OPERATORS · RRC 858455 · P-5 STATUS Y

Thunderbolt Oil & Gas, Inc

Abilene, TX

Thunderbolt Oil & Gas, Inc has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued August 29, 2000.

The RRC wellbore file lists 25 wells under its operatorship.

41 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1979; its P-5 organization report was last filed August 5, 2005.

0: permits, last 12 months
—: vs prior 12 months (0)
0: counties, 12 months
0: producing wells, of 25 of record
8: 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.

59%: spud rate · 24 of 41 mature permits
14: median days permit to spud · middle half 8–36
0: spuds, last 180 days
0%: cancelled · 0 permits
17: expired undrilled
2: permits a year over 22 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
Runnels county →	—	28	9	Aug 29, 2000
Shackelford county →	—	9	0	Feb 1, 1982
Taylor county →	—	3	14	Aug 22, 1983
Jones county →	—	1	1	Mar 23, 1992

All 41 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
Saddle Creek	7	0
Palo Pinto	5	0
Ellenburger	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
174K: 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

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

How it got them

3: permitted itself
5: acquired from others
22: 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 4
0: permitted bbl/day, active
0: bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025: reported through

By county

Taylor	0 active	0 bbl/d
Runnels	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	35
Other	0	0	3
Recompletion	0	0	3

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
Taylor County Regular88520001	11	0
Tomchuck (Morris)90642500	5	0
Cedar Gap (Flippen)16566500	3	0
Jones County Regular47113001	1	0
Sykes West (Gardner)87798300	1	0
Tomchuck (Upper Capps)90642750	1	0
Tuckmar (Cross Cut)91658666	1	0
Crews SW. (Gardner Up.)21737300	1	0
Crews SW. (Jennings)21737500	1	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed Aug 5, 2005

Address: 1201 Grand Ave; Abilene, TX 79605

Officers and agents: Luster, Mollie K. · President/Director; McKeever, Sarah King · Vice President/Director

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
498879	Aug 29, 2000	Aug 29, 2000	Thunderbolt Oil & Gas, Inc.	Runnels	Cole, Emma #9	4,000	39934701
485399	Jul 6, 1999	Jul 6, 1999	Thunderbolt Oil & Gas, Inc.	Runnels	Billups, Lynn #6	2,500	39934653
449114	Jun 13, 1996	Jun 13, 1996	Thunderbolt Oil & Gas, Inc.	Runnels	Cole, Emma #8	3,700	39934454
408008	Jan 21, 1993	Jan 21, 1993	Thunderbolt Oil & Gas, Inc.	Runnels	Cole, Emma #7	3,900	39934228
397127	Mar 23, 1992	Mar 23, 1992	Thunderbolt Oil & Gas, Inc.	Jones	Bickley, C. A. #1 R	4,500	25333981
361305	Aug 11, 1989	Aug 11, 1989	Thunderbolt Oil & Gas, Inc.	Runnels	Billups, Lynn #5	3,830	39932904
353967	Dec 16, 1988	Dec 16, 1988	Thunderbolt Oil & Gas, Inc.	Runnels	Billups, W. T. #4	3,700	39933986
353969	Dec 6, 1988	Dec 6, 1988	Thunderbolt Oil & Gas, Inc.	Runnels	Billups, W. T. #3	3,700	39933985
345918	May 4, 1988	May 4, 1988	Thunderbolt Oil & Gas, Inc.	Runnels	Billups, Lynn #2	4,038	39931411
274918	May 14, 1985	May 14, 1985	Thunderbolt Oil & Gas, Inc.	Runnels	Billups, Lynn "A" #3	4,200	39933531
211418	Sep 12, 1983	Sep 12, 1983	Thunderbolt Oil & Gas, Inc.	Runnels	Billups, Lynn #5	4,800	39932904
206674	Aug 22, 1983	Aug 22, 1983	Thunderbolt Oil & Gas, Inc.	Taylor	Saxon-Guion Unit #2E	4,500	44132537
204755	Aug 9, 1983	Aug 9, 1983	Thunderbolt Oil & Gas, Inc.	Runnels	Williams, Lewis B. #2	4,900	39932847
203290	Jul 28, 1983	Jul 28, 1983	Thunderbolt Oil & Gas, Inc.	Runnels	Cole, Emma #6	4,900	39932836
203288	Jul 28, 1983	Jul 28, 1983	Thunderbolt Oil & Gas, Inc.	Runnels	Cole, Emma 'A' #2	4,900	39932835

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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