OPERATORS · RRC 863790 · P-5 STATUS Y

Trace Expl, Inc

Corpus Chrsti, TX

Trace Expl, Inc has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued October 9, 1991.

The RRC wellbore file lists 2 wells under its operatorship.

23 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1982; its P-5 organization report was last filed July 7, 1993.

0: permits, last 12 months
—: vs prior 12 months (0)
0: counties, 12 months
0: producing wells, of 2 of record
0: 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.

52%: spud rate · 12 of 23 mature permits
14: median days permit to spud · middle half 6–24
0: spuds, last 180 days
0%: cancelled · 0 permits
11: expired undrilled
3: permits a year over 9 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
Goliad county →	—	5	0	Oct 26, 1989
Nueces county →	—	5	0	Nov 24, 1986
Bee county →	—	2	0	Apr 9, 1985
Jackson county →	—	2	1	Oct 12, 1988
Jim Wells county →	—	2	0	Oct 15, 1984
Live Oak county →	—	2	1	Oct 24, 1988
Cameron county →	—	1	0	Jul 5, 1984
Frio county →	—	1	0	Dec 10, 1982
Hidalgo county →	—	1	0	Oct 9, 1991
Willacy county →	—	1	0	Jul 5, 1984
Zapata county →	—	1	0	Jul 27, 1989

All 23 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
Frio	2	0
Catahoula	1	0
Oakville	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
0: 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

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

How it got them

2: permitted itself
0: acquired from others
11: permitted, now run by others

Acquired means the well's permit names a different operator than the schedule does today. Transfers and operator numbers →

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	19
Recompletion	0	0	3
Reenter	0	0	1

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
Appling (Seg C Kopnicky Middle)3312210	1	0
Harris NE. (Massive Seg. C)39247426	1	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed Jul 7, 1993

Address: 910 American Bank Plaza; Corpus Chrsti, TX 78475

Officers and agents: Hoover, Lawrence E. · President/Vice President; Sitarski, Gloria D. · Secretary

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
392706	Oct 9, 1991	Oct 9, 1991	Trace Exploration, Inc.	Hidalgo	Cray Gas Unit #1	8,600	21532047
363206	Oct 26, 1989	Oct 26, 1989	Trace Exploration, Inc.	Goliad	Swickheimer "A" #1	5,100	17532435
361964	Jul 27, 1989	Jul 27, 1989	Trace Exploration, Inc.	Zapata	Lopez, Lauro et AL #1	2,500	50532578
352168	Oct 24, 1988	Oct 24, 1988	Trace Exploration, Inc.	Live Oak	Harris, R. C. et AL #2	10,500	29702827
349988	Oct 12, 1988	Oct 12, 1988	Trace Exploration, Inc.	Jackson	O'Riley #1	10,000	23932421
345718	Oct 10, 1988	Oct 10, 1988	Trace Exploration, Inc.	Live Oak	Harris #1	10,500	29733819
351737	Sep 29, 1988	Sep 29, 1988	Trace Exploration, Inc.	Goliad	Marks Unit #1	5,200	17532341
351736	Sep 29, 1988	Sep 29, 1988	Trace Exploration, Inc.	Goliad	Swickheimer #1	5,200	17532340
321833	Nov 24, 1986	Nov 24, 1986	Trace Exploration, Inc.	Nueces	Bevly #1	7,500	35532534
322859	Nov 7, 1986	Nov 7, 1986	Trace Exploration, Inc.	Goliad	Steele, John #1	5,500	17532183
304591	Jul 25, 1986	Jul 25, 1986	Trace Exploration, Inc.	Nueces	State Tract 692 #1	6,100	35532489
304591	Jul 25, 1986	Jul 25, 1986	Trace Exploration, Inc.	Nueces	State Tract 692 #1	6,000	35532489
295250	Jan 15, 1986	Jan 15, 1986	Trace Exploration, Inc.	Nueces	State Tract 692 #1	6,100	35532489
273528	Apr 29, 1985	Apr 29, 1985	Trace Exploration, Inc.	Jackson	Appling #4	8,510	23903262
271641	Apr 9, 1985	Apr 9, 1985	Trace Exploration, Inc.	Bee	Galloway #2	5,500	02532271

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/863790, documented in the API reference.