COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 7C · CODE 105
Crockett County
Crockett County permitting is running 2.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (7 total, versus 5 in the prior quarter).
Sem Operating Company LLC leads with 8 permits in the past 12 months, one of 8 operators active in the county.
4 operators filed a first Crockett County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 7,318 ft (prior year: 9,000 ft); 38% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 276 active disposal and injection permits, with 61.4M 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.
13,434 drilling permits have been issued in Crockett County since 1977.
13,434 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 19, 2026
Watch Crockett CountyAlso: every Crockett County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 7
- permits issued, 90d
- +40%
- vs prior 90d (5)
- 2
- operators filing
- 29%
- horizontal
- 8,155
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 735
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 76 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 39 · prior 12 42(-7%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Sem Operating Company LLC | 8 | 79 |
| Scout Energy Management LLC | 6 | 2,440 |
| Petx Operating LLC | 4 | 48 |
| Aspen Operating Company, L.L.C. | 2 | 168 |
| Walsh & Watts, Inc. | 1 | 28 |
| Surge Solutions, Inc. | 1 | 20 |
| Beach Exploration, Inc. | 1 | 15 |
| Kaler Energy Corp. | 1 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Crockett County came in the last year. 4 in total.
- Petx Operating LLC4 permitsFeb 19, 2026 · new to Texas permits
- Walsh & Watts, Inc.1 permitJun 2, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Kaler Energy Corp.1 permitDec 30, 2025 · active elsewhere first
- Surge Solutions, Inc.1 permitNov 7, 2025 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Crockett 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 Crockett County report the Simpson, so it is below this table's cutoff. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canyon | 3,780 | 3 | 6,034 | 4,908–7,468 |
| Wolfcamp | 2,141 | 35 | 5,246 | 3,871–6,238 |
| San Andres | 1,451 | 36 | 1,851 | 1,244–2,500 |
| Dean | 1,238 | 0 | 5,066 | 4,419–6,089 |
| Strawn | 1,173 | 2 | 8,836 | 7,830–9,459 |
| Queen | 1,162 | 33 | 1,374 | 977–1,945 |
| Clear Fork | 907 | 1 | 2,839 | 1,799–3,957 |
| Grayburg | 721 | 2 | 1,790 | 1,216–2,226 |
| Base Cretaceous (marker) | 695 | 0 | 675 | 571–988 |
| Pennsylvanian | 615 | 1 | 7,784 | 7,507–8,015 |
| Spraberry | 598 | 1 | 4,208 | 3,181–5,573 |
| Yates | 533 | 3 | 1,150 | 744–1,480 |
| Leonard | 403 | 34 | 4,000 | 3,261–5,055 |
| Devonian | 397 | 1 | 8,650 | 5,070–9,773 |
| Seven Rivers | 388 | 1 | 1,252 | 809–1,562 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 276
- active UIC permits of 849
- 1.36M
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 61.4M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Crockett 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919380 | Oct 21, 2026 | Oct 19, 2026 | Sem Operating Company LLC | University 40 B #1603WCH | 10,000 | 10542579 |
| 919379 | Oct 21, 2026 | Oct 19, 2026 | Sem Operating Company LLC | University 40 B #1601WCH | 10,000 | 10542578 |
| 917984 | Aug 23, 2026 | Aug 21, 2026 | Scout Energy Management LLC | Hatton, E.H. Estate '14' #4 | 7,450 | 10532307 |
| 917924 | Aug 22, 2026 | Aug 20, 2026 | Scout Energy Management LLC | Warren, W. K. Foundation '24' #12 | 7,235 | 10538645 |
| 917949 | Aug 22, 2026 | Aug 20, 2026 | Scout Energy Management LLC | Hatton, E.H. Estate '8D' #3 | 7,500 | 10532135 |
| 917671 | Aug 9, 2026 | Aug 7, 2026 | Scout Energy Management LLC | Warren,w. K. Foundation '24' #1 | 7,400 | 10531990 |
| 917613 | Aug 9, 2026 | Aug 7, 2026 | Scout Energy Management LLC | Hatton, E.H. Estate '14B' #3 | 7,500 | 10532182 |
| 917033 | Jul 13, 2026 | Jul 13, 2026 | Sem Operating Company LLC | University 40 #1511WCH | 10,000 | 10542577 |
| 917032 | Jul 13, 2026 | Jul 13, 2026 | Sem Operating Company LLC | University 40 #1509WCH | 10,000 | 10542576 |
| 917031 | Jul 13, 2026 | Jul 13, 2026 | Sem Operating Company LLC | University 40 #1507WCH | 10,000 | 10542575 |
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/crockett?days=90, documented in the API reference.