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Reagan County

Reagan County permitting is running 31 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (94 total, down 10% on the prior quarter). 2 were issued in the past week.

DE Central Operating, LLC leads with 208 permits in the past 12 months, one of 16 operators active in the county.

3 operators filed a first Reagan County permit in the past year.

Median permitted depth over the past year is 10,605 ft (prior year: 10,550 ft); 97% of the past year's permits are horizontal.

The county has 194 active disposal and injection permits, with 185M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

TexNet located 33 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M3.6.

13,653 drilling permits have been issued in Reagan County since 1977.

13,653 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 27, 2026

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Also: every Reagan County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →

Window30 days90 days180 days365 days
94
permits issued, 90d
-10%
vs prior 90d (104)
6
operators filing
99%
horizontal
10,124
avg permitted depth, ft
491
operators, all time

WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER

Permits issued by month

LAST 117 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 373 · prior 12 483(-23%)

0501001502017201820192020202120222023202420252026

Top operators, last 12 months

By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.

OperatorPermitsWells
DE Central Operating, LLC208349
Pioneer Natural Res. USA, Inc.472,354
Discovery Natural Resources LLC371,028
Apache Corporation161,053
Permian Resources Operating, LLC15305
Black Swan Opco, LLC1512
Hannathon Petroleum II, LLC1135
Iron Orchard Operating LLC93
Xri Disposal Holdings, LLC55
DE IV Flow, LLC23

Full operator directory →

New entrants, last 12 months

Operators whose first permit in Reagan County came in the last year. 3 in total.

Permit types, 90d

TypeWindowPriorAll time
Drill1279113,131
Reenter0161

What the types mean →

Formations in completed wells

RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS

Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Reagan County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →

In Reagan County the Canyon is reported in 275 wells, median top 8,335 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →

FormationWellsPermitted last 3 yrsMedian top, ftP10–P90
Spraberry7,1296446,0635,329–6,710
Dean4,627937,4366,653–8,097
Wolfcamp3,8684567,5286,817–8,156
San Andres3,3616573,1962,293–3,813
Grayburg3,2806322,7702,079–3,485
Queen3,0386282,4501,900–3,026
Clear Fork2,9856425,0153,673–5,794
Strawn64249,6138,910–10,325
Jo Mill63586,6236,100–7,256
Yates489471,7301,406–2,122
Cline29609,0608,685–9,886
Canyon27508,3357,864–8,838
Seven Rivers252381,9161,560–2,392
Santa Rosa18124666500–820
Rustler161431,170968–1,405

Beyond the permit record

RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes

Disposal and injection

194
active UIC permits of 688
2.96M
permitted bbl/day, active
185M
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025
reported through

Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Reagan County →

Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →

TexNet catalog via USGS

Seismicity, last 2 years

33
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

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorLease / wellDepthAPI
919803Nov 1, 2026Oct 30, 2026DE Central Operating, LLCStormchaser West G 10-43 #4307HH10,60538342536
919802Nov 1, 2026Oct 30, 2026DE Central Operating, LLCStormchaser West F 10-43 #4206HH10,60538342535
919801Nov 1, 2026Oct 30, 2026DE Central Operating, LLCStormchaser West E 10-43 #4305HH10,60538342534
919800Nov 1, 2026Oct 30, 2026DE Central Operating, LLCStormchaser West C 10-43 #4203HH10,60538342533
919799Nov 1, 2026Oct 30, 2026DE Central Operating, LLCStormchaser West B 10-43 #4302HH10,60538342532
919798Nov 1, 2026Oct 30, 2026DE Central Operating, LLCStormchaser West a 10-43 #4201HH10,60538342531
919797Nov 1, 2026Oct 30, 2026DE Central Operating, LLCStormchaser East O 10-43 #4315HH10,60538342530
919796Nov 1, 2026Oct 30, 2026DE Central Operating, LLCStormchaser East N 10-43 #4214HH10,60538342528
919794Nov 1, 2026Oct 30, 2026DE Central Operating, LLCStormchaser East M 10-43 #4313HH10,60538342529
919787Nov 1, 2026Oct 30, 2026DE Central Operating, LLCMoondancer West G 9-44 #4307HH10,60538342527

All Reagan County permits →

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/reagan?days=90, documented in the API reference.