COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 7C · CODE 399
Runnels County
Runnels County permitting is running about one permit a month over the trailing 90 days (3 total, versus 1 in the prior quarter).
Cedar Oil Company leads with 1 permit in the past 12 months, one of 5 operators active in the county.
3 operators filed a first Runnels County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 4,660 ft (prior year: 4,450 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 35 active disposal and injection permits, with 1.28M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
6,113 drilling permits have been issued in Runnels County since 1977.
6,113 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 19, 2026
Watch Runnels CountyAlso: every Runnels County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 3
- permits issued, 90d
- +200%
- vs prior 90d (1)
- 3
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 4,597
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 982
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 79 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 20 · prior 12 22(-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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cedar Oil Company | 1 | 37 |
| Quail Well Service, Inc. | 1 | 7 |
| Mission Energy Inc. | 1 | 3 |
| Nodding Donkey Resources LLC | 1 | 0 |
| Enterprise Products Operatingllc | 1 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Runnels County came in the last year. 3 in total.
- Mission Energy Inc.1 permitOct 19, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Nodding Donkey Resources LLC1 permitAug 12, 2026 · new to Texas permits
- Quail Well Service, Inc.1 permitJan 26, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Permit types, 90d
| Type | Window | Prior | All time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drill | 1 | 1 | 4,937 |
| Recompletion | 1 | 0 | 582 |
| Reenter | 1 | 0 | 267 |
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Runnels County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Runnels County the Caddo is reported in 181 wells, median top 4,212 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palo Pinto | 740 | 5 | 3,440 | 3,112–3,906 |
| Coleman Junction | 190 | 5 | 1,595 | 1,064–1,943 |
| Caddo | 181 | 1 | 4,212 | 3,892–4,684 |
| Ellenburger | 179 | 1 | 4,524 | 4,299–4,732 |
| Canyon | 164 | 3 | 3,541 | 3,104–4,000 |
| Cisco | 75 | 2 | 3,046 | 2,778–3,600 |
| Strawn | 73 | 1 | 4,100 | 3,692–4,431 |
| Saddle Creek | 69 | 0 | 2,168 | 1,722–2,431 |
| Gunsight | 51 | 0 | 2,422 | 2,140–2,750 |
| Mississippian | 32 | 0 | 4,473 | 4,042–4,666 |
| Barnett | 10 | 0 | 4,410 | 4,398–4,493 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 35
- active UIC permits of 469
- 134K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 1.28M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Runnels County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 0
- M2+ events in the area
- —
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919268 | Oct 21, 2026 | Oct 19, 2026 | Mission Energy Inc. | Hirt #1 | 4,280 | 39934947 |
| 917722 | Aug 14, 2026 | Aug 12, 2026 | Nodding Donkey Resources LLC | Evans #3A | 5,000 | 39935634 |
| 917607 | Aug 8, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 | Cedar Oil Company | Richard #1 | 4,512 | 39935323 |
| 915655 | May 19, 2026 | May 19, 2026 | Enterprise Products Operatingllc | SE-196 #1 | 400 | 39935633 |
| 913051 | Jan 26, 2026 | Jan 26, 2026 | Quail Well Service, Inc. | Forman #1 | 5,000 | 39903066 |
| 911449 | Oct 29, 2025 | Oct 29, 2025 | Cedar Oil Company | Fennell #605 | 4,808 | 39903682 |
| 911313 | Oct 24, 2025 | Oct 24, 2025 | Cedar Oil Company | Fennell #610 | 4,413 | 39903687 |
| 909482 | Aug 6, 2025 | Aug 6, 2025 | Energy Transfer Company | Cathodic Protection #28 | 400 | 39935632 |
| 909136 | Jul 10, 2025 | Jul 10, 2025 | Pony Express Corporate Trust | Mocha Unit #1 | 4,740 | 39935458 |
| 908754 | Jun 23, 2025 | Jun 23, 2025 | Enrich Oil Corporation | Carl #1 | 5,000 | 39935631 |
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/runnels?days=90, documented in the API reference.