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Carson County, Texas oil and gas
- 5,933,530mcf gas in the last 12 months
- 536producing leases
- 2,466wells on the map
- 0drilling locations in two years
Oil wells and drilling locations in Carson County
- Drilling locations0Permits issued in the last two years
- Producing wells1,299On a lease reporting production now
- Not producing701Shut in, inactive or no lease on record
- Plugged466The state's wellbore record says plugged
Sources: Railroad Commission of Texas well layers and permit files, US Census Bureau county outline, town points from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), base map from USGS The National Map. A dot is a surface location; a horizontal well runs a mile or more from it.
2,466 wells with a location on the state's map (1,299 producing, 701 not producing, 466 plugged) and 0 drilling locations permitted in the last 24 months, each where the Railroad Commission puts it.
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<p style="margin:4px 0 0;font-size:14px">Map: <a href="https://royaltyclerk.com/texas/counties/carson-county-tx">Carson County, Texas oil and gas wells</a> by Royalty Clerk, from Railroad Commission of Texas records</p>Wells near a town: Panhandle · Newest drilling permits in Carson County · Wells by ZIP code
Carson County reported 5.9 million mcf of gas and 90,529 barrels of oil in the last 12 months. That ranks 90th of 197 Texas counties by gas.
County dossier
August 2026 is still coming in. About 89% of Texas leases have reported it so far, so this page counts through July 2026 until it is fully reported.
- Producing leases
- 536of 851 on record
- Operators
- 40
- Fields
- 5
- Top operator
- High River Res Operating, LLC
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- Oil, last 12 months
- 90,529 bbl
- Share of Texas gas
- <0.1%
- Wells on record
- 2,557on leases with production reports
- Data through
- Jul 2026
Five years of output in Carson County
Gas output in Carson County held steady over the last 12 months
5.9M mcf through Jul 2026, against 5.8M mcf a year earlier. Peak Aug 2022: 649k mcf.
Oil output in Carson County fell 16% over the last 12 months
90.5k bbl through Jul 2026, against 107k bbl a year earlier. Peak Mar 2023: 13.3k bbl.
SourceTexas Railroad Commission Production Data Query, county totals, through Jul 2026, file dated Oct 20, 2026.
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</script>Carson County oil and gas production by year, 1993 to 2025
Every full year we hold, 1993 to 2025. The highest year for oil since 1993 was 1993, at 670,270 bbl. The highest year for gas was 1997, at 37,557,748 mcf.
| Year | Oilbbl | Gasmcf |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 95,480 | 5,914,422 |
| 2024 | 118,013 | 6,052,515 |
| 2023 | 126,546 | 6,676,416 |
| 2022 | 127,686 | 6,989,020 |
| 2021 | 121,215 | 6,936,843 |
| 2020 | 117,455 | 7,366,487 |
| 2019 | 150,578 | 7,470,809 |
| 2018 | 123,528 | 7,422,590 |
| 2017 | 128,361 | 8,172,162 |
| 2016 | 135,843 | 9,714,221 |
| 2015 | 176,169 | 11,393,678 |
| 2014 | 216,494 | 12,861,528 |
| 2013 | 223,605 | 12,911,356 |
| 2012 | 231,284 | 13,393,193 |
| 2011 | 243,153 | 13,538,637 |
| 2010 | 259,969 | 13,103,817 |
| 2009 | 275,746 | 15,038,724 |
| 2008 | 294,360 | 16,739,259 |
| 2007 | 293,343 | 17,519,310 |
| 2006 | 308,531 | 18,413,691 |
| 2005 | 343,831 | 19,879,058 |
| 2004 | 352,847 | 23,154,729 |
| 2003 | 357,511 | 23,995,623 |
| 2002 | 370,250 | 27,021,464 |
| 2001 | 390,376 | 29,465,509 |
| 2000 | 402,128 | 31,790,944 |
| 1999 | 392,378 | 31,733,340 |
| 1998 | 471,325 | 34,418,346 |
| 1997 | 547,329 | 37,557,748 |
| 1996 | 581,535 | 36,618,619 |
| 1995 | 572,352 | 35,278,449 |
| 1994 | 605,517 | 35,214,272 |
| 1993 | 670,270 | 31,761,852 |
SourceTexas Railroad Commission production records, added up by county and calendar year. Oil includes condensate; gas includes casinghead gas. The year in progress is left out until it is complete.
The biggest leases in Carson County
Under each volume: change on the year before.
13,147bbl oil−5%
5,832bbl oil−27%
4,416bbl oil−13%
3,496bbl oil+87%
75,404mcf gas−5%
72,889mcf gas+28%
72,501mcf gas+3%
70,208mcf gas−1%
2,958bbl oil−8%
68,087mcf gas−18%
64,061mcf gas+2%
56,570mcf gas+2%
54,885mcf gas+8%
54,654mcf gas+6%
54,175mcf gas+40%
2,279bbl oil+15%
50,063mcf gas+8%
50,002mcf gas−1%
48,715mcf gas+258%
2,055bbl oil+17%
46,500mcf gas+9%
45,469mcf gas−10%
45,415mcf gas+2%
1,908bbl oil−16%
1,866bbl oil−5%
Showing 25 of 150 (the 150 largest of 536), ranked by output value.
SourceTexas Railroad Commission Production Data Query.
Who runs the leases, and what they produce
Operators in Carson County, by gas
High River Res Operating leads
- High River Res Operating, LLC248 leases4.2Mmcf
- Pantera Energy Company81 leases744kmcf
- Bce-Mach III LLC25 leases279kmcf
- Red Line Company, Ltd.26 leases97.5kmcf
- Ponderosa TX Operating LLC16 leases88.5kmcf
- Makar Production Company6 leases83.7kmcf
- Large Operating LLC34 leases44.2kmcf
- 6A Production8 leases39kmcf
Fields in Carson County, by gas
Panhandle, West leads
- Panhandle, West423 leases · District 10 · Field 688310015.7Mmcf
- Panhandle Carson County Field106 leases · District 10 · Field 68845001112kmcf
- Panhandle Hutchinson County Fld.2 leases · District 10 · Field 6888700115.7kmcf
- Panhandle Potter County Field1 lease · District 10 · Field 6891500111.2kmcf
- Panhandle, West (Red Cave)4 leases · District 10 · Field 6883120010.4kmcf
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Recent drilling permits in Carson County
No recent permits.