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COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 08 · CODE 335

Mitchell County

Mitchell County permitting is running 0.7 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (2 total, versus 8 in the prior quarter).

Bayswater Operating Company LLC leads with 12 permits in the past 12 months, one of 7 operators active in the county.

Median permitted depth over the past year is 8,200 ft (prior year: 6,800 ft); 39% of the past year's permits are horizontal.

The county has 1,118 active disposal and injection permits, with 47.8M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

TexNet located 138 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M4.3.

5,840 drilling permits have been issued in Mitchell County since 1977.

5,840 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Sep 21, 2026

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Also: every Mitchell County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →

Window30 days90 days180 days365 days
2
permits issued, 90d
-75%
vs prior 90d (8)
2
operators filing
0%
horizontal
4,537
avg permitted depth, ft
430
operators, all time

WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER

Permits issued by month

LAST 88 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 36 · prior 12 49(-27%)

0510152017201820192020202120222023202420252026

Top operators, last 12 months

By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.

OperatorPermitsWells
Bayswater Operating Company LLC1226
Saguaro Petroleum, LLC1214
Kek Exploration LLC25
Basa Resources, Inc.1755
SD Royale Energy, Inc.1149
Energy Transfer Company10
Enterprise Products Operatingllc10

Full operator directory →

New entrants, last 12 months

Operators whose first permit in Mitchell County came in the last year. None.

Permit types, 90d

TypeWindowPriorAll time
Drill185,197
Reclass1033

What the types mean →

Formations in completed wells

RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS

Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Mitchell County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →

In Mitchell County the Queen is reported in 993 wells, median top 1,077 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →

FormationWellsPermitted last 3 yrsMedian top, ftP10–P90
Clear Fork2,669402,4752,366–2,806
San Andres1,593411,6101,419–1,764
Yates1,09438601560–949
Queen99321,0771,031–1,261
Glorieta659362,3262,190–2,548
San Angelo55912,3722,180–2,472
Seven Rivers35436765720–1,224
Grayburg26211,4951,253–1,510
Wolfcamp125204,9603,743–5,414
Tubb97142,6202,000–2,939
Strawn9226,1155,913–7,758
Ellenburger8937,2067,117–8,162
Santa Rosa8718300200–639
Wichita-Albany84163,4043,237–3,750
Mississippian5627,7537,098–8,028

Beyond the permit record

RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes

Disposal and injection

1,118
active UIC permits of 2,068
1.08M
permitted bbl/day, active
47.8M
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025
reported through

Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Mitchell County →

Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →

TexNet catalog via USGS

Seismicity, last 2 years

138
M2+ events in the area
M4.3
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

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorLease / wellDepthAPI
918712Sep 23, 2026Sep 21, 2026Basa Resources, Inc.Foster, Mary #228,47333500906
918113Aug 28, 2026Aug 26, 2026Energy Transfer CompanyCp# 26-146 Cathodic Protection #4160033536128
917122Jul 16, 2026Jul 16, 2026Bayswater Operating Company LLCMemphis 9-3-60 #H 3WH7,10033536127
917121Jul 16, 2026Jul 16, 2026Bayswater Operating Company LLCLuxor 9-3-60 #H 1WH7,10033536126
915987Jun 29, 2026Jun 29, 2026Bayswater Operating Company LLCOasis 9-16-33-40 #H 2WH7,30033536121
915988Jun 29, 2026Jun 29, 2026Bayswater Operating Company LLCOasis 9-16-33-40 #H 1WH7,30033536122
916708Jun 26, 2026Jun 26, 2026Kek Exploration LLCSpade 18 #36018,90033536125
916293Jun 15, 2026Jun 15, 2026Bayswater Operating Company LLCNile 9-16-33-40 #H 3WH7,30033536124
916292Jun 15, 2026Jun 15, 2026Bayswater Operating Company LLCNile 9-16-33-40 #H 2WH7,30033536123
915657May 19, 2026May 19, 2026Enterprise Products OperatingllcSE-118 #140033536120

All Mitchell County permits →

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/mitchell?days=90, documented in the API reference.