease / wellDepthAPI
914538May 12, 2026May 12, 2026Bonfire Operating LLCWichitaGillis, Bruce #21B1,70048546427
914537May 12, 2026May 12, 2026Bonfire Operating LLCWichitaGillis, Bruce #20B1,70048546428
894604Oct 26, 2023Oct 26, 2023Bonfire Operating LLCWichitaBonfire- Scottish Rite #19035,70048546380
892707Aug 11, 2023Aug 11, 2023Bonfire Operating LLCWichitaBonfire- Scottish Rite #19026,00048546376
889797Jun 15, 2023Jun 15, 2023Bonfire Operating LLCWichitaBonfire-TNT South #23046,00048546367
890696May 26, 2023May 26, 2023Bonfire Operating LLCWichitaGillis, Bruce #19B2,49948546365
888152Mar 7, 2023Mar 7, 2023Bonfire Operating LLCArcherBonfire-FRG #46,30000943317
888152Mar 7, 2023Mar 7, 2023Bonfire Operating LLCArcherBonfire-FRG #46,30000943317
882795Aug 15, 2022Aug 15, 2022Bonfire Operating LLCArcherBonfire-FRG #36,70000943302
875906Jan 25, 2022Jan 25, 2022Bonfire Operating LLCArcherArnold, C S #16,30000943276
875889Jan 14, 2022Jan 14, 2022Bonfire Operating LLCWichitaBonfire-Fidelis #23035,80048546313
871812Aug 9, 2021Aug 9, 2021Bonfire Operating LLCWichitaBonfire-TNT #23016,00048546297
856016Aug 12, 2019Aug 12, 2019Bonfire Operating LLCWichitaBonfire OV 13 #13016,50048546214
852225Apr 23, 2019Apr 23, 2019Bonfire Operating LLCArcherBonfire-Hoffman #21,10000943200
852221Apr 23, 2019Apr 23, 2019Bonfire Operating LLCArcherBonfire-Hoffman #11,10000943199

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/82443, documented in the API reference.