COUNTIES · TEXAS PANHANDLE · DISTRICT 10 · CODE 421
Sherman County, Texas
Sherman County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued June 19, 2026.
Travelers Oil Company leads with 1 permit in the past 12 months, the only operator active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 3,500 ft; 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 14 active disposal and injection permits, with 1.46M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
1 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M2.5.
1,138 drilling permits have been issued in Sherman County since 1977.
1,138 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Jun 19, 2026
Watch Sherman CountyAlso: every Sherman County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 1
- permits issued, 365d
- -50%
- vs prior 365d (2)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 3,500
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 135
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 8, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 1 · prior 12 2(-50%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Travelers Oil Company | 1 | 59 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Sherman County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Sherman 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown Dolomite | 389 | 3 | 2,924 | 2,649–3,096 |
| Red Cave | 207 | 0 | 1,877 | 1,611–2,064 |
| Panhandle Lime | 205 | 0 | 2,585 | 2,423–2,712 |
| Glorieta | 167 | 0 | 1,107 | 1,003–1,170 |
| Marmaton | 133 | 1 | 5,400 | 4,831–5,534 |
| Morrow | 108 | 0 | 6,286 | 5,058–6,408 |
| Douglas | 87 | 1 | 4,557 | 4,400–4,653 |
| Tubb | 65 | 0 | 1,868 | 1,738–2,022 |
| Permian (undifferentiated) | 64 | 0 | 540 | 463–585 |
| Oswego | 62 | 1 | 5,476 | 4,914–5,795 |
| Mississippian | 52 | 0 | 6,502 | 5,270–6,937 |
| Tonkawa | 38 | 1 | 4,864 | 4,792–4,971 |
| Pennsylvanian | 37 | 0 | 3,890 | 3,126–4,222 |
| Chester | 28 | 0 | 6,832 | 5,988–6,869 |
| Cleveland | 27 | 0 | 4,672 | 4,548–5,358 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 14
- active UIC permits of 46
- 22.6K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 1.46M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Sherman County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
USGS catalog, Texas
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 1
- M2+ events in the area
- M2.5
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 916530 | Jun 19, 2026 | Jun 19, 2026 | Travelers Oil Company | Ivens #3 | 3,500 | 42130320 |
| 908630 | Jun 18, 2025 | Jun 18, 2025 | Pantera Energy Company | Dooley #3 | 3,500 | 42131266 |
| 908635 | Jun 17, 2025 | Jun 17, 2025 | Pantera Energy Company | Heinrich #2 | 3,500 | 42131267 |
| 902832 | Oct 2, 2024 | Oct 2, 2024 | Scout Energy Management LLC | Coldwater Ranch Unit #C 1 | 5,650 | 42130328 |
| 890274 | Jun 6, 2023 | Jun 6, 2023 | Scout Energy Management LLC | Coldwater Ranch C #1 | 5,650 | 42130328 |
| 890728 | May 22, 2023 | May 22, 2023 | O'Brien Energy Resources Corp | Renner #3 | 7,050 | 42131265 |
| 889771 | May 12, 2023 | May 12, 2023 | Scout Energy Management LLC | Willclo #6 | 6,300 | 42130491 |
| 889775 | May 5, 2023 | May 5, 2023 | Scout Energy Management LLC | Kathryn 'A' #2 | 7,200 | 42130302 |
| 883533 | Oct 28, 2022 | Oct 28, 2022 | Pantera Energy Company | Cartrite Gas Unit #3002 | 3,700 | 42131262 |
| 883467 | Oct 11, 2022 | Oct 11, 2022 | Pantera Energy Company | Hudson, E. F. #4504 | 3,700 | 42131260 |
Questions about Sherman County
How many drilling permits were issued in Sherman County in the last 12 months?
1 permit was issued in Sherman County in the last 12 months, down 50% from 2 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Jun 19, 2026. 1,138 are on file since 1977.
Every Sherman County permit →Who is the most active operator in Sherman County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Travelers Oil Company is the most active operator in Sherman County, with 1 of 1. 0 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Sherman County →How many oil and gas wells are in Sherman County?
1,869 wells are on file in Sherman County, including 819 active and 675 plugged. 17 are horizontal. The active wells are under 28 operators.
Every well in Sherman County →How much oil and gas does Sherman County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Sherman County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Sherman County →How much water is injected in Sherman County?
1.5 million barrels of water were injected in Sherman County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 14 of the county's 46 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Sherman County →What formations are drilled in Sherman County?
Completion filings for wells in Sherman County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Brown Dolomite (389 wells, median top 2,924 ft), the Red Cave (207 wells, median top 1,877 ft), and the Panhandle Lime (205 wells, median top 2,585 ft).
Formations in Sherman County →What basin is Sherman County in?
Petrora lists Sherman County in the Texas Panhandle. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 10.
The Texas Panhandle →Have there been earthquakes in Sherman County?
1 earthquake of magnitude 2 or more was located in the area of Sherman County's permitted wells in the last 2 years; the largest was M2.5.
Earthquakes in Sherman 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/sherman?days=365, documented in the API reference.