OPERATORS · TEXAS · P-5 NUMBER 29657
Arete Operating Company, LLC
- P-5 status
- Active (A)
- P-5 last filed
- Aug 13, 2025
- Based in
- San Antonio, TX
- Most permits, 12 months
- Frio County
Arete Operating Company, LLC was issued 2 drilling permits in the past 12 months, versus 3 in the prior year, all in Frio County. 50% were horizontal.
None were issued in the past 90 days.
The RRC wellbore file lists 63 wells under its operatorship (36 producing, 4 shut in).
Lease reports credit it with 13.8K barrels of oil and 156K mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, up 19% on the year before.
It holds 2 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 2.05K barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
8 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 2021; its P-5 organization report was last filed August 13, 2025.
- 2
- permits, last 12 months
- -33%
- vs prior 12 months (3)
- 1
- counties, 12 months
- 36
- producing wells, of 63 of record
- 64
- leases it reports
- 50%
- horizontal, 12 months
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 8, 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.
- 57%
- spud rate · 4 of 7 mature permits
- 85
- median days permit to spud · middle half 68–120
- 0
- spuds, last 180 days
- 0%
- canceled · 0 permits
- 1
- expired undrilled
- 1
- permits a year over 6 active years
Permits issued by month
LAST 60 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 2 · prior 12 3(-33%)
Counties
Counties by permits in the last 12 months, with all-time permits and current wells of record there.
All 8 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 | 3 |
| Queen City | 2 | 0 |
| Yegua | 2 | 0 |
| Cook Mountain | 2 | 0 |
| Olmos | 2 | 2 |
| Anacacho | 2 | 2 |
| Escondido | 1 | 1 |
| Eagle Ford | 1 | 1 |
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 →
- 13.8K
- bbl oil, last 12 reported months
- +19%
- vs the 12 months before
- 156K
- mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
- 57.7K
- bbl oil since reporting began
12 months through Apr 2026 155,778 · prior 12 270,884(-42%)
Arete Operating Company, LLC: Gas by month.
Beyond the permit record
RRC wellbore file
Wells of record
How it got them
Each count opens the wells it counts. Acquired means the well's permit names a different operator than the schedule does today; wells it permitted that others now run are in its permit history, marked with who runs them now. Transfers and operator numbers →
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 3K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 2.05K
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
All 3 permits, with volumes → · On the map →
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 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Recompletion | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vaquillas Ranch (Lobo Cons.)93215400 | 19 | 10 |
| La Perla (Lobo Cons.)50925015 | 11 | 6 |
| Rottersman (Lobo)78485500 | 7 | 7 |
| Pearsall (Austin Chalk)69981125 | 5 | 5 |
| Fausto (Lobo)30405400 | 3 | 3 |
| Monson SW. (6150)62514166 | 3 | 1 |
| Monson (Luling 6270)62508200 | 2 | 0 |
| Rottersman (8500)78485650 | 2 | 2 |
| Monson (Queen City)62508400 | 2 | 0 |
| Wildcat8001 | 1 | 0 |
| Belle Jeffers (7850)6928500 | 1 | 0 |
| Cerrito Creek (Lobo Cons.)16724300 | 1 | 1 |
P-5 organization report
As registered with the RRC. About the P-5 →
- Registration
- Status Active (A)
- Last filed Aug 13, 2025
- CSGD/PG/PURGas gatheringGas operatorOil operator
- Address
- 21022 Gathering Oak
- San Antonio, TX 78260
- (210) 325-9383
- Officers and agents
- Pawelek, Joseph C. · President,vice President
- Amsler, Casey · Filing Agent
Latest permits
NEWEST FIRST BY ISSUE DATE · FILED OR ON WELLS IT NOW OPERATES
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 by the operator that filed them, through the statewide reported-through month; disposal from UIC permits and H-10 reports. Oil includes condensate from gas leases and gas includes casinghead gas from oil leases, as the RRC totals them. Summary figures are rebuilt nightly. Nothing is estimated.
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