COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 8A · CODE 263
Kent County
Kent County permitting is running 0.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (1 total, versus 3 in the prior quarter).
OXY USA WTP LP leads with 6 permits in the past 12 months, one of 4 operators active in the county.
One operator filed a first Kent County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 7,200 ft (prior year: 7,000 ft); 20% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 263 active disposal and injection permits, with 96.6M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
TexNet located 7 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M3.1.
2,097 drilling permits have been issued in Kent County since 1977.
2,097 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 19, 2026
Watch Kent CountyAlso: every Kent County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 1
- permits issued, 90d
- -67%
- vs prior 90d (3)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 4,500
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 338
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 57 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 20 · prior 12 36(-44%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| OXY USA WTP LP | 6 | 467 |
| Canan Mowrey Operating, LLC | 2 | 9 |
| Sojourner Drilling Corporation | 1 | 51 |
| Salida Exploration, LLC | 1 | 2 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Kent County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Salida Exploration, LLC1 permitJul 23, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Kent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canyon | 567 | 26 | 6,300 | 5,913–6,600 |
| Strawn | 261 | 4 | 6,630 | 6,520–7,072 |
| Wolfcamp | 210 | 17 | 4,049 | 3,826–5,300 |
| Clear Fork | 205 | 20 | 2,114 | 2,033–2,531 |
| San Andres | 199 | 19 | 1,258 | 1,100–1,826 |
| Yates | 138 | 17 | 700 | 206–1,253 |
| Coleman Junction | 90 | 2 | 3,761 | 2,500–4,360 |
| Wichita-Albany | 70 | 20 | 2,955 | 2,843–3,040 |
| Pennsylvanian | 66 | 0 | 6,450 | 5,020–6,775 |
| Cisco | 60 | 2 | 5,687 | 4,799–6,152 |
| Mississippian | 55 | 0 | 7,400 | 7,220–7,594 |
| Tannehill | 50 | 1 | 4,284 | 3,907–4,689 |
| Tubb | 47 | 3 | 2,770 | 2,087–2,832 |
| Ellenburger | 41 | 0 | 7,616 | 7,528–7,801 |
| Glorieta | 40 | 4 | 2,132 | 1,838–2,392 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 263
- active UIC permits of 580
- 2.26M
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 96.6M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Kent County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 7
- M2+ events in the area
- M3.1
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919045 | Oct 21, 2026 | Oct 19, 2026 | Sojourner Drilling Corporation | Hot Springs #5 | 4,500 | 26332184 |
| 916893 | Jul 23, 2026 | Jul 23, 2026 | Salida Exploration, LLC | Beadle #1A | 5,000 | 26332183 |
| 916012 | Jun 3, 2026 | Jun 3, 2026 | OXY USA WTP LP | Salt Creek Field Unit #F043H | 7,200 | 26332154 |
| 915311 | May 7, 2026 | May 7, 2026 | Canan Mowrey Operating, LLC | Molly #3501 | 7,200 | 26332182 |
| 915204 | Apr 29, 2026 | Apr 29, 2026 | Canan Mowrey Operating, LLC | Brynn #2101 | 7,200 | 26332181 |
| 915047 | Apr 24, 2026 | Apr 24, 2026 | OXY USA WTP LP | Salt Creek Field Unit #N049AH | 7,200 | 26332023 |
| 914539 | Apr 8, 2026 | Apr 8, 2026 | OXY USA WTP LP | Salt Creek Field Unit #F615 | 7,000 | 26331510 |
| 914511 | Apr 2, 2026 | Apr 2, 2026 | OXY USA WTP LP | Salt Creek Field Unit #H610 | 9,000 | 26331279 |
| 914507 | Apr 2, 2026 | Apr 2, 2026 | OXY USA WTP LP | Salt Creek Field Unit #F215 | 9,000 | 26331183 |
| 913300 | Feb 9, 2026 | Feb 9, 2026 | OXY USA WTP LP | Salt Creek Field Unit #F 11 | 9,000 | 26300227 |
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/kent?days=90, documented in the API reference.