COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 8A · CODE 079
Cochran County, Texas
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, 365d
- +0%
- vs prior 365d (1)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 5,000
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 251
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 6, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 1 · prior 12 1(+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 |
|---|---|---|
| Double Barrel Oil LLC | 1 | 200 |
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 →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Andres | 1,871 | 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 |
Questions about Cochran County
How many drilling permits were issued in Cochran County in the last 12 months?
1 permit was issued in Cochran County in the last 12 months, level with 1 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Sep 21, 2026. 2,947 are on file since 1977.
Every Cochran County permit →Who is the most active operator in Cochran County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Double Barrel Oil LLC is the most active operator in Cochran County, with 1 of 1. 1 operator filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Cochran County →How many oil and gas wells are in Cochran County?
5,627 wells are on file in Cochran County: 1,897 active and 2,076 plugged. 136 are horizontal, and 52 operators hold them.
Every well in Cochran County →How much oil and gas does Cochran County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Cochran County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Cochran County →How much water is injected in Cochran County?
30.7 million barrels of water were injected in Cochran County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 956 of the county's 2,112 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Cochran County →What formations are drilled in Cochran County?
Completion filings for wells in Cochran County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the San Andres (1,871 wells, median top 4,295 ft), the Yates (751 wells, median top 2,805 ft), and the Rustler (374 wells, median top 2,255 ft).
Formations in Cochran County →What basin is Cochran County in?
Petrora lists Cochran County in the Permian Basin. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 8A.
The Permian Basin →Have there been earthquakes in Cochran County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Cochran County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Cochran County →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=365, documented in the API reference.