COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 8A · CODE 189
Hale County
Hale County permitting is running 3.0 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (9 total, versus 4 in the prior quarter).
Occidental Permian Ltd. leads with 13 permits in the past 12 months, the only operator active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 6,000 ft; 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 122 active disposal and injection permits, with 20.2M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
315 drilling permits have been issued in Hale County since 1977.
315 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Aug 24, 2026
Watch Hale CountyAlso: every Hale County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 9
- permits issued, 90d
- +125%
- vs prior 90d (4)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 6,000
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 47
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 12 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 33
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Occidental Permian Ltd. | 13 | 437 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Hale County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Hale 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clear Fork | 246 | 2 | 5,315 | 4,662–5,742 |
| Tubb | 133 | 0 | 5,173 | 5,053–5,415 |
| Yates | 125 | 1 | 2,092 | 1,838–2,860 |
| Rustler | 108 | 1 | 1,531 | 1,500–1,580 |
| San Andres | 78 | 1 | 3,133 | 2,961–3,900 |
| Queen | 61 | 1 | 2,775 | 2,747–2,816 |
| Glorieta | 22 | 0 | 4,199 | 4,170–4,244 |
| Wolfcamp | 20 | 0 | 6,088 | 5,531–6,908 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 122
- active UIC permits of 170
- 629K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 20.2M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Hale 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 918020 | Aug 27, 2026 | Aug 24, 2026 | Occidental Permian Ltd. | Anton-Irish Clearfork Unit #224 | 6,000 | 18930019 |
| 918019 | Aug 27, 2026 | Aug 24, 2026 | Occidental Permian Ltd. | Anton-Irish Clearfork Unit #224 | 6,000 | 18930019 |
| 918027 | Aug 27, 2026 | Aug 24, 2026 | Occidental Permian Ltd. | Anton-Irish Clearfork Unit #221 | 6,000 | 18930009 |
| 918028 | Aug 27, 2026 | Aug 24, 2026 | Occidental Permian Ltd. | Anton-Irish Clearfork Unit #221 | 6,000 | 18930009 |
| 917959 | Aug 23, 2026 | Aug 21, 2026 | Occidental Permian Ltd. | Anton-Irish Clearfork Unit #283 | 6,000 | 18930047 |
| 917956 | Aug 22, 2026 | Aug 20, 2026 | Occidental Permian Ltd. | Anton-Irish Clearfork Unit #283 | 6,000 | 18930047 |
| 917783 | Aug 19, 2026 | Aug 17, 2026 | Occidental Permian Ltd. | Anton-Irish Clearfork Unit #586 | 6,000 | 18930503 |
| 917785 | Aug 19, 2026 | Aug 17, 2026 | Occidental Permian Ltd. | Anton-Irish Clearfork Unit #586 | 6,000 | 18930503 |
| 917766 | Aug 19, 2026 | Aug 17, 2026 | Occidental Permian Ltd. | Anton-Irish Clearfork Unit #299 | 6,000 | 18930070 |
| 916589 | Aug 19, 2026 | Jun 23, 2026 | Occidental Permian Ltd. | Anton-Irish Clearfork Unit #299 | 6,000 | 18930070 |
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/hale?days=90, documented in the API reference.