OPERATORS · TEXAS · P-5 NUMBER 144416

Chap Operating, Inc.

P-5 status
Active (A)
P-5 last filed
May 8, 2026
Based in
Knox City, TX

Chap Operating, Inc. has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued May 13, 1986.

The RRC wellbore file lists 8 wells under its operatorship (2 producing).

Lease reports credit it with 33 barrels of oil and 0 mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026.

1 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1986; its P-5 organization report was last filed May 8, 2026.

0
permits, last 12 months
—
vs prior 12 months (0)
0
counties, 12 months
2
producing wells, of 8 of record
4
leases it reports
—
horizontal, 12 months

WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 5, 2026

Permits issued by month

LAST 60 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 0 · prior 12 0

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Counties

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

County12 moAll timeWellsLast
Knox county →—14May 13, 1986

All 1 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
No completion tops on file.

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 →

33
bbl oil, last 12 reported months
—
vs the 12 months before
0
mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
88.4K
bbl oil since reporting began

Last 12 months 33 · prior 12 12(+175%)

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Chap Operating, Inc.: Oil by month.

Beyond the permit record

RRC wellbore file

Wells of record

8
in the wellbore file, 2 on schedule
2
producing
0
shut in
0
injection
0
temp. abandoned
6
plugged

How it got them

0
permitted itself
4
acquired from others
0
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

0
active UIC permits of 3
0
permitted bbl/day, active
0
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025
reported through

By county

Knox0 active0 bbl/d

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 →

Type12 moPrior 12All time
Other001

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
Penny (Strawn)7050550040
Obrien West (Strawn)6664150022
Willis E. (Conglomerate)9768150020

P-5 organization report

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

Registration
Status Active (A)
Last filed May 8, 2026
Oil operator
Address
P O Box 241
Knox City, TX 79529
(940) 256-3330
Officers and agents
Pepper, Steven R · President
Pepper, Jared Ray · Vice President
Pepper, Kimberly Denise · Secretary,treasurer

Latest permits

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

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorCountyLease / wellDepthAPI
339980Dec 14, 1987Dec 14, 1987Enexco U.S.A., Ltd.KnoxHudson #45,00027531863
339980Dec 14, 1987Dec 14, 1987Enexco U.S.A., Ltd.KnoxHudson #45,00027531863
302030May 13, 1986May 13, 1986Chap Operating, Inc.KnoxCounts, Walter David #13,05027531612
222239Nov 7, 1983Nov 7, 1983Enexco U.S.A., Ltd.KnoxHudson #35,00027531480
147193Jan 5, 1982Jan 5, 1982Enexco U.S.A., Ltd.KnoxHudson #25,00027531110
74782Mar 11, 1980Mar 11, 1980Enexco U.S.A., Ltd.KnoxHudson #14,97527530810
9587Oct 12, 1977Oct 12, 1977Gen. Amer. Oil Co. of TexasHaskellIrwin, Kathleen #25,90020730699

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.

Developers: this page as JSON is GET /v1/data/operators/tx/144416, documented in the API reference.