OPERATORS · TEXAS · P-5 NUMBER 73056 · WARD COUNTY
Blackbeard Operating, LLC in Ward County
One operator, one county: its permits, wells of record, formations, and leases here, with the rest of the county and the rest of the operator one click away.
Blackbeard Operating, LLC has 75 drilling permits on file in Ward County, the first issued in 2014 and the latest on October 27, 2025.
None were issued in the last twelve months, after 1 the year before.
It is operator of record on 9 wells in the county: 0 producing, 1 shut in, 0 injection.
Its completed wells here most often report Yates, Rustler, Tubb.
- 0
- permits, 12 months -100%
- 75
- permits, all time since 2014
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- horizontal, 12 months
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- ft average depth, 12 months
- 9
- wells of record
- 0
- producing · 1 shut in · 0 injection
Permits issued by month
LAST FIVE YEARS · WARD ONLY
Last 12 months 0 · prior 12 1(-100%)
Latest permits here
| Issued | Lease / well | Type | Depth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2025 | Dead Water #18SD 911339 | Drill | 7,999 |
| Aug 25, 2021 | Swashbuckler SE #1 872196 | Recompletion | 9,000 |
| May 4, 2021 | Grace O'Malley #1 869480 | Drill | 8,500 |
| Jul 13, 2020 | Queen Annes Revenge #8 863600 | Recompletion | 5,242 |
| Jun 18, 2020 | Ocracoke Island #13 863954 | Recompletion | 8,225 |
| Apr 24, 2020 | Swashbuckler SE #1 863427 | Recompletion | 5,258 |
| Apr 23, 2020 | Swashbuckler #2 862835 | Recompletion | 5,189 |
| Mar 18, 2020 | Swashbuckler #2 862821 | Recompletion | 6,342 |
| May 10, 2019 | Winter #10 852849 | Drill | 7,000 |
| Mar 20, 2019 | Grace O'Malley #1 851247 | Drill | 8,500 |
All 75 permits in Ward County, searchable → · Wells of record here →
Permit types and formations
Permit types
- Drill
- 0 / 63
- Recompletion
- 0 / 11
- Reenter
- 0 / 1
12 MONTHS / ALL TIME
Formations reported
Leases it reports here
| Lease | Wells | Oil, bbl | Last reported |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dabb | 3 | 24.4K | Jan 2022 |
| Ocracoke Island | 1 | 13.7K | Apr 2020 |
| Man of War | 1 | 5 | Feb 2020 |
| Man of War | 1 | 1.41K | Jan 2020 |
| Man of War W | 1 | 1.96K | May 2019 |
| Swashbuckler | 1 | 1.57K | Jun 2018 |
| Swashbuckler SE | 1 | 7.49K | Oct 2017 |
| Man of War | 1 | 2.46K | Oct 2017 |
| Edwards Estate "A" | 1 | 15.1K | Mar 2017 |
| Edwards Estate | 1 | 183 | Mar 2017 |
| Man of War | 1 | 1.36K | Oct 2016 |
| Queen Annes Revenge | 2 | 25.5K | Aug 2016 |
| Tunstill | 1 | 485 | Sep 2010 |
| Ocracoke Island | 1 | 0 | — |
| Ocracoke Island | 1 | 0 | — |
About this data
Permits from the RRC OGA049M master and daily daf420 files; wells of record and status from the EWA wellbore schedule, weekly; formations from the dbf900 wellbore file; leases from PDQ lease reports, placed in the county by the wells completed on them.
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