COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 8A · CODE 415
Scurry County, Texas
Scurry County permitting is running 2.0 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (6 total, down 74% on the prior quarter).
Kinder Morgan Production Co LLC leads with 41 permits in the past 12 months, one of 4 operators active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 7,800 ft (prior year: 7,746 ft); 8% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 1,529 active disposal and injection permits, with 281M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
TexNet located 64 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M4.3.
6,268 drilling permits have been issued in Scurry County since 1977.
6,268 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 20, 2026
Watch Scurry CountyAlso: every Scurry County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 29
- permits issued, 180d
- +38%
- vs prior 180d (21)
- 2
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 7,706
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 493
- 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 48 · prior 12 23(+109%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Kinder Morgan Production Co LLC | 41 | 2,921 |
| Occidental Permian Ltd. | 4 | 389 |
| Three Span Oil & Gas, Inc. | 4 | 51 |
| Three Summits Operating LLC | 1 | 7 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Scurry County came in the last year. None.
Permit types, 180d
| Type | Window | Prior | All time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drill | 18 | 19 | 4,973 |
| Reenter | 7 | 1 | 213 |
| Recompletion | 4 | 1 | 809 |
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Scurry 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Andres | 2,336 | 57 | 1,670 | 1,441–1,976 |
| Clear Fork | 2,067 | 54 | 2,662 | 2,380–3,099 |
| Wolfcamp | 1,905 | 58 | 4,808 | 4,496–5,097 |
| Glorieta | 1,888 | 51 | 2,450 | 2,260–2,631 |
| Yates | 1,538 | 53 | 832 | 650–1,048 |
| Canyon | 1,527 | 28 | 6,705 | 6,461–6,901 |
| Cisco | 1,207 | 20 | 6,638 | 6,288–6,781 |
| Wichita-Albany | 1,116 | 46 | 4,338 | 3,990–4,502 |
| Coleman Junction | 1,101 | 44 | 4,787 | 4,200–4,980 |
| Strawn | 233 | 3 | 7,106 | 6,692–7,507 |
| Queen | 187 | 1 | 1,273 | 1,027–1,385 |
| Salado | 149 | 0 | 588 | 512–662 |
| Rustler | 148 | 0 | 566 | 486–646 |
| Tansill | 148 | 0 | 788 | 701–888 |
| Grayburg | 137 | 1 | 1,420 | 1,298–1,519 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 1,529
- active UIC permits of 3,386
- 13.7M
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 281M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Scurry County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 64
- M2+ events in the area
- M4.3
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919400 | Oct 22, 2026 | Oct 20, 2026 | Kinder Morgan Production Co LLC | Sacroc Unit #249-1 | 7,800 | 41502430 |
| 919378 | Oct 21, 2026 | Oct 19, 2026 | Kinder Morgan Production Co LLC | Sacroc Unit #309-5 | 7,800 | 41500306 |
| 917820 | Aug 21, 2026 | Aug 19, 2026 | Occidental Permian Ltd. | Fuller #6046 | 7,163 | 41503912 |
| 917823 | Aug 17, 2026 | Aug 14, 2026 | Occidental Permian Ltd. | Fuller #6028 | 7,054 | 41503898 |
| 917711 | Aug 13, 2026 | Aug 11, 2026 | Occidental Permian Ltd. | Fuller #6053 | 7,093 | 41503914 |
| 917697 | Aug 13, 2026 | Aug 11, 2026 | Occidental Permian Ltd. | Fuller #6018 | 7,163 | 41503891 |
| 917400 | Jul 28, 2026 | Jul 28, 2026 | Kinder Morgan Production Co LLC | Sacroc Unit #309-1A | 7,800 | 41535814 |
| 917396 | Jul 28, 2026 | Jul 28, 2026 | Kinder Morgan Production Co LLC | Sacroc Unit #307-4A | 7,800 | 41535810 |
| 917387 | Jul 28, 2026 | Jul 28, 2026 | Kinder Morgan Production Co LLC | Sacroc Unit #304-1A | 7,800 | 41535806 |
| 917403 | Jul 28, 2026 | Jul 28, 2026 | Kinder Morgan Production Co LLC | Sacroc Unit #309-9 | 7,800 | 41535815 |
Questions about Scurry County
How many drilling permits were issued in Scurry County in the last 12 months?
50 permits were issued in Scurry County in the last 12 months, up 108% from 24 in the 12 months before. 8% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Oct 20, 2026. 6,268 are on file since 1977.
Every Scurry County permit →Who is the most active operator in Scurry County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Kinder Morgan Production Co LLC is the most active operator in Scurry County, with 41 of 50, followed by Occidental Permian Ltd. (4) and Three Span Oil & Gas, Inc. (4). 2 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Scurry County →How many oil and gas wells are in Scurry County?
9,634 wells are on file in Scurry County: 3,367 active, 3,894 plugged, and 16 permitted and not yet drilled. 197 are horizontal, and 77 operators hold them.
Every well in Scurry County →How much oil and gas does Scurry County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Scurry County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Scurry County →How much water is injected in Scurry County?
281 million barrels of water were injected in Scurry County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 1,529 of the county's 3,386 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Scurry County →What formations are drilled in Scurry County?
Completion filings for wells in Scurry County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the San Andres (2,336 wells, median top 1,670 ft), the Clear Fork (2,067 wells, median top 2,662 ft), and the Wolfcamp (1,905 wells, median top 4,808 ft).
Formations in Scurry County →What basin is Scurry County in?
Petrora lists Scurry County in the Permian Basin. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 8A.
The Permian Basin →Have there been earthquakes in Scurry County?
TexNet located 64 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Scurry County's permitted wells in the last 2 years; the largest was M4.3.
Earthquakes in Scurry 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/scurry?days=180, documented in the API reference.