REPORTS · WEEKLY · UNITED STATES

US weekly report

Week of Oct 14 to Oct 20, 2024

  • Texas

    146

    wells permitted · 112 in the week before +30%

    51 operators · 115 horizontal

    Latest approval on file: Oct 18, 2024

  • New Mexico

    36

    wells permitted · 104 in the week before −65%

    3 operators · 36 horizontal

    Latest approval on file: Oct 18, 2024

  • Oklahoma

    5

    wells permitted · 9 in the week before −44%

    3 operators · 4 horizontal

    Latest approval on file: Oct 18, 2024

Wells permitted by week

The twelve weeks to Oct 20, 2024, each labeled by the Sunday it ends on.

Operators filing a first permit

Operator registrations whose first permit on file was approved Oct 14 to Oct 20, 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
Brine Texas USA, LLCOct 18, 202411TX
Targa NGL Pipeline Company LLCOct 14, 202412TX
Jammin Resources, LLCOct 18, 202401TX
Pony Express Corporate TrustOct 15, 202403TX

Operators new to a county

An operator's first well in a county: wells permitted Oct 14 to Oct 20, 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
Geosouthern Operating II, LLCSmith, TXWells around it1Oct 18, 2024

Wells that changed operator

Wells whose operator of record changed Oct 14 to Oct 20, 2024, by who they went from and to: 69 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
Murchison Oil and Gas, LLC3R Operating, LLC, NM69Oct 17, 2024

Vertical wells from operators drilling horizontals

Vertical wells permitted Oct 14 to Oct 20, 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/2024-10-20, documented in the API reference.