COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 8A · CODE 279
Lamb County, Texas
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
Watch Lamb CountyAlso: every Lamb County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
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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 Lamb County came in the last year. None.
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 Rustler is reported in 36 wells, median top 1,627 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
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| San Andres | 98 | 0 | 3,228 | 3,005–4,078 |
| Clear Fork | 97 | 0 | 5,355 | 4,959–5,952 |
| Yates | 76 | 0 | 2,040 | 1,900–2,226 |
| Tubb | 67 | 0 | 5,278 | 5,161–5,816 |
| Glorieta | 38 | 0 | 4,306 | 4,256–4,679 |
| Rustler | 36 | 0 | 1,627 | 1,600–1,778 |
| Wolfcamp | 22 | 0 | 6,413 | 5,779–6,756 |
| Abo | 20 | 0 | 6,620 | 6,494–6,675 |
| Queen | 18 | 0 | 2,864 | 2,697–2,883 |
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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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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| 894544 | Oct 18, 2023 | Oct 18, 2023 | OXY USA WTP LP | Keeney #1 | 6,400 | 27930369 |
| 886882 | Jan 4, 2023 | Jan 4, 2023 | Antle Operating, Inc. | Red Horse Farms #1 | 8,900 | 27930437 |
| 878067 | Mar 18, 2022 | Mar 18, 2022 | OXY USA WTP LP | Thor #1 | 8,100 | 27930435 |
| 862674 | Mar 12, 2020 | Mar 12, 2020 | OXY USA WTP LP | Viking #1 | 8,100 | 27930436 |
| 862673 | Mar 12, 2020 | Mar 12, 2020 | OXY USA WTP LP | Thor #1 | 8,100 | 27930435 |
| 849386 | Mar 29, 2019 | Mar 29, 2019 | OXY USA WTP LP | Teague #2 | 6,500 | 27930434 |
| 849124 | Jan 25, 2019 | Jan 25, 2019 | OXY USA WTP LP | Keeney #4 | 6,500 | 27930433 |
| 849101 | Jan 24, 2019 | Jan 24, 2019 | OXY USA WTP LP | Teague #3 | 6,500 | 27930432 |
| 848653 | Jan 16, 2019 | Jan 16, 2019 | Antle Operating, Inc. | Hobratschk #1 | 6,500 | 27930431 |
| 848653 | Jan 16, 2019 | Jan 16, 2019 | Antle Operating, Inc. | Hobratschk #1 | 8,900 | 27930431 |
Questions about Lamb County
How many drilling permits were issued in Lamb County in the last 12 months?
0 permits were issued in Lamb County in the last 12 months. The most recent was issued Oct 18, 2023. 327 are on file since 1977.
Every Lamb County permit →Which operator has the most wells in Lamb County?
No operator has filed a drilling permit in Lamb County in the last 12 months. By wells on file, the largest is Occidental Permian Ltd., with 115, followed by WG Oil LLC (69) and Quatro Oil and Gas Inc. (45).
Operators in Lamb County →How many oil and gas wells are in Lamb County?
440 wells are on file in Lamb County: 116 active and 204 plugged. 14 are horizontal, and 10 operators hold them.
Every well in Lamb County →How much oil and gas does Lamb County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Lamb County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Lamb County →How much water is injected in Lamb County?
4.9 million barrels of water were injected in Lamb County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 47 of the county's 112 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Lamb County →What formations are drilled in Lamb County?
Completion filings for wells in Lamb County report tops for 9 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the San Andres (98 wells, median top 3,228 ft), the Clear Fork (97 wells, median top 5,355 ft), and the Yates (76 wells, median top 2,040 ft).
Formations in Lamb County →What basin is Lamb County in?
Petrora lists Lamb County in the Permian Basin. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 8A.
The Permian Basin →Have there been earthquakes in Lamb County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Lamb County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Lamb 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/lamb?days=90, documented in the API reference.