OPERATORS · RRC 902593 · P-5 STATUS Y

Way, Ralph L., Inc

Midland, TX

Way, Ralph L., Inc has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued April 23, 1985.

The RRC wellbore file lists 9 wells under its operatorship.

86 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1979; its P-5 organization report was last filed September 2, 2016.

0: permits, last 12 months
—: vs prior 12 months (0)
0: counties, 12 months
0: producing wells, of 9 of record
2: 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.

42%: spud rate · 36 of 86 mature permits
25: median days permit to spud · middle half 12–119
0: spuds, last 180 days
0%: cancelled · 0 permits
50: expired undrilled
14: permits a year over 6 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
Reagan county →	—	39	0	Nov 15, 1982
Crockett county →	—	34	2	Apr 23, 1985
Gaines county →	—	4	0	Feb 11, 1982
Pecos county →	—	4	2	May 30, 1984
Dawson county →	—	2	2	Jun 26, 1981
Midland county →	—	1	0	Jun 26, 1981
Schleicher county →	—	1	2	Nov 7, 1980
Ward county →	—	1	0	Dec 1, 1980

All 86 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
Yates	14	0
Grayburg	14	0
Queen	11	0
Seven Rivers	9	0
Rustler	9	0
San Andres	5	0
Wichita-Albany	2	0
Tubb	1	0
Spraberry	1	0
Dean	1	0
Glorieta	1	0
Ellenburger	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
27.2K: 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

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

How it got them

3: permitted itself
5: acquired from others
60: 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	85
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
Weger West (Grayburg)95874500	2	0
Heiner S. (Wichita-Albany)40172400	1	0
JO-Mill (Spraberry)46564750	1	0
Velrex S. (Canyon)93414500	1	0
Velrex SE. (Canyon)93415200	1	0
Welch96062001	1	0
Block a-34 South (Yates)8963900	1	0
Yucca Butte (Penn. Detrital)99577600	1	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed Sep 2, 2016

Address: 306 West Wall Suite 410; Midland, TX 79701

Officers and agents: Way, Ralph L. · President; Land, Brenda K. · 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
273031	Apr 23, 1985	Apr 23, 1985	Way, Ralph L., Inc.	Crockett	Strauss, H. S. #1D	2,700	10502490
240436	May 30, 1984	May 30, 1984	Way, Ralph L., Inc.	Pecos	Crowley-State #3	3,800	37134973
239642	May 22, 1984	May 22, 1984	Way, Ralph L., Inc.	Pecos	Tucson #1	5,800	37134969
223261	Dec 12, 1983	Dec 12, 1983	Way, Ralph L., Inc.	Crockett	Strauss, H. S. et AL #2 R	2,650	10534703
223266	Dec 12, 1983	Dec 12, 1983	Way, Ralph L., Inc.	Crockett	Strauss, H. S. et AL #3	2,650	10534704
223259	Dec 12, 1983	Dec 12, 1983	Way, Ralph L., Inc.	Crockett	Strauss, H. S. et AL #1R	2,650	10534702
223103	Dec 9, 1983	Dec 9, 1983	Way, Ralph L., Inc.	Crockett	Strauss, H. S. et AL #4	2,650	10534699
223101	Dec 9, 1983	Dec 9, 1983	Way, Ralph L., Inc.	Crockett	Strauss, H. S. et AL #5	2,650	10534698
223099	Dec 9, 1983	Dec 9, 1983	Way, Ralph L., Inc.	Crockett	Strauss, H. S. et AL #6	2,650	10534697
223098	Dec 9, 1983	Dec 9, 1983	Way, Ralph L., Inc.	Crockett	Strauss, H. S. et AL #7	2,650	10534696
223104	Dec 9, 1983	Dec 9, 1983	Way, Ralph L., Inc.	Crockett	Strauss, H. S. et AL #8	2,650	10534700
215888	Sep 30, 1983	Sep 30, 1983	Way, Ralph L., Inc.	Pecos	Crowley-State #2	8,189	37134579
187222	Mar 1, 1983	Mar 1, 1983	Way, Ralph L., Inc.	Pecos	Crowley-State #1	5,110	37134229
177099	Nov 15, 1982	Nov 15, 1982	Way, Ralph L., Inc.	Reagan	University-Union '17' #7	2,650	38332376
177096	Nov 15, 1982	Nov 15, 1982	Way, Ralph L., Inc.	Reagan	University-Union '17' #6	2,650	38332375

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/902593, documented in the API reference.