COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 7B · CODE 353
Nolan County, Texas
Nolan County permitting is running about one permit a month over the trailing 90 days (3 total, versus 8 in the prior quarter).
Goodrock Natural Resources, LLC leads with 3 permits in the past 12 months, one of 10 operators active in the county.
3 operators filed a first Nolan County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 5,900 ft (prior year: 550 ft); 7% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 196 active disposal and injection permits, with 13M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
4,096 drilling permits have been issued in Nolan County since 1977.
4,096 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 21, 2026
Watch Nolan CountyAlso: every Nolan County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 2
- permits issued, 30d
- —
- vs prior 30d (0)
- 2
- operators filing
- 50%
- horizontal
- 6,425
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 640
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 5, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 15 · prior 12 9(+67%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Nolan County came in the last year. 3 in total.
- Per Operating LLC1 permitOct 12, 2026 · new to Texas permits
- Oneok West TX NGL PL, L.L.C.1 permitJun 17, 2026 · new to Texas permits
- LPR Energy, LLC1 permitJan 5, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Nolan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canyon | 518 | 3 | 5,168 | 4,466–5,595 |
| Strawn | 460 | 10 | 5,943 | 5,152–6,910 |
| Ellenburger | 384 | 5 | 6,500 | 5,888–7,124 |
| Caddo | 383 | 5 | 6,177 | 5,581–6,938 |
| Coleman Junction | 337 | 9 | 3,020 | 2,417–3,645 |
| Cisco | 213 | 3 | 4,042 | 3,616–4,564 |
| Saddle Creek | 135 | 1 | 3,784 | 3,346–4,284 |
| Wolfcamp | 67 | 2 | 2,980 | 2,602–3,591 |
| Palo Pinto | 65 | 1 | 5,575 | 4,717–6,468 |
| Tannehill | 62 | 2 | 3,610 | 3,270–4,120 |
| Mississippian | 50 | 0 | 6,802 | 6,105–7,082 |
| Pennsylvanian | 38 | 0 | 5,618 | 4,236–6,169 |
| Wichita-Albany | 25 | 1 | 2,258 | 1,988–3,311 |
| Tubb | 14 | 0 | 2,076 | 1,751–2,272 |
| Clear Fork | 12 | 0 | 1,218 | 1,140–1,666 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 196
- active UIC permits of 851
- 550K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 13M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Nolan County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 0
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919437 | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 21, 2026 | Walter Exploration Company | Big Eight #1 | 5,450 | 35333773 |
| 919143 | Oct 14, 2026 | Oct 12, 2026 | Per Operating LLC | Thomas Ranch #1HH | 7,400 | 35333447 |
| 917615 | Aug 9, 2026 | Aug 7, 2026 | Goodrock Natural Resources, LLC | Hanks, Billie 'C' #2 | 7,200 | 35333772 |
| 917609 | Aug 8, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 | Goodrock Natural Resources, LLC | Hanks, Billie 'C' #1 | 7,200 | 35333771 |
| 917248 | Jul 24, 2026 | Jul 24, 2026 | Energy Transfer Company | CP #26-136 Cathodic Protection #39 | 600 | 35333770 |
| 916168 | Jul 21, 2026 | Jul 21, 2026 | TDC Engineering, Inc. | Mrs Kilgore #1 | 7,000 | 35333769 |
| 916883 | Jul 8, 2026 | Jul 8, 2026 | Scout Energy Management LLC | Joe Young #9R | 5,900 | 35333034 |
| 916673 | Jun 26, 2026 | Jun 26, 2026 | Scout Energy Management LLC | Joe Young #3 | 5,900 | 35333014 |
| 914917 | Jun 17, 2026 | Jun 17, 2026 | Oneok West TX NGL PL, L.L.C. | AR-94 Replacement Tiner #1 | 300 | 35333765 |
| 915733 | Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 15, 2026 | TDC Engineering, Inc. | Light Crude #1 | 7,000 | 35333768 |
Questions about Nolan County
How many drilling permits were issued in Nolan County in the last 12 months?
15 permits were issued in Nolan County in the last 12 months, up 67% from 9 in the 12 months before. 7% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Oct 21, 2026. 4,096 are on file since 1977.
Every Nolan County permit →Who is the most active operator in Nolan County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Goodrock Natural Resources, LLC is the most active operator in Nolan County, with 3 of 15, followed by Scout Energy Management LLC (2) and Walter Exploration Company (2). 3 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Nolan County →How many oil and gas wells are in Nolan County?
4,437 wells are on file in Nolan County: 526 active, 2,617 plugged, and 10 permitted and not yet drilled. 44 are horizontal, and 61 operators hold them.
Every well in Nolan County →How much oil and gas does Nolan County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Nolan County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Nolan County →How much water is injected in Nolan County?
13.0 million barrels of water were injected in Nolan County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 196 of the county's 851 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Nolan County →What formations are drilled in Nolan County?
Completion filings for wells in Nolan County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Canyon (518 wells, median top 5,168 ft), the Strawn (460 wells, median top 5,943 ft), and the Ellenburger (384 wells, median top 6,500 ft).
Formations in Nolan County →What basin is Nolan County in?
Petrora lists Nolan County in the Permian Basin. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 7B.
The Permian Basin →Have there been earthquakes in Nolan County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Nolan County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Nolan 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/nolan?days=30, documented in the API reference.