COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 7C · CODE 413
Schleicher County, Texas
Schleicher County permitting is running 0.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (1 total, after a quiet prior quarter).
TXP, Incorporated leads with 1 permit in the past 12 months, one of 4 operators active in the county.
One operator filed a first Schleicher County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 5,515 ft (prior year: 6,939 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 37 active disposal and injection permits, with 1.35M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
2,909 drilling permits have been issued in Schleicher County since 1977.
2,909 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Aug 27, 2026
Email me new permitsAlso: every Schleicher County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 1
- permits issued, 90d
- —
- vs prior 90d (0)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 5,700
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 475
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 9, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 4 · prior 12 5(-20%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| TXP, Incorporated | 1 | 84 |
| Oil Projects, LLC | 1 | 5 |
| Dry Fork Production Co., LLC | 1 | 0 |
| Reatta Energy, Inc. | 1 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Schleicher County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Dry Fork Production Co., LLC1 permitAug 27, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Schleicher County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Schleicher County the Clear Fork is reported in 177 wells, median top 2,321 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canyon | 961 | 3 | 6,480 | 4,096–7,196 |
| Wolfcamp | 762 | 2 | 4,544 | 3,482–5,320 |
| Strawn | 585 | 4 | 6,886 | 4,275–8,208 |
| Base Cretaceous (marker) | 412 | 2 | 804 | 520–1,292 |
| Palo Pinto | 220 | 3 | 4,049 | 3,665–4,982 |
| Clear Fork | 177 | 1 | 2,321 | 1,300–3,652 |
| Leonard | 172 | 2 | 2,807 | 1,880–4,926 |
| Ellenburger | 127 | 0 | 7,845 | 6,632–8,431 |
| Coleman Junction | 113 | 3 | 1,670 | 1,111–2,444 |
| Dean | 102 | 0 | 4,482 | 3,590–5,146 |
| San Angelo | 74 | 1 | 989 | 700–1,601 |
| Spraberry | 44 | 0 | 3,729 | 2,963–4,542 |
| Wichita-Albany | 34 | 1 | 3,236 | 3,023–3,749 |
| Cisco | 28 | 0 | 3,415 | 2,449–6,364 |
| Pennsylvanian | 18 | 0 | 4,852 | 2,321–7,920 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 37
- active UIC permits of 187
- 64.9K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 1.35M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Schleicher County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
USGS catalog, Texas
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 0
- M2+ events in the area
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- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 918125 | Aug 29, 2026 | Aug 27, 2026 | Dry Fork Production Co., LLC | Wheeler #1DF | 5,700 | 41333036 |
| 912526 | Apr 7, 2026 | Apr 7, 2026 | Reatta Energy, Inc. | Houston #1 | 7,000 | 41333035 |
| 913577Amendment | Feb 20, 2026 | Feb 20, 2026 | TXP, Incorporated | Whitten, L.I. #1 | 5,330 | 41310333 |
| 913577 | Feb 20, 2026 | Feb 20, 2026 | TXP, Incorporated | Whitten, L.I. #1 | 5,200 | 41310333 |
| 912586 | Jan 9, 2026 | Jan 9, 2026 | Oil Projects, LLC | Thornburg #T 1A | 4,204 | 41331576 |
| 911210 | Oct 20, 2025 | Oct 20, 2025 | VX Operating, LLC | Simmons #2 | 4,100 | 41333034 |
| 911167 | Oct 17, 2025 | Oct 17, 2025 | Bustamante Oil Company | University 5 #1 | 7,370 | 41330953 |
| 910430 | Sep 15, 2025 | Sep 15, 2025 | Oil Projects, LLC | Harzke 29 #1 | 1,999 | 41331460 |
| 908426 | Jun 5, 2025 | Jun 5, 2025 | Discovery Operating, Inc. | Ruth 'A' #1 | 6,878 | 41331196 |
| 907280 | Apr 9, 2025 | Apr 9, 2025 | Reatta Energy, Inc. | Sam Houston #1 | 7,000 | 41333033 |
Questions about Schleicher County
How many drilling permits were issued in Schleicher County in the last 12 months?
4 permits were issued in Schleicher County in the last 12 months, down 33% from 6 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Aug 27, 2026. 2,909 are on file since 1977.
Every Schleicher County permit →Who is the most active operator in Schleicher County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, TXP, Incorporated is the most active operator in Schleicher County, with 1 of 4, followed by Oil Projects, LLC (1) and Dry Fork Production Co., LLC (1). 1 operator filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Schleicher County →How many oil and gas wells are in Schleicher County?
3,363 wells are on file in Schleicher County, including 965 active and 1,845 plugged. 45 are horizontal. The active wells are under 63 operators.
Every well in Schleicher County →How much oil and gas does Schleicher County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Schleicher County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Schleicher County →How much water is injected in Schleicher County?
1.4 million barrels of water were injected in Schleicher County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 37 of the county's 187 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Schleicher County →What formations are drilled in Schleicher County?
Completion filings for wells in Schleicher County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Canyon (961 wells, median top 6,480 ft), the Wolfcamp (762 wells, median top 4,544 ft), and the Strawn (585 wells, median top 6,886 ft).
Formations in Schleicher County →What basin is Schleicher County in?
Petrora lists Schleicher County in the Permian Basin. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 7C.
The Permian Basin →Have there been earthquakes in Schleicher County?
No earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of Schleicher County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Schleicher 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/schleicher?days=90, documented in the API reference.