FORMATIONS · RRC WELLBORE FILE
Wichita-Albany
Reported as a top in 7,394 wells across 61 counties, at a median depth of 6,479 ft (3,716 to 7,460 ft in most wells). 167 of those wells were permitted in the last three years.
A well counts if any of its completion filings report this formation, whether it produces from it or drilled through it. Depths are measured depth as filed; typo depths exist, which is why ranges are percentiles, not extremes. About completion reports →
- 7.39K
- wells reporting a top
- 167
- permitted in last 3 years
- 61
- counties
- 6,479
- median top, ft
COMPUTED NOV 5, 2026 · REBUILT DAILY
Depth by county
Counties with at least five wells reporting the top. Bars are well counts.
| County | Wells | Median, ft | P10–P90 | Last 3 yrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrews | 1,518 | 7,020 | 6,642–7,460 | 9 |
| Scurry | 1,116 | 4,338 | 3,990–4,502 | 46 |
| Glasscock | 900 | 7,058 | 4,812–7,550 | 2 |
| Crane | 583 | 4,915 | 4,502–5,541 | 24 |
| Ector | 577 | 6,512 | 6,298–6,818 | 7 |
| Gaines | 476 | 7,300 | 7,192–7,849 | 2 |
| Pecos | 316 | 4,101 | 3,342–4,652 | 3 |
| Winkler | 298 | 6,658 | 6,300–6,919 | 4 |
| Yoakum | 255 | 7,937 | 7,696–8,304 | 2 |
| Ward | 180 | 6,100 | 5,419–6,525 | 6 |
| Hockley | 139 | 7,364 | 7,140–7,900 | 2 |
| Howard | 118 | 7,060 | 4,189–7,563 | 2 |
| Foard | 117 | 905 | 855–1,458 | 0 |
| Sterling | 106 | 4,054 | 3,076–6,064 | 4 |
| Mitchell | 84 | 3,404 | 3,237–3,750 | 16 |
| Irion | 76 | 4,392 | 3,406–4,886 | 5 |
| Kent | 70 | 2,955 | 2,843–3,040 | 20 |
| Garza | 62 | 4,763 | 4,559–6,007 | 3 |
| Crockett | 52 | 3,586 | 3,247–4,618 | 0 |
| Borden | 38 | 5,844 | 4,161–6,468 | 2 |
| Schleicher | 34 | 3,236 | 3,023–3,749 | 1 |
| Cottle | 30 | 1,856 | 1,775–1,942 | 0 |
| Nolan | 25 | 2,258 | 1,988–3,311 | 1 |
| Reagan | 21 | 7,223 | 6,250–7,314 | 0 |
| Wheeler | 21 | 2,000 | 1,310–5,190 | 0 |
| Moore | 19 | 2,495 | 1,750–3,101 | 0 |
| Wichita | 14 | 943 | 511–1,709 | 0 |
| Upton | 13 | 4,733 | 3,895–6,647 | 0 |
| Coke | 12 | 1,982 | 1,293–2,051 | 0 |
| Potter | 12 | 2,206 | 1,994–3,030 | 0 |
| Cochran | 10 | 7,300 | 6,380–7,713 | 0 |
| Hartley | 10 | 3,598 | 3,515–3,643 | 0 |
| Martin | 10 | 8,390 | 8,073–8,721 | 0 |
| King | 9 | 1,700 | 1,536–1,765 | 0 |
| Stonewall | 8 | 1,119 | 1,092–1,368 | 0 |
| Tom Green | 8 | 2,724 | 2,107–4,117 | 4 |
| Fisher | 7 | 2,695 | 2,148–3,322 | 2 |
| Hemphill | 5 | 3,114 | 3,055–3,302 | 0 |
Operators
Current operator of record for wells reporting the top, ranked by wells permitted in the last three years.
Recently permitted wells reporting the Wichita-Albany
BY LAST PERMIT ISSUED
Fields and pools named for it, by state
Wells completed in it, every state →A regulator names each reservoir for the formation it produces from: a Texas field, a New Mexico pool. These are the ones named for this formation, so the figures are for wells completed in it, which is not the same as the wells above that report its top on the way down.
Texas 104 NAMED · 3,647 ACTIVE COMPLETIONS
- Sand Hills (Wichita-Albany)1.5M bbl · 8.4M Mcf
- Wichita County Regular357,642 bbl · 60,547 Mcf
- Tex-Mex, SE. (Wichita Albany)214,356 bbl · 767,279 Mcf
- Andector (Wichita Albany)213,687 bbl · 1.3M Mcf
- Three Bar (Wichita)178,573 bbl · 629,554 Mcf
- Sand Hills (Wichita Albany, S.)97,475 bbl · 1.2M Mcf
- Emperor (Wichita Albany)93,810 bbl · 418,571 Mcf
- Wichita County (Special)91,695 bbl · 124,513 Mcf
OIL AND GAS REPORTED OVER THE TWELVE MONTHS THROUGH EACH STATE'S REPORTED-THROUGH MONTH
About this data
Formation tops, elevations, perforations, and casing from the RRC dbf900 wellbore file, refreshed weekly, with reported names normalized to Petrora's formation registry. County and operator breakdowns are rebuilt nightly.
Developers: this page as JSON is GET /v1/data/formations/wichita-albany, documented in the API reference.