COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 8A · CODE 345
Motley County, Texas
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.
184 drilling permits have been issued in Motley County since 1977.
184 permits on file since 1977 · last issued May 22, 2026
Email me new permitsAlso: every Motley County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 2
- permits issued, 180d
- —
- vs prior 180d (0)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 10,000
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 71
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 9, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 2 · prior 12 1(+100%)
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 →
| 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 →
USGS catalog, Texas
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 0
- M2+ events in the area
- —
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 907030Amendment | 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 |
| 891756Amendment | 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 |
Questions about Motley County
How many drilling permits were issued in Motley County in the last 12 months?
2 permits were issued in Motley County in the last 12 months, up 100% from 1 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued May 22, 2026. 184 are on file since 1977.
Every Motley County permit →Who is the most active operator in Motley County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Yost Exploration and Production is the most active operator in Motley County, with 2 of 2. 0 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Motley County →How many oil and gas wells are in Motley County?
227 wells are on file in Motley County, including 23 active, 145 plugged, and 2 permitted and not yet drilled. 1 is horizontal. The active wells are under 7 operators.
Every well in Motley County →How much oil and gas does Motley County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Motley County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Motley County →How much water is injected in Motley County?
390,365 barrels of water were injected in Motley County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 9 of the county's 24 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Motley County →What formations are drilled in Motley County?
Completion filings for wells in Motley County report tops for 5 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Cisco (25 wells, median top 4,520 ft), the Canyon (18 wells, median top 5,012 ft), and the Pennsylvanian (13 wells, median top 4,299 ft).
Formations in Motley County →What basin is Motley County in?
Petrora lists Motley County in the Permian Basin. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 8A.
The Permian Basin →Have there been earthquakes in Motley County?
No earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of Motley County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Motley County →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=180, documented in the API reference.