OPERATORS · RRC 862932 · P-5 STATUS Y

Townsend the Co

Abilene, TX

Townsend The CO has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued July 31, 1998.

The RRC wellbore file lists 27 wells under its operatorship.

131 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1977; its P-5 organization report was last filed August 2, 2002.

0: permits, last 12 months
—: vs prior 12 months (0)
0: counties, 12 months
0: producing wells, of 27 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.

47%: spud rate · 61 of 131 mature permits
8: median days permit to spud · middle half 2–19
0: spuds, last 180 days
0%: cancelled · 0 permits
70: expired undrilled
6: permits a year over 21 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 →	—	94	16	Oct 15, 1992
Comanche county →	—	9	0	Jun 20, 1980
Atascosa county →	—	5	0	Aug 4, 1988
Taylor county →	—	5	1	Jul 31, 1998
Coleman county →	—	3	2	Mar 3, 1993
Fisher county →	—	3	1	Jan 30, 1980
Haskell county →	—	3	0	Sep 25, 1991
Knox county →	—	2	0	May 4, 1993
Bailey county →	—	1	0	Feb 5, 1981
Coke county →	—	1	0	Nov 23, 1993
Foard county →	—	1	0	Mar 23, 1994
Jones county →	—	1	1	Sep 23, 1987
King county →	—	1	0	Dec 21, 1990
Menard county →	—	1	0	Mar 6, 1996
San Patricio county →	—	1	0	Nov 24, 1981

All 131 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
Palo Pinto	11	0
Coleman Junction	5	0
Marble Falls	5	0
Strawn	3	0
Caddo	2	0
Canyon	1	0
Ellenburger	1	0
Tannehill	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
27.7K: 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

27: on the schedule
0: producing
0: shut in
0: injection
0: temp. abandoned
26: plugged

How it got them

12: permitted itself
7: acquired from others
59: 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 2
0: permitted bbl/day, active
0: bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025: reported through

By county

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	103
Other	0	0	15
Recompletion	0	0	7
Reenter	0	0	6

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
Calvin (Dean)14937333	4	0
Dorman West (Jennings)25468500	3	0
Dorman West (Goen)25468400	3	0
Short (Congl. 5700)83408500	2	0
Kemp (Canyon Sand)48692333	1	0
Lee-Humphrey (Caddo Lower)52886500	1	0
Nena Gail (Gardner Lower)64943300	1	0
Norton N. (Goen)66158540	1	0
Norton North (Gray Sand)66158630	1	0
Sanrob West (Capps)80785500	1	0
Taylor County Regular88520001	1	0
Winters (Capps)98182260	1	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed Aug 2, 2002

Address: P O Box 5354; Abilene, TX 79608

Officers and agents: Townsend, Albert Irvin · Owner

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
478239	Jul 31, 1998	Jul 31, 1998	Townsend the Co.	Taylor	Hobbs-Young Unit #1	4,900	44133885
445517	Mar 6, 1996	Mar 6, 1996	Townsend the Co.	Menard	Allar #3	2,000	32730804
422849	Apr 11, 1994	Apr 11, 1994	Townsend the Co.	Taylor	Jenke #1	4,500	44133683
422303	Mar 23, 1994	Mar 23, 1994	Townsend the Co.	Foard	Hartin #1A	4,000	15530214
418310	Nov 23, 1993	Nov 23, 1993	Townsend the Co.	Coke	Corley #1	6,400	08131623
411318	May 4, 1993	May 4, 1993	Townsend the Co.	Knox	Asher, Oliver #2	2,400	27532033
409324	Mar 3, 1993	Mar 3, 1993	Townsend the Co.	Coleman	Weatherred, J. S. #5	3,500	08305718
408590	Jan 29, 1993	Jan 29, 1993	Townsend the Co.	Knox	Asher, Oliver #1	2,400	27532019
404279	Oct 15, 1992	Oct 15, 1992	Townsend the Co.	Runnels	Bredemeyer #2	4,206	39934119
404279	Oct 15, 1992	Oct 15, 1992	Townsend the Co.	Runnels	Bredemeyer #2	4,206	39934119
404099	Oct 1, 1992	Oct 1, 1992	Townsend the Co.	Runnels	Hudson, Harris #1 #1	5,900	39934211
404099	Oct 1, 1992	Oct 1, 1992	Townsend the Co.	Runnels	Harris-Hudson #1	5,248	39934211
401713	Jul 31, 1992	Jul 31, 1992	Townsend the Co.	Coleman	Graves #1	3,500	08308219
399991	Jun 15, 1992	Jun 15, 1992	Townsend the Co.	Runnels	Turk #2	5,000	39934195
399990	Jun 15, 1992	Jun 15, 1992	Townsend the Co.	Runnels	Turk #1	4,266	39910623

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/862932, documented in the API reference.