COUNTIES · TEXAS PANHANDLE · DISTRICT 10 · CODE 211
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
Watch Hemphill CountyAlso: every Hemphill County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 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%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Mewbourne Oil Company | 13 | 139 |
| Sanguine Gas Exploration, LLC | 2 | 0 |
| Mmgl Txph, LLC | 1 | 770 |
| Enervest Operating, L.L.C. | 1 | 12 |
| FX Energy Operating, LLC | 1 | 7 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Hemphill County came in the last year. 2 in total.
- Sanguine Gas Exploration, LLC2 permitsMar 18, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- FX Energy Operating, LLC1 permitAug 10, 2026 · active elsewhere first
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 →
In Hemphill County the Wolfcamp is reported in 38 wells, median top 4,069 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granite Wash | 1,662 | 5 | 10,910 | 9,738–11,373 |
| Douglas | 1,629 | 17 | 7,568 | 6,830–8,120 |
| Brown Dolomite | 1,140 | 14 | 4,228 | 3,775–4,521 |
| Tonkawa | 1,002 | 12 | 8,190 | 7,517–8,962 |
| Cleveland | 971 | 12 | 9,750 | 8,550–10,314 |
| Oswego | 815 | 2 | 10,530 | 9,441–10,833 |
| Atoka | 482 | 1 | 12,596 | 10,516–13,134 |
| Pennsylvanian | 459 | 0 | 6,114 | 5,480–9,562 |
| Kansas City | 396 | 13 | 8,476 | 8,012–9,611 |
| Morrow | 396 | 6 | 11,502 | 10,672–14,097 |
| Des Moines | 298 | 0 | 10,982 | 9,388–11,329 |
| Marmaton | 157 | 2 | 9,429 | 8,915–10,456 |
| Panhandle Lime | 46 | 0 | 3,166 | 2,747–3,554 |
| Wolfcamp | 38 | 0 | 4,069 | 3,900–4,842 |
| Mississippian | 26 | 0 | 13,949 | 12,165–16,520 |
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
| Permit | Seen | Issued | Operator | Lease / well | Depth | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 918885 | Sep 30, 2026 | Sep 28, 2026 | Mewbourne Oil Company | Dequasie 46/48 A #W001JOH | 10,685 | 21135690 |
| 918711 | Sep 23, 2026 | Sep 21, 2026 | Mewbourne Oil Company | Ripkowski 46/48 A #C001JOH | 9,394 | 21135689 |
| 918709 | Sep 23, 2026 | Sep 21, 2026 | Mewbourne Oil Company | Boz 46/44 A #C001GBH | 9,189 | 21135688 |
| 917806 | Aug 20, 2026 | Aug 18, 2026 | Mewbourne Oil Company | Jones Trust 21/22 A #C001JOH | 9,482 | 21135687 |
| 917805 | Aug 17, 2026 | Aug 14, 2026 | Mewbourne Oil Company | Jones Trust 21/20 A #C001GBH | 9,372 | 21135686 |
| 917762 | Aug 15, 2026 | Aug 13, 2026 | Mewbourne Oil Company | Hammer 56/55 A #C001MDH | 9,144 | 21135685 |
| 917521 | Aug 12, 2026 | Aug 10, 2026 | FX Energy Operating, LLC | Young -2- #1 | 14,220 | 21131761 |
| 915663 | May 20, 2026 | May 20, 2026 | Mewbourne Oil Company | Superman 38/39 A #C001NCH | 10,000 | 21135684 |
| 914059 | Mar 18, 2026 | Mar 18, 2026 | Sanguine Gas Exploration, LLC | Threemile Creek 8805 #1HH | 12,000 | 21135683 |
| 914059 | Mar 18, 2026 | Mar 18, 2026 | Sanguine Gas Exploration, LLC | Threemile Creek 8805 #1HH | 12,000 | 21135683 |
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.