COUNTIES · TEXAS PANHANDLE · DISTRICT 10 · CODE 179
Gray County, Texas
Gray County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued April 11, 2025.
The county has 206 active disposal and injection permits, with 6.1M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
TexNet located 2 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M2.6.
2,425 drilling permits have been issued in Gray County since 1977.
2,425 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Apr 11, 2025
Watch Gray CountyAlso: every Gray County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
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- permits issued, 90d
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- vs prior 90d (0)
- 0
- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
- 289
- 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 0 · prior 12 1(-100%)
Operators by well inventory
No permits in the last year; ranked by wells on the RRC wellbore file instead.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Bce-Mach III LLC | — | 1,117 |
| Large Operating LLC | — | 663 |
| Petco Energy Corporation | — | 554 |
| Ponderosa TX Operating LLC | — | 500 |
| M5OEXIT LLC | — | 288 |
| Bradley Operating Co. | — | 267 |
| Oilwell Operators Inc. | — | 233 |
| Exxcel Production Company | — | 189 |
| Pantera Energy Company | — | 176 |
| Diamond S Energy Company | — | 153 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Gray County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Gray 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 Gray County report the Permian, so it is below this table's cutoff. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granite Wash | 1,210 | 1 | 2,756 | 2,410–3,015 |
| Brown Dolomite | 862 | 0 | 2,549 | 2,275–3,054 |
| Panhandle Lime | 119 | 1 | 2,110 | 1,908–2,350 |
| Red Cave | 47 | 1 | 1,814 | 1,689–2,070 |
| White Dolomite | 38 | 0 | 2,787 | 2,663–3,188 |
| Wolfcamp | 20 | 0 | 2,665 | 2,264–2,907 |
| Ellenburger | 10 | 0 | 8,968 | 8,837–9,334 |
| Glorieta | 10 | 1 | 1,112 | 785–2,295 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 206
- active UIC permits of 1,086
- 160K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 6.1M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Gray County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 2
- M2+ events in the area
- M2.6
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 907349 | Apr 11, 2025 | Apr 11, 2025 | O.G.P. Operating, Inc. | Parker Fee -A- #2A | 3,000 | 17984146 |
| 899733 | May 21, 2024 | May 21, 2024 | Seek Energy, LLC | Ruth 23 #8 | 6,850 | 17932637 |
| 897531 | Feb 23, 2024 | Feb 23, 2024 | Seek Energy, LLC | Ruth 23 #1023 | 4,250 | 17932060 |
| 889131 | Jun 16, 2023 | Jun 16, 2023 | Pantera Energy Company | Herber, Anna #9 | 3,404 | 17931870 |
| 888631 | Apr 27, 2023 | Apr 27, 2023 | Seek Energy, LLC | Ruth 23 #9 | 6,850 | 17932638 |
| 889142 | Mar 24, 2023 | Mar 24, 2023 | Pantera Energy Company | Herber, Anna #1 | 3,020 | 17904720 |
| 889124 | Mar 24, 2023 | Mar 24, 2023 | Pantera Energy Company | Herber, Anna #4 | 3,300 | 17904723 |
| 889035 | Mar 17, 2023 | Mar 17, 2023 | Pantera Energy Company | Burke #10 | 3,188 | 17982594 |
| 889028 | Mar 17, 2023 | Mar 17, 2023 | Pantera Energy Company | Burke #8 | 2,917 | 17982592 |
| 886450 | Dec 20, 2022 | Dec 20, 2022 | Seek Energy, LLC | Ruth 23 #8 | 6,850 | 17932637 |
Questions about Gray County
How many drilling permits were issued in Gray County in the last 12 months?
0 permits were issued in Gray County in the last 12 months, down 100% from 1 in the 12 months before. The most recent was issued Apr 11, 2025. 2,425 are on file since 1977.
Every Gray County permit →Which operator has the most wells in Gray County?
No operator has filed a drilling permit in Gray County in the last 12 months. By wells on file, the largest is Bce-Mach III LLC, with 1,117, followed by Large Operating LLC (663) and Petco Energy Corporation (554).
Operators in Gray County →How many oil and gas wells are in Gray County?
7,698 wells are on file in Gray County: 3,116 active and 2,888 plugged. 7 are horizontal, and 86 operators hold them.
Every well in Gray County →How much oil and gas does Gray County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Gray County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Gray County →How much water is injected in Gray County?
6.1 million barrels of water were injected in Gray County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 206 of the county's 1,086 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Gray County →What formations are drilled in Gray County?
Completion filings for wells in Gray County report tops for 8 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Granite Wash (1,210 wells, median top 2,756 ft), the Brown Dolomite (862 wells, median top 2,549 ft), and the Panhandle Lime (119 wells, median top 2,110 ft).
Formations in Gray County →What basin is Gray County in?
Petrora lists Gray County in the Texas Panhandle. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 10.
The Texas Panhandle →Have there been earthquakes in Gray County?
TexNet located 2 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Gray County's permitted wells in the last 2 years; the largest was M2.6.
Earthquakes in Gray 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/gray?days=90, documented in the API reference.