OPERATORS · TEXAS · P-5 NUMBER 71331
Birch Operations, Inc.
- P-5 status
- Active (A)
- P-5 last filed
- Feb 9, 2026
- Based in
- Houston, TX
- Most permits, 12 months
- Dawson County
Birch Operations, Inc. was issued 5 drilling permits in the past 12 months, versus 5 in the prior year, all in Dawson County. 0% were horizontal.
None were issued in the past 90 days.
The RRC wellbore file lists 470 wells under its operatorship (196 producing, 242 shut in).
Lease reports credit it with 9.23M barrels of oil and 84M mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, down 42% on the year before.
It holds 3 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 12.6M barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
476 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 2018; its P-5 organization report was last filed February 9, 2026.
- 5
- permits, last 12 months
- +0%
- vs prior 12 months (5)
- 1
- counties, 12 months
- 196
- producing wells, of 470 of record
- 212
- leases it reports
- 0%
- 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.
- 95%
- spud rate · 452 of 476 mature permits
- 11
- median days permit to spud · middle half 6–32
- 0
- spuds, last 180 days -100%
- 0%
- canceled · 0 permits
- 21
- expired undrilled
- 60
- permits a year over 8 active years
Permits issued by month
LAST 60 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 2 · prior 12 8(-75%)
Counties
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dawson county → | 5 | 35 | 38 | Dec 19, 2025 |
| Howard county → | — | 293 | 303 | Jun 18, 2024 |
| Martin county → | — | 134 | 129 | May 13, 2025 |
| Andrews county → | — | 14 | 0 | Jan 6, 2023 |
All 476 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 | 444 | 17 |
| Yates | 443 | 17 |
| Spraberry | 431 | 18 |
| Clear Fork | 327 | 14 |
| Santa Rosa | 307 | 6 |
| Seven Rivers | 290 | 2 |
| Glorieta | 288 | 2 |
| Dean | 235 | 17 |
| Rustler | 193 | 2 |
| Queen | 143 | 4 |
| Grayburg | 142 | 4 |
| Wolfcamp | 98 | 6 |
| Leonard | 35 | 0 |
| Pennsylvanian | 3 | 1 |
| Canyon | 2 | 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 →
- 9.23M
- bbl oil, last 12 reported months
- -42%
- vs the 12 months before
- 84M
- mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
- 119M
- bbl oil since reporting began
12 months through Apr 2026 9,230,887 · prior 12 15,866,250(-42%)
Birch Operations, Inc.: Oil 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
- 220K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 12.6M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
All 13 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 | 3 | 5 | 474 |
| Recompletion | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spraberry (Trend Area)85280300 | 460 | 191 |
| Joy Snell S. (Canyon Reef)47384075 | 5 | 2 |
| Ackerly North (Canyon 9166)450317 | 2 | 2 |
| Ackerly North (Dean Sand)450500 | 2 | 1 |
| Ackerly (Dean Sand)448200 | 1 | 0 |
P-5 organization report
As registered with the RRC. About the P-5 →
- Registration
- Status Active (A)
- Last filed Feb 9, 2026
- Oil operator
- Address
- 2 Houston Center Suite 1400, 909 Fannin Street
- Houston, TX 77010
- (832) 701-1776
- Officers and agents
- De Los Santos, Vanessa · Filing Agent
- Cansler, Jason Richard · President,ceo
- Smythe, Julien Ravenel · Vice President
- Frazier, David Marshall · Vice President
- Alberter, Michael Edward III · Vice President
- Dillett, Peter Michael · Vice President
- McKamey, Jeremy Paul · Other
- Hiemstra, Erik John · Vice President
- All 9 on the P-5 →
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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