Texas weekly report
Week of Feb 24 to Mar 2, 2025
Texas
wells permitted · 143 in the week before +20%
53 operators · 130 horizontal
Latest approval on file: Feb 28, 2025
Wells permitted by week
The twelve weeks to Mar 2, 2025, each labeled by the Sunday it ends on.
Operators with the most wells permitted
Counties with the most wells permitted
Operators filing a first permit
Operator registrations whose first permit on file was approved Feb 24 to Mar 2, 2025. 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.
| Operator | First permit | Wells permitted | Permits on file | Mostly in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Running WP Oil, LLC | Feb 27, 2025 | 1 | 2 | — |
Operators new to a county
An operator's first well in a county: wells permitted Feb 24 to Mar 2, 2025 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.
| Operator | County | Wells permitted | First approved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vital Energy, Inc. | WardWells around it | 4 | Feb 28, 2025 |
| Iron Orchard Operating LLC | ReaganWells around it | 3 | Feb 25, 2025 |
| EP Energy E&P Company, LLC | La SalleWells around it | 1 | Feb 27, 2025 |
| Mud Creek Operating, LLC | FranklinWells around it | 1 | Feb 27, 2025 |
| Atmos Pipeline - Texas | MitchellWells around it | 1 | Feb 24, 2025 |
Wells that changed operator
Wells whose operator of record changed Feb 24 to Mar 2, 2025, by who they went from and to: 3,643 wells between 91 pairs of operators. The record says the operator changed, not why.Texas operator changes are from the RRC's P-4 filings, which it files by lease and publishes once a month, so changes in the latest weeks are still arriving.
Vertical wells from operators drilling horizontals
Vertical wells permitted Feb 24 to Mar 2, 2025 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.
| Well | Operator | County | Approved | Target depth | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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; Wyoming: WOGCC). 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/2025-03-02?state=tx, documented in the API reference.