COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 8A · CODE 219
Hockley County
Hockley County permitting is running 2.0 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (6 total, versus 8 in the prior quarter).
Texland Petroleum, L.P. leads with 10 permits in the past 12 months, one of 10 operators active in the county.
3 operators filed a first Hockley County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 7,972 ft (prior year: 6,800 ft); 3% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 2,367 active disposal and injection permits, with 166M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
6,477 drilling permits have been issued in Hockley County since 1977.
6,477 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 19, 2026
Watch Hockley CountyAlso: every Hockley County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 6
- permits issued, 90d
- -25%
- vs prior 90d (8)
- 5
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 8,397
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 380
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 92 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 38 · prior 12 35(+9%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Hockley County came in the last year. 3 in total.
- Occidental Permian EOR, LLC2 permitsOct 14, 2026 · new to Texas permits
- Hilcorp Energy Company2 permitsApr 24, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Het Levelland, LLC1 permitJul 8, 2026 · new to Texas permits
Permit types, 90d
| Type | Window | Prior | All time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drill | 4 | 7 | 5,540 |
| Recompletion | 3 | 0 | 735 |
| Reclass | 1 | 0 | 17 |
| Reenter | 0 | 1 | 123 |
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Hockley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Andres | 4,740 | 31 | 4,226 | 3,800–4,947 |
| Yates | 2,231 | 35 | 2,660 | 2,417–2,871 |
| Rustler | 1,385 | 15 | 2,098 | 1,968–2,250 |
| Clear Fork | 825 | 27 | 6,074 | 5,748–6,760 |
| Glorieta | 656 | 11 | 5,590 | 5,170–5,950 |
| Grayburg | 630 | 0 | 3,814 | 3,588–3,955 |
| Queen | 517 | 0 | 3,524 | 3,253–3,665 |
| Santa Rosa | 410 | 26 | 1,100 | 378–2,055 |
| Seven Rivers | 278 | 0 | 2,986 | 2,792–3,086 |
| Tubb | 252 | 0 | 6,735 | 6,388–6,950 |
| Abo | 150 | 6 | 7,500 | 7,251–7,727 |
| Wichita-Albany | 139 | 2 | 7,364 | 7,140–7,900 |
| Wolfcamp | 90 | 4 | 8,323 | 7,774–9,300 |
| Canyon | 86 | 1 | 9,624 | 9,304–9,962 |
| Tansill | 73 | 0 | 2,669 | 2,530–2,781 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 2,367
- active UIC permits of 4,003
- 6.92M
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 166M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Hockley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919640 | Nov 1, 2026 | Oct 30, 2026 | Hilcorp Energy Company | Coons, W. A. #80 | 8,300 | 21937588 |
| 919768 | Oct 31, 2026 | Oct 29, 2026 | Raw Oil & Gas, Inc. | Southeast Whiteface Unit #1801 | 4,913 | 21933734 |
| 919368 | Oct 21, 2026 | Oct 19, 2026 | Burk Royalty Co., Ltd. | Young-Hankins #4 | 8,000 | 21934444 |
| 919282 | Oct 18, 2026 | Oct 16, 2026 | Rogers, S. K. Oil, Inc. | Carter, David #1 | 7,200 | 21937587 |
| 918568 | Oct 16, 2026 | Oct 14, 2026 | Occidental Permian EOR, LLC | Frazier, W.G. #110W | 7,972 | 21932525 |
| 918569 | Oct 16, 2026 | Oct 14, 2026 | Occidental Permian EOR, LLC | Frazier, W.G. #95 | 12,308 | 21931844 |
| 919000 | Oct 7, 2026 | Oct 5, 2026 | Texland Petroleum, L.P. | Phoenix #1 | 6,900 | 21937585 |
| 918691 | Sep 23, 2026 | Sep 21, 2026 | Basin Oil & Gas Operating, LLC | Linker (Lower Clearfork) Unit #511 | 8,000 | 21937584 |
| 917224 | Jul 20, 2026 | Jul 20, 2026 | Rogers, S. K. Oil, Inc. | Hamilton, B. C. #6 | 7,000 | 21937583 |
| 916996 | Aug 22, 2026 | Jul 10, 2026 | Texland Petroleum, L.P. | Stinger #1 | 6,700 | 21937582 |
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/hockley?days=90, documented in the API reference.