COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 08 · CODE 109
Culberson County
Culberson County permitting is running 7.0 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (21 total, up 17% on the prior quarter). 11 were issued in the past week.
Coterra Energy Operating Co. leads with 90 permits in the past 12 months, one of 7 operators active in the county.
2 operators filed a first Culberson County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 11,000 ft; 92% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 122 active disposal and injection permits, with 294M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
TexNet located 1,895 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M5.4.
4,095 drilling permits have been issued in Culberson County since 1977.
4,095 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 26, 2026
Watch Culberson CountyAlso: every Culberson County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 21
- permits issued, 90d
- +17%
- vs prior 90d (18)
- 3
- operators filing
- 67%
- horizontal
- 8,119
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 176
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 114 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 146 · prior 12 308(-53%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Coterra Energy Operating Co. | 90 | 567 |
| Chevron U. S. A. Inc. | 12 | 524 |
| Cimarex Energy Co. | 11 | 19 |
| Capitan Energy, Incorporated | 7 | 93 |
| Covington SWD LP | 7 | 2 |
| Pilot Water Solutions Permianllc | 2 | 0 |
| Solaris Water Midstream, LLC | 1 | 13 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Culberson County came in the last year. 2 in total.
- Covington SWD LP7 permitsOct 22, 2026 · new to Texas permits
- Pilot Water Solutions Permianllc2 permitsMay 13, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Culberson 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 Culberson County report the Barnett, so it is below this table's cutoff. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cherry Canyon | 1,646 | 259 | 3,230 | 2,398–3,482 |
| Bone Spring | 1,591 | 246 | 5,858 | 4,949–6,245 |
| Delaware | 1,321 | 152 | 2,259 | 1,544–2,551 |
| Wolfcamp | 1,183 | 173 | 8,813 | 7,694–9,262 |
| Lamar | 458 | 102 | 2,366 | 1,423–2,547 |
| Bell Canyon | 393 | 85 | 2,149 | 970–2,578 |
| Rustler | 365 | 13 | 386 | 187–585 |
| Brushy Canyon | 300 | 30 | 4,314 | 3,373–4,696 |
| Avalon | 253 | 43 | 6,077 | 5,127–6,350 |
| Castile | 85 | 9 | 545 | 1–1,885 |
| Mississippian | 82 | 0 | 8,900 | 5,903–13,608 |
| Atoka | 31 | 0 | 11,696 | 7,950–13,555 |
| Morrow | 27 | 0 | 11,800 | 7,676–12,917 |
| Strawn | 23 | 0 | 9,493 | 5,512–12,723 |
| Devonian | 15 | 0 | 11,600 | 9,558–14,419 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 122
- active UIC permits of 292
- 4.09M
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 294M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Culberson County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 1,895
- M2+ events in the area
- M5.4
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919502 | Oct 28, 2026 | Oct 26, 2026 | Covington SWD LP | Adios SWD G #7 | 3,500 | 10934646 |
| 919500 | Oct 28, 2026 | Oct 26, 2026 | Covington SWD LP | Adios SWD F #6 | 3,500 | 10934645 |
| 919499 | Oct 28, 2026 | Oct 26, 2026 | Covington SWD LP | Adios SWD E #5 | 3,500 | 10934644 |
| 919496 | Oct 28, 2026 | Oct 26, 2026 | Covington SWD LP | Adios SWD D #4 | 3,500 | 10934643 |
| 919495 | Oct 28, 2026 | Oct 26, 2026 | Covington SWD LP | Adios SWD C #3 | 3,500 | 10934642 |
| 919493 | Oct 28, 2026 | Oct 26, 2026 | Covington SWD LP | Adios SWD B #2 | 3,500 | 10934641 |
| 919318 | Oct 25, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 | Chevron U. S. A. Inc. | HH SW 5 #34HH | 9,000 | 10934634 |
| 919317 | Oct 25, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 | Chevron U. S. A. Inc. | HH SW 5 #33HH | 9,000 | 10934633 |
| 919315 | Oct 25, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 | Chevron U. S. A. Inc. | HH SW 3 #32HH | 9,000 | 10934632 |
| 919313 | Oct 25, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 | Chevron U. S. A. Inc. | HH SW 3 #31HH | 9,000 | 10934631 |
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/culberson?days=90, documented in the API reference.