COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 08 · CODE 229
Hudspeth County, Texas
Hudspeth County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued October 8, 2024.
142 drilling permits have been issued in Hudspeth County since 1979.
142 permits on file since 1979 · last issued Oct 8, 2024
Watch Hudspeth CountyAlso: every Hudspeth County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
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- permits issued, 90d
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- vs prior 90d (0)
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- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
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- 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 0 · prior 12 0
Operators by well inventory
No permits in the last year; ranked by wells on the RRC wellbore file instead.
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Hudspeth County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Hudspeth 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 Hudspeth County report the Devonian, so it is below this table's cutoff. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
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| Pennsylvanian | 12 | 0 | 5,189 | 1,730–5,362 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
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- active UIC permits of 1
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- permitted bbl/day, active
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- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Hudspeth County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
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- M2+ events in the area
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- 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 |
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| 903028 | Oct 8, 2024 | Oct 8, 2024 | Hudspeth Operating, LLC | University Johnson E23 #4 | 4,000 | 22930294 |
| 903083 | Oct 4, 2024 | Oct 4, 2024 | Hudspeth Operating, LLC | University Johnson E15 #3 | 4,000 | 22930299 |
| 903081 | Oct 4, 2024 | Oct 4, 2024 | Hudspeth Operating, LLC | University Johnson E15 #1 | 4,000 | 22930298 |
| 903027 | Oct 4, 2024 | Oct 4, 2024 | Hudspeth Operating, LLC | University Johnson E23 #3 | 4,000 | 22930293 |
| 895066 | Nov 6, 2023 | Nov 6, 2023 | Hudspeth Operating, LLC | University Johnson E15 #1 | 7,999 | 22930298 |
| 894120 | Oct 10, 2023 | Oct 10, 2023 | Hudspeth Operating, LLC | University Johnson E23 #7 | 7,999 | 22930297 |
| 894118 | Oct 10, 2023 | Oct 10, 2023 | Hudspeth Operating, LLC | University Johnson E23 #6 | 7,999 | 22930296 |
| 892168 | Jul 24, 2023 | Jul 24, 2023 | Hudspeth Operating, LLC | University Johnson E23 #5 | 7,999 | 22930295 |
| 892029 | Jul 19, 2023 | Jul 19, 2023 | Hudspeth Operating, LLC | University Johnson E23 #3 | 7,999 | 22930293 |
| 892031 | Jul 18, 2023 | Jul 18, 2023 | Hudspeth Operating, LLC | University Johnson E23 #4 | 7,999 | 22930294 |
Questions about Hudspeth County
How many drilling permits were issued in Hudspeth County in the last 12 months?
0 permits were issued in Hudspeth County in the last 12 months. The most recent was issued Oct 8, 2024. 142 are on file since 1979.
Every Hudspeth County permit →Which operator has the most wells in Hudspeth County?
No operator has filed a drilling permit in Hudspeth County in the last 12 months. By wells on file, the largest is Hudspeth Operating LLC, with 19, followed by Trail Mountain Inc. (8) and Trail Mountain Inc. (4).
Operators in Hudspeth County →How many oil and gas wells are in Hudspeth County?
109 wells are on file in Hudspeth County: 1 active and 38 plugged. 2 are horizontal, and 1 operator holds them.
Every well in Hudspeth County →How much oil and gas does Hudspeth County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Hudspeth County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Hudspeth County →What formations are drilled in Hudspeth County?
Completion filings for wells in Hudspeth County report tops for 1 formation in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Pennsylvanian (12 wells, median top 5,189 ft).
Formations in Hudspeth County →What basin is Hudspeth County in?
Petrora lists Hudspeth County in the Permian Basin. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 08.
The Permian Basin →Have there been earthquakes in Hudspeth County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Hudspeth County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Hudspeth 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/hudspeth?days=90, documented in the API reference.