OPERATORS · RRC 925440 · P-5 STATUS Y
Williams Oil Co
Midland, TX · most active in Ward County
Watch this operatorWilliams Oil CO was issued 1 drilling permit in the past 12 months, versus 5 in the prior year, all in Ward County. 0% were horizontal.
1 was issued in the past 90 days, after a quiet prior quarter.
The RRC wellbore file lists 205 wells under its operatorship (71 producing, 3 shut in).
Lease reports credit it with 128K barrels of oil and 401K mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, down 6% on the year before.
It holds 6 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 318K barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
177 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1982; its P-5 organization report was last filed October 4, 2025.
- 1
- permits, last 12 months
- -80%
- vs prior 12 months (5)
- 1
- counties, 12 months
- 71
- producing wells, of 205 of record
- 129
- leases it reports
- 0%
- 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.
- 64%
- spud rate · 112 of 176 mature permits
- 30
- median days permit to spud · middle half 16–51
- 0
- spuds, last 180 days
- 1%
- cancelled · 1 permits
- 64
- expired undrilled
- 4
- permits a year over 45 active years
Permits issued by month
LAST 8 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 9
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ward county → | 1 | 67 | 76 | Aug 17, 2026 |
| Crane county → | — | 69 | 61 | May 29, 2025 |
| Winkler county → | — | 15 | 6 | Aug 19, 1991 |
| Schleicher county → | — | 9 | 18 | Mar 6, 2013 |
| Reeves county → | — | 6 | 2 | Oct 7, 1993 |
| Pecos county → | — | 4 | 0 | Jan 18, 1989 |
| Reagan county → | — | 4 | 0 | Jan 10, 2013 |
| Mitchell county → | — | 2 | 0 | May 18, 1987 |
| Haskell county → | — | 1 | 7 | Aug 17, 1993 |
All 177 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Glorieta | 61 | 3 |
| Tubb | 60 | 3 |
| Clear Fork | 46 | 3 |
| San Andres | 44 | 1 |
| Yates | 43 | 2 |
| Wichita-Albany | 32 | 3 |
| Wolfcamp | 22 | 3 |
| Rustler | 20 | 2 |
| Queen | 19 | 1 |
| Devonian | 19 | 1 |
| Seven Rivers | 16 | 1 |
| Holt | 14 | 0 |
| San Angelo | 12 | 1 |
| Delaware | 7 | 0 |
| Strawn | 6 | 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 →
- 128K
- bbl oil, last 12 reported months
- -6%
- vs the 12 months before
- 401K
- mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
- 5.19M
- bbl oil since reporting began
Oil, barrels
Last 12 months 128,211 · prior 12 136,698(-6%)
Gas, mcf
Last 12 months 401,166 · prior 12 559,419(-28%)
Beyond the permit record
RRC wellbore file
Wells of record
- 205
- on the schedule
- 71
- producing
- 3
- shut in
- 2
- injection
- 2
- temp. abandoned
- 82
- plugged
How it got them
- 76
- permitted itself
- 19
- acquired from others
- 32
- 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
- 6
- active UIC permits of 29
- 14.3K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 318K
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
By county
| Ward | 2 active | 8.5K bbl/d |
| Crane | 2 active | 4.3K bbl/d |
| Nolan | 1 active | 1K bbl/d |
| Schleicher | 1 active | 500 bbl/d |
| Winkler | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recompletion | 1 | 5 | 70 |
| Drill | 0 | 0 | 94 |
| Reenter | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Other | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Field transfer | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Reclass | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Armer (6350)3644852 | 30 | 10 |
| Rowan & Hope (Strawn Reef)78632750 | 29 | 6 |
| Crawar (Devonian North)21577180 | 26 | 10 |
| Janelle SE. (Tubb)45680500 | 16 | 15 |
| Ward-Estes North95152001 | 10 | 2 |
| Sand Hills West (Devonian)80481250 | 8 | 0 |
| Crawar (Glorieta)21577450 | 8 | 6 |
| Jud West (Bend Conglomerate)47454250 | 7 | 0 |
| Toe Nail (Strawn)90351666 | 7 | 0 |
| Armer (Tubb)3644568 | 7 | 5 |
| Armer (Clear Fork)3644142 | 6 | 6 |
| Armer (Glorieta)3644284 | 5 | 3 |
P-5 organization report
As registered with the RRC. About the P-5 →
- Registration
- Status code Y
- Last filed Oct 4, 2025
- Gas operatorOil operator
- Address
- P O Box 52290
- Midland, TX 79710
- (432) 967-1359
- Officers and agents
- Williams, Tom W. · President
- Armstrong, Gary W. · Vice President
- Benton, Gregg · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 917882 | Aug 19, 2026 | Aug 17, 2026 | Williams Oil Company | Ward | Edwards 4 #2 | 6,507 | 47535276 |
| 909235 | Jul 15, 2025 | Jul 15, 2025 | Williams Oil Company | Ward | WD Johnson E #1 | 9,139 | 47531727 |
| 908784 | Jun 24, 2025 | Jun 24, 2025 | Williams Oil Company | Ward | WD Johnson #12 | 5,900 | 47580657 |
| 908197 | May 30, 2025 | May 30, 2025 | Williams Oil Company | Ward | Ice 24 #1 | 10,575 | 47538347 |
| 907754 | May 29, 2025 | May 29, 2025 | Williams Oil Company | Crane | C. Edwards Jr., et al A #6 | 3,100 | 10300801 |
| 904970 | Feb 6, 2025 | Feb 6, 2025 | Williams Oil Company | Ward | Ice 24 #1 | 10,575 | 47538347 |
| 889205 | Mar 31, 2023 | Mar 31, 2023 | Williams Oil Company | Crane | MB McKnight 21 #2 | 6,397 | 10335201 |
| 886962 | Jan 17, 2023 | Jan 17, 2023 | Williams Oil Company | Crane | McKnight - Rayden #3 | 4,950 | 10335286 |
| 884186 | Sep 22, 2022 | Sep 22, 2022 | Williams Oil Company | Crane | Peak Victor North #2 | 6,400 | 10337134 |
| 868424 | Mar 24, 2021 | Mar 24, 2021 | Williams Oil Company | Ward | Janelle Edwards 26 #1 | 5,500 | 47532234 |
| 848108 | Dec 21, 2018 | Dec 21, 2018 | Williams Oil Company | Ward | Bel Terra A #7 | 6,200 | 47537790 |
| 848105 | Dec 21, 2018 | Dec 21, 2018 | Williams Oil Company | Ward | Steeple O '4' #2 | 6,200 | 47537791 |
| 840716 | Jun 6, 2018 | Jun 6, 2018 | Williams Oil Company | Ward | Bel Terra A #6 | 6,700 | 47537578 |
| 840715 | Jun 6, 2018 | Jun 6, 2018 | Williams Oil Company | Ward | Rock House 5 #2 | 6,700 | 47537572 |
| 835121 | Feb 15, 2018 | Feb 15, 2018 | Williams Oil Company | Ward | Bel Terra C #1 | 6,700 | 47537418 |
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/925440, documented in the API reference.