COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 8A · CODE 345
Motley County
Motley County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued May 22, 2026.
Yost Exploration and Production leads with 2 permits in the past 12 months, the only operator active in the county.
One operator filed a first Motley County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 10,000 ft (prior year: 5,500 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 9 active disposal and injection permits, with 390K barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
208 drilling permits have been issued in Motley County since 1977.
208 permits on file since 1977 · last issued May 22, 2026
Watch Motley CountyAlso: every Motley County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
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- permits issued, 90d
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- vs prior 90d (2)
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- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
- 72
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 20 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Yost Exploration and Production | 2 | 1 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Motley County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Yost Exploration and Production2 permitsMay 22, 2026 · new to Texas permits
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Motley County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Motley County the Wolfcamp is reported in 12 wells, median top 3,594 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cisco | 25 | 0 | 4,520 | 4,032–5,467 |
| Canyon | 18 | 0 | 5,012 | 4,929–5,433 |
| Pennsylvanian | 13 | 0 | 4,299 | 4,026–5,110 |
| Wolfcamp | 12 | 0 | 3,594 | 3,301–4,117 |
| Coleman Junction | 10 | 0 | 3,357 | 2,938–3,667 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 9
- active UIC permits of 24
- 22.2K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 390K
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Motley County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
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 |
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| 915757 | May 22, 2026 | May 22, 2026 | Yost Exploration and Production | Black 4 #3 | 9,000 | 34530366 |
| 915755 | May 22, 2026 | May 22, 2026 | Yost Exploration and Production | Black 4 #2 | 11,000 | 34530365 |
| 907030 | Apr 2, 2025 | Apr 2, 2025 | Patton, E. N. Oil Company, Inc. | Taylor 'B' #7 | 5,500 | 34530363 |
| 907030 | Apr 2, 2025 | Apr 2, 2025 | Patton, E. N. Oil Company, Inc. | Taylor 'C' #7 | 5,500 | 34530363 |
| 902788 | Sep 20, 2024 | Sep 20, 2024 | Gunn Oil Company | Moore #1 | 9,000 | 34530362 |
| 895505 | Nov 30, 2023 | Nov 30, 2023 | Patton, E. N. Oil Company, Inc. | Shoenail #2 | 6,000 | 34530361 |
| 891756 | Aug 3, 2023 | Aug 3, 2023 | Patton, E. N. Oil Company, Inc. | Taylor #6 | 5,500 | 34530360 |
| 891756 | Aug 3, 2023 | Aug 3, 2023 | Patton, E. N. Oil Company, Inc. | Taylor 'B' #6 | 5,500 | 34530360 |
| 880027 | May 16, 2022 | May 16, 2022 | Patton, E. N. Oil Company, Inc. | Shoenail #1 | 6,000 | 34530358 |
| 876064 | Jan 21, 2022 | Jan 21, 2022 | Dry Fork Production Co., LLC | Mullin, W.W. #8 | 5,500 | 34530357 |
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/motley?days=90, documented in the API reference.