OPERATORS · TEXAS · P-5 NUMBER 617505

Oatman, W. W.

P-5 status: Inactive (I)
P-5 last filed: Aug 4, 2000
Based in: Bastrop, TX

Oatman, W. W. has filed no drilling permits in the past 12 months; its most recent permit was issued October 25, 1985.

The RRC wellbore file lists 6 wells under its operatorship.

25 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1980; its P-5 organization report was last filed August 4, 2000.

0: permits, last 12 months
—: vs prior 12 months (0)
0: counties, 12 months
0: producing wells, of 6 of record
1: leases it reports
—: horizontal, 12 months

WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 6, 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.

4%: spud rate · 1 of 25 mature permits
60: median days permit to spud · middle half 60–60
0: spuds, last 180 days
12%: canceled · 3 permits
21: expired undrilled
4: permits a year over 6 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
Guadalupe county →	—	14	1	Feb 8, 1983
Caldwell county →	—	4	2	Sep 2, 1983
Brown county →	—	3	0	Jun 6, 1983
Starr county →	—	2	0	Apr 29, 1981
Archer county →	—	1	0	May 9, 1985
Kleberg county →	—	1	0	Oct 25, 1985

All 25 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
Buda	3	0
Austin Chalk	3	0
Eagle Ford	2	0
Pecan Gap	2	0
Del Rio	1	0
Edwards	1	0
Frio	1	0
Catahoula	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
257: 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

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

How it got them

1: permitted itself
0: acquired from others
11: 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 2
0: permitted bbl/day, active
0: bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025: reported through

By county

Guadalupe

0 active

0 bbl/d

All 2 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
Other	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
Big Wells (San Miguel)8072500	1	0
Bloomberg (Frio 5100)9646300	1	0
Luling-Branyon55679001	1	0
Salt Flat79905001	1	0
Spiller85167001	1	0
Terrell Point (3820)88880312	1	0

P-5 organization report

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

Registration: Status Inactive (I); Last filed Aug 4, 2000

Address: P O Box 310; Bastrop, TX 78602; (512) 303-1659

Officers and agents: Oatman, Wayland Wilson · Operator/Owner

Latest permits

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

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	County	Lease / well	Depth	API
288402	Oct 25, 1985	Oct 25, 1985	Oatman, W. W.	Kleberg	Johnson, J. O. #1	8,000	27332044
274601	May 9, 1985	May 9, 1985	Oatman, W. W.	Archer	Oatman, Grethe et Al #1	6,000	00938910
209347	Sep 2, 1983	Sep 2, 1983	Oatman, W. W.	Caldwell	Jeffrey & Alexander #1	2,500	05533312
209345	Sep 2, 1983	Sep 2, 1983	Oatman, W. W.	Caldwell	Jeffrey & Alexander #2	2,500	05533311
209343	Sep 2, 1983	Sep 2, 1983	Oatman, W. W.	Caldwell	Jeffrey & Alexander #4	2,500	05533310
209341	Sep 2, 1983	Sep 2, 1983	Oatman, W. W.	Caldwell	Jeffrey & Alexander #3	2,500	05533309
197374	Jun 6, 1983	Jun 6, 1983	Oatman, W. W.	Brown	Stephens, J. B. #1	2,000	04933589
186880	Feb 8, 1983	Feb 8, 1983	Oatman, W. W.	Guadalupe	Wright, Goldie #10	2,295	18700274
180043	Dec 1, 1982	Dec 1, 1982	Oatman, W. W.	Guadalupe	Bailey -C- #1	2,600	18732292
178439	Nov 29, 1982	Nov 29, 1982	Oatman, W. W.	Brown	Stephens, J. B. #1	1,315	04933367
175399	Oct 26, 1982	Oct 26, 1982	Oatman, W. W.	Brown	Stephens, J. B. M. D. #1	2,000	04933331
171912	Sep 13, 1982	Sep 13, 1982	Oatman, W. W.	Guadalupe	Goldie Wright et Al #1	2,500	18731624
132744	Jul 27, 1981	Jul 27, 1981	Oatman, W. W.	Guadalupe	Dragert, C.H. #1	2,500	18731647
130018	Jul 27, 1981	Jul 27, 1981	Oatman, W. W.	Guadalupe	Dragert, C.H. #4	2,500	18731676
132742	Jun 4, 1981	Jun 4, 1981	Oatman, W. W.	Guadalupe	Dragert, C.H. #3	2,500	18731675

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/617505, documented in the API reference.