COUNTIES · TEXAS PANHANDLE · DISTRICT 10 · CODE 341
Moore County
Moore County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued May 26, 2026.
Beren Corporation leads with 3 permits in the past 12 months, one of 3 operators active in the county.
One operator filed a first Moore County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 2,700 ft (prior year: 3,368 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 45 active disposal and injection permits, with 1.54M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
TexNet located 2 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M2.2.
3,843 drilling permits have been issued in Moore County since 1977.
3,843 permits on file since 1977 · last issued May 26, 2026
Watch Moore CountyAlso: every Moore County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 0
- permits issued, 90d
- -100%
- vs prior 90d (3)
- 0
- operators filing
- —
- horizontal
- —
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 241
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 86 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 24 · prior 12 29(-17%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Beren Corporation | 3 | 87 |
| P & F Operating, LLC | 3 | 5 |
| Berexco LLC | 2 | 55 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Moore County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- P & F Operating, LLC3 permitsMar 23, 2026 · new to Texas permits
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Moore County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
Fewer than ten wells in Moore County report the Mississippian, so it is below this table's cutoff. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown Dolomite | 1,604 | 11 | 2,778 | 2,294–3,212 |
| Red Cave | 1,356 | 22 | 1,886 | 1,530–2,156 |
| Panhandle Lime | 867 | 6 | 2,328 | 1,936–2,951 |
| Moore County Lime | 553 | 2 | 3,080 | 2,653–3,475 |
| Granite Wash | 318 | 5 | 2,898 | 2,384–3,472 |
| White Dolomite | 226 | 0 | 3,004 | 2,697–3,206 |
| Glorieta | 175 | 0 | 1,144 | 988–1,354 |
| Tubb | 161 | 0 | 1,570 | 1,378–1,862 |
| Wolfcamp | 78 | 0 | 3,092 | 2,928–3,484 |
| Permian (undifferentiated) | 24 | 0 | 550 | 488–629 |
| Wichita-Albany | 19 | 0 | 2,495 | 1,750–3,101 |
| Ellenburger | 14 | 1 | 3,018 | 2,545–5,127 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 45
- active UIC permits of 129
- 128K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 1.54M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Moore County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 2
- M2+ events in the area
- M2.2
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919762 | Oct 31, 2026 | Oct 29, 2026 | Berexco LLC | Masterson G #7433 | 2,400 | 34133782 |
| 919767 | Oct 31, 2026 | Oct 29, 2026 | Beren Corporation | Masterson Estate #108 | 2,400 | 34133784 |
| 915795 | May 26, 2026 | May 26, 2026 | Beren Corporation | Masterson 'B' #5 | 2,400 | 34133781 |
| 915763 | May 22, 2026 | May 22, 2026 | Berexco LLC | Masterson G #7612 | 2,400 | 34133779 |
| 915792 | May 22, 2026 | May 22, 2026 | Beren Corporation | Masterson Estate #107 | 2,400 | 34133780 |
| 915159 | Apr 29, 2026 | Apr 29, 2026 | P & F Operating, LLC | Thompson #13 | 3,000 | 34133778 |
| 913666 | Apr 10, 2026 | Apr 10, 2026 | P & F Operating, LLC | Thompson #16 | 3,000 | 34133777 |
| 913657 | Mar 23, 2026 | Mar 23, 2026 | P & F Operating, LLC | Thompson #15 | 3,000 | 34133776 |
| 909500 | Aug 5, 2025 | Aug 5, 2025 | Scout Energy Management LLC | McDowell #16 | 3,368 | 34132167 |
| 908636 | Jun 17, 2025 | Jun 17, 2025 | Pantera Energy Company | Strunk #2 | 3,500 | 34133775 |
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/moore?days=90, documented in the API reference.