COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 7C · CODE 235
Irion County
Irion County permitting is running 6.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (19 total, down 42% on the prior quarter). 9 were issued in the past week.
Triple Crown Resources, LLC leads with 53 permits in the past 12 months, one of 8 operators active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 9,000 ft; 99% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 133 active disposal and injection permits, with 17.3M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
TexNet located 1 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M2.0.
6,890 drilling permits have been issued in Irion County since 1977.
6,890 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 27, 2026
Watch Irion CountyAlso: every Irion County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 19
- permits issued, 90d
- -42%
- vs prior 90d (33)
- 5
- operators filing
- 100%
- horizontal
- 9,015
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 384
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 98 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 123 · prior 12 116(+6%)
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 Irion County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Irion County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Irion County the Strawn is reported in 100 wells, median top 7,792 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wolfcamp | 2,978 | 109 | 5,980 | 4,900–6,524 |
| Clear Fork | 2,304 | 115 | 3,230 | 2,407–4,001 |
| Spraberry | 1,967 | 105 | 4,768 | 3,980–5,217 |
| Canyon | 1,843 | 17 | 6,784 | 6,106–7,730 |
| Dean | 1,486 | 7 | 6,044 | 4,902–6,376 |
| San Andres | 1,428 | 103 | 1,800 | 1,054–2,145 |
| Grayburg | 1,169 | 87 | 1,500 | 1,070–1,815 |
| San Angelo | 553 | 3 | 1,400 | 900–1,984 |
| Cline | 197 | 0 | 8,450 | 8,280–8,643 |
| Glorieta | 171 | 1 | 2,490 | 2,240–2,782 |
| Queen | 133 | 6 | 1,240 | 739–1,595 |
| Cisco | 128 | 4 | 5,656 | 5,207–6,482 |
| Yates | 116 | 6 | 900 | 450–1,085 |
| Strawn | 100 | 0 | 7,792 | 6,849–8,906 |
| Leonard | 97 | 0 | 4,402 | 3,693–5,056 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 133
- active UIC permits of 373
- 640K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 17.3M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Irion County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 1
- M2+ events in the area
- M2.0
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919604 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 27, 2026 | Dallas Production Company LLC | Dallas #1019HH | 9,000 | 23536802 |
| 919603 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 26, 2026 | Dallas Production Company LLC | Dallas #1018HH | 9,000 | 23536801 |
| 919589 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 26, 2026 | Dallas Production Company LLC | Dallas #1017HH | 9,000 | 23536804 |
| 919587 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 26, 2026 | Dallas Production Company LLC | Dallas #1016HH | 9,000 | 23536803 |
| 919460 | Oct 24, 2026 | Oct 22, 2026 | Triple Crown Resources, LLC | Eighter EZ #S865HH | 9,000 | 23536800 |
| 919459 | Oct 24, 2026 | Oct 22, 2026 | Triple Crown Resources, LLC | Eighter D #S864HH | 9,000 | 23536799 |
| 919457 | Oct 24, 2026 | Oct 22, 2026 | Triple Crown Resources, LLC | Eighter C #S863HH | 9,000 | 23536797 |
| 919453 | Oct 24, 2026 | Oct 22, 2026 | Triple Crown Resources, LLC | Eighter B #S862HH | 9,000 | 23536796 |
| 919451 | Oct 24, 2026 | Oct 22, 2026 | Triple Crown Resources, LLC | Eighter A #S861HH | 9,000 | 23536795 |
| 919384 | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 21, 2026 | Sem Operating Company LLC | University 40 A #0405WCH | 10,000 | 23536794 |
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/irion?days=90, documented in the API reference.