COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 08 · CODE 389
Reeves County
Reeves County permitting is running 52 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (156 total, down 11% on the prior quarter). 4 were issued in the past week.
Permian Resources Operating, LLC leads with 75 permits in the past 12 months, one of 37 operators active in the county.
4 operators filed a first Reeves County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 12,000 ft; 94% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 479 active disposal and injection permits, with 1.27B barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
TexNet located 985 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M3.9.
15,875 drilling permits have been issued in Reeves County since 1977.
15,875 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 27, 2026
Watch Reeves CountyAlso: every Reeves County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 156
- permits issued, 90d
- -11%
- vs prior 90d (176)
- 20
- operators filing
- 88%
- horizontal
- 11,562
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 601
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 119 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 582 · prior 12 657(-11%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Permian Resources Operating, LLC | 75 | 1,128 |
| Anadarko E&P Onshore LLC | 55 | 448 |
| BPX Operating Company | 50 | 474 |
| U.S. Energy Development Corp | 44 | 151 |
| VTX Energy Operating, LLC | 41 | 360 |
| TRP Operating LLC | 31 | 160 |
| EOG Resources, Inc. | 28 | 332 |
| Mewbourne Oil Company | 27 | 41 |
| Apache Corporation | 21 | 691 |
| Greenlake Energy Operating, LLC | 21 | 50 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Reeves County came in the last year. 4 in total.
- Northstar Resources, LLC11 permitsJan 26, 2026 · new to Texas permits
- Uep Operating LLC6 permitsSep 2, 2026 · new to Texas permits
- WWM Operating, LLC5 permitsOct 1, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Pbex Operations, LLC1 permitNov 14, 2025 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Reeves 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 Reeves County report the Fusselman, so it is below this table's cutoff. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bone Spring | 6,537 | 721 | 7,748 | 6,597–8,395 |
| Cherry Canyon | 6,298 | 761 | 5,300 | 3,800–6,039 |
| Bell Canyon | 5,818 | 686 | 4,490 | 2,981–5,198 |
| Wolfcamp | 5,262 | 302 | 10,283 | 9,388–10,622 |
| Delaware | 4,949 | 344 | 4,018 | 2,500–5,114 |
| Castile | 3,168 | 272 | 2,524 | 1,030–3,670 |
| Permian (undifferentiated) | 1,538 | 21 | 2,604 | 812–11,300 |
| Lamar | 860 | 150 | 4,742 | 2,800–5,180 |
| Brushy Canyon | 806 | 155 | 6,194 | 5,071–7,207 |
| Rustler | 519 | 132 | 994 | 764–1,852 |
| Avalon | 328 | 28 | 7,866 | 6,976–8,150 |
| Salado | 196 | 58 | 1,563 | 1,222–2,092 |
| Atoka | 126 | 2 | 12,402 | 9,566–16,342 |
| Pennsylvanian | 113 | 0 | 11,000 | 9,083–13,740 |
| Devonian | 107 | 0 | 13,336 | 10,683–17,183 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 479
- active UIC permits of 1,273
- 10M
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 1.27B
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Reeves County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 985
- M2+ events in the area
- M3.9
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919406 | Nov 1, 2026 | Oct 30, 2026 | Apache Corporation | Quigley 26 #503HH | 11,200 | 38942365 |
| 919344 | Oct 30, 2026 | Oct 28, 2026 | Apache Corporation | Quigley 26 #312HH | 10,500 | 38942361 |
| 919343 | Oct 30, 2026 | Oct 28, 2026 | Apache Corporation | Quigley 26 #303HH | 10,200 | 38942360 |
| 919342 | Oct 30, 2026 | Oct 28, 2026 | Apache Corporation | Quigley 26 #201HH | 9,300 | 38942359 |
| 919410 | Oct 30, 2026 | Oct 28, 2026 | Apache Corporation | Quigley State D #502HH | 11,200 | 38942367 |
| 919695 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 27, 2026 | Layne SWD, LLC | Womac SWD #1 | 7,774 | 38942375 |
| 919694 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 27, 2026 | Layne SWD, LLC | Lucky Texan SWD #1 | 6,550 | 38942374 |
| 919542 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 27, 2026 | Admiral Permian Operating LLC | Stapleton Flowers #202SHH | 9,500 | 38942373 |
| 919540 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 27, 2026 | Admiral Permian Operating LLC | Stapleton Flowers #201SHH | 9,500 | 38942372 |
| 919513 | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 21, 2026 | Perun Energy LLC | Terry #5 | 12,000 | 38942369 |
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/reeves?days=90, documented in the API reference.