OPERATORS · RRC 920480 · P-5 STATUS Y

Whiting Petro Corp

Denver, CO

Whiting Petro Corp has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued November 7, 2003.

The RRC wellbore file lists 28 wells under its operatorship.

97 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1981; 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 28 of record
37: 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.

54%: spud rate · 52 of 97 mature permits
25: median days permit to spud · middle half 11–56
0: spuds, last 180 days
1%: cancelled · 1 permits
43: expired undrilled
4: permits a year over 23 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
San Patricio county →	—	17	4	Nov 7, 2002
Lavaca county →	—	13	0	Apr 23, 2003
Montgomery county →	—	9	0	Oct 11, 2000
Yoakum county →	—	9	2	Oct 13, 1997
Polk county →	—	7	2	Feb 22, 2001
Karnes county →	—	6	0	Oct 3, 2003
Nueces county →	—	6	1	Oct 3, 2003
Brazoria county →	—	3	2	May 14, 1991
DE Witt county →	—	3	0	Oct 3, 2003
Hidalgo county →	—	3	1	Aug 22, 2001
Dawson county →	—	2	0	Oct 3, 1996
High IS-LB county →	—	2	0	Jul 11, 2000
Leon county →	—	2	0	Nov 7, 2003
Throckmorton county →	—	2	0	Nov 8, 1988
Young county →	—	2	0	Dec 4, 1981
Anderson county →	—	1	0	Dec 13, 2001
Aransas county →	—	1	0	Jun 18, 2003
Clay county →	—	1	0	Oct 7, 1986
Hardin county →	—	1	2	Oct 21, 1999
Jack county →	—	1	0	May 22, 1989
Jackson county →	—	1	3	Mar 20, 1996
Jasper county →	—	1	0	May 24, 1999
Panola county →	—	1	0	Jun 9, 2003
Stonewall county →	—	1	0	Nov 14, 1989
Upshur county →	—	1	0	Nov 10, 1994
Victoria county →	—	1	0	Jan 10, 2003

All 97 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
San Andres	8	0
Yegua	7	0
Frio	7	0
Vicksburg	6	0
Yates	5	0
Rustler	5	0
Wilcox	5	0
Edwards	5	0
Cotton Valley	3	0
Buda	3	0
Mississippian	2	0
Miocene (undifferentiated)	2	0
Woodford	2	0
Strawn	2	0
Silurian (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
3.36M: 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

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

How it got them

6: permitted itself
11: acquired from others
25: 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 36
0: permitted bbl/day, active
0: bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025: reported through

By county

Duval	0 active	0 bbl/d
Webb	0 active	0 bbl/d
Yoakum	0 active	0 bbl/d
Nueces	0 active	0 bbl/d
Kent	0 active	0 bbl/d
Dawson	0 active	0 bbl/d
Clay	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	52
Recompletion	0	0	43
Reenter	0	0	1
Field transfer	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
Green Branch36644001	6	0
Boomerang S. (Strawn Lime)10560500	3	0
Triple -a- (Frio 7680)91298719	2	0
Mary Two (Devonian)58027500	2	0
Ewing S. (Vicksburg G)29776800	1	0
Francitas (Broughton)32533112	1	0
Francitas (Frio 8250)32533616	1	0
Jack Starr (Yegua Y-4)45337500	1	0
Jicarilla (I-2)46339300	1	0
Lochridge54268001	1	0
Lochridge (Miocene 4150)54268860	1	0
Mobil-David (C-22)62262568	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: 1700 Broadway Ste 2300; Denver, CO 80290

Officers and agents: CT Corp · Texas Resident Agent; Volker, James J. · President/Ceo; Casperson, James R. · Director; Brown, James T. · Vice President

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
712394	Mar 23, 2011	Mar 23, 2011	Magnum Producing, LP	San Patricio	Nelson, A.E #8	7,925	40932666
601916	Jun 10, 2005	Jun 10, 2005	Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation	San Patricio	Pyron, B. J. #2	7,900	40932653
559355	Mar 28, 2005	Mar 28, 2005	Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation	San Patricio	Nelson, A.E. #8	7,925	40932666
547059	Jun 17, 2004	Jun 17, 2004	Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation	San Patricio	Nelson, a E #8	7,925	40932666
538392	Nov 7, 2003	Nov 7, 2003	Whiting Petroleum Corporation	Leon	Noey Gas Unit #1	15,500	28931236
537157	Oct 3, 2003	Oct 3, 2003	Whiting Petroleum Corporation	Nueces	Burnett et al Gas Unit #7	11,500	35533586
537156	Oct 3, 2003	Oct 3, 2003	Whiting Petroleum Corporation	Nueces	Burnett et al Gas Unit #6	10,100	35533585
537155	Oct 3, 2003	Oct 3, 2003	Whiting Petroleum Corporation	DE Witt	Julia Mott Gas Unit No. 1 #7 HH	17,300	12331951
537154	Oct 3, 2003	Oct 3, 2003	Whiting Petroleum Corporation	Karnes	Blackwell #1 HH	13,795	25531368
534635	Jul 25, 2003	Jul 25, 2003	Whiting Petroleum Corporation	Karnes	Rhodes Trust #2	9,600	25531475
533626	Jun 27, 2003	Jun 27, 2003	Whiting Petroleum Corporation	Karnes	Waskow Gas Unit #1HH	13,970	25530250
533626	Jun 27, 2003	Jun 27, 2003	Whiting Petroleum Corporation	Karnes	Waskow Gas Unit #1HH	13,920	25530250
533299	Jun 18, 2003	Jun 18, 2003	Whiting Petroleum Corporation	Aransas	Newberry Unit #1	7,580	00730780
532904	Jun 9, 2003	Jun 9, 2003	Whiting Petroleum Corporation	Panola	Vice Shivers Unit #2	7,000	36530754
531056	Apr 23, 2003	Apr 23, 2003	Whiting Petroleum Corporation	Lavaca	Smolik, Albert #3H	16,700	28531592

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/920480, documented in the API reference.