OPERATORS · RRC 907297  · P-5 STATUS Y

Welder Expl & Prod., Inc

San Antonio, TX

Watch this operator

Welder Expl & Prod., Inc has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued July 1, 2022.

The RRC wellbore file lists 111 wells under its operatorship.

346 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 2001; its P-5 organization report was last filed December 1, 2023.

0
permits, last 12 months
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vs prior 12 months (0)
0
counties, 12 months
0
producing wells, of 111 of record
122
leases it reports
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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.

71%
spud rate · 245 of 346 mature permits
36
median days permit to spud · middle half 19–73
0
spuds, last 180 days
0%
cancelled · 0 permits
101
expired undrilled
16
permits a year over 22 active years

Permits issued by month

LAST 2 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 4

0123

Where

Counties by permits in the last 12 months, with all-time permits and current wells of record there.

County12 moAll timeWellsLast
Bee county →—17554Sep 27, 2021
San Patricio county →—576Mar 18, 2021
Goliad county →—5619Feb 16, 2022
Hidalgo county →—121May 20, 2005
Karnes county →—1216Oct 21, 2008
Live Oak county →—97Feb 26, 2020
Jim Wells county →—51Sep 24, 2015
Brooks county →—41Jun 20, 2011
Duval county →—43Jul 1, 2022
Wharton county →—41Oct 7, 2003
LA Salle county →—20Jun 14, 2010
Matagorda county →—20May 20, 2014
Nueces county →—21Feb 7, 2012
McMullen county →—10Jan 28, 2009
Starr county →—11Mar 26, 2013

All 346 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 →

FormationWellsPermitted last 3 yrs
Frio480
Vicksburg380
Catahoula300
Yegua230
Miocene (undifferentiated)230
Jackson110
Greta60
Wilcox40
Queen City20
Reklaw10
Taylor10

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 →

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bbl oil, last 12 reported months
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vs the 12 months before
0
mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
1.29M
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

111
on the schedule
0
producing
0
shut in
0
injection
0
temp. abandoned
88
plugged

How it got them

64
permitted itself
34
acquired from others
113
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 8
0
permitted bbl/day, active
0
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025
reported through

By county

Bee0 active0 bbl/d
San Patricio0 active0 bbl/d
Hidalgo0 active0 bbl/d
Jim Wells0 active0 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 →

Type12 moPrior 12All time
Drill00298
Recompletion0039
Reclass004
Reenter002
Field transfer002
Other001

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.

P-5 organization report

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

Registration
Status code Y
Last filed Dec 1, 2023
Address
100 W Olmos Dr
San Antonio, TX 78212
(210) 601-1249
Officers and agents
Welder, Raymond James III · President,secretary,treasurer,vi

Latest permits

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

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorCountyLease / wellDepthAPI
881415Jul 1, 2022Jul 1, 2022Welder Exploration & Prod., Inc.DuvalKibbe-Moos, Anna -A- #16,00013139670
881415Jul 1, 2022Jul 1, 2022Welder Exploration & Prod., Inc.DuvalKibbe-Moos, Anna -A- #16,00013139670
881415Jul 1, 2022Jul 1, 2022Welder Exploration & Prod., Inc.DuvalKibbe-Moos, Anna -A- #16,00013139670
876650Feb 16, 2022Feb 16, 2022Welder Exploration & Prod., Inc.GoliadG.A. Ray -C- #12,00017534269
872959Sep 27, 2021Sep 27, 2021Welder Exploration & Prod., Inc.BeeG.A. Ray #24,70002534008
872956Sep 24, 2021Sep 24, 2021Welder Exploration & Prod., Inc.BeeG.A. Ray #14,70002534009
868413Mar 18, 2021Mar 18, 2021Welder Exploration & Prod., Inc.San PatricioReynolds #16,50040933129
861669Feb 26, 2020Feb 26, 2020Welder Exploration & Prod., Inc.Live OakParker Heirs #24,70029736069
859551Dec 9, 2019Dec 9, 2019Welder Exploration & Prod., Inc.San PatricioMauch-Roots Unit #15,69040933089
848039Jan 17, 2019Jan 17, 2019Welder Exploration & Prod., Inc.San PatricioRoots-Havelka Unit North #16,00040933111
848040Dec 21, 2018Dec 21, 2018Welder Exploration & Prod., Inc.San PatricioRoots-Havelka Unit South #16,00040933112
848038Dec 21, 2018Dec 21, 2018Welder Exploration & Prod., Inc.San PatricioRoots-Havelka Unit East #16,00040933110
848037Dec 21, 2018Dec 21, 2018Welder Exploration & Prod., Inc.San PatricioRoots #16,00040933109
848035Dec 21, 2018Dec 21, 2018Welder Exploration & Prod., Inc.San PatricioHavelka #16,00040933108
848034Dec 21, 2018Dec 21, 2018Welder Exploration & Prod., Inc.San PatricioMullen-Roots Unit #16,00040933107

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/907297, documented in the API reference.