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OPERATORS · RRC 862750  · P-5 STATUS Y

Tortuga Oper Co

Houston, TX

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Tortuga Oper CO has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued October 21, 2022.

The RRC wellbore file lists 66 wells under its operatorship (12 producing, 13 shut in).

Lease reports credit it with 6.09K barrels of oil and 64.6K mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, down 28% on the year before.

It holds 8 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 776K barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

92 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1984; its P-5 organization report was last filed June 4, 2026.

0
permits, last 12 months
—
vs prior 12 months (0)
0
counties, 12 months
12
producing wells, of 66 of record
96
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.

26%
spud rate · 24 of 92 mature permits
75
median days permit to spud · middle half 41–202
0
spuds, last 180 days
0%
cancelled · 0 permits
68
expired undrilled
2
permits a year over 39 active years

Permits issued by month

LAST 1 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 1

01

Where

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

County12 moAll timeWellsLast
Harris county →—9066Oct 21, 2022
Bastrop county →—20Sep 14, 1987

All 92 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
Jackson40
Vicksburg20
Frio10
Catahoula10
Miocene (undifferentiated)10
Yegua10

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 →

6.09K
bbl oil, last 12 reported months
-28%
vs the 12 months before
64.6K
mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
597K
bbl oil since reporting began

Gas, mcf

Last 12 months 64,602 · prior 12 64,246(+1%)

05K10K202420252026

Oil, barrels

Last 12 months 6,091 · prior 12 8,466(-28%)

05001K202420252026

Beyond the permit record

RRC wellbore file

Wells of record

66
on the schedule
12
producing
13
shut in
1
injection
1
temp. abandoned
21
plugged

How it got them

16
permitted itself
3
acquired from others
5
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

8
active UIC permits of 14
32.5K
permitted bbl/day, active
776K
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025
reported through

By county

Harris8 active32.5K 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
Recompletion0072
Drill008
Reenter007
Other005

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
Tomball (Schultz SE.)90620782154
Tomball90620001151
Tomball W. (Treseler)90628426133
Tomball (Schultz Central)9062066780
Tomball (Petrich NW.)9062062150
Tomball (Kobs)9062027632
Tomball (Schultz N.W.)9062075910
Tomball (Cockfield Upper 5500)9062009210
Tomball W. (Adams)9062814211
Tomball West (Hockley)9062828410
Tomball (Cockfield)9062002311
Tomball (Michel)9062039110

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
7412 Shady Villa Lane
Houston, TX 77055
(713) 504-2151
Officers and agents
Turbett, Peter L. · President
Hine, John E. · Treasurer,vice President

Latest permits

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

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorCountyLease / wellDepthAPI
884862Oct 21, 2022Oct 21, 2022Tortuga Operating CompanyHarrisAdams, Geo. B. #65,68620131847
762158Jun 6, 2013Jun 6, 2013Tortuga Operating CompanyHarrisDoughtie, S. T. #105,55020100437
755088Jan 31, 2013Jan 31, 2013Tortuga Operating CompanyHarrisDoughtie, S. T. #95,51120100436
664351Sep 17, 2008Sep 17, 2008Tortuga Operating CompanyHarrisColeman, C. L. O/A #45,62520100265
636011Jun 7, 2007Jun 7, 2007Tortuga Operating CompanyHarrisSam Lewis #55,56220100235
635385Jun 7, 2007Jun 7, 2007Tortuga Operating CompanyHarrisTheresa Petrich #15,59020100331
636003Jun 6, 2007Jun 6, 2007Tortuga Operating CompanyHarrisWm. Hirsch #75,65020108016
608075May 12, 2006May 12, 2006Tortuga Operating CompanyHarrisRudel, Otto #35,58220100347
600088Jun 22, 2005Jun 22, 2005Tortuga Operating CompanyHarrisPetrich, Theresa #25,57920100332
533729Aug 8, 2003Aug 8, 2003Tortuga Operating CompanyHarrisLewis, Sam #76,40020100237
533036Jun 27, 2003Jun 27, 2003Tortuga Operating CompanyHarrisRudel, Otto #25,57820100346
529589Apr 14, 2003Apr 14, 2003Tortuga Operating CompanyHarrisRudel, Otto #35,58220100347
525654Dec 16, 2002Dec 16, 2002Tortuga Operating CompanyHarrisHillegeist, E. #25,61520100276
523960Nov 1, 2002Nov 1, 2002Tortuga Operating CompanyHarrisRudel, Fritz #3X8,00020132641
523959Oct 21, 2002Oct 21, 2002Tortuga Operating CompanyHarrisLewis, Sam #55,56220100235

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/862750, documented in the API reference.