OPERATORS · TEXAS · P-5 NUMBER 677770
Prime Operating Company
- P-5 status
- Active (A)
- P-5 last filed
- Jan 29, 2026
- Based in
- Midland, TX
- Most permits, 12 months
- Polk County
Petrora groups this registration with Prime Operating Company, Oklahoma (140 active wells), Prime Operating Co, New Mexico (2 active wells). Prime Operating Company across every state →
Prime Operating Company was issued 1 drilling permit in the past 12 months, after a quiet prior year, all in Polk County. 0% were horizontal.
None were issued in the past 90 days.
The RRC wellbore file lists 1,037 wells under its operatorship (236 producing, 68 shut in).
Lease reports credit it with 309K barrels of oil and 1.2M mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, down 24% on the year before.
It holds 10 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 7.2M barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
487 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1992; its P-5 organization report was last filed January 29, 2026.
- 1
- permits, last 12 months
- —
- vs prior 12 months (0)
- 1
- counties, 12 months
- 236
- producing wells, of 1.04K of record
- 412
- leases it reports
- 0%
- 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.
- 83%
- spud rate · 402 of 487 mature permits
- 34
- median days permit to spud · middle half 13–82
- 0
- spuds, last 180 days
- 0%
- canceled · 0 permits
- 85
- expired undrilled
- 14
- permits a year over 34 active years
Permits issued by month
LAST 60 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 1 · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Polk county → | 1 | 54 | 75 | Feb 6, 2026 |
| Reagan county → | — | 213 | 298 | Oct 13, 2022 |
| Dimmit county → | — | 35 | 299 | Nov 30, 2016 |
| Newton county → | — | 19 | 23 | Jul 19, 2018 |
| Colorado county → | — | 18 | 9 | Jul 28, 2009 |
| Calhoun county → | — | 16 | 8 | Mar 10, 2017 |
| Martin county → | — | 15 | 84 | Sep 13, 2016 |
| Leon county → | — | 14 | 12 | Feb 15, 2011 |
| Midland county → | — | 14 | 11 | Sep 10, 2013 |
| Bee county → | — | 10 | 4 | Jan 15, 2009 |
| Duval county → | — | 10 | 23 | Oct 30, 2014 |
| Gaines county → | — | 7 | 2 | Oct 15, 2007 |
| Matagorda county → | — | 7 | 0 | Sep 2, 1998 |
| Walker county → | — | 7 | 5 | Dec 4, 2006 |
| Crockett county → | — | 4 | 20 | Jul 15, 1999 |
| Grimes county → | — | 4 | 2 | Aug 15, 2012 |
| Maverick county → | — | 4 | 8 | Jul 14, 1994 |
| Chambers county → | — | 3 | 5 | Jan 8, 2021 |
| De Witt county → | — | 3 | 1 | Jun 20, 2001 |
| Jim Hogg county → | — | 3 | 4 | Sep 24, 2014 |
| San Jacinto county → | — | 3 | 1 | Oct 19, 2007 |
| Upton county → | — | 3 | 91 | Mar 28, 2016 |
| Harris county → | — | 2 | 0 | Jan 16, 2003 |
| Liberty county → | — | 2 | 0 | Sep 27, 2002 |
| Pecos county → | — | 2 | 2 | Dec 3, 2001 |
| Victoria county → | — | 2 | 0 | Feb 15, 1996 |
| Webb county → | — | 2 | 8 | Aug 4, 2000 |
| Wilbarger county → | — | 2 | 0 | Jul 12, 1993 |
| Cherokee county → | — | 1 | 0 | Dec 12, 1994 |
| Fort Bend county → | — | 1 | 0 | Apr 11, 1997 |
| Houston county → | — | 1 | 1 | Jul 3, 2012 |
| Montgomery county → | — | 1 | 0 | Jul 30, 2003 |
| Schleicher county → | — | 1 | 1 | Dec 8, 1994 |
| Waller county → | — | 1 | 0 | Jun 24, 2003 |
| Young county → | — | 1 | 3 | Mar 14, 1994 |
| Zapata county → | — | 1 | 1 | Jul 12, 2000 |
| Zavala county → | — | 1 | 1 | Jul 11, 2001 |
All 487 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spraberry | 188 | 0 |
| Wolfcamp | 187 | 0 |
| Dean | 170 | 0 |
| Strawn | 54 | 0 |
| Cline | 35 | 0 |
| Yegua | 33 | 2 |
| Olmos | 31 | 0 |
| San Miguel | 29 | 0 |
| Miocene (undifferentiated) | 27 | 1 |
| Bend | 27 | 0 |
| Escondido | 25 | 0 |
| Frio | 24 | 2 |
| Jackson | 22 | 1 |
| Wilcox | 22 | 1 |
| San Andres | 19 | 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 →
- 309K
- bbl oil, last 12 reported months
- -24%
- vs the 12 months before
- 1.2M
- mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
- 21.7M
- bbl oil since reporting began
12 months through Apr 2026 308,855 · prior 12 406,193(-24%)
Prime 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
- 84.3K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 7.2M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
By county
| Reagan | 4 active | 51.5K bbl/d |
| Martin | 1 active | 20K bbl/d |
| Polk | 3 active | 7K bbl/d |
| Newton | 1 active | 5K bbl/d |
| Midland | 1 active | 800 bbl/d |
| Dimmit | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
| Chambers | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
| Crockett | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
All 37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recompletion | 1 | 0 | 159 |
| Drill | 0 | 0 | 314 |
| Reenter | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| Field transfer | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spraberry (Trend Area)85280300 | 468 | 205 |
| Hugh Fitzsimmons (San Miguel)43305666 | 283 | 0 |
| Segno Deep82141001 | 21 | 7 |
| Holt Ranch (Ellenburger)42341500 | 19 | 0 |
| Hugh Fitzsimons (Olmos)43305333 | 18 | 0 |
| El Mesquite (5200)28054730 | 16 | 0 |
| Segno South (Wilcox)82145110 | 12 | 3 |
| Segno82140001 | 12 | 0 |
| Alabama Ferry (Glenrose D West)1032100 | 7 | 0 |
| Panhandle Gray County Field68873001 | 6 | 0 |
| El Mesquite (3000)28054500 | 6 | 0 |
| Spraberry (Trend Area) R 40 Exc85279201 | 6 | 6 |
P-5 organization report
As registered with the RRC. About the P-5 →
- Registration
- Status Active (A)
- Last filed Jan 29, 2026
- CSGD/GCSGD/PG/PURGas gatheringGas operatorOil operator
- Address
- 3300 N. "a" Street Ste 238, Building 1
- Midland, TX 79705
- (432) 682-5600
- Officers and agents
- Drimal, Charles E. Jr. · Director,president
- Cummings, Beverly A. · Director,secretary,treasurer,vic
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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