OPERATORS · RRC 896055 · P-5 STATUS Y

Ward, E. B

Alice, TX

Ward, E. B has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued January 10, 1992.

The RRC wellbore file lists 12 wells under its operatorship.

5 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1983; its P-5 organization report was last filed September 3, 2004.

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

40%: spud rate · 2 of 5 mature permits
86: median days permit to spud · middle half 70–102
0: spuds, last 180 days
0%: cancelled · 0 permits
3: expired undrilled
1: 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
Jim Wells county →	—	5	7	Jan 10, 1992

All 5 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
Miocene (undifferentiated)	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
14.5K: 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

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

How it got them

2: permitted itself
2: acquired from others
1: 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 3
0: permitted bbl/day, active
0: bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025: reported through

By county

Jim Wells

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	2
Reenter	0	0	2
Other	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
Rowe (Stillwell 5300 Sd. Upper)78666333	4	0
Magnolia City W. (Perez)56747470	2	0
Knolle (4100)49918540	1	0
Olivia East (7550)67198166	1	0
Rosita W (Cole B)78341217	1	0
Almond (5300)1894900	1	0
Willmann (3600)97706580	1	0
Hagist Ranch N. (Wilcox 6600)37997498	1	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed Sep 3, 2004

Address: Box 1908; Alice, TX 78333

Officers and agents: Ward, Edward B. · Owner

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
395509	Jan 10, 1992	Jan 10, 1992	Ward, E. B.	Jim Wells	Perez, Adolfo #2	2,750	24932185
395509	Jan 10, 1992	Jan 10, 1992	Ward, E. B.	Jim Wells	Perez, Adolfo #2	2,100	24932185
378126	Nov 13, 1990	Nov 13, 1990	Ward, E. B.	Jim Wells	Perez, Adolfo #1	5,693	24903841
378126	Nov 13, 1990	Nov 13, 1990	Ward, E. B.	Jim Wells	Perez, Adolfo #1	5,693	24903841
356802	Feb 9, 1989	Feb 9, 1989	M. J. G., Inc.	Jim Wells	Embelton #1	5,400	24932107
224932	Dec 8, 1983	Dec 8, 1983	Ward, E. B.	Jim Wells	Mosser, H. J. #1	6,000	24901609
11060	Oct 31, 1977	Oct 31, 1977	Smedley, Gordon L. & Assoc., Inc	Jim Wells	Almond, John #2	5,400	24930832

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/896055, documented in the API reference.