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OPERATORS · TEXAS · P-5 NUMBER 82443

Bonfire Operating LLC

P-5 status
Active (A)
P-5 last filed
Aug 19, 2025
Based in
Cresson, TX
Most permits, 12 months
Wichita County
Watch this operator

Bonfire Operating LLC was issued 2 drilling permits in the past 12 months, after a quiet prior year, all in Wichita County. 0% were horizontal.

None were issued in the past 90 days.

The RRC wellbore file lists 109 wells under its operatorship (24 producing, 22 shut in).

Lease reports credit it with 4.05K barrels of oil and 59.8K mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, down 21% on the year before.

It holds 3 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 909K barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

43 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 2014; its P-5 organization report was last filed August 19, 2025.

2
permits, last 12 months
—
vs prior 12 months (0)
1
counties, 12 months
24
producing wells, of 109 of record
83
leases it reports
0%
horizontal, 12 months

WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 5, 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.

90%
spud rate · 37 of 41 mature permits
18
median days permit to spud · middle half 7–32
2
spuds, last 180 days
0%
canceled · 0 permits
4
expired undrilled
3
permits a year over 13 active years

Permits issued by month

LAST 60 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 2 · prior 12 0

01220222023202420252026

Counties

Counties by permits in the last 12 months, with all-time permits and current wells of record there.

County12 moAll timeWellsLast
Wichita county →21120May 12, 2026
Archer county →—1410Mar 7, 2023
Crockett county →—816May 26, 2017
Edwards county →—60Jun 1, 2015
Schleicher county →—41Feb 4, 2016

All 43 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 →

FormationWellsPermitted last 3 yrs
Thomas Sand170
Gunsight160
Canyon100
Strawn100
Cisco80
KMA70
Tannehill60
Paluxy50
San Andres30
Queen30
Bryson20
Clear Fork20
Caddo10
Wolfcamp10
San Angelo10

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 →

4.05K
bbl oil, last 12 reported months
-21%
vs the 12 months before
59.8K
mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
71.8K
bbl oil since reporting began

Last 12 months 59,792 · prior 12 87,651(-32%)

010K20K20192020202120222023202420252026

Bonfire Operating LLC: Gas by month.

Beyond the permit record

RRC wellbore file

Wells of record

109
in the wellbore file, 84 on schedule
24
producing
22
shut in
3
injection
29
temp. abandoned
25
plugged

How it got them

22
permitted itself
59
acquired from others
9
permitted, now run by others

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

3
active UIC permits of 6
25.2K
permitted bbl/day, active
909K
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025
reported through

By county

Parker1 active25K bbl/d
Wichita2 active160 bbl/d
Archer0 active0 bbl/d
Clay0 active0 bbl/d
Young0 active0 bbl/d

All 6 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 →

Type12 moPrior 12All time
Drill2037
Recompletion004
Reenter002

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.

FieldWellsProducing
Brookeland (Austin Chalk 8800)12193500440
Wichita County Regular971550011910
Archer County Regular344600190
Dudley East (Devonian)2631950077
Ozona (Clear Fork)6799540054
Clay County Regular1870700150
Eastland County Regular2735800130
Wildflower (Strawn)9736837522
Maxey (Strawn 1900)5850575020
Jan_jerrye SE. (Canyon Lo.)4563829010
JM (Ellenburger)4509050010
Kadane Cato (Congl)4799030010

P-5 organization report

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

Registration
Status Active (A)
Last filed Aug 19, 2025
Gas operatorOil operator
Address
PO Box 615
Cresson, TX 76035
(817) 888-8677
Officers and agents
Rockwell, Richard · President
Rockwell, Donnal Everett · Vice President

Latest permits

NEWEST FIRST BY ISSUE DATE · FILED OR ON WELLS IT NOW OPERATES

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorCountyLease / wellDepthAPI
914538May 12, 2026May 12, 2026Bonfire Operating LLCWichitaGillis, Bruce #21B1,70048546427
914537May 12, 2026May 12, 2026Bonfire Operating LLCWichitaGillis, Bruce #20B1,70048546428
894604Oct 26, 2023Oct 26, 2023Bonfire Operating LLCWichitaBonfire- Scottish Rite #19035,70048546380
894275Oct 6, 2023Oct 6, 2023Prize Exploration & Prod, LLCNewtonChampion Int'l. Unit A-492 #111,75035130617
892707Aug 11, 2023Aug 11, 2023Bonfire Operating LLCWichitaBonfire- Scottish Rite #19026,00048546376
889797Jun 15, 2023Jun 15, 2023Bonfire Operating LLCWichitaBonfire-TNT South #23046,00048546367
890696May 26, 2023May 26, 2023Bonfire Operating LLCWichitaGillis, Bruce #19B2,49948546365
888152Mar 7, 2023Mar 7, 2023Bonfire Operating LLCArcherBonfire-FRG #46,30000943317
888152Mar 7, 2023Mar 7, 2023Bonfire Operating LLCArcherBonfire-FRG #46,30000943317
882795Aug 15, 2022Aug 15, 2022Bonfire Operating LLCArcherBonfire-FRG #36,70000943302
875906Jan 25, 2022Jan 25, 2022Bonfire Operating LLCArcherArnold, C S #16,30000943276
875889Jan 14, 2022Jan 14, 2022Bonfire Operating LLCWichitaBonfire-Fidelis #23035,80048546313
871812Aug 9, 2021Aug 9, 2021Bonfire Operating LLCWichitaBonfire-TNT #23016,00048546297
856016Aug 12, 2019Aug 12, 2019Bonfire Operating LLCWichitaBonfire OV 13 #13016,50048546214
852225Apr 23, 2019Apr 23, 2019Bonfire Operating LLCArcherBonfire-Hoffman #21,10000943200

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 by the operator that filed them, through the statewide reported-through month; disposal from UIC permits and H-10 reports. Summary figures are rebuilt nightly. Nothing is estimated.

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