OPERATORS · RRC 878530 · P-5 STATUS Y

Upham, Chester R., Jr

Mineral Wells, TX

Upham, Chester R., JR has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued April 30, 2001.

The RRC wellbore file lists 38 wells under its operatorship.

224 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1977; its P-5 organization report was last filed September 5, 2003.

0: permits, last 12 months
—: vs prior 12 months (0)
0: counties, 12 months
0: producing wells, of 38 of record
22: 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.

55%: spud rate · 123 of 224 mature permits
10: median days permit to spud · middle half 5–22
0: spuds, last 180 days
0%: cancelled · 0 permits
101: expired undrilled
9: permits a year over 24 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
Palo Pinto county →	—	177	21	Apr 30, 2001
Parker county →	—	31	10	Dec 21, 1999
Coke county →	—	5	3	Aug 24, 1990
Wise county →	—	4	0	Feb 17, 1993
Jack county →	—	3	2	May 24, 2000
Stephens county →	—	2	1	Jun 26, 1990
Erath county →	—	1	1	Sep 18, 1986
Foard county →	—	1	0	Nov 28, 1983

All 224 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
Marble Falls	77	0
Bend	62	0
Big Saline	23	0
Ellenburger	20	0
Barnett	18	0
Strawn	7	0
Duffer	6	0
Caddo	4	0
Atoka	3	0
Palo Pinto	1	0
Bryson	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
589K: 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

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

How it got them

30: permitted itself
3: acquired from others
130: 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

Palo Pinto	0 active	0 bbl/d
Parker	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	197
Recompletion	0	0	17
Other	0	0	7
Reenter	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
Strawn NW. (Marble Falls)86577200	2	0
Long Ranch (Bend Congl.)54713150	2	0
Mineral Wells S.(strawn 3680)61848860	2	0
Lazy Bend (Strawn 1950)52525700	2	0
C.B. Long (Marble Falls)14195500	2	0
Brid-King (Ellenburger)11927500	2	0
Arteburn (Congl.)3949300	2	0
Frager (Conglomerate)32456300	1	0
J.L.H. Ellenburger45071500	1	0
Jack County Regular45274001	1	0
Calabria (CONGL.3800)14640600	1	0
Ittleson (4300)44830200	1	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed Sep 5, 2003

Address: Box 940; Mineral Wells, TX 76067

Officers and agents: Upham, Chester R Jr · Owner

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
508327	Apr 30, 2001	Apr 30, 2001	Upham, Chester R., Jr.	Palo Pinto	Hinkson #795	4,700	36335014
506109	Mar 7, 2001	Mar 7, 2001	Upham, Chester R., Jr.	Palo Pinto	Elizabeth #1	4,000	36334037
500210	Oct 9, 2000	Oct 9, 2000	Upham, Chester R., Jr.	Palo Pinto	Long, Lolita #6	4,300	36334967
499926	Sep 22, 2000	Sep 22, 2000	Upham, Chester R., Jr.	Palo Pinto	Slemmons, Helen #3	4,999	36334963
499202	Sep 6, 2000	Sep 6, 2000	Upham, Chester R., Jr.	Palo Pinto	Slemmons, Helen #2	4,999	36334959
495382	May 24, 2000	May 24, 2000	Upham, Chester R., Jr.	Jack	Boley, L. E. #2	6,000	23738546
492518	Feb 29, 2000	Feb 29, 2000	Upham, Chester R., Jr.	Palo Pinto	Hinkson #19	4,500	36334900
492517	Feb 29, 2000	Feb 29, 2000	Upham, Chester R., Jr.	Palo Pinto	Dalton #1	4,500	36334899
490495	Dec 21, 1999	Dec 21, 1999	Upham, Chester R., Jr.	Parker	Hargis #1	5,000	36733353
488596	Oct 19, 1999	Oct 19, 1999	Upham, Chester R., Jr.	Palo Pinto	Hinkson #18	4,500	36334862
484371	May 10, 1999	May 10, 1999	Upham, Chester R., Jr.	Palo Pinto	Lobo #2	4,999	36334831
482716	Feb 17, 1999	Feb 17, 1999	Upham, Chester R., Jr.	Palo Pinto	Lucille #1	4,600	36334820
480040	Oct 12, 1998	Oct 12, 1998	Upham, Chester R., Jr.	Palo Pinto	Maxwell Trust "A" #1	4,500	36334800
479581	Sep 23, 1998	Sep 23, 1998	Upham, Chester R., Jr.	Palo Pinto	Wells-Henderson #1	3,900	36334660
478801	Aug 20, 1998	Aug 20, 1998	Upham, Chester R., Jr.	Palo Pinto	Calabria-Dobbs Valley #1	3,890	36333116

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/878530, documented in the API reference.