COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 8A · CODE 219
Hockley County, Texas
Hockley County permitting is running 3.0 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (9 total, versus 8 in the prior quarter). 2 were issued in the past week.
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 7,200 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.
6,480 drilling permits have been issued in Hockley County since 1977.
6,480 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Nov 4, 2026
Watch Hockley CountyAlso: every Hockley County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 7
- permits issued, 30d
- +250%
- vs prior 30d (2)
- 5
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 7,956
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 380
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 6, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 28 · prior 12 34(-18%)
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, 30d
| Type | Window | Prior | All time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recompletion | 4 | 0 | 736 |
| Drill | 2 | 2 | 5,540 |
| Reclass | 1 | 0 | 17 |
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 | 32 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919912 | Nov 6, 2026 | Nov 4, 2026 | Burk Royalty Co., Ltd. | Finley Estate #502 | 7,000 | 21930915 |
| 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 |
Questions about Hockley County
How many drilling permits were issued in Hockley County in the last 12 months?
31 permits were issued in Hockley County in the last 12 months, down 6% from 33 in the 12 months before. 3% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Nov 4, 2026. 6,480 are on file since 1977.
Every Hockley County permit →Who is the most active operator in Hockley County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Texland Petroleum, L.P. is the most active operator in Hockley County, with 10 of 31, followed by Saddle Rim Energy (Texas), LLC (6) and Burk Royalty Co., Ltd. (3). 7 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Hockley County →How many oil and gas wells are in Hockley County?
10,248 wells are on file in Hockley County: 5,004 active, 3,431 plugged, and 17 permitted and not yet drilled. 369 are horizontal, and 69 operators hold them.
Every well in Hockley County →How much oil and gas does Hockley County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Hockley County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Hockley County →How much water is injected in Hockley County?
166 million barrels of water were injected in Hockley County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 2,367 of the county's 4,003 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Hockley County →What formations are drilled in Hockley County?
Completion filings for wells in Hockley County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the San Andres (4,740 wells, median top 4,226 ft), the Yates (2,231 wells, median top 2,660 ft), and the Rustler (1,385 wells, median top 2,098 ft).
Formations in Hockley County →What basin is Hockley County in?
Petrora lists Hockley County in the Permian Basin. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 8A.
The Permian Basin →Have there been earthquakes in Hockley County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Hockley County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Hockley 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/hockley?days=30, documented in the API reference.