H-15 testing and filing for Texas operators
One authorization covers the schedule watch, district notice, field test, and filing. Plumb Bob Services personnel do the work and submit at your direction. You send the wells once.
Send us your P-5 number. We'll send back the inactive wells on your organization's record and where each one falls in the testing cycle.
Seven wells from one list, one year. Each gets tested inside its own window, and its filing goes in once you have verified it. The hollow marks are your two jobs: send the list, verify the package. An illustration, not a schedule.
Owner-operated
Echometer acoustic instrumentation
Field work performed by Plumb Bob Services personnel
Based in Montgomery County, Texas
What's at stake
That's the job we do.
An inactive well more than 25 years old must demonstrate it isn't a threat to usable groundwater to keep its plugging extension. The framework is Statewide Rule 15 (16 TAC §3.15) and Natural Resources Code §89.023.
When the testing or the filing doesn't happen, the sequence that may follow is procedural, not instant: the extension may be denied, the Commission may issue a 30-day pre-severance certified notice, and P-5 renewal and severance or sealing may follow from there. Every step is an RRC action on the RRC's timeline.
Most operators know all of this. What they don't have is a person whose job it is to watch the cycle, call the district office in time, get a crew to a lease road, and file.
What we do
One signature a year. Our crew, our Echometer, and every record lands in your file.
Our core service
Enroll your inactive wells once. We take the cycle from there:
You get a copy of everything: notice confirmation, raw instrument output, field-test record, submission receipt.
Acoustic fluid-level equipment we own, run by Plumb Bob Services personnel. We don't broker your test out.
When a district office has a question about a shot, the person who took it is the person who answers.
We submit only through properly delegated credentials, and only after you have verified the package.
Nothing is filed that you have not verified.
You remain the operator of record and remain responsible for your wells and your filings. The Railroad Commission controls acceptance and approval of every notice, filing, and extension. We do not guarantee any agency outcome or compliance result.
The process
You send the list and you verify the package. We handle the three steps in between, and every record comes back to your file.
Your P-5 number is enough to start. We return your inactive well inventory, where each well sits in the testing cycle, and what the work costs. No obligation — a fair number of operators use the review just to see where they stand.
A signed service agreement, a named-well work order, and filing delegation from a company-domain signer. This is the last paperwork you touch until the receipts come back.
Required notice to the district office ahead of the test, with the confirmation retained in your file. We handle the timing, the call, and the follow-up.
Acoustic fluid-level testing at the wellhead. Raw instrument output is preserved unedited alongside our field record, so the underlying data is there if a result is ever questioned.
You review the package and confirm it. We submit through delegated credentials and send you the receipt, and next year's test is scheduled before we close this year's file.
What you get back: the notice confirmation, the raw instrument output, the field-test record, and the submission receipt.
Full processPricing — request only
Quotes consider operator and P-5 identity, named wells and API numbers, county or RRC district, requested scope and timing, access, travel, safety conditions, available records, and known retest or correction history.
Service area
We're based in Montgomery County and serve operators across Texas; availability is confirmed for each request.
Outside our home area, it comes down to volume. Send the list and we'll tell you what we can do.
Free well-schedule review
Send your P-5 number and we'll return your inactive wells, the testing status on each, and where each one falls in the cycle. It costs you nothing. If the program looks right, we'll quote it. If it doesn't, you still have the list.
We respond to every request. We don't sell contact information and we don't enroll anyone in marketing they didn't ask for.
