COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 8A · CODE 107
Crosby County, Texas
Crosby County permitting is running 0.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (1 total, after a quiet prior quarter). 1 was issued in the past week.
Energy Transfer Company leads with 1 permit in the past 12 months, the only operator active in the county.
One operator filed a first Crosby County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 400 ft (prior year: 5,000 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 308 active disposal and injection permits, with 23.5M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
2,000 drilling permits have been issued in Crosby County since 1977.
2,000 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Nov 2, 2026
Email me new permitsAlso: every Crosby County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 1
- permits issued, 90d
- —
- vs prior 90d (0)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 400
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 98
- 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 1 · prior 12 2(-50%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Energy Transfer Company | 1 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Crosby County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Energy Transfer Company1 permitNov 2, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Crosby County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Crosby County the Rustler is reported in 109 wells, median top 1,180 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clear Fork | 969 | 2 | 4,115 | 3,832–4,305 |
| Glorieta | 829 | 2 | 3,775 | 3,517–3,963 |
| San Andres | 662 | 2 | 2,747 | 2,450–2,960 |
| Yates | 411 | 2 | 1,579 | 1,399–1,735 |
| Rustler | 109 | 0 | 1,180 | 999–1,326 |
| Grayburg | 37 | 0 | 2,619 | 2,545–2,676 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 308
- active UIC permits of 602
- 602K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 23.5M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Crosby 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
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919339 | Nov 4, 2026 | Nov 2, 2026 | Energy Transfer Company | Etc FBS 1.35GB #E135GB | 400 | 10732198 |
| 905037 | Jan 13, 2025 | Jan 13, 2025 | Hexp Operating, LLC | Phil #1259 | 5,000 | 10732128 |
| 905034 | Jan 13, 2025 | Jan 13, 2025 | Hexp Operating, LLC | Phil #329 | 5,000 | 10732123 |
| 903269 | Oct 17, 2024 | Oct 17, 2024 | Stelzer Drilling Co. Inc. | Price #20 | 3,985 | 10732197 |
| 903262 | Oct 17, 2024 | Oct 17, 2024 | Stelzer Drilling Co. Inc. | Price #21 | 3,985 | 10732196 |
| 899240 | Apr 29, 2024 | Apr 29, 2024 | Bridwell Oil Co. | Collier -7- #13R | 5,000 | 10732195 |
| 898455 | Apr 2, 2024 | Apr 2, 2024 | Bridwell Oil Co. | Collier -7- #14 | 4,900 | 10732194 |
| 898361 | Mar 27, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | Bridwell Oil Co. | Collier -7- #13 | 4,900 | 10732193 |
| 892977 | Aug 18, 2023 | Aug 18, 2023 | Harbor Petroleum, LLC | Johnson #2 | 8,000 | 10732192 |
| 892977Amendment | Aug 18, 2023 | Aug 18, 2023 | Strawn Energy Services, LLC | Johnson #2 | 8,000 | 10732192 |
Questions about Crosby County
How many drilling permits were issued in Crosby County in the last 12 months?
1 permit was issued in Crosby County in the last 12 months, down 50% from 2 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Nov 2, 2026. 2,000 are on file since 1977.
Every Crosby County permit →Who is the most active operator in Crosby County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Energy Transfer Company is the most active operator in Crosby County, with 1 of 1. 1 operator filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Crosby County →How many oil and gas wells are in Crosby County?
1,973 wells are on file in Crosby County, including 700 active, 394 plugged, and 3 permitted and not yet drilled. 2 are horizontal. The active wells are under 14 operators.
Every well in Crosby County →How much oil and gas does Crosby County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Crosby County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Crosby County →How much water is injected in Crosby County?
23.5 million barrels of water were injected in Crosby County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 308 of the county's 602 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Crosby County →What formations are drilled in Crosby County?
Completion filings for wells in Crosby County report tops for 6 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Clear Fork (969 wells, median top 4,115 ft), the Glorieta (829 wells, median top 3,775 ft), and the San Andres (662 wells, median top 2,747 ft).
Formations in Crosby County →What basin is Crosby County in?
Petrora lists Crosby County in the Permian Basin. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 8A.
The Permian Basin →Have there been earthquakes in Crosby County?
No earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of Crosby County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Crosby 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/crosby?days=90, documented in the API reference.