COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 08 · CODE 301
Loving County
Loving County permitting is running 37 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (112 total, down 10% on the prior quarter).
Anadarko E&P Onshore LLC leads with 121 permits in the past 12 months, one of 23 operators active in the county.
2 operators filed a first Loving County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 12,750 ft (prior year: 12,000 ft); 87% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 342 active disposal and injection permits, with 1.27B barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
TexNet located 420 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M3.7.
10,624 drilling permits have been issued in Loving County since 1977.
10,624 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 20, 2026
Watch Loving CountyAlso: every Loving County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 112
- permits issued, 90d
- -10%
- vs prior 90d (125)
- 15
- operators filing
- 88%
- horizontal
- 11,942
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 318
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 119 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 484 · prior 12 692(-30%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Anadarko E&P Onshore LLC | 121 | 1,121 |
| EOG Resources, Inc. | 62 | 568 |
| Pdeh LLC | 57 | 667 |
| Admiral Permian Operating LLC | 46 | 36 |
| WPX Energy Permian, LLC | 44 | 826 |
| Greenlake Energy Operating, LLC | 27 | 41 |
| Waterbridge Stateline LLC | 21 | 39 |
| Circle-S Energy, LLC | 15 | 49 |
| NGL Water Solutions Permian, LLC | 15 | 44 |
| Wes Water Holdings LLC | 13 | 21 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Loving County came in the last year. 2 in total.
- Powderhorn Operating, LLC7 permitsSep 1, 2026 · new to Texas permits
- Lakewood Energy LLC7 permitsMay 19, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Permit types, 90d
| Type | Window | Prior | All time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drill | 111 | 112 | 10,065 |
| Recompletion | 3 | 2 | 359 |
| Reenter | 1 | 0 | 89 |
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Loving 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 Loving County report the Pennsylvanian, so it is below this table's cutoff. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cherry Canyon | 4,731 | 749 | 5,552 | 4,412–6,231 |
| Bone Spring | 4,411 | 719 | 8,568 | 7,268–9,310 |
| Bell Canyon | 4,286 | 666 | 4,568 | 3,440–5,230 |
| Delaware | 4,185 | 691 | 4,551 | 3,376–5,207 |
| Brushy Canyon | 4,160 | 728 | 6,843 | 5,544–7,614 |
| Wolfcamp | 3,043 | 352 | 11,407 | 10,504–12,029 |
| Red Bluff | 751 | 112 | 3,900 | 1,000–6,041 |
| Lamar | 440 | 33 | 4,558 | 3,355–4,955 |
| Rustler | 232 | 17 | 607 | 487–988 |
| Atoka | 186 | 0 | 15,886 | 15,200–16,580 |
| Strawn | 165 | 0 | 14,908 | 14,198–15,122 |
| Avalon | 161 | 42 | 8,510 | 7,720–8,812 |
| Castile | 156 | 3 | 4,544 | 2,706–4,749 |
| Morrow | 146 | 0 | 16,662 | 16,022–17,013 |
| Salado | 123 | 11 | 953 | 894–1,030 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 342
- active UIC permits of 937
- 9.59M
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 1.27B
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Loving County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 420
- M2+ events in the area
- M3.7
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919757 | Oct 31, 2026 | Oct 29, 2026 | Anadarko E&P Onshore LLC | Weizen 1-0-50-52 I #55HH | 12,000 | 30138051 |
| 919756 | Oct 31, 2026 | Oct 29, 2026 | Anadarko E&P Onshore LLC | Weizen 1-0-50-52 H #64HH | 12,000 | 30138050 |
| 919755 | Oct 31, 2026 | Oct 29, 2026 | Anadarko E&P Onshore LLC | Weizen 1-0-50-52 G #54HH | 12,000 | 30138049 |
| 919754 | Oct 30, 2026 | Oct 28, 2026 | Anadarko E&P Onshore LLC | Weizen 1-0-50-52 F #63HH | 12,000 | 30138048 |
| 919753 | Oct 30, 2026 | Oct 28, 2026 | Anadarko E&P Onshore LLC | Weizen 1-0-50-52 E #53HH | 12,000 | 30138047 |
| 919752 | Oct 30, 2026 | Oct 28, 2026 | Anadarko E&P Onshore LLC | Weizen 1-0-50-52 D #62HH | 12,000 | 30138046 |
| 919751 | Oct 30, 2026 | Oct 28, 2026 | Anadarko E&P Onshore LLC | Weizen 1-0-50-52 C #52HH | 12,000 | 30138045 |
| 919750 | Oct 30, 2026 | Oct 28, 2026 | Anadarko E&P Onshore LLC | Weizen 1-0-50-52 B #61HH | 12,000 | 30138044 |
| 919749 | Oct 30, 2026 | Oct 28, 2026 | Anadarko E&P Onshore LLC | Weizen 1-0-50-52 A #51HH | 12,000 | 30138043 |
| 919444 | Oct 22, 2026 | Oct 20, 2026 | XTO Energy Inc. | St. Cloud #702RW | 5,000 | 30138039 |
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/loving?days=90, documented in the API reference.