COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 8A · CODE 189
Hale County, Texas
Hale County permitting is running 3.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (10 total, versus 4 in the prior quarter). 1 was issued in the past week.
Occidental Permian Ltd. leads with 13 permits in the past 12 months, one of 2 operators active in the county.
One operator filed a first Hale County permit in the past year.
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.
316 drilling permits have been issued in Hale County since 1977.
316 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Nov 2, 2026
Watch Hale CountyAlso: every Hale County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 14
- permits issued, 180d
- —
- vs prior 180d (0)
- 2
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 6,071
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 48
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 5, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 14 · prior 12 0
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 | 449 |
| North Texas Carbon, LLC | 1 | 1 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Hale County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- North Texas Carbon, LLC1 permitNov 2, 2026 · active elsewhere first
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919685 | Nov 4, 2026 | Nov 2, 2026 | North Texas Carbon, LLC | Python #3 | 7,000 | 18930529 |
| 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 |
Questions about Hale County
How many drilling permits were issued in Hale County in the last 12 months?
14 permits were issued in Hale County in the last 12 months. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Nov 2, 2026. 316 are on file since 1977.
Every Hale County permit →Who is the most active operator in Hale County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Occidental Permian Ltd. is the most active operator in Hale County, with 13 of 14, followed by North Texas Carbon, LLC (1). 2 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Hale County →How many oil and gas wells are in Hale County?
540 wells are on file in Hale County: 264 active, 129 plugged, and 1 permitted and not yet drilled. 12 are horizontal, and 3 operators hold them.
Every well in Hale County →How much oil and gas does Hale County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Hale County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Hale County →How much water is injected in Hale County?
20.2 million barrels of water were injected in Hale County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 122 of the county's 170 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Hale County →What formations are drilled in Hale County?
Completion filings for wells in Hale County report tops for 8 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Clear Fork (246 wells, median top 5,315 ft), the Tubb (133 wells, median top 5,173 ft), and the Yates (125 wells, median top 2,092 ft).
Formations in Hale County →What basin is Hale County in?
Petrora lists Hale County in the Permian Basin. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 8A.
The Permian Basin →Have there been earthquakes in Hale County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Hale County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Hale 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/hale?days=180, documented in the API reference.