OPERATORS · TEXAS · P-5 NUMBER 760725
Surge Operating, LLC
- P-5 status
- Active – Extension (X)
- P-5 last filed
- Jul 14, 2026
- Based in
- Houston, TX
- Most permits, 12 months
- Howard County
Surge Operating, LLC was issued 69 drilling permits in the past 12 months, up 5% on the prior year, across 2 counties led by Howard with 41. 97% were horizontal.
20 were issued in the past 90 days, up 11% on the prior quarter. 5 were issued in the past week.
The RRC wellbore file lists 1,449 wells under its operatorship (813 producing, 340 shut in).
Lease reports credit it with 16.7M barrels of oil and 64.7M mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, down 19% on the year before.
It holds 123 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 45.5M barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
1,234 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 2014; its P-5 organization report was last filed July 14, 2026.
- 69
- permits, last 12 months
- +5%
- vs prior 12 months (66)
- 2
- counties, 12 months
- 813
- producing wells, of 1.45K of record
- 330
- leases it reports
- 97%
- 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.
- 84%
- spud rate · 999 of 1,196 mature permits
- 41
- median days permit to spud · middle half 24–70
- 22
- spuds, last 180 days -12%
- 0%
- canceled · 0 permits
- 215
- expired undrilled
- 95
- permits a year over 13 active years
Permits issued by month
LAST 60 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 59 · prior 12 61(-3%)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Howard county → | 41 | 905 | 842 | Oct 9, 2026 |
| Borden county → | 28 | 258 | 208 | Nov 2, 2026 |
| Crosby county → | — | 71 | 386 | Dec 17, 2019 |
All 1,234 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 | 735 | 121 |
| Clear Fork | 714 | 122 |
| Yates | 701 | 120 |
| Spraberry | 695 | 121 |
| Rustler | 413 | 122 |
| Dean | 388 | 72 |
| Glorieta | 343 | 109 |
| Wolfcamp | 329 | 13 |
| Santa Rosa | 64 | 0 |
| Queen | 16 | 0 |
| Seven Rivers | 15 | 0 |
| Leonard | 8 | 0 |
| Coleman Junction | 3 | 0 |
| Grayburg | 2 | 0 |
| Pennsylvanian | 1 | 1 |
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 →
- 16.7M
- bbl oil, last 12 reported months
- -19%
- vs the 12 months before
- 64.7M
- mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
- 172M
- bbl oil since reporting began
Last 12 months 16,686,314 · prior 12 20,560,894(-19%)
Surge Operating, LLC: Oil by month.
Beyond the permit record
RRC wellbore file
Wells of record
- 1,449
- in the wellbore file, 1,245 on schedule
- 813
- producing
- 340
- shut in
- 85
- injection
- 0
- temp. abandoned
- 202
- 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
- 683K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 45.5M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
By county
| Howard | 17 active | 268K bbl/d |
| Crosby | 99 active | 260K bbl/d |
| Borden | 6 active | 140K bbl/d |
| Gaines | 1 active | 15K bbl/d |
All 202 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 | 67 | 66 | 1,192 |
| Recompletion | 2 | 0 | 37 |
| Field transfer | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Reclass | 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 | 936 | 664 |
| Hoople (Clear Fork)42499500 | 382 | 143 |
| Vealmoor East93310001 | 79 | 2 |
| JO-Mill (Spraberry)46564750 | 19 | 4 |
| Luther SE. (Silurian-Devonian)55822500 | 12 | 0 |
| Forbes (Glorieta)31893333 | 4 | 0 |
| Oceanic (Pennsylvanian)66669500 | 4 | 0 |
| Middleton (Canyon Reef)61046250 | 2 | 0 |
| Big Spring (Fusselman)8044400 | 2 | 0 |
| Howard Glasscock (Consolidated)42971200 | 2 | 0 |
| Oceanic N.E. (Penn)66672500 | 2 | 0 |
| Vealmoor93308001 | 1 | 0 |
P-5 organization report
As registered with the RRC. About the P-5 →
- Registration
- Status Active – Extension (X)
- Last filed Jul 14, 2026
- Oil operator
- Address
- 11330 Clay Road Ste 200
- Houston, TX 77041
- (832) 333-2300
- Officers and agents
- C T Corporation System · Texas Resident Agent
- Guan, Linhua · Managing Member
- Waters, Weldon · Filing Agent
- Daly, Kyle · Filing Agent
- Gartner, Emily · Filing Agent
Latest permits
NEWEST FIRST BY ISSUE DATE · FILED OR ON WELLS IT NOW OPERATES
| Permit | Seen | Issued | Operator | County | Lease / well | Depth | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919666 | Nov 4, 2026 | Nov 2, 2026 | Surge Operating, LLC | Borden | Wraith Unit a 12-16 #3MHH | 9,000 | 03332885 |
| 919664 | Nov 4, 2026 | Nov 2, 2026 | Surge Operating, LLC | Borden | Wraith Unit a 12-16 #2MHH | 9,000 | 03332883 |
| 919663 | Nov 4, 2026 | Nov 2, 2026 | Surge Operating, LLC | Borden | Rougarou TW 10-16 #7MHH | 9,000 | 03332882 |
| 919662 | Nov 4, 2026 | Nov 2, 2026 | Surge Operating, LLC | Borden | Rougarou RW B 36-16 #6MHH | 9,000 | 03332881 |
| 919661 | Nov 4, 2026 | Nov 2, 2026 | Surge Operating, LLC | Borden | Rougarou RW a 36-16 #5MHH | 9,000 | 03332880 |
| 919167 | Oct 11, 2026 | Oct 9, 2026 | Surge Operating, LLC | Howard | Tubb 39 #3 | 10,170 | 22737425 |
| 919166 | Oct 11, 2026 | Oct 9, 2026 | Surge Operating, LLC | Howard | Tubb 39 #1 | 9,900 | 22736348 |
| 918979 | Oct 3, 2026 | Oct 1, 2026 | Surge Operating, LLC | Howard | Miyagi E 38-35 #2AHH | 9,000 | 22742930 |
| 918977 | Oct 3, 2026 | Oct 1, 2026 | Surge Operating, LLC | Howard | Miyagi D 38-35 #1AHH | 9,000 | 22742929 |
| 918748 | Sep 24, 2026 | Sep 21, 2026 | Surge Operating, LLC | Howard | Newdge B 06-43 #7MHH | 9,000 | 22742928 |
| 918747 | Sep 24, 2026 | Sep 21, 2026 | Surge Operating, LLC | Howard | Newdge a 06-43 #6NHH | 9,000 | 22742927 |
| 918463 | Sep 13, 2026 | Sep 11, 2026 | Surge Operating, LLC | Howard | Middleton Unit a 47-38 #3MHH | 9,000 | 22742926 |
| 918461 | Sep 13, 2026 | Sep 11, 2026 | Surge Operating, LLC | Howard | Middleton Unit a 47-38 #3CHH | 9,000 | 22742925 |
| 918456 | Sep 13, 2026 | Sep 11, 2026 | Surge Operating, LLC | Howard | Middleton Unit a 47-38 #2MHH | 9,000 | 22742924 |
| 918218 | Sep 6, 2026 | Sep 4, 2026 | Surge Operating, LLC | Howard | Palpatine B 46-03 #2DHH | 9,000 | 22742922 |
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.
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