COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 08 · CODE 329
Midland County
Midland County permitting is running 51 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (152 total, down 32% on the prior quarter). 14 were issued in the past week.
Diamondback E&P LLC leads with 333 permits in the past 12 months, one of 22 operators active in the county.
3 operators filed a first Midland County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 12,000 ft (prior year: 10,502 ft); 97% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 315 active disposal and injection permits, with 399M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
TexNet located 205 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M3.6.
23,576 drilling permits have been issued in Midland County since 1977.
23,576 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 27, 2026
Watch Midland CountyAlso: every Midland County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 837
- permits issued, 365d
- +28%
- vs prior 365d (655)
- 22
- operators filing
- 97%
- horizontal
- 11,318
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 445
- 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 824 · prior 12 669(+23%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Diamondback E&P LLC | 333 | 2,696 |
| Pioneer Natural Res. USA, Inc. | 233 | 5,360 |
| Continental Resources, Inc. | 51 | 254 |
| Chevron U. S. A. Inc. | 45 | 973 |
| Permian Deep Rock Oil Co., LLC | 36 | 132 |
| Ovintiv USA Inc. | 24 | 639 |
| Oxyrock Operating, LLC | 23 | 362 |
| Apache Corporation | 18 | 846 |
| COG Operating LLC | 14 | 891 |
| Discovery Operating, Inc. | 11 | 232 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Midland County came in the last year. 3 in total.
- Double T Energy LLC2 permitsJan 21, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Milestone Enviro Services, LLC1 permitFeb 26, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Deep Blue Operating I LLC1 permitDec 17, 2025 · active elsewhere first
Permit types, 365d
| Type | Window | Prior | All time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drill | 822 | 639 | 21,859 |
| Field transfer | 1 | 26 | 169 |
| Reenter | 1 | 1 | 91 |
| Recompletion | 0 | 3 | 1,398 |
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Midland 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spraberry | 12,964 | 1,179 | 7,681 | 7,096–8,135 |
| Clear Fork | 8,594 | 1,192 | 6,828 | 6,108–7,235 |
| San Andres | 8,408 | 1,201 | 4,547 | 4,106–5,201 |
| Yates | 7,638 | 1,208 | 2,701 | 2,339–2,954 |
| Grayburg | 7,411 | 1,165 | 4,237 | 3,860–4,602 |
| Queen | 6,823 | 1,133 | 3,717 | 3,362–4,161 |
| Seven Rivers | 6,474 | 1,069 | 2,993 | 2,589–3,276 |
| Santa Rosa | 6,242 | 1,069 | 1,000 | 782–1,185 |
| Glorieta | 4,835 | 677 | 5,717 | 4,920–6,155 |
| Dean | 4,114 | 5 | 8,900 | 8,424–9,324 |
| Wolfcamp | 3,565 | 24 | 9,252 | 8,792–9,586 |
| Rustler | 3,433 | 1,069 | 1,693 | 1,493–1,837 |
| Strawn | 2,340 | 0 | 10,500 | 10,162–10,675 |
| Atoka | 682 | 0 | 10,825 | 10,467–11,107 |
| Devonian | 456 | 1 | 11,607 | 11,229–11,902 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 315
- active UIC permits of 1,005
- 4.84M
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 399M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Midland County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 205
- M2+ events in the area
- M3.6
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 918997 | Oct 31, 2026 | Oct 29, 2026 | Diamondback E&P LLC | Hulk Hogan 12-38 C #1MSH | 11,000 | 32948605 |
| 918953 | Oct 31, 2026 | Oct 29, 2026 | Diamondback E&P LLC | Hulk Hogan 12-38 A #1LSH | 11,000 | 32948600 |
| 919629 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 27, 2026 | Chevron U. S. A. Inc. | CMC Sparkleberry 1-46 C #4113USH | 8,900 | 32948655 |
| 919628 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 27, 2026 | Chevron U. S. A. Inc. | CMC Sparkleberry 1-46 B #4112USH | 8,900 | 32948654 |
| 919627 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 27, 2026 | Chevron U. S. A. Inc. | CMC Sparkleberry 1-46 A #4111USH | 8,900 | 32948653 |
| 919486 | Oct 28, 2026 | Oct 26, 2026 | Diamondback E&P LLC | Grand Prix 28-09 H #2WBH | 11,000 | 32948641 |
| 919485 | Oct 28, 2026 | Oct 26, 2026 | Diamondback E&P LLC | Grand Prix 28-09 G #2WAH | 11,000 | 32948640 |
| 919483 | Oct 28, 2026 | Oct 26, 2026 | Diamondback E&P LLC | Grand Prix 28-09 F #2LSH | 11,000 | 32948639 |
| 919482 | Oct 28, 2026 | Oct 26, 2026 | Diamondback E&P LLC | Grand Prix 28-09 E #2JMH | 11,000 | 32948637 |
| 918857 | Oct 24, 2026 | Oct 22, 2026 | Pioneer Natural Res. USA, Inc. | Cunningham-Hutt 9B #202HH | 10,754 | 32948595 |
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/midland?days=365, documented in the API reference.