COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 08 · CODE 389
Reeves County, Texas
Reeves County permitting is running 50 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (151 total, down 18% on the prior quarter). 3 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 997 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M3.9.
15,904 drilling permits have been issued in Reeves County since 1977.
15,904 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Nov 4, 2026
Watch Reeves CountyAlso: every Reeves County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 336
- permits issued, 180d
- +39%
- vs prior 180d (241)
- 29
- operators filing
- 93%
- horizontal
- 12,005
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 601
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 6, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 570 · prior 12 628(-9%)
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 | 1,302 |
| Anadarko E&P Onshore LLC | 56 | 482 |
| BPX Operating Company | 51 | 482 |
| U.S. Energy Development Corp | 44 | 162 |
| VTX Energy Operating, LLC | 41 | 380 |
| TRP Operating LLC | 31 | 162 |
| EOG Resources, Inc. | 28 | 346 |
| Mewbourne Oil Company | 27 | 44 |
| Apache Corporation | 22 | 748 |
| Perun Energy LLC | 21 | 86 |
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
Permit types, 180d
| Type | Window | Prior | All time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drill | 335 | 226 | 15,130 |
| Recompletion | 1 | 7 | 381 |
| Field transfer | 0 | 8 | 221 |
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 →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bone Spring | 6,543 | 721 | 7,748 | 6,596–8,395 |
| Cherry Canyon | 6,305 | 762 | 5,300 | 3,800–6,039 |
| Bell Canyon | 5,824 | 688 | 4,490 | 2,981–5,198 |
| Wolfcamp | 5,264 | 303 | 10,282 | 9,388–10,622 |
| Delaware | 4,952 | 344 | 4,018 | 2,500–5,114 |
| Castile | 3,171 | 272 | 2,524 | 1,030–3,670 |
| Permian (undifferentiated) | 1,538 | 21 | 2,604 | 812–11,300 |
| Lamar | 860 | 149 | 4,742 | 2,800–5,180 |
| Brushy Canyon | 806 | 154 | 6,194 | 5,071–7,207 |
| Rustler | 519 | 129 | 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
- 997
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919345 | Nov 6, 2026 | Nov 4, 2026 | Apache Corporation | Quigley 26 A #301HH | 9,999 | 38942362 |
| 919810 | Nov 4, 2026 | Nov 2, 2026 | BPX Operating Company | Jr 56-T3-21X26 BC W203H #W203HH | 12,838 | 38942376 |
| 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 |
Questions about Reeves County
How many drilling permits were issued in Reeves County in the last 12 months?
577 permits were issued in Reeves County in the last 12 months, down 13% from 662 in the 12 months before. 94% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Nov 4, 2026. 15,904 are on file since 1977.
Every Reeves County permit →Who is the most active operator in Reeves County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Permian Resources Operating, LLC is the most active operator in Reeves County, with 75 of 577, followed by Anadarko E&P Onshore LLC (56) and BPX Operating Company (51). 21 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Reeves County →How many oil and gas wells are in Reeves County?
12,570 wells are on file in Reeves County: 6,253 active, 2,127 plugged, and 270 permitted and not yet drilled. 6,882 are horizontal, and 131 operators hold them.
Every well in Reeves County →How much oil and gas does Reeves County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Reeves County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Reeves County →How much water is injected in Reeves County?
1.27 billion barrels of water were injected in Reeves County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 479 of the county's 1,273 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Reeves County →What formations are drilled in Reeves County?
Completion filings for wells in Reeves County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Bone Spring (6,543 wells, median top 7,748 ft), the Cherry Canyon (6,305 wells, median top 5,300 ft), and the Bell Canyon (5,824 wells, median top 4,490 ft).
Formations in Reeves County →What basin is Reeves County in?
Petrora lists Reeves County in the Permian Basin. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 08.
The Permian Basin →Have there been earthquakes in Reeves County?
TexNet located 997 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Reeves County's permitted wells in the last 2 years; the largest was M3.9.
Earthquakes in Reeves County →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=180, documented in the API reference.