COUNTIES · TEXAS PANHANDLE · DISTRICT 10 · CODE 359
Oldham County
Oldham County permitting is running 0.7 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (2 total, after a quiet prior quarter).
Arrow Oil & Gas, LLC leads with 2 permits in the past 12 months, one of 2 operators active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 6,000 ft (prior year: 6,500 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 13 active disposal and injection permits, with 2.54M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
406 drilling permits have been issued in Oldham County since 1979.
406 permits on file since 1979 · last issued Aug 24, 2026
Watch Oldham CountyAlso: every Oldham County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 2
- permits issued, 90d
- —
- vs prior 90d (0)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 3,999
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 50
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 24 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 17 · prior 12 16(+6%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Arrow Oil & Gas, LLC | 2 | 50 |
| Sunlight Exploration, Inc. | 2 | 9 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Oldham County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Oldham County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Oldham County the Wolfcamp is reported in 34 wells, median top 5,330 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown Dolomite | 97 | 3 | 4,380 | 4,008–4,521 |
| Canyon | 93 | 3 | 8,250 | 6,304–9,084 |
| Red Cave | 61 | 4 | 3,156 | 2,852–3,392 |
| Cisco | 53 | 3 | 7,453 | 6,079–7,744 |
| Panhandle Lime | 52 | 1 | 3,861 | 3,504–4,017 |
| Wolfcamp | 34 | 2 | 5,330 | 4,487–5,917 |
| Pennsylvanian | 29 | 2 | 6,570 | 5,002–7,205 |
| Strawn | 28 | 2 | 9,358 | 8,319–9,471 |
| Granite Wash | 26 | 0 | 7,058 | 6,207–7,304 |
| Glorieta | 20 | 5 | 1,900 | 889–1,943 |
| Tubb | 10 | 2 | 2,710 | 2,115–2,988 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 13
- active UIC permits of 43
- 57.5K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 2.54M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Oldham 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 917798 | Aug 26, 2026 | Aug 24, 2026 | Arrow Oil & Gas, LLC | W. Rift #2 | 3,999 | 35930437 |
| 917894 | Aug 19, 2026 | Aug 17, 2026 | Arrow Oil & Gas, LLC | B. Creek #101 | 3,999 | 35930436 |
| 914086 | Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 20, 2026 | Sunlight Exploration, Inc. | L S Ranch #1 | 8,000 | 35930310 |
| 913639 | Feb 24, 2026 | Feb 24, 2026 | Sunlight Exploration, Inc. | Bivins West #1701 | 10,000 | 35930435 |
| 910773 | Sep 30, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | Arrow Oil & Gas, LLC | MD #4 | 3,995 | 35930434 |
| 910181 | Sep 3, 2025 | Sep 3, 2025 | Arrow Oil & Gas, LLC | SW Boy's Ranch #5 | 3,995 | 35930433 |
| 909561 | Jul 30, 2025 | Jul 30, 2025 | Sunlight Exploration, Inc. | L S Ranch #2 | 9,125 | 35930312 |
| 904853 | Jan 9, 2025 | Jan 9, 2025 | LDX Operating Company, LLC. | Alamosa 315 #11 | 6,500 | 35930432 |
| 904853 | Jan 9, 2025 | Jan 9, 2025 | LDX Operating Company, LLC. | Alamosa 315 #11 | 6,500 | 35930432 |
| 902706 | Oct 1, 2024 | Oct 1, 2024 | Arrow Oil & Gas, LLC | Red Cave 22 #1 | 3,990 | 35930431 |
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/oldham?days=90, documented in the API reference.