OPERATORS · RRC 863800 · P-5 STATUS Y

Trace Oil & Gas Co

Houston, TX

Trace Oil & Gas CO has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued October 7, 2002.

The RRC wellbore file lists 7 wells under its operatorship.

37 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1980; its P-5 organization report was last filed January 9, 2015.

0: permits, last 12 months
—: vs prior 12 months (0)
0: counties, 12 months
0: producing wells, of 7 of record
5: 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.

62%: spud rate · 23 of 37 mature permits
32: median days permit to spud · middle half 8–80
0: spuds, last 180 days
0%: cancelled · 0 permits
14: expired undrilled
2: permits a year over 23 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
Live Oak county →	—	7	2	Sep 14, 1992
Liberty county →	—	6	0	Feb 27, 1992
Chambers county →	—	5	3	Dec 23, 1982
Atascosa county →	—	2	0	May 29, 1985
Austin county →	—	2	1	Dec 5, 1989
Bee county →	—	2	0	Jan 25, 1991
San Jacinto county →	—	2	0	Sep 6, 1984
San Patricio county →	—	2	1	Dec 12, 1980
Brazoria county →	—	1	0	Oct 20, 1983
Galveston county →	—	1	0	Aug 12, 1983
Harris county →	—	1	0	Apr 1, 1987
Hidalgo county →	—	1	0	Oct 28, 1980
Matagorda county →	—	1	0	Sep 24, 1999
Milam county →	—	1	0	Jul 29, 1980
Montgomery county →	—	1	0	Jun 8, 1984
Nolan county →	—	1	0	Oct 7, 2002
Wilson county →	—	1	0	Aug 12, 1991

All 37 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
Vicksburg	2	0
Canyon	1	0
Ellenburger	1	0
Frio	1	0
Coleman Junction	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

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

How it got them

4: permitted itself
2: acquired from others
10: 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 1
0: permitted bbl/day, active
0: bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025: reported through

By county

Chambers

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	31
Recompletion	0	0	4
Other	0	0	2

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
Jergins46258001	2	0
Sliva Southwest (4070 Sand)84111935	2	0
Brookshire12306001	1	0
Jergins (Marginulina Stringer)46258360	1	0
Papalote West (3950 Res. 2)69049400	1	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed Jan 9, 2015

Address: 675 Bering Dr Ste 650; Houston, TX 77057; (713) 757-7883

Officers and agents: Ferguson, Stephen F · President; Jackson, James Robert · Vice President; Jackson, William Robert · Secretary/Treasurer

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
524305	Oct 7, 2002	Oct 7, 2002	Trace Oil & Gas Company	Nolan	Moore, Elton #1030	6,800	35332779
487923	Sep 24, 1999	Sep 24, 1999	Trace Oil & Gas Company	Matagorda	S.D. Burkhart Unit #1	5,300	32131796
403319	Sep 14, 1992	Sep 14, 1992	Trace Oil & Gas Company	Live Oak	Dittmar #1	4,500	29733937
393165	Feb 27, 1992	Feb 27, 1992	Trace Oil & Gas Company	Liberty	Neal, J.M. Estate #B 1	7,600	29131494
393541	Feb 4, 1992	Feb 4, 1992	Trace Oil & Gas Company	Live Oak	Dittmar #1	4,500	29733937
393541	Feb 4, 1992	Feb 4, 1992	Trace Oil & Gas Company	Live Oak	Dittmar #1	4,500	29733937
390545	Aug 12, 1991	Aug 12, 1991	Trace Oil & Gas Company	Wilson	Stanush Unit #1	1,250	49332304
390547	Aug 9, 1991	Aug 9, 1991	Trace Oil & Gas Company	Live Oak	Dittmar #2	4,500	29733989
390547	Aug 9, 1991	Aug 9, 1991	Trace Oil & Gas Company	Live Oak	Dittmar #2	4,500	29733989
383605	Jan 25, 1991	Jan 25, 1991	Trace Oil & Gas Company	Bee	Lehman & Richards #1	4,500	02532613
370529	Mar 13, 1990	Mar 13, 1990	Trace Oil & Gas Company	Live Oak	Dittmar #1	4,500	29733937
370529	Mar 13, 1990	Mar 13, 1990	Trace Oil & Gas Company	Live Oak	Dittmar #1	4,500	29733937
367117	Dec 5, 1989	Dec 5, 1989	Trace Oil & Gas Company	Austin	Brookshire Gas Unit #2	3,230	01530604
361309	Jul 12, 1989	Jul 12, 1989	Trace Oil & Gas Company	Austin	Brookshire Gas Unit #1	3,250	01530597
331355	Aug 6, 1987	Aug 6, 1987	Texaco Inc.	Chambers	Schilling, A. #2	6,550	07103132

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/863800, documented in the API reference.