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Andrews County, Texas

The RRC's county figures put Andrews County at 63,787,098 bbl of oil and 155,845,717 Mcf of gas in the twelve months through August 2026; oil is down 4% on the twelve months before.

2,211 leases under 154 operators had production in those months.

Andrews County permitting is running 15 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (45 total, down 44% on the prior quarter).

Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd. leads with 68 permits in the past 12 months, one of 18 operators active in the county.

2 operators filed a first Andrews County permit in the past year.

Median permitted depth over the past year is 10,500 ft; 85% of the past year's permits are horizontal.

The county has 2,488 active disposal and injection permits of 5,845 on file, with 300M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through September 2025.

74 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M3.6.

21,170 drilling permits have been issued in Andrews County since 1977.

21,170 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 22, 2026

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9,440
active wells · 26,037 on file
154
producing operators, 12 months
2,211
producing leases, 12 months
63.8M
bbl oil, 12 months through Aug 2026 · −4%
156M
Mcf gas, same 12 months · +14%

RRC COUNTY FIGURES · NO. 9 IN OIL AND NO. 21 IN GAS OF 219 PRODUCING TEXAS COUNTIES

Andrews County oil and gas production

RRC COUNTY FIGURES · THROUGH AUG 2026

Texas operators report production by lease, and the Railroad Commission totals it by county. Where a lease lies in more than one county, the split between them is the RRC's. Oil includes condensate; gas includes casinghead gas.

12 months through Aug 2026 63,787,098 · prior 12 66,745,222(-4%)

05M10M2017201820192020202120222023202420252026

Latest months

MonthOilGas
Aug 20265,091,484 bbl12,317,930 Mcf
Jul 20265,392,062 bbl12,888,771 Mcf
Jun 20264,959,071 bbl13,012,228 Mcf
May 20265,052,953 bbl12,973,411 Mcf
Apr 20264,986,411 bbl12,959,733 Mcf
Mar 20265,361,227 bbl13,802,019 Mcf
Feb 20264,966,417 bbl12,187,145 Mcf
Jan 20265,233,321 bbl12,784,562 Mcf
Dec 20255,710,951 bbl13,100,243 Mcf
Nov 20255,559,356 bbl12,986,519 Mcf
Oct 20255,733,085 bbl13,497,984 Mcf
Sep 20255,740,760 bbl13,335,172 Mcf

Operators by production

12 MONTHS THROUGH AUG 2026

  1. Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd.67 leases

    16.3M bbl · 29.1M Mcf

  2. COG Operating LLC254 leases

    12.5M bbl · 43.7M Mcf

  3. Diamondback E&P LLC231 leases

    10.1M bbl · 29.2M Mcf

  4. Ovintiv USA Inc.112 leases

    4.18M bbl · 8.81M Mcf

  5. Hilcorp Energy Company93 leases

    3.6M bbl · 2.4M Mcf

  6. Elevation Resources LLC87 leases

    2M bbl · 10.7M Mcf

  7. Sabalo II Operating, LLC106 leases

    2.53M bbl · 3.2M Mcf

  8. Pioneer Natural Res. USA, Inc.32 leases

    1.87M bbl · 6.25M Mcf

154 operators had production here in the twelve months. Each month is credited to the operator that reported it; ranked by barrels of oil equivalent, 6 Mcf to the barrel.

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Largest leases

2,211 LEASES WITH PRODUCTION · 12 MONTHS THROUGH AUG 2026

LeaseOperatorFieldOil, 12 moGas, 12 mo
Fee 'BP'Oil 54222Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd.Spraberry (Trend Area)4,036,942 bbl5,464,776 Mcf
Fee "BM"Oil 42190Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd.Spraberry (Trend Area)2,900,458 bbl3,509,708 Mcf
Mabee 14-9Oil 62315Diamondback E&P LLCSpraberry (Trend Area)1,764,096 bbl7,552,535 Mcf
Fee 'AO'Oil 45931Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd.Spraberry (Trend Area)1,798,512 bbl2,243,014 Mcf
Fee 'CF'Oil 51266Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd.Spraberry (Trend Area)1,498,271 bbl2,395,061 Mcf
Cross Bar Ranch HOil 60500COG Operating LLCSpraberry (Trend Area)1,430,153 bbl2,690,108 Mcf
Midland Farms Deep UnitOil 30861Occidental Permian Ltd.Midland Farms Deep1,037,450 bbl5,043,246 Mcf
Fee 'AR'Oil 64235Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd.Spraberry (Trend Area)1,520,972 bbl1,621,779 Mcf
Means /San Andres/ UnitOil 17503Hilcorp Energy CompanyMeans1,666,113 bbl0 Mcf
Fee 'BV'Oil 49973Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd.Spraberry (Trend Area)1,327,518 bbl1,688,575 Mcf
University "7-43"Oil 40532Pioneer Natural Res. USA, Inc.Spraberry (Trend Area)817,092 bbl3,937,697 Mcf
Fullerton Clearfork UnitOil 1770Hilcorp Energy CompanyFullerton1,072,836 bbl1,048,238 Mcf
Fee 'CD'Oil 45935Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd.Spraberry (Trend Area)946,762 bbl1,543,536 Mcf
Fee 'BN'Oil 40115Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd.Spraberry (Trend Area)360,679 bbl1,520,007 Mcf
UL Mason West UnitOil 49200Diamondback E&P LLCSpraberry (Trend Area)496,662 bbl520,477 Mcf

Ranked by barrels of oil equivalent, 6 Mcf to the barrel. A lease in two counties is listed with its share in this one.

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Wells by status

26,037 WELLBORES ON FILE

  1. Producing

    7,969

  2. Plugged

    7,787

  3. Shut In

    5,666

  4. Not on schedule

    2,582

  5. Injection

    1,405

  6. Spudded

    276

  7. Temp Abandoned

    100

  8. No Production

    97

From the RRC wellbore file and the permit record. Other sites count the RRC's map locations, which include dry holes and locations this file does not hold, so their totals differ.

Wells spudded, by year

HorizontalVertical and directional

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Drilling permits

Window30 days90 days180 days365 days
45
permits issued, 90d
-44%
vs prior 90d (80)
8
operators filing
91%
horizontal
9,889
avg permitted depth, ft

WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 12, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER

Permits issued by month

LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 198 · prior 12 209(-5%)

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Operators by permits, last 12 months

By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.

OperatorPermitsWells
Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd.68722
COG Operating LLC44713
Sabalo II Operating, LLC30408
Ovintiv USA Inc.22275
Waterbridge Stateline LLC142
Ring Energy, Inc.9547
Pioneer Natural Res. USA, Inc.8218
Hilcorp Energy Company54,371
Elevation Resources LLC5103
Apache Corporation586

Full operator directory: 715 operators have filed a permit here since 1977 →

New entrants, last 12 months

Operators whose first permit in Andrews County came in the last year. 2 in total.

Permit types, 90d

TypeWindowPriorAll time
Drill427917,588
Recompletion312,791

What the types mean →

Formations in completed wells

RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS

Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Andrews County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →

Fewer than ten wells in Andrews County report the Leonard, so it is below this table's cutoff. Back to the formation →

FormationWellsPermitted last 3 yrsMedian top, ftP10–P90
San Andres10,4552794,4764,235–4,860
Grayburg7,8712444,2594,022–4,670
Yates7,1352712,9152,740–3,149
Queen4,9072233,8953,500–4,372
Clear Fork4,6252456,4895,566–7,067
Seven Rivers2,9171993,1262,988–3,449
Glorieta2,4351665,5355,155–5,961
Wolfcamp2,256208,9807,891–9,872
Rustler1,967311,7281,409–2,023
Tubb1,924146,4946,042–6,838
Wichita-Albany1,51897,0206,642–7,460
Spraberry1,276188,4088,164–8,610
Strawn1,266710,9249,422–11,087
Devonian942118,8887,638–12,231
Dean64279,6139,382–9,735

Beyond the permit record

RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes

Disposal and injection

2,488
active UIC permits of 5,845
8.79M
permitted bbl/day, active
300M
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Sep 2025
reported through

Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Andrews County →

Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →

USGS catalog, Texas

Seismicity, last 2 years

74
M2+ events in the area
M3.6
largest

Monthly counts, magnitudes, and every recent event in the area →

Events are not tagged with a county; this counts M2+ events inside the bounding box of the county’s located permits, padded 0.1°. About TexNet →

Latest permits

NEWEST FIRST BY ISSUE DATE

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorLease / wellDepthAPI
919498Oct 24, 2026Oct 22, 2026Waterbridge Stateline LLCSpdtx SWD #79,00000349464
918924Oct 1, 2026Sep 29, 2026Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd.Fee 'BJ' #222WBH10,00000349463
918923Oct 1, 2026Sep 29, 2026Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd.Fee 'BJ' #221WAH9,70000349462
918922Oct 1, 2026Sep 29, 2026Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd.Fee 'BJ' #220DNH9,60000349461
918921Oct 1, 2026Sep 29, 2026Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd.Fee 'BJ' #219LSH9,50000349460
918920Oct 1, 2026Sep 29, 2026Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd.Fee 'BJ' #218JMH10,00000349459
918918Oct 1, 2026Sep 29, 2026Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd.Fee 'BJ' #217MSH8,80000349458
918770Sep 24, 2026Sep 22, 2026Sabalo II Operating, LLCUL Blue Water 36-25 D #2LSH9,60000349456
918771Sep 24, 2026Sep 22, 2026Sabalo II Operating, LLCUL Blue Water 36-25 D #1WBH10,30000349457
918768Sep 20, 2026Sep 18, 2026Sabalo II Operating, LLCUL Blue Water 36-25 C #2JMH9,20000349455

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Questions about Andrews County

How many drilling permits were issued in Andrews County in the last 12 months?

222 permits were issued in Andrews County in the last 12 months, up 9% from 204 in the 12 months before. 85% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Oct 22, 2026. 21,170 are on file since 1977.

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Who is the most active operator in Andrews County?

By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd. is the most active operator in Andrews County, with 68 of 222, followed by COG Operating LLC (44) and Sabalo II Operating, LLC (30). 8 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.

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How many oil and gas wells are in Andrews County?

26,037 wells are on file in Andrews County, including 9,440 active, 7,787 plugged, and 81 permitted and not yet drilled. 2,090 are horizontal. The active wells are under 159 operators.

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How much oil and gas does Andrews County produce?

The Railroad Commission's county figures show 63.8 million barrels of oil and 156 million Mcf of gas in Andrews County in the 12 months through August 2026, from 2,211 leases under 154 operators. Texas operators report production by lease; where a lease lies in more than one county, the split between them is the RRC's.

Production by month in Andrews County →

Who are the largest producers in Andrews County?

By oil and gas produced in Andrews County in the 12 months through August 2026, the largest operator is Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd., with 16.3 million barrels of oil and 29.1 million Mcf of gas from 67 leases, followed by COG Operating LLC and Diamondback E&P LLC. 154 operators had production here in those months.

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How much water is injected in Andrews County?

300 million barrels of water were injected in Andrews County in the 12 months through September 2025, reported on form H-10. 2,488 of the county's 5,845 disposal and injection permits are active.

Disposal and injection in Andrews County →

What formations are drilled in Andrews County?

Completion filings for wells in Andrews County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the San Andres (10,455 wells, median top 4,476 ft), the Grayburg (7,871 wells, median top 4,259 ft), and the Yates (7,135 wells, median top 2,915 ft).

Formations in Andrews County →

What basin is Andrews County in?

Petrora lists Andrews County in the Permian Basin. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 08.

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Have there been earthquakes in Andrews County?

74 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of Andrews County's permitted wells in the last 2 years; the largest was M3.6.

Earthquakes in Andrews County →

About this data

Oil and gas are the Railroad Commission's county figures from its Production Data Query, through Aug 2026: Texas files production by lease, and where a lease lies in more than one county the split is the RRC's. Nothing here is estimated by Petrora. Wells from the RRC wellbore file and the permit record. Drilling permits from the RRC OGA049M master and daily daf420 files, rebuilt nightly into per-county figures; windows are on the date issued. Disposal from UIC permits and H-10 reports at the last settled month; earthquakes from the TexNet catalog inside the county's located-permit footprint.

Developers: this page as JSON is GET /v1/data/counties/tx/andrews?days=90, documented in the API reference.