COUNTIES · TEXAS PANHANDLE · DISTRICT 10 · CODE 065
Carson County
Carson County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued December 8, 2022.
The county has 64 active disposal and injection permits, with 417K barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
TexNet located 1 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M2.5.
1,848 drilling permits have been issued in Carson County since 1977.
1,848 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Dec 8, 2022
Watch Carson CountyAlso: every Carson County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
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- permits issued, 90d
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- vs prior 90d (0)
- 0
- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
- 263
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 13 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 26
Operators by well inventory
No permits in the last year; ranked by wells on the RRC wellbore file instead.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Large Operating LLC | — | 888 |
| High River Res Operating LLC | — | 359 |
| Bce-Mach III LLC | — | 208 |
| Red Line Company Ltd. | — | 187 |
| Pantera Energy Company | — | 149 |
| Ponderosa TX Operating LLC | — | 126 |
| WO Operating Company | — | 82 |
| Chesapeake Operating Inc. | — | 74 |
| Granitebay Operating Inc. | — | 64 |
| Kodiak Operating LLC | — | 64 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Carson County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Carson County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown Dolomite | 614 | 0 | 2,496 | 2,246–2,844 |
| Granite Wash | 448 | 0 | 2,840 | 2,558–3,152 |
| White Dolomite | 152 | 0 | 2,774 | 2,446–3,050 |
| Panhandle Lime | 150 | 0 | 1,990 | 1,834–2,420 |
| Moore County Lime | 54 | 0 | 2,509 | 2,343–2,938 |
| Red Cave | 46 | 0 | 1,842 | 1,604–2,170 |
| Glorieta | 35 | 0 | 1,100 | 810–1,100 |
| Wolfcamp | 21 | 0 | 2,913 | 2,494–3,850 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 64
- active UIC permits of 299
- 102K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 417K
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Carson County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 1
- M2+ events in the area
- M2.5
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 885757 | Dec 8, 2022 | Dec 8, 2022 | Pantera Energy Company | Thompson, Estate #2 | 3,390 | 06500161 |
| 883093 | Aug 29, 2022 | Aug 29, 2022 | Large Operating LLC | Fee -244- #39W | 3,080 | 06502184 |
| 883088 | Aug 29, 2022 | Aug 29, 2022 | Large Operating LLC | Fee -244- #37W | 3,075 | 06502182 |
| 879765 | May 12, 2022 | May 12, 2022 | Scout Energy Management LLC | Burnett #40BH | 4,000 | 06532197 |
| 876684 | Feb 25, 2022 | Feb 25, 2022 | Scout Energy Management LLC | Burnett #62DH | 4,000 | 06532189 |
| 876725 | Feb 10, 2022 | Feb 10, 2022 | Scout Energy Management LLC | Burnett #65CH | 4,000 | 06532187 |
| 874676 | Jan 12, 2022 | Jan 12, 2022 | Scout Energy Management LLC | Burnett #29BH | 4,000 | 06532199 |
| 873838 | Nov 17, 2021 | Nov 17, 2021 | Scout Energy Management LLC | Burnett #40BH | 4,000 | 06532197 |
| 873519 | Oct 19, 2021 | Oct 19, 2021 | Scout Energy Management LLC | Burnett St #33DH | 4,000 | 06532194 |
| 866475 | Dec 18, 2020 | Dec 18, 2020 | Bar L Producers | Sanford #1 | 3,090 | 06500865 |
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/carson?days=90, documented in the API reference.