Permits are the leading indicator. A permit today is a rig in weeks and production in months, or nothing at all if it expires. Watching a county's permits is how service companies, water developers, and landmen see activity before it is visible on the ground.
The feed
Recent permits lists permits newest first across Texas. The panel at the top filters by lease or operator name, window, horizontal or vertical, district, permit type, and depth, and the busiest counties are one click away. Every filter you apply shows as a chip you can remove, and the list downloads as CSV.
The URL carries the filters, so petrora.com/permits/tx?county=REEVES&days=90 is a bookmark for "Reeves County, last quarter". Share it or put it in a daily routine.
Seen versus issued
Each row has two dates. Issued is the RRC's date. Seen is the day the permit first appeared in Petrora's database, which is usually one or two days later and longer over weekends. The feed sorts by seen, so a permit that was issued on Friday and published on Tuesday appears on Tuesday with a Friday issue date. That ordering means nothing is missed when the RRC publishes late; how current the data is explains the lag for every source.
Reading a row
Operator, county, lease and well number, total depth, and the API number. An H badge marks horizontal wells. The operator links to the operator page; the API number links to the well page; the county links to the county's feed.
What the application type tells you
On a well page, each permit shows its application type. "Drill" is a new well. "Recompletion" is work on an existing well in a different zone. The remaining types are rarer. How Texas drilling permits work lists them all with what they mean.
Try it now
Open Martin County, last 30 days, currently the busiest county in the state, and see which operators dominate it.