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COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 08 · CODE 335

Mitchell County, Texas

The RRC's county figures put Mitchell County at 3,523,898 bbl of oil and 4,106,167 Mcf of gas in the twelve months through August 2026; oil is down 15% on the twelve months before.

288 leases under 56 operators had production in those months.

2 drilling permits were issued in Mitchell County in the past 90 days, 8 in the 90 days before.

Saguaro Petroleum, 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); 31% of the past year's permits are horizontal.

The county has 1,112 active disposal and injection permits of 2,068 on file, with 47.4M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through September 2025.

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

5,575 drilling permits have been issued in Mitchell County since 1977.

5,575 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Sep 21, 2026

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3,136
active wells · 7,286 on file
56
producing operators, 12 months
288
producing leases, 12 months
3.5M
bbl oil, 12 months through Aug 2026 · −15%
4.1M
Mcf gas, same 12 months · +30%

RRC COUNTY FIGURES · NO. 42 IN OIL AND NO. 105 IN GAS OF 219 PRODUCING TEXAS COUNTIES

Mitchell County oil and gas production

RRC COUNTY FIGURES · THROUGH AUG 2026

Texas operators report production by lease, and the Railroad Commission totals it by county. Where a lease lies in more than one county, the split between them is the RRC's. Oil includes condensate; gas includes casinghead gas. Leases are still filing for Aug 2026, so that month and the twelve-month totals will rise.

12 months through Aug 2026 3,523,898 · prior 12 4,161,751(-15%)

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Latest months

MonthOilGas
Aug 2026still arriving123,614 bbl25,609 Mcf
Jul 2026273,229 bbl336,844 Mcf
Jun 2026264,358 bbl288,037 Mcf
May 2026269,763 bbl287,246 Mcf
Apr 2026267,714 bbl310,820 Mcf
Mar 2026296,730 bbl359,181 Mcf
Feb 2026307,169 bbl344,269 Mcf
Jan 2026301,916 bbl353,463 Mcf
Dec 2025356,362 bbl457,738 Mcf
Nov 2025366,130 bbl464,082 Mcf
Oct 2025369,211 bbl443,445 Mcf
Sep 2025327,702 bbl435,433 Mcf

Operators by production

12 MONTHS THROUGH AUG 2026

  1. Bayswater Operating Company LLC17 leases

    1.65M bbl · 3.27M Mcf

  2. Bce-Mach III LLC22 leases

    813K bbl · 34K Mcf

  3. Saguaro Petroleum, LLC7 leases

    317K bbl · 542K Mcf

  4. Basa Resources, Inc.15 leases

    242K bbl · 0 Mcf

  5. Grayrock Energy II, LLC3 leases

    129K bbl · 0 Mcf

  6. Schlachter Operating Corporation20 leases

    53.9K bbl · 0 Mcf

  7. Reatta Energy, Inc.12 leases

    24.4K bbl · 137K Mcf

  8. Americo Energy Resources, LLC3 leases

    40.7K bbl · 0 Mcf

56 operators had production here in the twelve months. Each month is credited to the operator that reported it; ranked by barrels of oil equivalent, 6 Mcf to the barrel.

Every operator in Mitchell County →

Largest leases

288 LEASES WITH PRODUCTION · 12 MONTHS THROUGH AUG 2026

LeaseOperatorFieldOil, 12 moGas, 12 mo
North Westbrook UnitOil 20831Bce-Mach III LLCWestbrook503,921 bbl22,998 Mcf
Golden Sand 10-3Oil 61154Bayswater Operating Company LLCSpraberry (Trend Area)302,368 bbl429,799 Mcf
Xerxes 7-18-31Oil 62737Bayswater Operating Company LLCSpraberry (Trend Area)182,833 bbl265,658 Mcf
Delta 7-18-31Oil 63585Bayswater Operating Company LLCSpraberry (Trend Area)154,395 bbl416,329 Mcf
Sphinx 8-17-32Oil 63444Bayswater Operating Company LLCSpraberry (Trend Area)153,201 bbl353,284 Mcf
Port O'Connor '34'Oil 62408Saguaro Petroleum, LLCA & S (Miss.)162,699 bbl245,836 Mcf
Westbrook Southeast UnitOil 20847Bce-Mach III LLCWestbrook200,794 bbl9,314 Mcf
Pearl River 4-9Oil 61807Bayswater Operating Company LLCSpraberry (Trend Area)103,764 bbl450,463 Mcf
Foster, MaryOil 2890Basa Resources, Inc.Iatan, East Howard172,464 bbl0 Mcf
Endless Dune 10-3Oil 64335Bayswater Operating Company LLCSpraberry (Trend Area)133,462 bbl156,706 Mcf
Port Lavaca '39'Oil 64180Saguaro Petroleum, LLCA & S (Miss.)120,605 bbl160,457 Mcf
Westbrook Southwest UnitOil 21120Grayrock Energy II, LLCWestbrook127,895 bbl0 Mcf
Cleopatra 8-2-61Oil 62932Bayswater Operating Company LLCSpraberry (Trend Area)90,678 bbl193,653 Mcf
Moses 7-1-62Oil 62738Bayswater Operating Company LLCSpraberry (Trend Area)79,439 bbl105,752 Mcf
Oasis 9-16-33-40Oil 58871Bayswater Operating Company LLCSpraberry (Trend Area)69,302 bbl137,055 Mcf

Ranked by barrels of oil equivalent, 6 Mcf to the barrel. A lease in two counties is listed with its share in this one.

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Wells by status

7,286 WELLBORES ON FILE

  1. Plugged

    2,512

  2. Producing

    2,362

  3. Shut In

    816

  4. Injection

    733

  5. Not on schedule

    623

  6. No Production

    124

  7. Spudded

    61

  8. Water Supply

    41

From the RRC wellbore file and the permit record. Other sites count the RRC's map locations, which include dry holes and locations this file does not hold, so their totals differ.

Wells spudded, by year

HorizontalVertical and directional

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Drilling permits

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

WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 12, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER

Permits issued by month

LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 22 · prior 12 38(-42%)

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Operators by permits, last 12 months

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

OperatorPermitsWells
Saguaro Petroleum, LLC1218
Bayswater Operating Company LLC829
Kek Exploration LLC27
Basa Resources, Inc.1786
SD Royale Energy, Inc.1185
Energy Transfer Company10
Enterprise Products Operatingllc10

Full operator directory: 430 operators have filed a permit here since 1977 →

New entrants, last 12 months

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

Permit types, 90d

TypeWindowPriorAll time
Drill184,935
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 Santa Rosa is reported in 89 wells, median top 300 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →

FormationWellsPermitted last 3 yrsMedian top, ftP10–P90
Clear Fork2,671392,4752,366–2,805
San Andres1,594401,6101,419–1,764
Yates1,09437601560–949
Queen99321,0771,031–1,261
Glorieta661352,3272,190–2,548
San Angelo55912,3722,180–2,472
Seven Rivers35535765720–1,224
Grayburg26211,4951,253–1,510
Wolfcamp125194,9603,743–5,414
Tubb97142,6202,000–2,939
Strawn9226,1155,913–7,758
Ellenburger8937,2067,117–8,162
Santa Rosa8918300200–648
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

1,112
active UIC permits of 2,068
1.08M
permitted bbl/day, active
47.4M
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Sep 2025
reported through

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

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

USGS catalog, Texas

Seismicity, last 2 years

139
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

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Questions about Mitchell County

How many drilling permits were issued in Mitchell County in the last 12 months?

26 permits were issued in Mitchell County in the last 12 months, down 24% from 34 in the 12 months before. 31% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Sep 21, 2026. 5,575 are on file since 1977.

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Who is the most active operator in Mitchell County?

By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Saguaro Petroleum, LLC is the most active operator in Mitchell County, with 12 of 26, followed by Bayswater Operating Company LLC (8) and Kek Exploration LLC (2). 2 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.

Operators in Mitchell County →

How many oil and gas wells are in Mitchell County?

7,286 wells are on file in Mitchell County, including 3,136 active, 2,512 plugged, and 14 permitted and not yet drilled. 73 are horizontal. The active wells are under 61 operators.

Every well in Mitchell County →

How much oil and gas does Mitchell County produce?

The Railroad Commission's county figures show 3.5 million barrels of oil and 4.1 million Mcf of gas in Mitchell County in the 12 months through August 2026, from 288 leases under 56 operators. Texas operators report production by lease; where a lease lies in more than one county, the split between them is the RRC's.

Production by month in Mitchell County →

Who are the largest producers in Mitchell County?

By oil and gas produced in Mitchell County in the 12 months through August 2026, the largest operator is Bayswater Operating Company LLC, with 1.7 million barrels of oil and 3.3 million Mcf of gas from 17 leases, followed by Bce-Mach III LLC and Saguaro Petroleum, LLC. 56 operators had production here in those months.

Operators in Mitchell County →

How much water is injected in Mitchell County?

47.4 million barrels of water were injected in Mitchell County in the 12 months through September 2025, reported on form H-10. 1,112 of the county's 2,068 disposal and injection permits are active.

Disposal and injection in Mitchell County →

What formations are drilled in Mitchell County?

Completion filings for wells in Mitchell County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Clear Fork (2,671 wells, median top 2,475 ft), the San Andres (1,594 wells, median top 1,610 ft), and the Yates (1,094 wells, median top 601 ft).

Formations in Mitchell County →

What basin is Mitchell County in?

Petrora lists Mitchell County in the Permian Basin. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 08.

The Permian Basin →

Have there been earthquakes in Mitchell County?

139 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of Mitchell County's permitted wells in the last 2 years; the largest was M4.3.

Earthquakes in Mitchell County →

About this data

Oil and gas are the Railroad Commission's county figures from its Production Data Query, through Aug 2026: Texas files production by lease, and where a lease lies in more than one county the split is the RRC's. Nothing here is estimated by Petrora. Wells from the RRC wellbore file and the permit record. 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.