OPERATORS · TEXAS · P-5 NUMBER 169127

Colter Operating, Inc.

P-5 status: Inactive (I)
P-5 last filed: Feb 18, 1993
Based in: Marble Falls, TX

Colter Operating, Inc. has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued December 4, 1991.

The RRC wellbore file lists 4 wells under its operatorship.

14 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1988; its P-5 organization report was last filed February 18, 1993.

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

36%: spud rate · 5 of 14 mature permits
16: median days permit to spud · middle half 6–23
0: spuds, last 180 days
0%: canceled · 0 permits
9: expired undrilled
4: permits a year over 4 active years

Permits issued by month

LAST 60 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 0 · prior 12 0

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
Ector county →	—	7	4	Sep 20, 1989
Borden county →	—	2	0	Mar 19, 1990
Howard county →	—	1	0	Dec 4, 1991
Kent county →	—	1	0	Jun 13, 1990
Pecos county →	—	1	0	Aug 9, 1988
Sterling county →	—	1	0	Mar 4, 1991
Terry county →	—	1	0	Jun 12, 1990

All 14 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
Cisco	5	0
Rustler	5	0
San Andres	5	0
Wolfcamp	4	0
Glorieta	3	0
Clear Fork	3	0
Yates	1	0
Ellenburger	1	0
Strawn	1	0
Canyon	1	0
Spraberry	1	0

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 →

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

No lease production reported under this operator number in the last ten years.

Beyond the permit record

RRC wellbore file

Wells of record

4: in the wellbore file
0: producing
0: shut in
0: injection
0: temp. abandoned
4: plugged

How it got them

3: permitted itself
1: acquired from others
5: 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 →

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	0	0	10
Reenter	0	0	3
Recompletion	0	0	1

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
Cowden (Cisco)21287250	4	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status Inactive (I); Last filed Feb 18, 1993

Address: PO Box 7671; Marble Falls, TX 78654; (210) 598-8876

Officers and agents: Colter, James Richard · President; Colter, Nina Faye · Secretary/Treasurer; Colter, Gregory Jay · Vice President

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
394614	Dec 4, 1991	Dec 4, 1991	Colter Operating, Inc.	Howard	McKinnon, J. F. #1	3,900	22732783
385046	Mar 4, 1991	Mar 4, 1991	Colter Operating, Inc.	Sterling	Champlin Foster #1	8,560	43131574
369874	Jun 13, 1990	Jun 13, 1990	Colter Operating, Inc.	Kent	Chisum #1	6,700	26331062
374257	Jun 12, 1990	Jun 12, 1990	Colter Operating, Inc.	Terry	Faarar #1	3,500	44531602
367268	Mar 19, 1990	Mar 19, 1990	Colter Operating, Inc.	Borden	Clayton, Scott #1	10,000	03331429
367268	Feb 28, 1990	Feb 28, 1990	Colter Operating, Inc.	Borden	Clayton, Scott #1	10,000	03331429
364020	Sep 20, 1989	Sep 20, 1989	Colter Operating, Inc.	Ector	Cowden "18" #1	9,000	13536131
358171	Apr 19, 1989	Apr 19, 1989	Colter Operating, Inc.	Ector	Cowden "G" #3	9,000	13536071
356690	Mar 15, 1989	Mar 15, 1989	Colter Operating, Inc.	Ector	Cowden "B" #2	9,100	13536047
355189	Jan 18, 1989	Jan 18, 1989	Colter Operating, Inc.	Ector	Cowden "C" #1	9,000	13536021
353787	Nov 30, 1988	Nov 30, 1988	Colter Operating, Inc.	Ector	Lynch #2	9,000	13533845
352281	Oct 17, 1988	Oct 17, 1988	Colter Operating, Inc.	Ector	Cowden "B" #1	9,000	13535997
349817	Aug 9, 1988	Aug 9, 1988	Colter Operating, Inc.	Pecos	Nutt "A" #1	7,000	37136113
349814	Aug 8, 1988	Aug 8, 1988	Colter Operating, Inc.	Ector	Cowden "G" #2	9,000	13535947
344157	Mar 23, 1988	Mar 23, 1988	Colter Operating Co.	Ector	Cowden H #1	9,000	13535863

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/169127, documented in the API reference.