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Hemphill County

Hemphill County permitting is running 2.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (7 total, versus 1 in the prior quarter).

Mewbourne Oil Company leads with 13 permits in the past 12 months, one of 5 operators active in the county.

2 operators filed a first Hemphill County permit in the past year.

Median permitted depth over the past year is 10,134 ft (prior year: 9,259 ft); 83% of the past year's permits are horizontal.

The county has 43 active disposal and injection permits, with 7.05M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

6,087 drilling permits have been issued in Hemphill County since 1977.

6,087 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Sep 28, 2026

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Also: every Hemphill County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →

Window30 days90 days180 days365 days
7
permits issued, 90d
+600%
vs prior 90d (1)
2
operators filing
86%
horizontal
10,212
avg permitted depth, ft
310
operators, all time

WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER

Permits issued by month

LAST 70 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 26 · prior 12 17(+53%)

0510152017201820192020202120222023202420252026

Top operators, last 12 months

By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.

OperatorPermitsWells
Mewbourne Oil Company13139
Sanguine Gas Exploration, LLC20
Mmgl Txph, LLC1770
Enervest Operating, L.L.C.112
FX Energy Operating, LLC17

Full operator directory →

New entrants, last 12 months

Operators whose first permit in Hemphill County came in the last year. 2 in total.

Permit types, 90d

TypeWindowPriorAll time
Drill615,541
Recompletion10425

What the types mean →

Formations in completed wells

RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS

Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Hemphill 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 Hemphill County report the Red Cave, so it is below this table's cutoff. Back to the formation →

FormationWellsPermitted last 3 yrsMedian top, ftP10–P90
Granite Wash1,662510,9109,738–11,373
Douglas1,629177,5686,830–8,120
Brown Dolomite1,140144,2283,775–4,521
Tonkawa1,002128,1907,517–8,962
Cleveland971129,7508,550–10,314
Oswego815210,5309,441–10,833
Atoka482112,59610,516–13,134
Pennsylvanian45906,1145,480–9,562
Kansas City396138,4768,012–9,611
Morrow396611,50210,672–14,097
Des Moines298010,9829,388–11,329
Marmaton15729,4298,915–10,456
Panhandle Lime4603,1662,747–3,554
Wolfcamp3804,0693,900–4,842
Mississippian26013,94912,165–16,520

Beyond the permit record

RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes

Disposal and injection

43
active UIC permits of 86
439K
permitted bbl/day, active
7.05M
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025
reported through

Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Hemphill 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

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorLease / wellDepthAPI
918885Sep 30, 2026Sep 28, 2026Mewbourne Oil CompanyDequasie 46/48 A #W001JOH10,68521135690
918711Sep 23, 2026Sep 21, 2026Mewbourne Oil CompanyRipkowski 46/48 A #C001JOH9,39421135689
918709Sep 23, 2026Sep 21, 2026Mewbourne Oil CompanyBoz 46/44 A #C001GBH9,18921135688
917806Aug 20, 2026Aug 18, 2026Mewbourne Oil CompanyJones Trust 21/22 A #C001JOH9,48221135687
917805Aug 17, 2026Aug 14, 2026Mewbourne Oil CompanyJones Trust 21/20 A #C001GBH9,37221135686
917762Aug 15, 2026Aug 13, 2026Mewbourne Oil CompanyHammer 56/55 A #C001MDH9,14421135685
917521Aug 12, 2026Aug 10, 2026FX Energy Operating, LLCYoung -2- #114,22021131761
915663May 20, 2026May 20, 2026Mewbourne Oil CompanySuperman 38/39 A #C001NCH10,00021135684
914059Mar 18, 2026Mar 18, 2026Sanguine Gas Exploration, LLCThreemile Creek 8805 #1HH12,00021135683
914059Mar 18, 2026Mar 18, 2026Sanguine Gas Exploration, LLCThreemile Creek 8805 #1HH12,00021135683

All Hemphill County permits →

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/hemphill?days=90, documented in the API reference.