COUNTIES · TEXAS PANHANDLE · DISTRICT 10 · CODE 357
Ochiltree County, Texas
Ochiltree County permitting is running 1.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (4 total, versus 4 in the prior quarter).
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 →
- 8
- permits issued, 180d
- +100%
- vs prior 180d (4)
- 4
- operators filing
- 75%
- horizontal
- 8,046
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 359
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 7, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 12 · prior 12 5(+140%)
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 | 378 |
| King Operating Corporation | 5 | 18 |
| Courson Oil & Gas, Inc. | 1 | 385 |
| 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 →
| 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 →
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Questions about Ochiltree County
How many drilling permits were issued in Ochiltree County in the last 12 months?
12 permits were issued in Ochiltree County in the last 12 months, up 140% from 5 in the 12 months before. 83% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Oct 27, 2026. 4,308 are on file since 1977.
Every Ochiltree County permit →Who is the most active operator in Ochiltree County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Mewbourne Oil Company is the most active operator in Ochiltree County, with 5 of 12, followed by King Operating Corporation (5) and Courson Oil & Gas, Inc. (1). 3 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Ochiltree County →How many oil and gas wells are in Ochiltree County?
4,612 wells are on file in Ochiltree County, including 1,475 active, 1,967 plugged, and 5 permitted and not yet drilled. 853 are horizontal. The active wells are under 79 operators.
Every well in Ochiltree County →How much oil and gas does Ochiltree County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Ochiltree County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Ochiltree County →How much water is injected in Ochiltree County?
10.5 million barrels of water were injected in Ochiltree County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 85 of the county's 240 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Ochiltree County →What formations are drilled in Ochiltree County?
Completion filings for wells in Ochiltree County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Cleveland (1,316 wells, median top 7,032 ft), the Kansas City (928 wells, median top 6,636 ft), and the Douglas (883 wells, median top 5,650 ft).
Formations in Ochiltree County →What basin is Ochiltree County in?
Petrora lists Ochiltree County in the Texas Panhandle. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 10.
The Texas Panhandle →Have there been earthquakes in Ochiltree County?
No earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of Ochiltree County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Ochiltree 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/ochiltree?days=180, documented in the API reference.