OPERATORS · RRC 913943 · P-5 STATUS Y

Wharton Oil Co

Vernon, TX

Wharton Oil CO has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued July 30, 1993.

The RRC wellbore file lists 4 wells under its operatorship.

40 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1980; its P-5 organization report was last filed September 3, 1994.

0: permits, last 12 months
—: vs prior 12 months (0)
0: counties, 12 months
0: producing wells, of 4 of record
0: 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.

20%: spud rate · 8 of 40 mature permits
28: median days permit to spud · middle half 22–49
0: spuds, last 180 days
0%: cancelled · 0 permits
32: expired undrilled
3: permits a year over 13 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
Navarro county →	—	33	0	Jul 30, 1993
Baylor county →	—	3	3	Apr 5, 1982
DE Witt county →	—	1	0	Aug 14, 1980
Knox county →	—	1	0	Aug 27, 1982
Palo Pinto county →	—	1	0	Jul 21, 1981
Wilbarger county →	—	1	1	May 6, 1987

All 40 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
Navarro	1	0
Pecan Gap	1	0
Austin Chalk	1	0
Woodbine	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
7.19K: 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

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

How it got them

3: permitted itself
1: acquired from others
14: 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

Baylor

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	40

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
Baylor County Regular6334001	3	0
Wilbarger County Regular97331001	1	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed Sep 3, 1994

Address: PO Box 2248; Vernon, TX 76384

Officers and agents: Wharton, A.B. III · Owner

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
414038	Jul 30, 1993	Jul 30, 1993	Wharton Oil Co.	Navarro	McKie, W.J. #78	2,100	34934494
340170	Dec 15, 1987	Dec 15, 1987	Wharton Oil Co.	Navarro	McKie, W. J. #55R	1,100	34934162
329649	May 6, 1987	May 6, 1987	Wharton Oil Co.	Wilbarger	Lockett, A. #1	6,000	48732048
329188	Apr 20, 1987	Apr 20, 1987	Ford, Don H. & Assoc.	Wilbarger	Wallingford #1	9,000	48732046
329188	Apr 20, 1987	Apr 20, 1987	Elwood Company	Wilbarger	Wallingford #1	9,000	48732046
329188	Apr 20, 1987	Apr 20, 1987	Elwood Company	Wilbarger	Wallingford #1068	9,000	48732046
282284	Aug 13, 1985	Aug 13, 1985	Wharton Oil Co.	Navarro	Parrott (Mc Elroy) #10	600	34933980
221728	Nov 28, 1983	Nov 28, 1983	Wharton Oil Co.	Navarro	McElroy, E. #2	600	34932198
208164	Aug 29, 1983	Aug 29, 1983	Wharton Oil Co.	Navarro	McElroy, E. #9	650	34933503
208156	Aug 29, 1983	Aug 29, 1983	Wharton Oil Co.	Navarro	McElroy, E. #10	650	34933980
206398	Aug 18, 1983	Aug 18, 1983	Wharton Oil Co.	Navarro	Veteran Land Board #1	650	34933450
206399	Aug 18, 1983	Aug 18, 1983	Wharton Oil Co.	Navarro	Whiteley, L. E. #1	650	34933451
205590	Aug 15, 1983	Aug 15, 1983	Wharton Oil Co.	Navarro	Overton, D. #5	650	34933424
203779	Aug 2, 1983	Aug 2, 1983	Wharton Oil Co.	Navarro	Overton, D. #4	650	34933396
202177	Jul 20, 1983	Jul 20, 1983	Wharton Oil Co.	Navarro	Mc Elroy, E. #8	650	34933371

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/913943, documented in the API reference.