COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 08 · CODE 371
Pecos County
Pecos County permitting is running 5.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (16 total, down 64% on the prior quarter).
Kinder Morgan Production Co LLC leads with 36 permits in the past 12 months, one of 12 operators active in the county.
3 operators filed a first Pecos County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 9,500 ft (prior year: 1,999 ft); 92% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 719 active disposal and injection permits, with 329M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
TexNet located 82 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M3.6.
13,532 drilling permits have been issued in Pecos County since 1977.
13,532 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 16, 2026
Watch Pecos CountyAlso: every Pecos County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 16
- permits issued, 90d
- -64%
- vs prior 90d (45)
- 5
- operators filing
- 75%
- horizontal
- 7,980
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 978
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 118 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 109 · prior 12 132(-17%)
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 Pecos County came in the last year. 3 in total.
- Highmark Energy Operating, LLC8 permitsOct 16, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Swordfish Energy Operating, LLC2 permitsJun 25, 2026 · new to Texas permits
- Holladay #2, LLC1 permitDec 9, 2025 · new to Texas permits
Permit types, 90d
| Type | Window | Prior | All time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drill | 14 | 29 | 9,401 |
| Reclass | 3 | 2 | 50 |
| Recompletion | 1 | 12 | 3,151 |
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 Ellenburger, 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 | 202 | 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 | 960 | 13 | 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 | 3 | 4,101 | 3,342–4,652 |
| Devonian | 301 | 1 | 8,650 | 5,418–18,162 |
| Tubb | 297 | 2 | 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
- 719
- active UIC permits of 2,446
- 9.5M
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 329M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Pecos County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 82
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919207 | Oct 30, 2026 | Oct 16, 2026 | Highmark Energy Operating, LLC | Exito #4HH | 9,600 | 37140576 |
| 919206 | Oct 30, 2026 | Oct 16, 2026 | Highmark Energy Operating, LLC | Exito #3HH | 9,600 | 37140575 |
| 919204 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 16, 2026 | Highmark Energy Operating, LLC | Exito #2HH | 9,600 | 37140574 |
| 919195 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 16, 2026 | Highmark Energy Operating, LLC | Exito #1HH | 9,600 | 37140573 |
| 919207 | Oct 18, 2026 | Oct 16, 2026 | Highmark Energy Operating, LLC | Exito #4HH | 9,600 | 37140576 |
| 919206 | Oct 18, 2026 | Oct 16, 2026 | Highmark Energy Operating, LLC | Exito #3HH | 9,600 | 37140575 |
| 919204 | Oct 18, 2026 | Oct 16, 2026 | Highmark Energy Operating, LLC | Exito #2HH | 9,600 | 37140574 |
| 919195 | Oct 18, 2026 | Oct 16, 2026 | Highmark Energy Operating, LLC | Exito #1HH | 9,600 | 37140573 |
| 918914 | Oct 15, 2026 | Oct 13, 2026 | Shallow Production Oper, LLC | Smith -A- #24W | 354 | 37110094 |
| 918514 | Sep 18, 2026 | Sep 16, 2026 | MBX Operating LLC | Tallboy Thunder #1HH | 10,400 | 37140570 |
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/pecos?days=90, documented in the API reference.