COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 7C · CODE 235
Irion County, Texas
Irion County permitting is running 6.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (19 total, up 6% on the prior quarter).
Triple Crown Resources, LLC leads with 48 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.
1 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M2.0.
6,202 drilling permits have been issued in Irion County since 1977.
6,202 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 →
- 78
- permits issued, 365d
- +26%
- vs prior 365d (62)
- 8
- operators filing
- 99%
- horizontal
- 9,380
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 381
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 8, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 70 · prior 12 63(+11%)
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 →
| 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 →
USGS catalog, Texas
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 |
Questions about Irion County
How many drilling permits were issued in Irion County in the last 12 months?
78 permits were issued in Irion County in the last 12 months, up 26% from 62 in the 12 months before. 99% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Oct 27, 2026. 6,202 are on file since 1977.
Every Irion County permit →Who is the most active operator in Irion County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Triple Crown Resources, LLC is the most active operator in Irion County, with 48 of 78, followed by Sem Operating Company LLC (11) and Pioneer Natural Res. USA, Inc. (6). 5 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Irion County →How many oil and gas wells are in Irion County?
6,646 wells are on file in Irion County, including 2,249 active, 2,822 plugged, and 16 permitted and not yet drilled. 1,213 are horizontal. The active wells are under 74 operators.
Every well in Irion County →How much oil and gas does Irion County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Irion County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Irion County →How much water is injected in Irion County?
17.3 million barrels of water were injected in Irion County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 133 of the county's 373 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Irion County →What formations are drilled in Irion County?
Completion filings for wells in Irion County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Wolfcamp (2,978 wells, median top 5,980 ft), the Clear Fork (2,304 wells, median top 3,230 ft), and the Spraberry (1,967 wells, median top 4,768 ft).
Formations in Irion County →What basin is Irion County in?
Petrora lists Irion County in the Permian Basin. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 7C.
The Permian Basin →Have there been earthquakes in Irion County?
1 earthquake of magnitude 2 or more was located in the area of Irion County's permitted wells in the last 2 years; the largest was M2.0.
Earthquakes in Irion 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/irion?days=365, documented in the API reference.