COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 8A · CODE 305
Lynn County
Lynn County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued May 30, 2024.
The county has 30 active disposal and injection permits, with 3.32M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
486 drilling permits have been issued in Lynn County since 1977.
486 permits on file since 1977 · last issued May 30, 2024
Watch Lynn CountyAlso: every Lynn 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 (0)
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- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
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- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 7 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 8
Operators by well inventory
No permits in the last year; ranked by wells on the RRC wellbore file instead.
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Lynn County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Lynn County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Lynn County the Yates is reported in 46 wells, median top 2,086 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
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| San Andres | 136 | 1 | 3,841 | 3,062–4,397 |
| Glorieta | 52 | 1 | 4,330 | 4,191–5,207 |
| Yates | 46 | 1 | 2,086 | 1,850–2,958 |
| Spraberry | 45 | 0 | 6,655 | 5,876–7,091 |
| Mississippian | 37 | 0 | 9,020 | 8,877–10,504 |
| Strawn | 34 | 0 | 9,010 | 8,588–10,036 |
| Wolfcamp | 20 | 0 | 8,482 | 7,250–8,872 |
| Fusselman | 17 | 0 | 10,939 | 10,807–11,233 |
| Ellenburger | 14 | 0 | 9,398 | 9,236–9,842 |
| Pennsylvanian | 14 | 0 | 9,381 | 8,328–9,666 |
| Rustler | 12 | 0 | 1,718 | 1,466–1,973 |
| Canyon | 11 | 0 | 8,441 | 8,414–9,422 |
| Dean | 10 | 0 | 7,344 | 7,307–7,737 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 30
- active UIC permits of 114
- 50.8K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 3.32M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Lynn 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 |
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| 899921 | May 30, 2024 | May 30, 2024 | HW Operating, LLC | Park #1 | 9,000 | 30530572 |
| 879147 | Apr 21, 2022 | Apr 21, 2022 | Canan Mowrey Operating, LLC | Lumsden #1 | 6,000 | 30530571 |
| 869782 | May 14, 2021 | May 14, 2021 | Smith Energy Operating Company | Moore 50 #1 | 8,000 | 30530570 |
| 865949 | Nov 9, 2020 | Nov 9, 2020 | Forza Operating, LLC | Gass #1 | 11,200 | 30530569 |
| 856737 | Sep 9, 2019 | Sep 9, 2019 | Griffin Petroleum Company | Howell Lands #1 | 7,600 | 30530568 |
| 835686 | Jan 30, 2018 | Jan 30, 2018 | McClure Oil Company, Inc. | Meador 16 #1 | 6,550 | 30530567 |
| 835265 | Jan 29, 2018 | Jan 29, 2018 | Shaida, John H. | Womack-Bartley Unit #1 | 5,700 | 30530467 |
| 825291 | Apr 17, 2017 | Apr 17, 2017 | Smith Energy Operating Company | Knox 9 #1 | 12,000 | 30530566 |
| 820661 | Nov 30, 2016 | Nov 30, 2016 | Smith Energy Operating Company | Panhandle 5 #1 | 9,000 | 30530565 |
| 815470 | May 6, 2016 | May 6, 2016 | Smith Energy Operating Company | Hatfield 3 #1 | 9,000 | 30530564 |
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/lynn?days=90, documented in the API reference.