The Railroad Commission of Texas issued a total of 984 original drilling permits in September 2022 compared to 801 in September 2021. The September 2022 total includes 868 permits to drill new oil or gas wells, 12 to re-enter plugged wellbores and 89 for recompletions of existing wellbores.
The breakdown of well types for original drilling permits in September 2022 is 244 oil, 122 gas, 576 oil or gas, 34 injection and eight other permits. In September 2022, Commission staff processed 923 oil, 190 gas and 465 injection completions for new drills, reentries and re-completions, compared to 581 oil, 158 gas and 265 injection completions in September 2021. Total well completions processed for 2022 year-to-date for new drills, re-entries and recompletions are 10,268 compared to 7,016 recorded during the same period in 2021. Detailed data on drilling permits and well completions for the month can be found at https:/ /www.rrc.texas.gov/oil-and-gas/ research-and-statistics/drillinginformation/ monthly-drillingcompletion- and-pluggingsummaries/.
TABLE 1 – SEPTEMBER 2022 TEXAS OIL AND GAS NEWDRILLINGPERMITSAND COMPLETIONSBYRAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS DISTRICT* --San Antonio area: 123 permits, 70 oil completions and 21 gas completions; --Refugio area: 43 permits, 29 oil completions and 21 gas completions; --Southeast Texas: 24 permits, 8 oil completions and 1 gas completion; –Deep South Texas: 25 permits, 2 oil completions and 8 gas completions; –East Central Texas: 7 permits, 2 oil completions and 0 gas completions; –East Texas: 47 permits, 4 oil completions and 19 gas completions; –West Central Texas: 18 permits, 7 oil completions and 0 gas completions; San Angelo area: 52 permits, 59 oil completions and 1 gas completions; –Midland: 446 permits, 541 oil completions and 80 gas completions; –Lubbock area: 19 permits, 40 oil completions and 0 gas completions; –North Texas: 43 permits, 8 oil completions and 4 gas completions; –Panhandle: 21 permits, 6 oil completions and 12 gas completions; Texas’ total of permits to drill new oil and gas holes total 868; 776 new oil completions; and 167 new gas copletions. A district map is available on the Railroad Commission of Texas website at https://rrc.texas.gov/ media/3bkhbut0/ districts_color_8x11.pdf.