COUNTIES · TEXAS PANHANDLE · DISTRICT 10 · CODE 179
Gray County
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 OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 16 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 18
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 | — | 998 |
| Large Operating LLC | — | 698 |
| Petco Energy Corporation | — | 536 |
| Ponderosa TX Operating LLC | — | 481 |
| Bradley Operating Co. | — | 265 |
| M5OEXIT LLC | — | 224 |
| Oilwell Operators Inc. | — | 212 |
| Exxcel Production Company | — | 184 |
| Pantera Energy Company | — | 170 |
| Diamond S Energy Company | — | 152 |
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 Tubb, 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 |
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.