A well page gathers every public record the state holds on one API number. Reading it top to bottom follows the well's life.
Header and status
The lease name and well number come from the latest permit. The status badge is derived from the RRC's wellbore file in a fixed order: plugged, shut in, on-schedule classification, completed, permitted. The dates that drive it are shown lower down, so you can always check why.
Operator of record
The current operator from the RRC's wellbore schedule. If the well was permitted by someone else, the page says so and names them. This distinction matters more than any other on the page: the permit tells you who intended to drill, the schedule tells you who answers for the well today. Operator numbers and the P-5 explains how transfers show up.
Key figures
Total depth, permit count, the last permit and completion dates, and cumulative oil and gas. The cumulatives are lease totals from monthly production reports, labeled with the month they are reported through. If the lease has more than one well, the figure covers all of them, because Texas reports oil by lease, not by well. How production is reported covers why.
Chain of custody
Every operator that reported production on the well's lease, oldest first, with the months they reported. This is the ownership history as the state saw it.
Permits, completions, wellbore
Each permit on the API number with its application type and dates. Each completion report. Then formation tops with subsea depths, perforated intervals, and casing strings from the completion filings. Completion reports and the wellbore file explains the sources.
Injection and seismicity
Only on wells with a disposal or injection permit: permitted capacity, reported volumes, and nearby earthquakes. See saltwater disposal.
Cite this well
The page URL is the canonical reference. The "About this data" note at the foot of the page names the sources and the API call that returns the same record, which is what an AI assistant will cite.