COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 8A · CODE 445
Terry County, Texas
Terry County permitting is running 1.7 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (5 total, versus 3 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; 12% 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 →
- 8
- permits issued, 180d
- -50%
- vs prior 180d (16)
- 2
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 9,338
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 329
- 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 20 · prior 12 32(-37%)
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 | 89 |
| Occidental Permian Ltd. | 3 | 78 |
| Aviator Energy, LLC | 2 | 39 |
| Griffin Petroleum Company | 2 | 6 |
| Cory, Kenneth W. Ltd. | 2 | 4 |
| Hilcorp Energy Company | 1 | 157 |
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
Permit types, 180d
| Type | Window | Prior | All time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drill | 6 | 15 | 2,066 |
| Reenter | 2 | 0 | 63 |
| Recompletion | 0 | 1 | 278 |
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 | 6,372 | 6,112–6,808 |
| 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 |
Questions about Terry County
How many drilling permits were issued in Terry County in the last 12 months?
26 permits were issued in Terry County in the last 12 months, down 4% from 27 in the 12 months before. 12% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Sep 16, 2026. 2,461 are on file since 1977.
Every Terry County permit →Who is the most active operator in Terry County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Basin Oil & Gas Operating, LLC is the most active operator in Terry County, with 16 of 26, followed by Occidental Permian Ltd. (3) and Aviator Energy, LLC (2). 2 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Terry County →How many oil and gas wells are in Terry County?
2,748 wells are on file in Terry County: 1,051 active, 1,052 plugged, and 7 permitted and not yet drilled. 106 are horizontal, and 48 operators hold them.
Every well in Terry County →How much oil and gas does Terry County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Terry County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Terry County →How much water is injected in Terry County?
49.4 million barrels of water were injected in Terry County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 527 of the county's 1,052 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Terry County →What formations are drilled in Terry County?
Completion filings for wells in Terry County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the San Andres (1,053 wells, median top 4,528 ft), the Yates (701 wells, median top 3,110 ft), and the Glorieta (699 wells, median top 5,900 ft).
Formations in Terry County →What basin is Terry County in?
Petrora lists Terry County in the Permian Basin. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 8A.
The Permian Basin →Have there been earthquakes in Terry County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Terry County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Terry 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/terry?days=180, documented in the API reference.