COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 7C · CODE 095

Concho County, Texas

Concho County permitting is running about one permit a month over the trailing 90 days (3 total, after a quiet prior quarter).

Texas Operating Partners LLC leads with 2 permits in the past 12 months, one of 2 operators active in the county.

2 operators filed a first Concho County permit in the past year.

Median permitted depth over the past year is 5,000 ft; 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.

The county has 53 active disposal and injection permits, with 3.09M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

2,313 drilling permits have been issued in Concho County since 1977.

2,313 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 20, 2026

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Also: every Concho County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →

3
permits issued, 90d
—
vs prior 90d (0)
2
operators filing
0%
horizontal
3,967
avg permitted depth, ft
459
operators, all time

WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 8, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER

Permits issued by month

LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 3 · prior 12 5(-40%)

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Top operators, last 12 months

By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.

Full operator directory →

New entrants, last 12 months

Operators whose first permit in Concho County came in the last year. 2 in total.

Permit types, 90d

TypeWindowPriorAll time
Drill302,018

What the types mean →

Formations in completed wells

RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS

Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Concho County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →

In Concho County the Cisco is reported in 29 wells, median top 2,460 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →

FormationWellsPermitted last 3 yrsMedian top, ftP10–P90
Palo Pinto16302,7042,044–3,301
Strawn11223,3262,422–3,842
Tannehill10501,208926–1,350
Canyon10013,0172,236–3,510
Saddle Creek8601,6601,388–1,806
Ellenburger5903,6302,840–3,995
Coleman Junction4821,214826–1,566
Cisco2912,4601,722–2,784
Gunsight2102,1661,796–2,516

Beyond the permit record

RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes

Disposal and injection

53
active UIC permits of 150
55.1K
permitted bbl/day, active
3.09M
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025
reported through

Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Concho County →

Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →

USGS catalog, Texas

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

All Concho County permits →

Questions about Concho County

How many drilling permits were issued in Concho County in the last 12 months?

3 permits were issued in Concho County in the last 12 months, down 50% from 6 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Oct 20, 2026. 2,313 are on file since 1977.

Every Concho County permit →

Who is the most active operator in Concho County?

By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Texas Operating Partners LLC is the most active operator in Concho County, with 2 of 3, followed by Out West Operating, LLC (1). 2 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.

Operators in Concho County →

How many oil and gas wells are in Concho County?

2,322 wells are on file in Concho County, including 212 active, 1,763 plugged, and 1 permitted and not yet drilled. 0 are horizontal. The active wells are under 22 operators.

Every well in Concho County →

How much oil and gas does Concho County produce?

The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Concho County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.

Leases in Concho County →

How much water is injected in Concho County?

3.1 million barrels of water were injected in Concho County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 53 of the county's 150 disposal and injection permits are active.

Disposal and injection in Concho County →

What formations are drilled in Concho County?

Completion filings for wells in Concho County report tops for 9 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Palo Pinto (163 wells, median top 2,704 ft), the Strawn (112 wells, median top 3,326 ft), and the Tannehill (105 wells, median top 1,208 ft).

Formations in Concho County →

What basin is Concho County in?

Petrora lists Concho County in the Permian Basin. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 7C.

The Permian Basin →

Have there been earthquakes in Concho County?

No earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of Concho County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.

Earthquakes in Concho 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/concho?days=90, documented in the API reference.