OPERATORS · TEXAS · P-5 NUMBER 881167
Valence Operating Company
- P-5 status
- Active (A)
- P-5 last filed
- Jun 4, 2026
- Based in
- Kingwood, TX
- Most permits, 12 months
- Smith County
Petrora groups this registration with Valence Operating Company, Oklahoma (0 active wells). Valence Operating Company across every state →
Valence Operating Company was issued 4 drilling permits in the past 12 months, down 64% on the prior year, across 2 counties led by Smith with 3. 75% were horizontal.
1 was issued in the past 90 days, after a quiet prior quarter.
The RRC wellbore file lists 929 wells under its operatorship (441 producing, 52 shut in).
Lease reports credit it with 1.04M barrels of oil and 15.5M mcf of gas in the 12 months reported through April 2026, down 12% on the year before.
It holds 27 active disposal or injection permits, injecting 3.04M barrels in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
790 drilling permits have been issued to this operator number since 1979; its P-5 organization report was last filed June 4, 2026.
- 4
- permits, last 12 months
- -64%
- vs prior 12 months (11)
- 2
- counties, 12 months
- 441
- producing wells, of 1.44K of record
- 1.32K
- leases reported on · 1,259 today
- 75%
- horizontal, 12 months
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 9, 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.
- 85%
- spud rate · 669 of 789 mature permits
- 46
- median days permit to spud · middle half 24–104
- 1
- spuds, last 180 days -67%
- 0%
- canceled · 3 permits
- 109
- expired undrilled
- 16
- permits a year over 48 active years
Permits issued by month
LAST 60 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 4 · prior 12 11(-64%)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smith county → | 3 | 57 | 180 | Feb 12, 2026 |
| Rusk county → | 1 | 57 | 57 | Aug 24, 2026 |
| Freestone county → | — | 187 | 192 | Aug 29, 2022 |
| Harrison county → | — | 132 | 127 | Jun 18, 2025 |
| Leon county → | — | 71 | 63 | Sep 20, 2022 |
| Panola county → | — | 61 | 74 | Jan 10, 2017 |
| Wood county → | — | 41 | 33 | Jan 24, 2022 |
| Limestone county → | — | 34 | 26 | Oct 12, 2009 |
| Cherokee county → | — | 31 | 32 | Jun 6, 2024 |
| Atascosa county → | — | 24 | 21 | Sep 25, 2023 |
| Hopkins county → | — | 18 | 22 | Jan 24, 2025 |
| Nacogdoches county → | — | 18 | 15 | Jun 25, 2012 |
| Upshur county → | — | 15 | 15 | Feb 1, 2010 |
| Webb county → | — | 6 | 9 | Aug 25, 2009 |
| Franklin county → | — | 5 | 11 | Mar 25, 2021 |
| McMullen county → | — | 5 | 2 | Feb 26, 2025 |
| Brazoria county → | — | 4 | 0 | Jun 14, 1991 |
| Gregg county → | — | 3 | 1 | Jan 8, 2015 |
| Houston county → | — | 3 | 1 | Sep 15, 1999 |
| Lavaca county → | — | 3 | 6 | Jul 16, 2009 |
| Rains county → | — | 3 | 4 | Nov 13, 2008 |
| Roberts county → | — | 2 | 5 | Oct 1, 2003 |
| Robertson county → | — | 2 | 2 | Mar 18, 2005 |
| Victoria county → | — | 2 | 3 | Sep 14, 2009 |
| Bowie county → | — | 1 | 0 | Jul 9, 1997 |
| Cass county → | — | 1 | 5 | Oct 31, 2018 |
| Fayette county → | — | 1 | 2 | Jun 2, 1997 |
| Howard county → | — | 1 | 1 | Dec 11, 1989 |
| Jasper county → | — | 1 | 1 | Sep 10, 2003 |
| Refugio county → | — | 1 | 3 | Jun 25, 2010 |
All 790 permits, searchable → · Leases it reported on → · On the map →
Formations in wells it permitted
Tops reported on completion filings for wells permitted under this operator number, including wells others run today. RRC wellbore file. About tops →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs |
|---|---|---|
| Travis Peak | 525 | 3 |
| Pettit | 510 | 3 |
| Cotton Valley | 438 | 1 |
| BMA | 395 | 1 |
| Bossier | 312 | 0 |
| Buda | 175 | 0 |
| Rodessa | 118 | 3 |
| Paluxy | 103 | 3 |
| Glen Rose | 76 | 1 |
| Nacatoch | 75 | 6 |
| Woodbine | 65 | 6 |
| Austin Chalk | 64 | 0 |
| Goodland | 58 | 4 |
| James Lime | 37 | 1 |
| Sub-Clarksville | 31 | 2 |
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. From 1,316 leases it reported on; 57 are reported by other operators today.How production is reported →
- 1.04M
- bbl oil, last 12 reported months
- -12%
- vs the 12 months before
- 15.5M
- mcf gas incl. casinghead, last 12
- 19.2M
- bbl oil since reporting began
12 months through Apr 2026 15,544,158 · prior 12 16,736,990(-7%)
Valence Operating Company: Gas by month.
Beyond the permit record
RRC wellbore file
Wells of record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 164K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 3.04M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
By county
| Smith | 12 active | 65K bbl/d |
| Harrison | 3 active | 17.5K bbl/d |
| Panola | 2 active | 15K bbl/d |
| Limestone | 2 active | 14K bbl/d |
| Atascosa | 1 active | 12K bbl/d |
| Wood | 1 active | 10K bbl/d |
| Cherokee | 1 active | 10K bbl/d |
| Rusk | 1 active | 8K bbl/d |
All 59 permits, with volumes → · On the map →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
Operator of record and permit operator
939 wellbores of record
A well's operator of record is the RRC's, and its permit operator is the one on its latest drilling permit; neither fills in for the other. Its wellbores of record are counted as its wells, with its live permits; a well it permitted that another operator runs, or that the RRC lists with no operator at all, is not. Each count opens the wells it counts. Transfers and operator numbers →
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 | 3 | 11 | 631 |
| Recompletion | 1 | 0 | 139 |
| Field transfer | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| Reenter | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Other | 0 | 0 | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oak Hill (Cotton Valley)66461275 | 65 | 44 |
| Shamburger Lake (Paluxy)82617500 | 60 | 2 |
| Carthage (Cotton Valley)16032174 | 50 | 38 |
| Nan-SU-Gail (CV Consolidated)64409210 | 49 | 44 |
| Hitts Lake (Paluxy)41713333 | 45 | 1 |
| Teague (CV-Bossier Cons.)88576304 | 44 | 35 |
| Freestone (CV-Bossier Cons.)32950285 | 39 | 28 |
| Blocker (Cotton Valley)9591300 | 30 | 15 |
| Chapel Hill (Cotton Valley)17008050 | 30 | 18 |
| Carthage (Haynesville Shale)16032300 | 25 | 19 |
| Farrar (Travis Peak)30321500 | 23 | 0 |
| Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)27135700 | 22 | 20 |
P-5 organization report
As registered with the RRC. About the P-5 →
- Registration
- Status Active (A)
- Last filed Jun 4, 2026
- CSGD/GCSGD/PG/PURGas gatheringGas operatorOil operator
- Address
- 600 Rockmead Dr Ste 200
- Kingwood, TX 77339
- (281) 359-3659
- Officers and agents
- CT Corporation System · Texas Resident Agent
- Scherr, Walter J III · President,ceo/Coo
- Scherr, Douglas · Secretary,cfo
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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