COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 08 · CODE 371
Pecos County, Texas
Pecos County permitting is running 7.7 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (23 total, down 47% on the prior quarter). 8 were issued in the past week.
Kinder Morgan Production Co LLC leads with 36 permits in the past 12 months, one of 14 operators active in the county.
4 operators filed a first Pecos County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 9,385 ft (prior year: 1,999 ft); 86% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 712 active disposal and injection permits of 2,436 on file, with 340M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through September 2025.
84 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M3.6.
12,104 drilling permits have been issued in Pecos County since 1977.
12,104 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Nov 9, 2026
Email me new permitsAlso: every Pecos County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 4,290
- active wells · 14,419 on file
- 173
- operators of the active wells
- 5,442
- plugged wells
Wells by status
14,419 WELLBORES ON FILE
From the RRC wellbore file and the permit record. Other sites count the RRC's map locations, which include dry holes and locations this file does not hold, so their totals differ.
Wells spudded, by year
HorizontalVertical and directional
Drilling permits
- 23
- permits issued, 90d
- -47%
- vs prior 90d (43)
- 8
- operators filing
- 57%
- horizontal
- 7,484
- avg permitted depth, ft
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 11, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 105 · prior 12 107(-2%)
Operators by permits, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
Full operator directory: 972 operators have filed a permit here since 1977 →
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Pecos County came in the last year. 4 in total.
- Highmark Energy Operating, LLC4 permitsOct 16, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Swordfish Energy Operating, LLC2 permitsJun 25, 2026 · new to Texas permits
- Petx Operating LLC1 permitNov 9, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Holladay #2, LLC1 permitDec 9, 2025 · new to Texas permits
Permit types, 90d
| Type | Window | Prior | All time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drill | 18 | 29 | 8,145 |
| Reclass | 3 | 2 | 50 |
| Recompletion | 2 | 12 | 3,049 |
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Pecos County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
Fewer than ten wells in Pecos County report the Avalon, so it is below this table's cutoff. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yates | 2,850 | 193 | 980 | 660–2,762 |
| Queen | 2,435 | 202 | 1,376 | 1,136–2,250 |
| San Andres | 2,224 | 203 | 1,528 | 1,200–2,288 |
| Seven Rivers | 2,084 | 202 | 986 | 704–1,650 |
| Grayburg | 1,948 | 199 | 1,398 | 1,162–2,066 |
| Base Cretaceous (marker) | 1,570 | 182 | 592 | 382–1,787 |
| Rustler | 961 | 14 | 1,300 | 540–1,975 |
| Wolfcamp | 917 | 3 | 4,835 | 2,099–9,755 |
| Toborg | 430 | 2 | 400 | 100–515 |
| Clear Fork | 373 | 3 | 3,037 | 2,308–3,872 |
| Glorieta | 359 | 2 | 2,896 | 2,264–3,188 |
| Wichita-Albany | 316 | 4 | 4,101 | 3,342–4,652 |
| Devonian | 301 | 1 | 8,650 | 5,418–18,162 |
| Tubb | 297 | 3 | 3,200 | 2,797–3,859 |
| Bone Spring | 245 | 5 | 7,404 | 5,887–8,566 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 712
- active UIC permits of 2,436
- 9.46M
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 340M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Sep 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Pecos County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
USGS catalog, Texas
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 84
- M2+ events in the area
- M3.6
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919968 | Nov 11, 2026 | Nov 9, 2026 | Petx Operating LLC | Fitzgerald State #1 | 5,050 | 37105666 |
| 919743 | Nov 9, 2026 | Nov 6, 2026 | Mongoose Energy, LLC | Phoenix State WA3 #3HH | 10,000 | 37140581 |
| 919741 | Nov 9, 2026 | Nov 6, 2026 | Mongoose Energy, LLC | Phoenix State WA2 #2HH | 10,000 | 37140580 |
| 919739 | Nov 9, 2026 | Nov 6, 2026 | Mongoose Energy, LLC | Phoenix State WA1 #1HH | 10,000 | 37140577 |
| 919982 | Nov 9, 2026 | Nov 6, 2026 | Longfellow Energy, LP | Moran Fee 139 #1 | 5,300 | 37140584 |
| 919983 | Nov 9, 2026 | Nov 6, 2026 | Longfellow Energy, LP | Emory Peak State 112 #1 | 5,600 | 37140582 |
| 919981 | Nov 9, 2026 | Nov 6, 2026 | Longfellow Energy, LP | Byers Peak State 24 #1 | 6,000 | 37140583 |
| 919847 | Nov 6, 2026 | Nov 4, 2026 | Longfellow Energy, LP | McKinley State 138 #1 | 5,500 | 37140579 |
| 919845 | Nov 4, 2026 | Nov 2, 2026 | Longfellow Energy, LP | Katahdin State 22 #1 | 6,200 | 37140578 |
| 919207Amendment | Oct 30, 2026 | Oct 16, 2026 | Highmark Energy Operating, LLC | Exito #4HH | 9,600 | 37140576 |
Questions about Pecos County
How many drilling permits were issued in Pecos County in the last 12 months?
108 permits were issued in Pecos County in the last 12 months, down 8% from 118 in the 12 months before. 86% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Nov 9, 2026. 12,104 are on file since 1977.
Every Pecos County permit →Who is the most active operator in Pecos County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Kinder Morgan Production Co LLC is the most active operator in Pecos County, with 36 of 108, followed by Continental Resources, Inc. (28) and Blue Arrow Operating, LLC (14). 8 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Pecos County →How many oil and gas wells are in Pecos County?
14,419 wells are on file in Pecos County, including 4,290 active, 5,442 plugged, and 47 permitted and not yet drilled. 1,805 are horizontal. The active wells are under 173 operators.
Every well in Pecos County →How much oil and gas does Pecos County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Pecos County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Pecos County →How much water is injected in Pecos County?
340 million barrels of water were injected in Pecos County in the 12 months through September 2025, reported on form H-10. 712 of the county's 2,436 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Pecos County →What formations are drilled in Pecos County?
Completion filings for wells in Pecos County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Yates (2,850 wells, median top 980 ft), the Queen (2,435 wells, median top 1,376 ft), and the San Andres (2,224 wells, median top 1,528 ft).
Formations in Pecos County →What basin is Pecos County in?
Petrora lists Pecos County in the Permian Basin. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 08.
The Permian Basin →Have there been earthquakes in Pecos County?
84 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of Pecos County's permitted wells in the last 2 years; the largest was M3.6.
Earthquakes in Pecos County →About this data
Wells from the RRC wellbore file and the permit record. 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/pecos?days=90, documented in the API reference.