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OPERATORS · TEXAS · P-5 NUMBER 810277

Sponte Operating, Inc.

P-5 status
Active (A)
P-5 last filed
Jan 28, 2026
Based in
Dallas, TX
Most permits, 12 months
Harrison County
Watch this operator

Sponte Operating, Inc. was issued 8 drilling permits in the past 12 months, versus 7 in the prior year, all in Harrison County. 100% were horizontal.

None were issued in the past 90 days.

The RRC wellbore file lists 60 wells under its operatorship (37 producing).

It holds 3 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 842K barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

45 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 2019; its P-5 organization report was last filed January 28, 2026.

8
permits, last 12 months
+14%
vs prior 12 months (7)
1
counties, 12 months
37
producing wells, of 60 of record
57
leases it reports
100%
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.

76%
spud rate · 34 of 45 mature permits
96
median days permit to spud · middle half 32–165
4
spuds, last 180 days +300%
0%
canceled · 0 permits
11
expired undrilled
6
permits a year over 7 active years

Permits issued by month

LAST 60 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 8 · prior 12 7(+14%)

051020222023202420252026

Counties

Counties by permits in the last 12 months, with all-time permits and current wells of record there.

County12 moAll timeWellsLast
Harrison county →82624May 7, 2026
Panola county →—1936Sep 26, 2023

All 45 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 →

FormationWellsPermitted last 3 yrs
Pettit237
Travis Peak205
Glen Rose195
Cotton Valley195
Blossom120
Nacatoch120
Paluxy120
Haynesville112
Rodessa62
Goodland42
Bossier10

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
22.2M
mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
0
bbl oil since reporting began

Last 12 months 22,214,028 · prior 12 30,451,960(-27%)

02M4M20192020202120222023202420252026

Sponte Operating, Inc.: Gas by month.

Beyond the permit record

RRC wellbore file

Wells of record

60
in the wellbore file, 45 on schedule
37
producing
0
shut in
3
injection
5
temp. abandoned
15
plugged

How it got them

22
permitted itself
33
acquired from others
0
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

3
active UIC permits of 4
25K
permitted bbl/day, active
842K
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025
reported through

By county

Harrison1 active20K bbl/d
Panola2 active5K bbl/d

All 4 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 →

Type12 moPrior 12All time
Drill8742
Recompletion003

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.

FieldWellsProducing
Carthage (Haynesville Shale)160323002222
Beckville (Cotton Valley)66485002011
Blocker (Cotton Valley)9591300122
Blocker (Travis Peak)959155020
Carthage (Pettit Lower)1603263822
Panola (Goodland Lime)6897750020

P-5 organization report

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

Registration
Status Active (A)
Last filed Jan 28, 2026
Gas gatheringGas operator
Address
700 N Pearl Street, Ste N2150
Dallas, TX 75201
(469) 529-2200
Officers and agents
Widell, Chris · Texas Resident Agent
Widell, Christopher Matthew · President,secretary,ceo
Horigan, Sean Ashton · Vice President

Latest permits

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

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorCountyLease / wellDepthAPI
915105May 7, 2026May 7, 2026Sponte Operating, Inc.HarrisonGeorge-Matthews A #1HH11,50020335802
915105May 7, 2026May 7, 2026Sponte Operating, Inc.HarrisonGeorge-Matthews A #1HH11,50020335802
915157Apr 30, 2026Apr 30, 2026Sponte Operating, Inc.HarrisonGeorge-Matthews D #4HH11,50020335806
915109Apr 30, 2026Apr 30, 2026Sponte Operating, Inc.HarrisonGeorge-Matthews C #3HH11,50020335804
915107Apr 30, 2026Apr 30, 2026Sponte Operating, Inc.HarrisonGeorge-Matthews B #2HH11,50020335803
915157Apr 30, 2026Apr 30, 2026Sponte Operating, Inc.HarrisonGeorge-Matthews D #4HH11,50020335806
915109Apr 30, 2026Apr 30, 2026Sponte Operating, Inc.HarrisonGeorge-Matthews C #3HH11,50020335804
915107Apr 30, 2026Apr 30, 2026Sponte Operating, Inc.HarrisonGeorge-Matthews B #2HH11,50020335803
907598Apr 28, 2025Apr 28, 2025Sponte Operating, Inc.HarrisonBartlett-Landry #4HH12,00020335737
907594Apr 28, 2025Apr 28, 2025Sponte Operating, Inc.HarrisonGeorge-Landry C #3HH12,00020335739
907598Apr 28, 2025Apr 28, 2025Sponte Operating, Inc.HarrisonBartlett-Landry #4HH12,00020335737
907594Apr 28, 2025Apr 28, 2025Sponte Operating, Inc.HarrisonGeorge-Landry C #3HH12,00020335739
907592Apr 28, 2025Apr 28, 2025Sponte Operating, Inc.HarrisonGeorge-Landry B #2HH12,00020335738
907591Apr 28, 2025Apr 28, 2025Sponte Operating, Inc.HarrisonGeorge-Landry A #1HH12,00020335736
906291Mar 31, 2025Mar 31, 2025Sponte Operating, Inc.HarrisonBlocker SWD #18,70020335721

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/810277, documented in the API reference.