COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 08 · CODE 103
Crane County
Crane County permitting is running 16 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (49 total, down 8% on the prior quarter). 1 was issued in the past week.
Blackbeard Operating, LLC leads with 111 permits in the past 12 months, one of 9 operators active in the county.
3 operators filed a first Crane County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 7,999 ft; 84% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 1,177 active disposal and injection permits, with 134M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
TexNet located 1 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M2.0.
10,066 drilling permits have been issued in Crane County since 1977.
10,066 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 23, 2026
Watch Crane CountyAlso: every Crane County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 49
- permits issued, 90d
- -8%
- vs prior 90d (53)
- 7
- operators filing
- 80%
- horizontal
- 8,992
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 425
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 117 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 204 · prior 12 252(-19%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Blackbeard Operating, LLC | 111 | 3,030 |
| Ring Energy, Inc. | 28 | 1,047 |
| BTA Oil Producers, LLC | 16 | 11 |
| SM Energy Company | 9 | 2 |
| Mewbourne Oil Company | 5 | 5 |
| Green Century Exp & Prod, LLC | 2 | 20 |
| Hilcorp Energy Company | 1 | 244 |
| OXY USA EOR, LLC | 1 | 233 |
| WTG Exploration | 1 | 1 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Crane County came in the last year. 3 in total.
- OXY USA EOR, LLC1 permitSep 28, 2026 · new to Texas permits
- Hilcorp Energy Company1 permitSep 25, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- WTG Exploration1 permitApr 24, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Crane 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 Crane County report the Dean, 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 | 2,711 | 272 | 2,961 | 2,593–3,494 |
| Yates | 2,538 | 289 | 1,736 | 1,434–2,200 |
| Grayburg | 2,470 | 282 | 2,751 | 2,451–3,258 |
| Rustler | 2,055 | 186 | 560 | 360–1,110 |
| Queen | 1,763 | 272 | 2,386 | 2,181–2,953 |
| Clear Fork | 1,441 | 180 | 3,989 | 3,511–4,809 |
| Tubb | 1,366 | 49 | 4,300 | 3,999–4,660 |
| San Angelo | 1,247 | 159 | 3,600 | 3,401–3,838 |
| Seven Rivers | 1,171 | 272 | 1,846 | 1,665–2,426 |
| McKnight | 1,132 | 76 | 3,160 | 2,947–3,390 |
| Glorieta | 801 | 94 | 3,780 | 3,055–4,458 |
| Devonian | 682 | 18 | 7,920 | 5,264–8,827 |
| Wichita-Albany | 583 | 26 | 4,915 | 4,502–5,541 |
| Wolfcamp | 462 | 25 | 5,799 | 5,222–7,987 |
| Holt | 179 | 4 | 3,759 | 3,431–4,071 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 1,177
- active UIC permits of 3,166
- 2.89M
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 134M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Crane County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 1
- M2+ events in the area
- M2.0
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919763 | Nov 1, 2026 | Oct 30, 2026 | Blackbeard Operating, LLC | Waddell TR Cab 6G #4336HH | 7,999 | 10337866 |
| 919769 | Nov 1, 2026 | Oct 30, 2026 | Blackbeard Operating, LLC | Waddell TR AB 4G #4335HH | 7,999 | 10337867 |
| 919771 | Nov 1, 2026 | Oct 30, 2026 | Blackbeard Operating, LLC | Waddell TR AB 3G #4334HH | 7,999 | 10337868 |
| 919744 | Oct 30, 2026 | Oct 28, 2026 | Blackbeard Operating, LLC | Waddell TR Cab 8G2 #4338HH | 7,999 | 10337864 |
| 919745 | Oct 30, 2026 | Oct 28, 2026 | Blackbeard Operating, LLC | Waddell TR Cab 8G #4337HH | 7,999 | 10337865 |
| 919729 | Oct 30, 2026 | Oct 28, 2026 | Blackbeard Operating, LLC | Waddell TR A #4896HH | 7,999 | 10337862 |
| 919732 | Oct 30, 2026 | Oct 28, 2026 | Blackbeard Operating, LLC | Waddell TR A #4895HH | 7,999 | 10337863 |
| 919434 | Oct 25, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 | Green Century Exp & Prod, LLC | Syndicate Fee ''A'' #5A | 5,005 | 10337654 |
| 919194 | Oct 15, 2026 | Oct 13, 2026 | Blackbeard Operating, LLC | Salinas 1WC #8413HH | 11,000 | 10337857 |
| 919205 | Oct 15, 2026 | Oct 13, 2026 | Blackbeard Operating, LLC | Salinas 1WA #8213HH | 11,000 | 10337861 |
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/crane?days=90, documented in the API reference.