COUNTIES · TEXAS PANHANDLE · DISTRICT 10 · CODE 295
Lipscomb County, Texas
Lipscomb County permitting is running 0.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (1 total, versus 1 in the prior quarter).
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 NOV 5, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 4 · prior 12 8(-50%)
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 | 412 |
| Mewbourne Oil Company | 1 | 395 |
| Upland Resources LLC | 1 | 44 |
| Duncan Oil Properties, Inc. | 1 | 18 |
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 →
Fewer than ten wells in Lipscomb County report the Simpson, so it is below this table's cutoff. 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 |
Questions about Lipscomb County
How many drilling permits were issued in Lipscomb County in the last 12 months?
4 permits were issued in Lipscomb County in the last 12 months, down 60% from 10 in the 12 months before. 75% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Oct 27, 2026. 5,121 are on file since 1977.
Every Lipscomb County permit →Who is the most active operator in Lipscomb County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, BE Anadarko II, LLC is the most active operator in Lipscomb County, with 1 of 4, followed by Mewbourne Oil Company (1) and Upland Resources LLC (1). 1 operator filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Lipscomb County →How many oil and gas wells are in Lipscomb County?
4,790 wells are on file in Lipscomb County: 1,605 active, 1,882 plugged, and 2 permitted and not yet drilled. 1,384 are horizontal, and 60 operators hold them.
Every well in Lipscomb County →How much oil and gas does Lipscomb County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Lipscomb County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Lipscomb County →How much water is injected in Lipscomb County?
1.9 million barrels of water were injected in Lipscomb County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 24 of the county's 82 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Lipscomb County →What formations are drilled in Lipscomb County?
Completion filings for wells in Lipscomb County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Cleveland (1,870 wells, median top 7,746 ft), the Tonkawa (1,351 wells, median top 6,618 ft), and the Douglas (1,125 wells, median top 6,100 ft).
Formations in Lipscomb County →What basin is Lipscomb County in?
Petrora lists Lipscomb County in the Texas Panhandle. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 10.
The Texas Panhandle →Have there been earthquakes in Lipscomb County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Lipscomb County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Lipscomb 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/lipscomb?days=90, documented in the API reference.