COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 8A · CODE 101
Cottle County, Texas
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, 180d
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- vs prior 180d (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 NOV 5, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 0 · prior 12 3(-100%)
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 |
| Wagner Oil Company | — | 40 |
| Petex | — | 38 |
| Gunn Oil Company | — | 28 |
| Daylight Petroleum LLC | — | 21 |
| Patton E. N. Oil Company Inc. | — | 21 |
| Edwards Gus Co. | — | 14 |
| Whalen Drilling & Mining Co. | — | 14 |
| Gulf Oil Corp. | — | 12 |
| Burnett Oil Co. Inc. | — | 11 |
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 →
| 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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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 |
Questions about Cottle County
How many drilling permits were issued in Cottle County in the last 12 months?
0 permits were issued in Cottle County in the last 12 months, down 100% from 3 in the 12 months before. The most recent was issued Jul 30, 2025. 665 are on file since 1977.
Every Cottle County permit →Which operator has the most wells in Cottle County?
No operator has filed a drilling permit in Cottle County in the last 12 months. By wells on file, the largest is Gunn Oil Company, with 45, followed by Wagner Oil Company (40) and Petex (38).
Operators in Cottle County →How many oil and gas wells are in Cottle County?
632 wells are on file in Cottle County: 96 active, 439 plugged, and 2 permitted and not yet drilled. 0 are horizontal, and 10 operators hold them.
Every well in Cottle County →How much oil and gas does Cottle County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Cottle County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Cottle County →How much water is injected in Cottle County?
540,113 barrels of water were injected in Cottle County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 10 of the county's 19 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Cottle County →What formations are drilled in Cottle County?
Completion filings for wells in Cottle County report tops for 14 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Coleman Junction (69 wells, median top 2,596 ft), the Canyon (66 wells, median top 4,525 ft), and the Caddo (40 wells, median top 7,155 ft).
Formations in Cottle County →What basin is Cottle County in?
Petrora lists Cottle County in the Permian Basin. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 8A.
The Permian Basin →Have there been earthquakes in Cottle County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Cottle County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Cottle 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/cottle?days=180, documented in the API reference.