COUNTIES · TEXAS PANHANDLE · DISTRICT 10 · CODE 483
Wheeler County, Texas
Wheeler County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued February 23, 2026.
Mmgl Txph, LLC leads with 1 permit in the past 12 months, one of 2 operators active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 13,032 ft (prior year: 21,688 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 71 active disposal and injection permits, with 9.89M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
3,981 drilling permits have been issued in Wheeler County since 1977.
3,981 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Feb 23, 2026
Watch Wheeler CountyAlso: every Wheeler 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
- 332
- 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 3(-67%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Mmgl Txph, LLC | 1 | 265 |
| Sandlot Oil & Gas LLC | 1 | 13 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Wheeler County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Wheeler County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Wheeler County the Morrow is reported in 134 wells, median top 15,103 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
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| Granite Wash | 982 | 0 | 12,039 | 2,190–12,874 |
| Tonkawa | 689 | 1 | 9,682 | 9,012–10,083 |
| Des Moines | 461 | 1 | 12,006 | 11,054–12,630 |
| Atoka | 453 | 1 | 14,220 | 12,989–14,739 |
| Brown Dolomite | 432 | 0 | 4,516 | 1,878–4,747 |
| Cleveland | 406 | 0 | 11,304 | 10,440–11,833 |
| Douglas | 404 | 0 | 8,771 | 8,091–9,299 |
| Marmaton | 263 | 2 | 11,769 | 10,805–12,274 |
| Pennsylvanian | 248 | 0 | 6,497 | 6,307–7,908 |
| Oswego | 221 | 0 | 11,490 | 10,865–12,073 |
| Kansas City | 196 | 0 | 10,618 | 10,097–11,290 |
| Morrow | 134 | 1 | 15,103 | 12,636–16,712 |
| Panhandle Lime | 64 | 0 | 1,526 | 1,438–3,794 |
| Woodford | 36 | 1 | 13,751 | 12,083–18,591 |
| Glorieta | 25 | 0 | 1,100 | 1,000–4,791 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 71
- active UIC permits of 247
- 480K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 9.89M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Wheeler County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
USGS catalog, Texas
Seismicity, last 2 years
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- M2+ events in the area
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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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| 913543 | Feb 23, 2026 | Feb 23, 2026 | Sandlot Oil & Gas LLC | Mobeetie OP Unit R/a -A- #1 | 12,575 | 48380402 |
| 911404 | Nov 12, 2025 | Nov 12, 2025 | Mmgl Txph, LLC | R.D. Mills #2037 | 13,490 | 48333051 |
| 909659 | Aug 5, 2025 | Aug 5, 2025 | Mmgl Txph, LLC | R D Mills #1 | 21,735 | 48330083 |
| 905134 | Feb 12, 2025 | Feb 12, 2025 | Mmgl Txph, LLC | Fabian, Sidney #1 | 21,640 | 48330057 |
| 900823 | Aug 21, 2024 | Aug 21, 2024 | Mmgl Txph, LLC | Hefley 47 #1047 | 14,978 | 48330553 |
| 896559 | Jan 19, 2024 | Jan 19, 2024 | Sanguine Gas Exploration, LLC | Doug #1024 | 12,850 | 48332852 |
| 894115 | Oct 5, 2023 | Oct 5, 2023 | Sanguine Gas Exploration, LLC | Davidson #2036 | 16,900 | 48332663 |
| 893127 | Aug 25, 2023 | Aug 25, 2023 | Sanguine Gas Exploration, LLC | Mills Ranch #1024 | 17,000 | 48332501 |
| 888142 | Mar 9, 2023 | Mar 9, 2023 | Ehvi Exploration, LLC | Elmore 33-7 #1HH | 15,000 | 48333981 |
| 888142Amendment | Mar 9, 2023 | Mar 9, 2023 | Ehvi Exploration, LLC | Elmore 33-7 #1HH | 15,000 | 48333981 |
Questions about Wheeler County
How many drilling permits were issued in Wheeler County in the last 12 months?
2 permits were issued in Wheeler County in the last 12 months, level with 2 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Feb 23, 2026. 3,981 are on file since 1977.
Every Wheeler County permit →Who is the most active operator in Wheeler County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Mmgl Txph, LLC is the most active operator in Wheeler County, with 1 of 2, followed by Sandlot Oil & Gas LLC (1). 0 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Wheeler County →How many oil and gas wells are in Wheeler County?
5,049 wells are on file in Wheeler County, including 2,149 active and 1,660 plugged. 954 are horizontal. The active wells are under 74 operators.
Every well in Wheeler County →How much oil and gas does Wheeler County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Wheeler County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Wheeler County →How much water is injected in Wheeler County?
9.9 million barrels of water were injected in Wheeler County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 71 of the county's 247 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Wheeler County →What formations are drilled in Wheeler County?
Completion filings for wells in Wheeler County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Granite Wash (982 wells, median top 12,039 ft), the Tonkawa (689 wells, median top 9,682 ft), and the Des Moines (461 wells, median top 12,006 ft).
Formations in Wheeler County →What basin is Wheeler County in?
Petrora lists Wheeler County in the Texas Panhandle. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 10.
The Texas Panhandle →Have there been earthquakes in Wheeler County?
No earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of Wheeler County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Wheeler 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/wheeler?days=90, documented in the API reference.