COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 8A · CODE 305
Lynn County, Texas
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, 180d
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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 NOV 7, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 0 · prior 12 0
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 →
| 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 →
USGS catalog, Texas
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Questions about Lynn County
How many drilling permits were issued in Lynn County in the last 12 months?
0 permits were issued in Lynn County in the last 12 months. The most recent was issued May 30, 2024. 486 are on file since 1977.
Every Lynn County permit →Which operator has the most wells in Lynn County?
No operator has filed a drilling permit in Lynn County in the last 12 months. By wells on file, the largest is Three Span Oil & Gas Inc., with 96, followed by Killer Rabbit Fields LLC (22) and Raw Oil & Gas Inc. (17).
Operators in Lynn County →How many oil and gas wells are in Lynn County?
522 wells are on file in Lynn County, including 100 active and 335 plugged. 9 are horizontal. The active wells are under 13 operators.
Every well in Lynn County →How much oil and gas does Lynn County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Lynn County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Lynn County →How much water is injected in Lynn County?
3.3 million barrels of water were injected in Lynn County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 30 of the county's 114 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Lynn County →What formations are drilled in Lynn County?
Completion filings for wells in Lynn County report tops for 13 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the San Andres (136 wells, median top 3,841 ft), the Glorieta (52 wells, median top 4,330 ft), and the Yates (46 wells, median top 2,086 ft).
Formations in Lynn County →What basin is Lynn County in?
Petrora lists Lynn County in the Permian Basin. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 8A.
The Permian Basin →Have there been earthquakes in Lynn County?
No earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of Lynn County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Lynn 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/lynn?days=180, documented in the API reference.