COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 7C · CODE 435
Sutton County
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)
- 0
- 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 OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 19 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 38
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 | 5,290 |
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 →
Fewer than ten wells in Sutton County report the Palo Pinto, so it is below this table's cutoff. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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.