COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 8A · CODE 169
Garza County, Texas
Garza County permitting is running 2.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (7 total, versus 1 in the prior quarter).
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 →
- 6
- permits issued, 30d
- +500%
- vs prior 30d (1)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 4,999
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 510
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 6, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 9 · prior 12 23(-61%)
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 | 74 |
| McClure Oil Company, Inc. | 1 | 62 |
| Three Span Oil & Gas, Inc. | 1 | 29 |
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 →
| 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 |
Questions about Garza County
How many drilling permits were issued in Garza County in the last 12 months?
9 permits were issued in Garza County in the last 12 months, down 62% from 24 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Oct 26, 2026. 4,279 are on file since 1977.
Every Garza County permit →Who is the most active operator in Garza County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Cholla Petroleum, Inc. is the most active operator in Garza County, with 7 of 9, followed by McClure Oil Company, Inc. (1) and Three Span Oil & Gas, Inc. (1). 1 operator filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Garza County →How many oil and gas wells are in Garza County?
5,539 wells are on file in Garza County: 2,707 active, 2,008 plugged, and 11 permitted and not yet drilled. 41 are horizontal, and 54 operators hold them.
Every well in Garza County →How much oil and gas does Garza County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Garza County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Garza County →How much water is injected in Garza County?
41.7 million barrels of water were injected in Garza County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 759 of the county's 1,453 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Garza County →What formations are drilled in Garza County?
Completion filings for wells in Garza County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the San Andres (1,833 wells, median top 2,370 ft), the Glorieta (925 wells, median top 3,012 ft), and the Yates (613 wells, median top 1,200 ft).
Formations in Garza County →What basin is Garza County in?
Petrora lists Garza County in the Permian Basin. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 8A.
The Permian Basin →Have there been earthquakes in Garza County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Garza County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Garza 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/garza?days=30, documented in the API reference.