COUNTIES · TEXAS PANHANDLE · DISTRICT 10 · CODE 295
Lipscomb County
Lipscomb County permitting is running 0.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (1 total, versus 1 in the prior quarter). 1 was issued in the past week.
BE Anadarko II, LLC leads with 1 permit in the past 12 months, one of 4 operators active in the county.
One operator filed a first Lipscomb County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 8,662 ft (prior year: 8,276 ft); 75% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 24 active disposal and injection permits, with 1.87M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
5,121 drilling permits have been issued in Lipscomb County since 1977.
5,121 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 27, 2026
Watch Lipscomb CountyAlso: every Lipscomb County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 1
- permits issued, 90d
- +0%
- vs prior 90d (1)
- 1
- operators filing
- 100%
- horizontal
- 9,000
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 334
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 69 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 21 · prior 12 23(-9%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| BE Anadarko II, LLC | 1 | 401 |
| Mewbourne Oil Company | 1 | 365 |
| Duncan Oil Properties, Inc. | 1 | 18 |
| Upland Resources LLC | 1 | 17 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Lipscomb County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- BE Anadarko II, LLC1 permitOct 27, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Lipscomb County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Lipscomb County the Pennsylvanian is reported in 248 wells, median top 5,030 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland | 1,870 | 18 | 7,746 | 7,302–8,414 |
| Tonkawa | 1,351 | 17 | 6,618 | 6,300–7,341 |
| Douglas | 1,125 | 17 | 6,100 | 5,830–6,628 |
| Brown Dolomite | 675 | 11 | 3,469 | 3,326–3,797 |
| Morrow | 540 | 1 | 9,050 | 8,190–10,383 |
| Atoka | 301 | 0 | 9,063 | 8,060–9,930 |
| Pennsylvanian | 248 | 0 | 5,030 | 4,847–5,296 |
| Kansas City | 217 | 0 | 7,082 | 6,529–7,917 |
| Chester | 190 | 1 | 9,755 | 8,921–11,815 |
| Marmaton | 182 | 6 | 7,655 | 7,205–8,521 |
| Mississippian | 90 | 0 | 10,040 | 9,132–11,420 |
| Des Moines | 82 | 0 | 8,051 | 7,632–8,836 |
| Oswego | 48 | 0 | 7,898 | 7,188–9,136 |
| Wolfcamp | 38 | 0 | 3,374 | 3,294–3,880 |
| Panhandle Lime | 23 | 0 | 2,790 | 2,682–2,874 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 24
- active UIC permits of 82
- 85.3K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 1.87M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Lipscomb County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 0
- M2+ events in the area
- —
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919588 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 27, 2026 | BE Anadarko II, LLC | Guthrie 110-67 #1HH | 9,000 | 29534429 |
| 915664 | May 18, 2026 | May 18, 2026 | Mewbourne Oil Company | Kelln 205 #C002APH | 8,325 | 29534428 |
| 915175 | Apr 29, 2026 | Apr 29, 2026 | Upland Resources LLC | Dot #1 | 9,350 | 29534375 |
| 915169 | Apr 29, 2026 | Apr 29, 2026 | Duncan Oil Properties, Inc. | Arlene #2629HH | 7,813 | 29534427 |
| 911171 | Oct 20, 2025 | Oct 20, 2025 | Mewbourne Oil Company | Kelln 201/152 A #C002DMH | 8,606 | 29534426 |
| 909884 | Aug 15, 2025 | Aug 15, 2025 | Duncan Oil Properties, Inc. | Star #1677HH | 7,768 | 29534425 |
| 908637 | Jul 14, 2025 | Jul 14, 2025 | Duncan Oil Properties, Inc. | Arlene #1629HH | 7,817 | 29534424 |
| 907878 | May 13, 2025 | May 13, 2025 | Mewbourne Oil Company | Johnson-Kelln 148/205 A #C001MCH | 8,305 | 29534423 |
| 907878 | May 13, 2025 | May 13, 2025 | Mewbourne Oil Company | Johnson-Kelln 148/205 A #C001MCH | 8,305 | 29534423 |
| 907105 | Apr 3, 2025 | Apr 3, 2025 | Mewbourne Oil Company | Gossett 967 #C001CNH | 7,756 | 29534422 |
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/lipscomb?days=90, documented in the API reference.