OPERATORS · RRC 950623 · P-5 STATUS Y

Zenith Expl Co., Inc

Houston, TX

Zenith Expl CO., Inc has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued February 25, 1982.

The RRC wellbore file lists 6 wells under its operatorship.

81 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1977; its P-5 organization report was last filed October 15, 1987.

0: permits, last 12 months
—: vs prior 12 months (0)
0: counties, 12 months
0: producing wells, of 6 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.

33%: spud rate · 27 of 81 mature permits
144: median days permit to spud · middle half 58–190
0: spuds, last 180 days
7%: cancelled · 6 permits
48: expired undrilled
16: permits a year over 5 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
Taylor county →	—	35	3	Dec 3, 1980
Frio county →	—	22	1	Dec 3, 1981
Fort Bend county →	—	6	2	Feb 25, 1982
Kent county →	—	3	0	Apr 10, 1981
Liberty county →	—	3	0	Jan 4, 1980
Runnels county →	—	3	0	Jan 4, 1980
Garza county →	—	2	0	Mar 11, 1981
Jones county →	—	2	0	Oct 6, 1980
Anderson county →	—	1	0	Jul 16, 1979
Gonzales county →	—	1	0	Oct 20, 1981
Jefferson county →	—	1	0	Jan 2, 1979
Matagorda county →	—	1	0	Jun 16, 1981
San Patricio county →	—	1	0	Jan 5, 1979

All 81 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
Austin Chalk	3	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
0: 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

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

How it got them

4: permitted itself
2: acquired from others
8: 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	69
Other	0	0	11
Recompletion	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
Reidenbach75738001	2	0
Rosenberg North (7700)78321890	2	0
Berry (Frio)7370300	1	0
Taylor County Regular88520001	1	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status code Y; Last filed Oct 15, 1987

Address: P.O. Box 79243; Houston, TX 77279

Officers and agents: Neidell, Norman S. · President/Chairman; Beard, John H. · Vice President; Couvillion, Marion V. · 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
346107	May 9, 1988	May 9, 1988	Beaird, R.A. Oil Operating Co.	Taylor	Jacobs, J. C. #2	2,500	44101738
346107	May 9, 1988	May 9, 1988	PBR Production Co.	Taylor	Jacobs, J. C. #2	5,280	44101738
151870	Feb 25, 1982	Feb 25, 1982	Zenith Exploration Co., Inc.	Fort Bend	Seale, R.A. #4	7,863	15731309
145318	Dec 3, 1981	Dec 3, 1981	Zenith Exploration Co., Inc.	Frio	Orndoff-Barnes #1	7,350	16332106
142583	Nov 16, 1981	Nov 16, 1981	Zenith Exploration Co., Inc.	Frio	Orndoff, James #07307 #2	7,500	16332040
140101	Oct 28, 1981	Oct 28, 1981	Zenith Exploration Co., Inc.	Frio	Wright, May S. #1	7,500	16332073
140541	Oct 20, 1981	Oct 20, 1981	Zenith Exploration Co., Inc.	Gonzales	Cook, L.D. #1	5,983	17731147
137119	Oct 15, 1981	Oct 15, 1981	Zenith Exploration Co., Inc.	Frio	Harper "B" #1	7,500	16332063
136703	Oct 5, 1981	Oct 5, 1981	Zenith Exploration Co., Inc.	Frio	Good"a" #1	7,500	16332058
136701	Oct 5, 1981	Oct 5, 1981	Zenith Exploration Co., Inc.	Frio	Good #1	7,500	16332057
134542	Sep 25, 1981	Sep 25, 1981	Zenith Exploration Co., Inc.	Frio	Harper "A" #1	7,500	16332048
131518	Aug 28, 1981	Aug 28, 1981	Zenith Exploration Co., Inc.	Frio	Harper, Mary #1	7,500	16332056
130658	Aug 17, 1981	Aug 17, 1981	Zenith Exploration Co., Inc.	Frio	Ayala, Arturo #1	7,500	16332032
130430	Aug 17, 1981	Aug 17, 1981	Zenith Exploration Co., Inc.	Frio	Ayala, Arturo #1	7,500	16332032
127410	Jul 23, 1981	Jul 23, 1981	Zenith Exploration Co., Inc.	Frio	Orndoff, James #1	7,200	16332026

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/950623, documented in the API reference.