COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 8A · CODE 169
Garza County
Garza County permitting is running 2.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (7 total, versus 1 in the prior quarter). 4 were issued in the past week.
Cholla Petroleum, Inc. leads with 7 permits in the past 12 months, one of 3 operators active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 4,999 ft; 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 759 active disposal and injection permits, with 41.7M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
4,279 drilling permits have been issued in Garza County since 1977.
4,279 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 26, 2026
Watch Garza CountyAlso: every Garza County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 7
- permits issued, 90d
- +600%
- vs prior 90d (1)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 4,999
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 510
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 64 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 36 · prior 12 22(+64%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Cholla Petroleum, Inc. | 7 | 72 |
| McClure Oil Company, Inc. | 1 | 52 |
| Three Span Oil & Gas, Inc. | 1 | 21 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Garza County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Garza 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 Garza County report the Tansill, 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 | 1,833 | 15 | 2,370 | 1,690–3,104 |
| Glorieta | 925 | 14 | 3,012 | 2,410–3,800 |
| Yates | 613 | 12 | 1,200 | 701–1,797 |
| Clear Fork | 282 | 7 | 3,153 | 2,520–3,963 |
| Strawn | 277 | 5 | 7,700 | 7,191–8,265 |
| Spraberry | 263 | 4 | 5,010 | 4,777–5,618 |
| Ellenburger | 252 | 7 | 8,296 | 7,790–8,752 |
| Mississippian | 229 | 6 | 8,070 | 7,540–8,600 |
| Wolfcamp | 117 | 7 | 5,966 | 4,600–6,861 |
| San Angelo | 105 | 1 | 2,451 | 2,270–2,544 |
| Queen | 92 | 0 | 1,448 | 1,278–1,989 |
| Wichita-Albany | 62 | 3 | 4,763 | 4,559–6,007 |
| Rustler | 60 | 3 | 932 | 615–1,380 |
| Santa Rosa | 55 | 2 | 650 | 363–1,157 |
| Grayburg | 49 | 8 | 2,600 | 2,212–2,670 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 759
- active UIC permits of 1,453
- 769K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 41.7M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Garza County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 0
- M2+ events in the area
- —
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 918776 | Oct 28, 2026 | Oct 26, 2026 | Cholla Petroleum, Inc. | PHD San Andres Unit #211R | 4,999 | 16934334 |
| 918761 | Oct 28, 2026 | Oct 26, 2026 | Cholla Petroleum, Inc. | PHD San Andres Unit #110W | 4,999 | 16934331 |
| 918766 | Oct 28, 2026 | Oct 26, 2026 | Cholla Petroleum, Inc. | PHD San Andres Unit #104R | 4,999 | 16934332 |
| 918774 | Oct 28, 2026 | Oct 26, 2026 | Cholla Petroleum, Inc. | PHD San Andres Unit #103R | 4,999 | 16934333 |
| 918778 | Oct 17, 2026 | Oct 15, 2026 | Cholla Petroleum, Inc. | PHD San Andres Unit #220 | 4,999 | 16934335 |
| 918756 | Oct 17, 2026 | Oct 15, 2026 | Cholla Petroleum, Inc. | PHD San Andres Unit #209R | 4,999 | 16934329 |
| 918760 | Oct 8, 2026 | Oct 6, 2026 | Cholla Petroleum, Inc. | PHD San Andres Unit #102R | 4,999 | 16934330 |
| 916562 | Jun 19, 2026 | Jun 19, 2026 | Three Span Oil & Gas, Inc. | Kline #1 | 8,000 | 16932817 |
| 912402 | Dec 23, 2025 | Dec 23, 2025 | McClure Oil Company, Inc. | Kirkpatrick 878 #2 | 6,000 | 16933524 |
| 911221 | Oct 21, 2025 | Oct 21, 2025 | Yates Energy Corporation | Ranger 24 #1 | 8,700 | 16934328 |
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/garza?days=90, documented in the API reference.