Dec Operating, Inc.

The state’s reports list no producing lease under Dec Operating, Inc. today. Its former leases are reported by other companies now, most of them by Orangefield Operating Corporatio. See where each group went, then write to the company that has your lease.

The state's monthly reports list 28 leases under Dec Operating, Inc. at some point. Of those, 19 are reported by another operator today (19 by Orangefield Operating Corporatio); 9 stopped reporting while it was the operator.

Counted from the operator named on each lease’s monthly production report, Jan 2020 to Nov 2023. A date is the month the reports changed, not the day of a sale. A lease can move without the company being sold, and the company that pays you is not always the operator.

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Source: Railroad Commission of Texas, production data query, operator on each monthly report, as of November 1, 2023.

The Railroad Commission lists this company as an operator: it reports wells and leases in Texas.

• Railroad Commission P-5InactiveInactive since May 1, 2024RRC P-5 file
• On the state's file sinceDecember 7, 2018RRC P-5 file

Name on file

DEC OPERATING, INC.

Operator number (P-5)

209147

Organization type

Corporation

Location

Austin, TX

Mailing city

Austin, TX

Record built

December 7, 2018

Refiling required

Yes

The Railroad Commission lists this company’s P-5 registration as inactive since May 1, 2024. If your royalty checks from it stopped, check your lease for the likely reasons and who to write to.

Source: Railroad Commission of Texas, P-5 Organization Report data set, as of October 22, 2026.

Hold the letter, division order or offer next to these lines. Company names in oil and gas are often one word apart, and a close name can be a different company.

• The exact nameDEC OPERATING, INC.Every word, with LLC, LP, Inc. or Corp. as printed here.
• The state operator number209147Not every letter prints it. A division order usually does.
• The city it mails fromAustin, TX 78746A return address in another city is common for a payment office. Ask if it is not one you can find.
• The phone on file(214) 238-7690Call the number on file, not only the one in the letter, before you sign anything.
• Its standing todayP-5 inactive

The name is close but not the same: search itHave the letter read

Copy or print one and fill the blanks. Each asks for one thing and gives the company what it needs to find your account. The address is the one on file with the state, so the letter is marked for the owner relations desk.

[Your name]
[Your mailing address]
[Date]

Dec Operating, Inc.
Attn: Owner Relations / Division Orders
Scarecrow Energy Services 3267 Bee Cave Rd Ste 107-308
Austin, TX 78746

Re: Change of address, owner number [your owner number]

To whom it may concern:

Please update the mailing address on my owner account.

Owner name as it appears on your records: [name on the check stub]
Owner number: [your owner number]
Old address: [old address]
New address: [new address]
Phone or email: [how to reach you]

If you need a form of your own, a W-9 or a signature witnessed or notarized, please send it to the new address above or tell me where to find it.

Please confirm in writing when the change is made, and tell me if any payment is being held on this account.

Thank you.

[Signature]
[Printed name]

• Production: 6,470 barrels of oil and 0 mcf of gas in the last 12 months, oil down 51.1% on the 12 months before.
• Leases: 9 on the state record, 0 with production in the last 12 months. The largest is Granger, Cora ETAL, Orange County.
• Drilling permits: 0 in the last three years. A permit is permission to drill. It is not a well.

Every lease, month by month, and the well map

Source: Railroad Commission of Texas, production data query and drilling permit records, as of November 1, 2023.