COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 8A · CODE 303
Lubbock County
Lubbock County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued May 7, 2026.
Atmos Energy,west Texas Division leads with 6 permits in the past 12 months, one of 2 operators active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 535 ft (prior year: 3,245 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 211 active disposal and injection permits, with 20.3M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
1,384 drilling permits have been issued in Lubbock County since 1977.
1,384 permits on file since 1977 · last issued May 7, 2026
Watch Lubbock CountyAlso: every Lubbock County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
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- permits issued, 90d
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- vs prior 90d (1)
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- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
- 204
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 31 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 31 · prior 12 25(+24%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Atmos Energy,west Texas Division | 6 | 0 |
| Brown, H.L. Operating, L.L.C. | 1 | 68 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Lubbock County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Lubbock County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Lubbock County the Rustler is reported in 80 wells, median top 1,606 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clear Fork | 563 | 14 | 5,093 | 4,487–5,650 |
| Glorieta | 307 | 14 | 4,656 | 4,106–4,974 |
| Yates | 211 | 11 | 2,150 | 1,863–2,430 |
| San Andres | 172 | 8 | 3,382 | 2,984–4,289 |
| Rustler | 80 | 3 | 1,606 | 1,440–1,874 |
| Tubb | 57 | 0 | 5,618 | 5,338–5,855 |
| Santa Rosa | 19 | 0 | 1,332 | 1,100–1,511 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 211
- active UIC permits of 364
- 307K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 20.3M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Lubbock 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
| Permit | Seen | Issued | Operator | Lease / well | Depth | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 915373 | May 7, 2026 | May 7, 2026 | Brown, H.L. Operating, L.L.C. | Wright #3 | 6,200 | 30331583 |
| 914071 | Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 1, 2026 | Atmos Energy,west Texas Division | 056-R0003-R003 #01 | 490 | 30331664 |
| 914072 | Mar 31, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | Atmos Energy,west Texas Division | 056-R0028-R028 #01 | 492 | 30331662 |
| 914070 | Mar 31, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | Atmos Energy,west Texas Division | 056-R0013-R013 #01 | 535 | 30331663 |
| 914069 | Mar 17, 2026 | Mar 17, 2026 | Atmos Energy,west Texas Division | 056-R0082-R082 #01 | 565 | 30331661 |
| 914067 | Mar 17, 2026 | Mar 17, 2026 | Atmos Energy,west Texas Division | 056-R0056-R056 #01 | 510 | 30331660 |
| 913548 | Feb 25, 2026 | Feb 25, 2026 | Atmos Energy,west Texas Division | 056-R0073-R073 #01 | 610 | 30331659 |
| 909587 | Sep 30, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | Texland Petroleum, L.P. | Central Broadview Unit #110 | 6,000 | 30331658 |
| 909743 | Aug 11, 2025 | Aug 11, 2025 | Brown, H.L. Operating, L.L.C. | McMenamy Farms #1 | 6,100 | 30331626 |
| 909745 | Aug 8, 2025 | Aug 8, 2025 | Brown, H.L. Operating, L.L.C. | Stanton-McLeod #7 | 6,100 | 30331531 |
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/lubbock?days=90, documented in the API reference.