COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 8A · CODE 445
Terry County
Terry County permitting is running 2.0 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (6 total, versus 2 in the prior quarter).
Basin Oil & Gas Operating, LLC leads with 16 permits in the past 12 months, one of 6 operators active in the county.
2 operators filed a first Terry County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 8,700 ft (prior year: 8,550 ft); 10% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 527 active disposal and injection permits, with 49.4M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
2,461 drilling permits have been issued in Terry County since 1977.
2,461 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Sep 16, 2026
Watch Terry CountyAlso: every Terry County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 6
- permits issued, 90d
- +200%
- vs prior 90d (2)
- 2
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 9,550
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 329
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 57 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 47 · prior 12 18(+161%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Basin Oil & Gas Operating, LLC | 16 | 54 |
| Occidental Permian Ltd. | 3 | 56 |
| Aviator Energy, LLC | 2 | 32 |
| Griffin Petroleum Company | 2 | 5 |
| Cory, Kenneth W. Ltd. | 2 | 4 |
| Hilcorp Energy Company | 1 | 146 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Terry County came in the last year. 2 in total.
- Aviator Energy, LLC2 permitsSep 4, 2026 · new to Texas permits
- Hilcorp Energy Company1 permitApr 22, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Terry 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 | 1,053 | 28 | 4,528 | 4,300–5,135 |
| Yates | 701 | 28 | 3,110 | 2,920–3,326 |
| Glorieta | 699 | 22 | 5,900 | 5,780–5,998 |
| Clear Fork | 683 | 28 | 6,380 | 6,112–6,847 |
| Rustler | 473 | 11 | 2,431 | 2,296–2,541 |
| Tubb | 221 | 9 | 7,154 | 6,926–7,330 |
| Abo | 178 | 1 | 7,617 | 7,498–7,913 |
| Wolfcamp | 128 | 0 | 9,265 | 8,400–9,986 |
| Spraberry | 118 | 0 | 7,435 | 6,800–7,846 |
| Seven Rivers | 112 | 6 | 3,278 | 3,094–3,430 |
| Grayburg | 85 | 2 | 4,244 | 3,993–4,428 |
| Queen | 82 | 2 | 3,833 | 3,554–4,107 |
| Dean | 73 | 0 | 8,967 | 8,519–9,664 |
| Strawn | 63 | 0 | 11,112 | 10,081–11,635 |
| Fusselman | 40 | 1 | 11,686 | 11,479–12,801 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 527
- active UIC permits of 1,052
- 1.46M
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 49.4M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Terry 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
- —
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 918679 | Sep 18, 2026 | Sep 16, 2026 | Basin Oil & Gas Operating, LLC | Suntura (Lower Clear Fork) Unit #7RW | 8,400 | 44532514 |
| 918589 | Sep 17, 2026 | Sep 15, 2026 | Basin Oil & Gas Operating, LLC | Suntura (Lower Clear Fork) Unit #12W | 8,400 | 44532513 |
| 918304 | Sep 6, 2026 | Sep 4, 2026 | Aviator Energy, LLC | M. Flache 71 #2L | 11,900 | 44530988 |
| 918302 | Sep 6, 2026 | Sep 4, 2026 | Aviator Energy, LLC | Harred 92 #1 | 11,800 | 44530888 |
| 917776 | Aug 22, 2026 | Aug 20, 2026 | Basin Oil & Gas Operating, LLC | Suntura (Lower Clear Fork) Unit #605 | 8,400 | 44532512 |
| 917639 | Aug 8, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 | Basin Oil & Gas Operating, LLC | Suntura (Lower Clear Fork) Unit #704 | 8,400 | 44532511 |
| 916980 | Jul 16, 2026 | Jul 16, 2026 | Basin Oil & Gas Operating, LLC | Suntura (Lower Clear Fork) Unit #520 | 8,700 | 44532510 |
| 916525 | Jun 18, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | Basin Oil & Gas Operating, LLC | Suntura (Lower Clear Fork) Unit #521 | 8,700 | 44532509 |
| 915148 | Apr 30, 2026 | Apr 30, 2026 | Griffin Petroleum Company | Griffin A #5 | 8,550 | 44532508 |
| 915025 | Apr 24, 2026 | Apr 24, 2026 | Griffin Petroleum Company | Griffin #6 | 8,550 | 44532507 |
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/terry?days=90, documented in the API reference.