COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 7C · CODE 435
Sutton County, Texas
Sutton County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued December 15, 2025.
Upp Operating, LLC leads with 4 permits in the past 12 months, the only operator active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 4,000 ft (prior year: 6,000 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 22 active disposal and injection permits, with 963K barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
8,479 drilling permits have been issued in Sutton County since 1977.
8,479 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Dec 15, 2025
Watch Sutton CountyAlso: every Sutton County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
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- permits issued, 90d
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- vs prior 90d (0)
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- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
- 235
- 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 2 · prior 12 11(-82%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Upp Operating, LLC | 4 | 5,537 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Sutton County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Sutton County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Sutton County the Leonard is reported in 94 wells, median top 1,768 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
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| Canyon | 5,638 | 15 | 5,406 | 3,890–6,511 |
| Base Cretaceous (marker) | 4,372 | 12 | 825 | 693–945 |
| Wolfcamp | 4,274 | 13 | 3,013 | 1,834–3,938 |
| Strawn | 2,112 | 2 | 7,820 | 6,929–8,479 |
| Leonard | 94 | 1 | 1,768 | 1,100–2,299 |
| Ellenburger | 69 | 0 | 7,886 | 5,712–8,427 |
| Cisco | 64 | 0 | 2,275 | 1,996–5,262 |
| Pennsylvanian | 29 | 1 | 5,065 | 4,190–8,380 |
| Clear Fork | 16 | 0 | 2,827 | 2,258–3,018 |
| Mississippian | 13 | 0 | 6,465 | 6,441–9,040 |
| Woodford | 13 | 0 | 8,890 | 8,225–9,281 |
| Edwards | 11 | 0 | 400 | 1–718 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 22
- active UIC permits of 80
- 116K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 963K
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Sutton County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
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- 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 |
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| 912136 | Dec 15, 2025 | Dec 15, 2025 | Upp Operating, LLC | Shurley #152 | 4,650 | 43539161 |
| 912134 | Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 12, 2025 | Upp Operating, LLC | Davis 'A' #12 | 4,500 | 43536343 |
| 911861 | Nov 21, 2025 | Nov 21, 2025 | Upp Operating, LLC | Fields 15 #17 | 3,500 | 43537601 |
| 911859 | Nov 21, 2025 | Nov 21, 2025 | Upp Operating, LLC | Fields 14 #11 | 3,500 | 43535618 |
| 910916 | Oct 15, 2025 | Oct 15, 2025 | Upp Operating, LLC | Canyon Ranch 114 #19S | 6,800 | 43539115 |
| 910917 | Oct 14, 2025 | Oct 14, 2025 | Upp Operating, LLC | Pfluger 104 #14 | 5,600 | 43534784 |
| 910766 | Oct 9, 2025 | Oct 9, 2025 | Upp Operating, LLC | Steen #93 | 6,000 | 43537977 |
| 910930 | Oct 7, 2025 | Oct 7, 2025 | Upp Operating, LLC | Espy 56 #16 | 6,100 | 43538649 |
| 910924 | Oct 7, 2025 | Oct 7, 2025 | Upp Operating, LLC | Pfluger 84 #15 | 5,600 | 43534958 |
| 910921 | Oct 7, 2025 | Oct 7, 2025 | Upp Operating, LLC | Pfluger 105 #15 | 5,650 | 43535035 |
Questions about Sutton County
How many drilling permits were issued in Sutton County in the last 12 months?
4 permits were issued in Sutton County in the last 12 months, down 56% from 9 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Dec 15, 2025. 8,479 are on file since 1977.
Every Sutton County permit →Who is the most active operator in Sutton County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Upp Operating, LLC is the most active operator in Sutton County, with 4 of 4. 0 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Sutton County →How many oil and gas wells are in Sutton County?
8,637 wells are on file in Sutton County: 5,343 active and 1,750 plugged. 25 are horizontal, and 22 operators hold them.
Every well in Sutton County →How much oil and gas does Sutton County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Sutton County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Sutton County →How much water is injected in Sutton County?
962,774 barrels of water were injected in Sutton County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 22 of the county's 80 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Sutton County →What formations are drilled in Sutton County?
Completion filings for wells in Sutton County report tops for 12 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Canyon (5,638 wells, median top 5,406 ft), the Base Cretaceous (marker) (4,372 wells, median top 825 ft), and the Wolfcamp (4,274 wells, median top 3,013 ft).
Formations in Sutton County →What basin is Sutton County in?
Petrora lists Sutton County in the Permian Basin. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 7C.
The Permian Basin →Have there been earthquakes in Sutton County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Sutton County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Sutton 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/sutton?days=90, documented in the API reference.