COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 8A · CODE 101
Cottle County
Cottle County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued July 30, 2025.
The county has 10 active disposal and injection permits, with 540K barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
665 drilling permits have been issued in Cottle County since 1977.
665 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Jul 30, 2025
Watch Cottle CountyAlso: every Cottle 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)
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- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
- 114
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 25 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 19 · prior 12 17(+12%)
Operators by well inventory
No permits in the last year; ranked by wells on the RRC wellbore file instead.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Gunn Oil Company | — | 45 |
| Petex | — | 38 |
| Wagner Oil Company | — | 38 |
| Gunn Oil Company | — | 27 |
| Patton E. N. Oil Company Inc. | — | 20 |
| Daylight Petroleum LLC | — | 15 |
| Whalen Drilling & Mining Co. | — | 14 |
| Edwards Gus Co. | — | 13 |
| Gulf Oil Corp. | — | 12 |
| Burnett Oil Co. Inc. | — | 10 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Cottle County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Cottle 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 Cottle County report the Des Moines, so it is below this table's cutoff. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
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| Coleman Junction | 69 | 0 | 2,596 | 2,313–2,935 |
| Canyon | 66 | 0 | 4,525 | 3,896–5,924 |
| Caddo | 40 | 0 | 7,155 | 6,451–7,795 |
| Morrow | 35 | 0 | 7,865 | 7,559–8,685 |
| Wichita-Albany | 30 | 0 | 1,856 | 1,775–1,942 |
| Bend | 26 | 0 | 7,594 | 7,002–8,848 |
| Strawn | 26 | 0 | 6,105 | 5,416–7,613 |
| Atoka | 18 | 0 | 6,194 | 6,070–7,418 |
| Palo Pinto | 18 | 0 | 5,262 | 5,017–6,346 |
| Clear Fork | 17 | 0 | 705 | 490–940 |
| Mississippian | 16 | 0 | 6,554 | 6,147–8,041 |
| Gunsight | 13 | 0 | 4,220 | 3,326–5,302 |
| Tannehill | 12 | 0 | 3,005 | 2,955–3,110 |
| Saddle Creek | 11 | 0 | 3,779 | 3,228–3,977 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 10
- active UIC permits of 19
- 12.3K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 540K
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Cottle County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
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- M2+ events in the area
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- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 909562 | Jul 30, 2025 | Jul 30, 2025 | Gunn Oil Company | Eunice #1 | 9,000 | 10130780 |
| 907181 | Apr 8, 2025 | Apr 8, 2025 | West Texas Crude Energy LLC | Delwin-Jett #2 | 9,000 | 10130779 |
| 907181 | Apr 8, 2025 | Apr 8, 2025 | West Texas Crude Energy LLC | Delwin-Jett #2 | 9,000 | 10130779 |
| 903333 | Oct 18, 2024 | Oct 18, 2024 | West Texas Crude Energy LLC | 'Thompson' #2 | 7,200 | 10130778 |
| 902778 | Sep 20, 2024 | Sep 20, 2024 | Gunn Oil Company | Howard Smith #1 | 9,000 | 10130777 |
| 901160 | Jul 15, 2024 | Jul 15, 2024 | West Texas Crude Energy LLC | 'Thompson' #1 | 7,200 | 10130776 |
| 896737 | Jan 24, 2024 | Jan 24, 2024 | Gunn Oil Company | Farmland Reserve #1 | 9,000 | 10130775 |
| 895014 | Nov 16, 2023 | Nov 16, 2023 | Gunn Oil Company | Cba #3 | 9,000 | 10130774 |
| 887482 | Jan 23, 2023 | Jan 23, 2023 | Gunn Oil Company | Naida Unit #1 | 9,000 | 10130773 |
| 887216 | Jan 19, 2023 | Jan 19, 2023 | Gunn Oil Company | Harris #1 | 9,000 | 10130772 |
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/cottle?days=90, documented in the API reference.