COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 7C · CODE 413
Schleicher County
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 2 permits 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 5,330 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.
3,148 drilling permits have been issued in Schleicher County since 1977.
3,148 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Aug 27, 2026
Watch Schleicher CountyAlso: 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
- 476
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 47 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 14 · prior 12 16(-12%)
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 | 2 | 67 |
| Oil Projects, LLC | 1 | 3 |
| 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 Wolfcamp is reported in 762 wells, median top 4,544 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 →
TexNet catalog via USGS
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 |
| 913577 | 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 |
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.
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