COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 8A · CODE 033
Borden County
Borden County permitting is running 8.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (25 total, down 4% on the prior quarter).
Highpeak Energy Holdings, LLC leads with 46 permits in the past 12 months, one of 9 operators active in the county.
2 operators filed a first Borden County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 8,000 ft (prior year: 7,377 ft); 87% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 311 active disposal and injection permits, with 48.2M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
TexNet located 14 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M4.3.
3,451 drilling permits have been issued in Borden County since 1977.
3,451 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 20, 2026
Watch Borden CountyAlso: every Borden County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 25
- permits issued, 90d
- -4%
- vs prior 90d (26)
- 4
- operators filing
- 88%
- horizontal
- 7,980
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 499
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 111 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 100 · prior 12 119(-16%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Borden County came in the last year. 2 in total.
- Seaboard Operating Co.1 permitAug 20, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Eastland Oil Company, The1 permitMar 9, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Permit types, 90d
| Type | Window | Prior | All time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drill | 23 | 23 | 2,798 |
| Reenter | 2 | 1 | 175 |
| Recompletion | 0 | 1 | 398 |
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Borden County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Borden County the Dean is reported in 454 wells, median top 6,462 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spraberry | 1,153 | 110 | 6,011 | 4,705–7,020 |
| San Andres | 895 | 115 | 3,150 | 2,297–3,536 |
| Yates | 799 | 110 | 1,749 | 1,198–2,042 |
| Clear Fork | 701 | 110 | 4,757 | 3,200–6,029 |
| Rustler | 532 | 109 | 1,172 | 601–1,431 |
| Wolfcamp | 469 | 24 | 6,753 | 6,006–7,478 |
| Dean | 454 | 70 | 6,462 | 5,794–7,762 |
| Santa Rosa | 273 | 56 | 518 | 330–1,004 |
| Mississippian | 232 | 1 | 8,582 | 8,164–9,294 |
| Strawn | 230 | 1 | 7,980 | 7,655–8,635 |
| Leonard | 188 | 51 | 5,679 | 5,190–6,108 |
| Canyon | 153 | 2 | 7,944 | 6,769–8,253 |
| Ellenburger | 139 | 1 | 8,614 | 8,312–9,746 |
| Cisco | 104 | 2 | 6,868 | 6,568–8,018 |
| Seven Rivers | 94 | 49 | 1,412 | 1,259–2,007 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 311
- active UIC permits of 683
- 1.12M
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 48.2M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Borden County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 14
- M2+ events in the area
- M4.3
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919684 | Oct 30, 2026 | Oct 28, 2026 | Yukon Exploration Operating, LLC | Gunsmoke 31-19 C #3JMH | 8,000 | 03332884 |
| 919408 | Oct 22, 2026 | Oct 20, 2026 | Yukon Exploration Operating, LLC | Gunsmoke 30-31 #7UH | 7,000 | 03332879 |
| 919388 | Oct 22, 2026 | Oct 20, 2026 | Yukon Exploration Operating, LLC | Gunsmoke 30-31 #6MH | 7,500 | 03332878 |
| 919387 | Oct 22, 2026 | Oct 20, 2026 | Yukon Exploration Operating, LLC | Gunsmoke 30-31 #2JMH | 8,000 | 03332877 |
| 918347 | Oct 24, 2026 | Sep 4, 2026 | Highpeak Energy Holdings, LLC | Winstep 31-9 B Unit #L 6HH | 7,500 | 03332874 |
| 918348 | Oct 16, 2026 | Sep 4, 2026 | Highpeak Energy Holdings, LLC | Winstep 31-9 B Unit #A 6HH | 7,500 | 03332876 |
| 918347 | Sep 6, 2026 | Sep 4, 2026 | Highpeak Energy Holdings, LLC | Winstep 31-9 B Unit #L 6HH | 7,500 | 03332874 |
| 918348 | Sep 6, 2026 | Sep 4, 2026 | Highpeak Energy Holdings, LLC | Winstep 31-9 B Unit #A 6HH | 7,500 | 03332876 |
| 918209 | Oct 29, 2026 | Sep 1, 2026 | Highpeak Energy Holdings, LLC | Verdel 42-54 B Unit #L 6HH | 7,500 | 03332872 |
| 918204 | Oct 29, 2026 | Sep 1, 2026 | Highpeak Energy Holdings, LLC | Verdel 42-54 B Unit #A 6HH | 7,500 | 03332870 |
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/borden?days=90, documented in the API reference.