COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 7C · CODE 399
Runnels County, Texas
Runnels County permitting is running 0.7 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (2 total, versus 2 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 4,512 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 →
- 4
- permits issued, 180d
- +300%
- vs prior 180d (1)
- 4
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 3,548
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 982
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 5, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 5 · prior 12 8(-37%)
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 | 62 |
| Quail Well Service, Inc. | 1 | 7 |
| Mission Energy Inc. | 1 | 6 |
| Nodding Donkey Resources LLC | 1 | 4 |
| 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, 180d
| Type | Window | Prior | All time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drill | 2 | 0 | 4,937 |
| Recompletion | 1 | 0 | 582 |
| Reenter | 1 | 1 | 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 →
| 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 |
Questions about Runnels County
How many drilling permits were issued in Runnels County in the last 12 months?
5 permits were issued in Runnels County in the last 12 months, down 62% from 13 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Oct 19, 2026. 6,113 are on file since 1977.
Every Runnels County permit →Who is the most active operator in Runnels County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Cedar Oil Company is the most active operator in Runnels County, with 1 of 5, followed by Quail Well Service, Inc. (1) and Mission Energy Inc. (1). 2 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Runnels County →How many oil and gas wells are in Runnels County?
7,112 wells are on file in Runnels County: 298 active, 5,757 plugged, and 3 permitted and not yet drilled. 7 are horizontal, and 54 operators hold them.
Every well in Runnels County →How much oil and gas does Runnels County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Runnels County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Runnels County →How much water is injected in Runnels County?
1.3 million barrels of water were injected in Runnels County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 35 of the county's 469 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Runnels County →What formations are drilled in Runnels County?
Completion filings for wells in Runnels County report tops for 11 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Palo Pinto (740 wells, median top 3,440 ft), the Coleman Junction (190 wells, median top 1,595 ft), and the Caddo (181 wells, median top 4,212 ft).
Formations in Runnels County →What basin is Runnels County in?
Petrora lists Runnels County in the Permian Basin. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 7C.
The Permian Basin →Have there been earthquakes in Runnels County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Runnels County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Runnels 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/runnels?days=180, documented in the API reference.