COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 8A · CODE 303
Lubbock County, Texas
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, 180d
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- operators filing
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- avg permitted depth, ft
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- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 6, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 7 · prior 12 12(-42%)
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 | 80 |
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 →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
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| 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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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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| 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 |
Questions about Lubbock County
How many drilling permits were issued in Lubbock County in the last 12 months?
7 permits were issued in Lubbock County in the last 12 months, down 42% from 12 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued May 7, 2026. 1,384 are on file since 1977.
Every Lubbock County permit →Who is the most active operator in Lubbock County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Atmos Energy,west Texas Division is the most active operator in Lubbock County, with 6 of 7, followed by Brown, H.L. Operating, L.L.C. (1). 0 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Lubbock County →How many oil and gas wells are in Lubbock County?
1,462 wells are on file in Lubbock County: 563 active, 490 plugged, and 12 permitted and not yet drilled. 26 are horizontal, and 25 operators hold them.
Every well in Lubbock County →How much oil and gas does Lubbock County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Lubbock County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Lubbock County →How much water is injected in Lubbock County?
20.3 million barrels of water were injected in Lubbock County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 211 of the county's 364 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Lubbock County →What formations are drilled in Lubbock County?
Completion filings for wells in Lubbock County report tops for 7 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Clear Fork (563 wells, median top 5,093 ft), the Glorieta (307 wells, median top 4,656 ft), and the Yates (211 wells, median top 2,150 ft).
Formations in Lubbock County →What basin is Lubbock County in?
Petrora lists Lubbock County in the Permian Basin. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 8A.
The Permian Basin →Have there been earthquakes in Lubbock County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Lubbock County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Lubbock 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/lubbock?days=180, documented in the API reference.