REPORTS · WEEKLY · UNITED STATES

US weekly report

Week of Apr 8 to Apr 14, 2024

  • Texas

    151

    wells permitted · 147 in the week before +3%

    41 operators · 117 horizontal

    Latest approval on file: Apr 12, 2024

  • New Mexico

    30

    wells permitted · 71 in the week before −58%

    8 operators · 30 horizontal

    Latest approval on file: Apr 12, 2024

  • Oklahoma

    13

    wells permitted · 15 in the week before −13%

    12 operators · 7 horizontal

    Latest approval on file: Apr 12, 2024

Wells permitted by week

The twelve weeks to Apr 14, 2024, each labeled by the Sunday it ends on.

Operators filing a first permit

Operator registrations whose first permit on file was approved Apr 8 to Apr 14, 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
Elms Oil CompanyApr 10, 202411TX
Mazco Energy LLCApr 11, 202401TX

Operators new to a county

An operator's first well in a county: wells permitted Apr 8 to Apr 14, 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
Ceja CorporationPawnee, OKWells around it1Apr 12, 2024
Stroud Petroleum Inc.Polk, TXWells around it1Apr 12, 2024
Velocity Water Solutions, LPDawson, TXWells around it1Apr 12, 2024

Wells that changed operator

Wells whose operator of record changed Apr 8 to Apr 14, 2024, by who they went from and to: 3 wells between 2 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 Apr 8 to Apr 14, 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
No vertical well was permitted by such an operator in this period.

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/2024-04-14, documented in the API reference.