REPORTS · WEEKLY · UNITED STATES

US weekly report

Week of Jan 22 to Jan 28, 2024

  • Texas

    171

    wells permitted · 106 in the week before +61%

    50 operators · 126 horizontal

    Latest approval on file: Jan 26, 2024

  • New Mexico

    41

    wells permitted · 20 in the week before +105%

    7 operators · 41 horizontal

    Latest approval on file: Jan 25, 2024

  • Oklahoma

    12

    wells permitted · 11 in the week before +9%

    7 operators · 5 horizontal

    Latest approval on file: Jan 26, 2024

Wells permitted by week

The twelve weeks to Jan 28, 2024, each labeled by the Sunday it ends on.

Operators filing a first permit

Operator registrations whose first permit on file was approved Jan 22 to Jan 28, 2024. A registration is one operator number with one regulator, so a new one is not always a new company: where Petrora groups it with other registrations, the company is named.

OperatorFirst permitWells permittedPermits on fileMostly in
Boardwalk la Midstream, LLCJan 26, 202411TX
SGB Oil LLCJan 25, 202411TX
Tanos Exploration IV, LLCJan 24, 2024119Rusk, TX

Operators new to a county

An operator's first well in a county: wells permitted Jan 22 to Jan 28, 2024 where the operator has no other well of record. The map shows the wells around the first of them, by operator. Registrations that are new altogether are in the list above.

OperatorCountyWells permittedFirst approved
No operator permitted a first well in a county in this period.

Wells that changed operator

Wells whose operator of record changed Jan 22 to Jan 28, 2024, by who they went from and to: 8 wells between 4 pairs of operators. The record says the operator changed, not why. Operator history is not available for Texas or Oklahoma, so this list is New Mexico only.

Vertical wells from operators drilling horizontals

Vertical wells permitted Jan 22 to Jan 28, 2024 by operators whose wells permitted over the twelve months before were at least 90% horizontal, out of 10 or more. New wells only, where the record says what a permit is for. The record says the well is vertical, not what it is for; its name and depth are what there is to read.

WellOperatorCountyApprovedTarget depthType
McClintic 11 #1D42-329-46777Wells around itPioneer Natural Res. USA Inc.488 of 495 horizontalMidland, TXJan 24, 2024—Injection
Pep WCT Ranches SWD #142-475-38743Wells around itCrescent Energy Operating LLC167 of 174 horizontalWard, TXJan 23, 2024—Injection
Parker SWD #242-475-38744Wells around itCrescent Energy Operating LLC167 of 174 horizontalWard, TXJan 23, 2024—Injection

About this data

Each state regulator's well record (Texas: RRC; New Mexico: OCD; Oklahoma: OCC). A count is wells permitted: one row per well under its latest approved permit, on the approval date. The week is recounted from the record each time the page is opened, so a well whose permit is amended later moves to the amendment's week. An operator is one registration with one regulator. Nothing is estimated or scored: each list is the rule stated above it.

Developers: this page as JSON is GET /v1/data/reports/weekly/2024-01-28, documented in the API reference.