COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 08 · CODE 003
Andrews County
Andrews County permitting is running 21 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (62 total, down 17% on the prior quarter). 1 was issued in the past week.
Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd. leads with 71 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; 86% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 2,504 active disposal and injection permits, with 315M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
TexNet located 77 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M3.6.
23,484 drilling permits have been issued in Andrews County since 1977.
23,484 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 22, 2026
Watch Andrews CountyAlso: every Andrews County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 62
- permits issued, 90d
- -17%
- vs prior 90d (75)
- 10
- operators filing
- 92%
- horizontal
- 10,279
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 720
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 119 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 242 · prior 12 243(0%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd. | 71 | 617 |
| COG Operating LLC | 44 | 704 |
| Sabalo II Operating, LLC | 37 | 286 |
| Ovintiv USA Inc. | 26 | 249 |
| Waterbridge Stateline LLC | 16 | 0 |
| Ring Energy, Inc. | 9 | 618 |
| Pioneer Natural Res. USA, Inc. | 8 | 215 |
| Elevation Resources LLC | 8 | 100 |
| Hilcorp Energy Company | 5 | 3,964 |
| Apache Corporation | 5 | 79 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Andrews County came in the last year. 2 in total.
- Waterbridge Stateline LLC16 permitsNov 12, 2025 · active elsewhere first
- Hilcorp Energy Company5 permitsMar 6, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Permit types, 90d
| Type | Window | Prior | All time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drill | 46 | 86 | 19,705 |
| Recompletion | 3 | 1 | 2,941 |
| Reenter | 0 | 1 | 444 |
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 Woodford, so it is below this table's cutoff. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Andres | 10,450 | 282 | 4,475 | 4,235–4,857 |
| Grayburg | 7,866 | 247 | 4,258 | 4,022–4,670 |
| Yates | 7,130 | 274 | 2,915 | 2,740–3,149 |
| Queen | 4,902 | 226 | 3,895 | 3,500–4,372 |
| Clear Fork | 4,620 | 241 | 6,484 | 5,566–7,065 |
| Seven Rivers | 2,912 | 202 | 3,126 | 2,988–3,450 |
| Glorieta | 2,430 | 161 | 5,535 | 5,155–5,961 |
| Wolfcamp | 2,256 | 20 | 8,980 | 7,891–9,872 |
| Rustler | 1,961 | 25 | 1,728 | 1,407–2,020 |
| Tubb | 1,924 | 14 | 6,494 | 6,042–6,838 |
| Wichita-Albany | 1,518 | 9 | 7,020 | 6,642–7,460 |
| Spraberry | 1,276 | 18 | 8,408 | 8,164–8,610 |
| Strawn | 1,266 | 7 | 10,924 | 9,422–11,087 |
| Devonian | 942 | 11 | 8,888 | 7,638–12,231 |
| Dean | 642 | 7 | 9,613 | 9,382–9,735 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 2,504
- active UIC permits of 5,868
- 8.72M
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 315M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Andrews County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 77
- 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
| Permit | Seen | Issued | Operator | Lease / well | Depth | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919498 | Oct 24, 2026 | Oct 22, 2026 | Waterbridge Stateline LLC | Spdtx SWD #7 | 9,000 | 00349464 |
| 918924 | Oct 1, 2026 | Sep 29, 2026 | Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd. | Fee 'BJ' #222WBH | 10,000 | 00349463 |
| 918923 | Oct 1, 2026 | Sep 29, 2026 | Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd. | Fee 'BJ' #221WAH | 9,700 | 00349462 |
| 918922 | Oct 1, 2026 | Sep 29, 2026 | Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd. | Fee 'BJ' #220DNH | 9,600 | 00349461 |
| 918921 | Oct 1, 2026 | Sep 29, 2026 | Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd. | Fee 'BJ' #219LSH | 9,500 | 00349460 |
| 918920 | Oct 1, 2026 | Sep 29, 2026 | Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd. | Fee 'BJ' #218JMH | 10,000 | 00349459 |
| 918918 | Oct 1, 2026 | Sep 29, 2026 | Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd. | Fee 'BJ' #217MSH | 8,800 | 00349458 |
| 918770 | Sep 24, 2026 | Sep 22, 2026 | Sabalo II Operating, LLC | UL Blue Water 36-25 D #2LSH | 9,600 | 00349456 |
| 918771 | Sep 24, 2026 | Sep 22, 2026 | Sabalo II Operating, LLC | UL Blue Water 36-25 D #1WBH | 10,300 | 00349457 |
| 918768 | Sep 20, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | Sabalo II Operating, LLC | UL Blue Water 36-25 C #2JMH | 9,200 | 00349455 |
About this data
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.