COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 8A · CODE 079
Cochran County
Cochran County permitting is running 0.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (1 total, after a quiet prior quarter).
Double Barrel Oil LLC leads with 1 permit in the past 12 months, the only operator active in the county.
One operator filed a first Cochran County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 5,000 ft (prior year: 5,500 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 956 active disposal and injection permits, with 30.7M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
2,947 drilling permits have been issued in Cochran County since 1977.
2,947 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Sep 21, 2026
Watch Cochran CountyAlso: every Cochran County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 1
- permits issued, 90d
- —
- vs prior 90d (0)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 5,000
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 251
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 48 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 19 · prior 12 25(-24%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Double Barrel Oil LLC | 1 | 198 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Cochran County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Double Barrel Oil LLC1 permitSep 21, 2026 · new to Texas permits
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Cochran 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 Cochran County report the Pennsylvanian, 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 | 1,870 | 6 | 4,295 | 3,997–4,976 |
| Yates | 751 | 6 | 2,805 | 2,600–2,950 |
| Rustler | 374 | 3 | 2,255 | 2,084–2,339 |
| Grayburg | 180 | 1 | 3,956 | 3,756–4,018 |
| Seven Rivers | 144 | 3 | 2,846 | 2,808–3,115 |
| Santa Rosa | 142 | 0 | 1,832 | 1,058–2,169 |
| Queen | 130 | 1 | 3,652 | 3,437–3,710 |
| Clear Fork | 22 | 0 | 6,418 | 5,500–7,150 |
| Wolfcamp | 20 | 0 | 8,865 | 8,293–9,300 |
| Strawn | 19 | 0 | 9,900 | 5,034–10,402 |
| Fusselman | 18 | 0 | 11,558 | 9,320–11,807 |
| Devonian | 17 | 0 | 11,369 | 10,559–11,895 |
| Tansill | 15 | 0 | 2,817 | 2,799–2,957 |
| Cisco | 14 | 0 | 9,337 | 9,090–9,708 |
| Mississippian | 14 | 0 | 11,055 | 10,949–11,251 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 956
- active UIC permits of 2,112
- 1.25M
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 30.7M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Cochran County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 0
- M2+ events in the area
- —
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 918692 | Sep 23, 2026 | Sep 21, 2026 | Double Barrel Oil LLC | Whiteface Unit #59W | 5,000 | 07901639 |
| 909542 | Aug 1, 2025 | Aug 1, 2025 | Manzano, LLC | Ike Clanton C #3HH | 5,500 | 07933437 |
| 902219 | Aug 28, 2024 | Aug 28, 2024 | Manzano, LLC | Buffalo Bill B #1HH | 5,500 | 07933436 |
| 901658 | Aug 2, 2024 | Aug 2, 2024 | Manzano, LLC | Black Jack #1HH | 5,500 | 07933435 |
| 901183 | Jul 16, 2024 | Jul 16, 2024 | Manzano, LLC | Belle Starr #1HH | 5,500 | 07933434 |
| 896798 | Jan 24, 2024 | Jan 24, 2024 | Manzano, LLC | Ike Clanton B #2HH | 5,500 | 07933433 |
| 896798 | Jan 24, 2024 | Jan 24, 2024 | Manzano, LLC | Ike Clanton 'B' #2HH | 5,500 | 07933433 |
| 894939 | Nov 16, 2023 | Nov 16, 2023 | A.C.T. Operating Company | Marty Wright #43 | 5,000 | 07930785 |
| 894344 | Oct 12, 2023 | Oct 12, 2023 | A.C.T. Operating Company | Marty Wright #28 | 5,005 | 07931411 |
| 894334 | Oct 12, 2023 | Oct 12, 2023 | A.C.T. Operating Company | Marty Wright #24 | 5,002 | 07930547 |
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/cochran?days=90, documented in the API reference.