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COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 8A · CODE 279

Lamb County

Lamb County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued October 18, 2023.

The county has 47 active disposal and injection permits, with 4.87M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

327 drilling permits have been issued in Lamb County since 1977.

327 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 18, 2023

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Also: every Lamb County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →

Window30 days90 days180 days365 days
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permits issued, 90d
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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 OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER

Permits issued by month

LAST 14 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 29

0510201720182019202020222023

Operators by well inventory

No permits in the last year; ranked by wells on the RRC wellbore file instead.

OperatorPermitsWells
Occidental Permian Ltd.—110
WG Oil LLC—68
Quatro Oil and Gas Inc.—45
Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation—13
Ostrich Oil & Gas LLC—12
White Rock Oil & Gas LLC—5
Walkabout Operating LLC—5
Extex Operating Company—4
Vanco Oil & Gas Corp.—3
OXY USA WTP LP—3

Full operator directory →

New entrants, last 12 months

Operators whose first permit in Lamb County came in the last year. None.

Permit types, 90d

TypeWindowPriorAll time

What the types mean →

Formations in completed wells

RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS

Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Lamb County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →

In Lamb County the Abo is reported in 20 wells, median top 6,620 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →

FormationWellsPermitted last 3 yrsMedian top, ftP10–P90
San Andres9803,2283,005–4,078
Clear Fork9705,3554,959–5,952
Yates7602,0401,900–2,226
Tubb6705,2785,161–5,816
Glorieta3804,3064,256–4,679
Rustler3601,6271,600–1,778
Wolfcamp2206,4135,779–6,756
Abo2006,6206,494–6,675
Queen1802,8642,697–2,883

Beyond the permit record

RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes

Disposal and injection

47
active UIC permits of 112
176K
permitted bbl/day, active
4.87M
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025
reported through

Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Lamb 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

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorLease / wellDepthAPI
894544Oct 18, 2023Oct 18, 2023OXY USA WTP LPKeeney #16,40027930369
886882Jan 4, 2023Jan 4, 2023Antle Operating, Inc.Red Horse Farms #18,90027930437
878067Mar 18, 2022Mar 18, 2022OXY USA WTP LPThor #18,10027930435
862674Mar 12, 2020Mar 12, 2020OXY USA WTP LPViking #18,10027930436
862673Mar 12, 2020Mar 12, 2020OXY USA WTP LPThor #18,10027930435
849386Mar 29, 2019Mar 29, 2019OXY USA WTP LPTeague #26,50027930434
849124Jan 25, 2019Jan 25, 2019OXY USA WTP LPKeeney #46,50027930433
849101Jan 24, 2019Jan 24, 2019OXY USA WTP LPTeague #36,50027930432
848653Jan 16, 2019Jan 16, 2019Antle Operating, Inc.Hobratschk #16,50027930431
848653Jan 16, 2019Jan 16, 2019Antle Operating, Inc.Hobratschk #18,90027930431

All Lamb County permits →

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/lamb?days=90, documented in the API reference.