COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 8A · CODE 501
Yoakum County, Texas
Yoakum County permitting is running 14 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (42 total, up 27% on the prior quarter). 2 were issued in the past week.
Riley Permian Operating Co, LLC leads with 56 permits in the past 12 months, one of 10 operators active in the county.
2 operators filed a first Yoakum County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 6,000 ft (prior year: 9,000 ft); 77% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 2,521 active disposal and injection permits, with 273M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
TexNet located 1 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M3.1.
8,370 drilling permits have been issued in Yoakum County since 1977.
8,370 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 30, 2026
Watch Yoakum CountyAlso: every Yoakum County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 42
- permits issued, 90d
- +27%
- vs prior 90d (33)
- 6
- operators filing
- 76%
- horizontal
- 7,497
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 393
- 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 165 · prior 12 67(+146%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Riley Permian Operating Co, LLC | 56 | 275 |
| Occidental Permian Ltd. | 54 | 4,581 |
| OXY USA WTP LP | 16 | 895 |
| Texland Petroleum, L.P. | 16 | 82 |
| Ring Energy, Inc. | 10 | 158 |
| Burk Royalty Co., Ltd. | 8 | 625 |
| Amtex Energy, Inc. | 3 | 14 |
| Hilcorp Energy Company | 2 | 1,512 |
| McClure Oil Company, Inc. | 1 | 64 |
| Tall City Brine LLC | 1 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Yoakum County came in the last year. 2 in total.
- Hilcorp Energy Company2 permitsMar 31, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Tall City Brine LLC1 permitDec 18, 2025 · active elsewhere first
Permit types, 90d
| Type | Window | Prior | All time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drill | 31 | 20 | 6,916 |
| Recompletion | 11 | 9 | 1,300 |
| Field transfer | 0 | 4 | 18 |
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Yoakum County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Yoakum County the Devonian is reported in 113 wells, median top 11,852 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Andres | 6,264 | 134 | 4,555 | 4,373–5,088 |
| Yates | 3,219 | 106 | 3,100 | 2,800–3,334 |
| Grayburg | 1,566 | 22 | 4,265 | 4,096–4,472 |
| Rustler | 1,537 | 16 | 2,342 | 2,147–2,566 |
| Santa Rosa | 1,326 | 87 | 1,100 | 400–2,200 |
| Clear Fork | 1,088 | 20 | 6,290 | 5,970–6,762 |
| Queen | 976 | 14 | 3,855 | 3,614–4,078 |
| Glorieta | 959 | 23 | 5,944 | 5,730–6,113 |
| Tubb | 328 | 2 | 7,314 | 6,888–7,608 |
| Seven Rivers | 283 | 1 | 3,258 | 3,072–3,572 |
| Wichita-Albany | 255 | 2 | 7,937 | 7,696–8,304 |
| Wolfcamp | 233 | 0 | 9,012 | 8,688–9,636 |
| Devonian | 113 | 0 | 11,852 | 11,132–12,414 |
| Mississippian | 111 | 0 | 11,122 | 10,650–11,897 |
| Woodford | 90 | 0 | 11,818 | 11,032–13,037 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 2,521
- active UIC permits of 4,167
- 9.1M
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 273M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Yoakum County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 1
- M2+ events in the area
- M3.1
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919527 | Nov 1, 2026 | Oct 30, 2026 | Ring Energy, Inc. | Bruce Gentry Jr 598-647 D #13XHH | 6,050 | 50137743 |
| 919758 | Nov 1, 2026 | Oct 30, 2026 | Ring Energy, Inc. | Booms Farm 710 - 727 B #2XHH | 5,500 | 50137745 |
| 919491 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 27, 2026 | Ring Energy, Inc. | Bruce Gentry Jr 598-647 CC #12XHH | 6,050 | 50137742 |
| 919319 | Oct 22, 2026 | Oct 20, 2026 | Riley Permian Operating Co, LLC | Jeremiah Johnson 667-706 #3XHH | 9,000 | 50137741 |
| 919213 | Oct 16, 2026 | Oct 14, 2026 | Riley Permian Operating Co, LLC | Cat Ballou 573-546 #6XHH | 9,000 | 50137740 |
| 919062 | Oct 10, 2026 | Oct 8, 2026 | Riley Permian Operating Co, LLC | Cassidy 575 #1W | 12,000 | 50137737 |
| 919189 | Oct 9, 2026 | Oct 7, 2026 | Riley Permian Operating Co, LLC | Gus McCrae 671 #1W | 13,000 | 50137739 |
| 919022 | Oct 8, 2026 | Oct 6, 2026 | Riley Permian Operating Co, LLC | Huckleberry-McMasters 730-771 #4XHH | 9,000 | 50137738 |
| 919049 | Oct 8, 2026 | Oct 6, 2026 | Occidental Permian Ltd. | Bennett Ranch Unit #4352H | 5,650 | 50134870 |
| 919007 | Oct 4, 2026 | Oct 2, 2026 | Texland Petroleum, L.P. | Farquaad #5 | 9,000 | 50137736 |
Questions about Yoakum County
How many drilling permits were issued in Yoakum County in the last 12 months?
167 permits were issued in Yoakum County in the last 12 months, up 117% from 77 in the 12 months before. 77% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Oct 30, 2026. 8,370 are on file since 1977.
Every Yoakum County permit →Who is the most active operator in Yoakum County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Riley Permian Operating Co, LLC is the most active operator in Yoakum County, with 56 of 167, followed by Occidental Permian Ltd. (54) and OXY USA WTP LP (16). 6 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Yoakum County →How many oil and gas wells are in Yoakum County?
10,357 wells are on file in Yoakum County: 5,606 active, 2,834 plugged, and 46 permitted and not yet drilled. 775 are horizontal, and 63 operators hold them.
Every well in Yoakum County →How much oil and gas does Yoakum County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Yoakum County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Yoakum County →How much water is injected in Yoakum County?
273 million barrels of water were injected in Yoakum County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 2,521 of the county's 4,167 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Yoakum County →What formations are drilled in Yoakum County?
Completion filings for wells in Yoakum County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the San Andres (6,264 wells, median top 4,555 ft), the Yates (3,219 wells, median top 3,100 ft), and the Grayburg (1,566 wells, median top 4,265 ft).
Formations in Yoakum County →What basin is Yoakum County in?
Petrora lists Yoakum County in the Permian Basin. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 8A.
The Permian Basin →Have there been earthquakes in Yoakum County?
TexNet located 1 earthquake of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Yoakum County's permitted wells in the last 2 years; the largest was M3.1.
Earthquakes in Yoakum 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/yoakum?days=90, documented in the API reference.