COUNTIES · TEXAS PANHANDLE · DISTRICT 10 · CODE 375
Potter County
Potter County permitting is running 0.7 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (2 total, versus 2 in the prior quarter).
King Operating Corporation leads with 4 permits in the past 12 months, one of 3 operators active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 11,000 ft (prior year: 4,000 ft); 67% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 14 active disposal and injection permits, with 317K barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
TexNet located 6 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M2.8.
1,737 drilling permits have been issued in Potter County since 1977.
1,737 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Sep 24, 2026
Watch Potter CountyAlso: every Potter County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 2
- permits issued, 90d
- +0%
- vs prior 90d (2)
- 1
- operators filing
- 100%
- horizontal
- 11,000
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 106
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 46 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 24 · prior 12 24(+0%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| King Operating Corporation | 4 | 0 |
| Berexco LLC | 2 | 49 |
| Sunlight Exploration, Inc. | 1 | 18 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Potter County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Potter County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Potter County the Pennsylvanian is reported in 33 wells, median top 5,536 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Cave | 745 | 6 | 1,874 | 1,647–2,610 |
| Brown Dolomite | 406 | 4 | 2,397 | 2,026–3,805 |
| Panhandle Lime | 298 | 3 | 2,196 | 1,813–3,002 |
| Granite Wash | 244 | 0 | 2,507 | 2,102–3,003 |
| Tubb | 236 | 0 | 1,545 | 1,332–1,753 |
| Wolfcamp | 62 | 1 | 4,382 | 3,355–6,331 |
| Glorieta | 57 | 0 | 930 | 828–1,035 |
| Canyon | 38 | 0 | 7,320 | 6,579–8,958 |
| Pennsylvanian | 33 | 1 | 5,536 | 4,694–6,770 |
| Clear Fork | 12 | 0 | 2,218 | 1,482–2,512 |
| Wichita-Albany | 12 | 0 | 2,206 | 1,994–3,030 |
| Cisco | 10 | 0 | 7,168 | 6,917–7,329 |
| Ellenburger | 10 | 0 | 3,200 | 2,488–9,360 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 14
- active UIC permits of 77
- 46.2K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 317K
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Potter County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 6
- M2+ events in the area
- M2.8
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919760 | Oct 31, 2026 | Oct 29, 2026 | Berexco LLC | Masterson G #7318 | 2,400 | 37531952 |
| 918784 | Sep 26, 2026 | Sep 24, 2026 | King Operating Corporation | Bivins #3902NH | 11,000 | 37531951 |
| 918706 | Sep 24, 2026 | Sep 22, 2026 | King Operating Corporation | Bivins #3901SH | 11,000 | 37531950 |
| 916828 | Jul 8, 2026 | Jul 8, 2026 | Sunlight Exploration, Inc. | Exell Ranch 'A' #5401 | 10,500 | 37531949 |
| 915765 | May 29, 2026 | May 29, 2026 | Berexco LLC | Masterson G #7317 | 2,400 | 37531948 |
| 911513 | Nov 7, 2025 | Nov 7, 2025 | King Operating Corporation | Bivins #1042NH | 11,000 | 37531947 |
| 911511 | Nov 5, 2025 | Nov 5, 2025 | King Operating Corporation | Bivins #1041SH | 11,000 | 37531946 |
| 910677 | Sep 30, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | Messer Helium Cliffside LLC | Bivins 26 #A 3 | 4,000 | 37500027 |
| 910673 | Sep 30, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | Messer Helium Cliffside LLC | Bush 23 #A 2 | 4,000 | 37500031 |
| 910672 | Sep 30, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | Messer Helium Cliffside LLC | B.H. Bush 'B' #B 1 | 4,000 | 37500068 |
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/potter?days=90, documented in the API reference.