OPERATORS · TEXAS · P-5 NUMBER 253480
Ernest Operating Company
- P-5 status
- Active – Extension (X)
- P-5 last filed
- Feb 24, 2026
- Based in
- Rockdale, TX
Ernest Operating Company has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued July 2, 2014.
The RRC wellbore file lists 279 wells under its operatorship (149 producing).
Lease reports credit it with 34.2K barrels of oil and 80.8K mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, down 4% on the year before.
28 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1988; its P-5 organization report was last filed February 24, 2026.
- 0
- permits, last 12 months
- —
- vs prior 12 months (0)
- 0
- counties, 12 months
- 149
- producing wells, of 279 of record
- 144
- leases it reports
- —
- 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.
- 39%
- spud rate · 11 of 28 mature permits
- 17
- median days permit to spud · middle half 6–48
- 0
- spuds, last 180 days
- 0%
- canceled · 0 permits
- 17
- expired undrilled
- 1
- permits a year over 27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bastrop county → | — | 18 | 3 | Apr 23, 1990 |
| Milam county → | — | 3 | 35 | Aug 3, 1988 |
| Burleson county → | — | 2 | 131 | Jul 2, 2014 |
| Navarro county → | — | 2 | 0 | Jul 12, 1991 |
| Wharton county → | — | 2 | 1 | Feb 28, 1991 |
| Fayette county → | — | 1 | 0 | Feb 26, 2003 |
All 28 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Taylor | 10 | 0 |
| Austin Chalk | 3 | 0 |
| Midway | 3 | 0 |
| Navarro | 3 | 0 |
| Wilcox | 3 | 0 |
| Eagle Ford | 2 | 0 |
| Edwards | 1 | 0 |
| Miocene (undifferentiated) | 1 | 0 |
| Pecan Gap | 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 →
- 34.2K
- bbl oil, last 12 reported months
- -4%
- vs the 12 months before
- 80.8K
- mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
- 1.87M
- bbl oil since reporting began
12 months through Apr 2026 34,248 · prior 12 35,529(-4%)
Ernest Operating Company: 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
- 0
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 0
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
By county
| Lee | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
All 1 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 | 0 | 0 | 23 |
| Reenter | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Other | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Field transfer | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hooker Creek (Navarro A)42493500 | 87 | 60 |
| Noack Cow Herd East (Navarro)65609500 | 46 | 24 |
| Willard (Navarro)97502500 | 42 | 26 |
| Noack Cow Herd (3460)65607500 | 35 | 15 |
| Minerva-Rockdale61858001 | 22 | 1 |
| Noack Cow Herd (Seg. C)65607300 | 9 | 5 |
| Inez Jameson (Navarro -A-)44544400 | 6 | 2 |
| Dixie (Navarro B)25014500 | 5 | 4 |
| Noack COWHERD(3200)65607475 | 4 | 1 |
| Briar Branch (Navarro)11831500 | 2 | 1 |
| Midway (2300 Oil)61153510 | 2 | 2 |
| Bulloh (Poth)13277700 | 2 | 1 |
P-5 organization report
As registered with the RRC. About the P-5 →
- Registration
- Status Active – Extension (X)
- Last filed Feb 24, 2026
- CSGD/GGas gatheringGas operatorOil operator
- Address
- 120 East Bell
- Rockdale, TX 76567
- (512) 446-3855
- Officers and agents
- Noack, Steven Michael · President
- Noack, Ernest Alan · Treasurer,vice President
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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