REPORTS · WEEKLY · UNITED STATES

US weekly report

Week of May 20 to May 26, 2024

  • Texas

    216

    wells permitted · 167 in the week before +29%

    62 operators · 170 horizontal

    Latest approval on file: May 24, 2024

  • New Mexico

    50

    wells permitted · 55 in the week before −9%

    9 operators · 49 horizontal

    Latest approval on file: May 24, 2024

  • Oklahoma

    29

    wells permitted · 18 in the week before +61%

    12 operators · 15 horizontal

    Latest approval on file: May 24, 2024

Wells permitted by week

The twelve weeks to May 26, 2024, each labeled by the Sunday it ends on.

Operators filing a first permit

Operator registrations whose first permit on file was approved May 20 to May 26, 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
Black Swan Opco, LLCMay 20, 2024583Reagan, TX
Utoco, Ltd.May 22, 202411TX

Operators new to a county

An operator's first well in a county: wells permitted May 20 to May 26, 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 May 20 to May 26, 2024, by who they went from and to: 3 wells between 1 pair 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.

FromToWellsEffective
Roddy Production Co IncHilcorp Energy Company, NM3May 23 to May 24, 2024

Vertical wells from operators drilling horizontals

Vertical wells permitted May 20 to May 26, 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
Severitas 2 State SWD #00130-015-55313Wells around itChevron U S A Inc128 of 130 horizontalEddy, NMMay 23, 20245,500 ftSalt water disposal

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/2024-05-26, documented in the API reference.