COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 8A · CODE 501
Yoakum County
Yoakum County permitting is running 16 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (47 total, up 57% on the prior quarter). 1 was issued in the past week.
Riley Permian Operating Co, LLC leads with 56 permits in the past 12 months, one of 11 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.
8,366 drilling permits have been issued in Yoakum County since 1977.
8,366 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 27, 2026
Watch Yoakum CountyAlso: every Yoakum County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 47
- permits issued, 90d
- +57%
- vs prior 90d (30)
- 6
- operators filing
- 70%
- horizontal
- 7,538
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 393
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 114 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 167 · prior 12 79(+111%)
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 | 202 |
| Occidental Permian Ltd. | 54 | 3,845 |
| OXY USA WTP LP | 16 | 855 |
| Texland Petroleum, L.P. | 16 | 70 |
| Ring Energy, Inc. | 10 | 137 |
| Burk Royalty Co., Ltd. | 7 | 535 |
| Amtex Energy, Inc. | 3 | 13 |
| Hilcorp Energy Company | 2 | 1,464 |
| McClure Oil Company, Inc. | 1 | 55 |
| Steward Energy II, LLC | 1 | 18 |
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 | 24 | 6,916 |
| Recompletion | 12 | 8 | 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 Glorieta is reported in 958 wells, median top 5,944 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Andres | 6,260 | 130 | 4,555 | 4,373–5,088 |
| Yates | 3,215 | 102 | 3,100 | 2,800–3,334 |
| Grayburg | 1,564 | 20 | 4,265 | 4,096–4,473 |
| Rustler | 1,535 | 14 | 2,341 | 2,147–2,566 |
| Santa Rosa | 1,325 | 86 | 1,100 | 400–2,200 |
| Clear Fork | 1,088 | 20 | 6,290 | 5,970–6,762 |
| Queen | 974 | 12 | 3,855 | 3,614–4,078 |
| Glorieta | 958 | 22 | 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 |
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.