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Ochiltree County
Ochiltree County permitting is running 1.7 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (5 total, versus 3 in the prior quarter). 2 were issued in the past week.
Mewbourne Oil Company leads with 5 permits in the past 12 months, one of 4 operators active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 8,354 ft (prior year: 7,308 ft); 83% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 85 active disposal and injection permits, with 10.5M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
4,308 drilling permits have been issued in Ochiltree County since 1977.
4,308 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 27, 2026
Watch Ochiltree CountyAlso: every Ochiltree County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 5
- permits issued, 90d
- +67%
- vs prior 90d (3)
- 4
- operators filing
- 60%
- horizontal
- 7,780
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 359
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 71 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 21 · prior 12 33(-36%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Mewbourne Oil Company | 5 | 358 |
| King Operating Corporation | 5 | 12 |
| Courson Oil & Gas, Inc. | 1 | 281 |
| Carson Buckles Exploration LLC | 1 | 11 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Ochiltree County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Ochiltree County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Ochiltree County the Wolfcamp is reported in 61 wells, median top 3,400 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland | 1,316 | 10 | 7,032 | 6,510–7,569 |
| Kansas City | 928 | 13 | 6,636 | 5,977–7,246 |
| Douglas | 883 | 17 | 5,650 | 5,213–6,114 |
| Morrow | 785 | 4 | 7,990 | 7,421–9,023 |
| Brown Dolomite | 722 | 19 | 3,371 | 3,219–3,650 |
| Marmaton | 598 | 6 | 6,826 | 6,352–7,446 |
| Tonkawa | 466 | 9 | 6,104 | 5,501–6,812 |
| Atoka | 338 | 2 | 8,012 | 7,238–8,871 |
| Des Moines | 278 | 2 | 6,994 | 6,405–7,655 |
| Pennsylvanian | 242 | 1 | 4,734 | 4,436–5,117 |
| Chester | 221 | 2 | 8,450 | 7,940–9,690 |
| Mississippian | 157 | 0 | 8,583 | 7,978–9,966 |
| Oswego | 103 | 1 | 6,906 | 6,585–7,564 |
| Wolfcamp | 61 | 0 | 3,400 | 3,252–3,747 |
| Ellenburger | 18 | 0 | 10,879 | 10,670–11,808 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 85
- active UIC permits of 240
- 546K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 10.5M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Ochiltree 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
- —
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919626 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 27, 2026 | Mewbourne Oil Company | Hurns 145 #C001NCH | 8,141 | 35733784 |
| 919509 | Oct 24, 2026 | Oct 22, 2026 | Mewbourne Oil Company | Courson Jines 660 #M001NCH | 7,385 | 35733783 |
| 919312 | Oct 21, 2026 | Oct 19, 2026 | Courson Oil & Gas, Inc. | Kent #6570 | 5,872 | 35733757 |
| 917362 | Aug 20, 2026 | Aug 18, 2026 | Carson Buckles Exploration LLC | Lance #2011 | 8,500 | 35731385 |
| 917517 | Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 3, 2026 | King Operating Corporation | McLarty-Lawrence #1HH | 9,000 | 35733782 |
| 916686 | Jun 29, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | King Operating Corporation | Thurman 23 #1HH | 9,000 | 35733781 |
| 915909 | May 29, 2026 | May 29, 2026 | King Operating Corporation | O'Dell 73 #1HH | 9,000 | 35733780 |
| 915827 | May 27, 2026 | May 27, 2026 | Mewbourne Oil Company | Courson Harbaugh 142/147 A #C001JOH | 7,471 | 35733779 |
| 915196 | Apr 30, 2026 | Apr 30, 2026 | King Operating Corporation | Haley 102 #1 HH | 9,000 | 35733778 |
| 914374 | Mar 31, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | Mewbourne Oil Company | Dickenson '307' #C002APH | 7,700 | 35733777 |
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/ochiltree?days=90, documented in the API reference.