OPERATORS · TEXAS · P-5 NUMBER 712382
Ring Energy, Inc.
- P-5 status
- Active (A)
- P-5 last filed
- Feb 9, 2026
- Based in
- Midland, TX
- Most permits, 12 months
- Crane County
Petrora groups this registration with Ring Energy, Inc, New Mexico (0 active wells). Ring Energy, Inc. across every state →
Ring Energy, Inc. was issued 45 drilling permits in the past 12 months, up 36% on the prior year, across 4 counties led by Crane with 23. 73% were horizontal.
16 were issued in the past 90 days, up 45% on the prior quarter. 1 was issued in the past week.
The RRC wellbore file lists 2,133 wells under its operatorship (688 producing, 735 shut in).
Lease reports credit it with 6.31M barrels of oil and 16.6M mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, up 3% on the year before.
It holds 178 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 71.3M barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
905 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 2013; its P-5 organization report was last filed February 9, 2026.
- 45
- permits, last 12 months
- +36%
- vs prior 12 months (33)
- 4
- counties, 12 months
- 688
- producing wells, of 2.13K of record
- 502
- leases it reports
- 73%
- 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.
- 63%
- spud rate · 552 of 878 mature permits
- 53
- median days permit to spud · middle half 24–119
- 17
- spuds, last 180 days +89%
- 0%
- canceled · 0 permits
- 306
- expired undrilled
- 65
- permits a year over 14 active years
Permits issued by month
LAST 60 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 45 · prior 12 29(+55%)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crane county → | 23 | 172 | 1,057 | Sep 18, 2026 |
| Yoakum county → | 10 | 133 | 158 | Nov 5, 2026 |
| Andrews county → | 9 | 450 | 547 | May 29, 2026 |
| Ector county → | 3 | 37 | 319 | Jun 17, 2026 |
| Gaines county → | — | 73 | 44 | Jun 13, 2019 |
| Culberson county → | — | 35 | 2 | Jan 20, 2021 |
| Reeves county → | — | 5 | 3 | Sep 10, 2018 |
All 905 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 |
|---|---|---|
| San Andres | 460 | 61 |
| Yates | 384 | 51 |
| Queen | 300 | 32 |
| Grayburg | 289 | 34 |
| Seven Rivers | 283 | 32 |
| Clear Fork | 79 | 35 |
| Santa Rosa | 79 | 17 |
| Tubb | 51 | 12 |
| Glorieta | 44 | 14 |
| San Angelo | 36 | 8 |
| Wichita-Albany | 34 | 9 |
| Rustler | 30 | 8 |
| Holt | 27 | 3 |
| Wolfcamp | 22 | 4 |
| Cherry Canyon | 22 | 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 →
- 6.31M
- bbl oil, last 12 reported months
- +3%
- vs the 12 months before
- 16.6M
- mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
- 43.8M
- bbl oil since reporting began
12 months through Apr 2026 6,309,228 · prior 12 6,122,729(+3%)
Ring Energy, Inc.: Oil by month.
Beyond the permit record
RRC wellbore file
Wells of record
- 2,133
- in the wellbore file, 1,492 on schedule
- 688
- producing
- 735
- shut in
- 58
- injection
- 9
- temp. abandoned
- 607
- plugged
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
- 1.05M
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 71.3M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
By county
| Andrews | 32 active | 418K bbl/d |
| Crane | 98 active | 207K bbl/d |
| Yoakum | 9 active | 194K bbl/d |
| Ector | 35 active | 132K bbl/d |
| Gaines | 4 active | 100K bbl/d |
| Culberson | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
| Reeves | 0 active | 0 bbl/d |
All 383 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 | 36 | 28 | 796 |
| Field transfer | 6 | 0 | 39 |
| Recompletion | 3 | 5 | 70 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Penwell70537001 | 252 | 9 |
| Shafter Lake (San Andres)82570500 | 191 | 53 |
| Sand Hills (Judkins)80473248 | 154 | 41 |
| Lea (Consolidated)52624220 | 150 | 70 |
| Platang (San Andres)71823666 | 130 | 123 |
| Waddell94482001 | 124 | 6 |
| C-Bar (San Andres)14200400 | 123 | 9 |
| Block a-34 (San Andres)8958500 | 119 | 63 |
| Running W N. (Holt)78938500 | 106 | 60 |
| Shafter Lake N. (San Andres)82572666 | 88 | 57 |
| Sand Hills (McKnight)80473310 | 85 | 17 |
| Triple-N (Grayburg)91350300 | 85 | 3 |
P-5 organization report
As registered with the RRC. About the P-5 →
- Registration
- Status Active (A)
- Last filed Feb 9, 2026
- Oil gatheringGas operatorOil operator
- Address
- PO Box 11350
- Midland, TX 79702
- (432) 682-7464
- Officers and agents
- Dyes, Alexander · Vice President
- Lamb, Hollie · Vice President,general Manager
- Parr, James J · Vice President
- Young, Shawn · Vice President
- Feiner, Phillip · Vice President,general Counsel
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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