Texas county · RRC district 8A
Cochran County, Texas oil and gas
- 1,488,021bbl oil in the last 12 months
- 169producing leases
- 4,499wells on the map
- 2drilling locations in two years
Oil wells and drilling locations in Cochran County
- Drilling locations2Permits issued in the last two years
- Producing wells2,593On a lease reporting production now
- Not producing476Shut in, inactive or no lease on record
- Plugged1,430The 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.
4,499 wells with a location on the state's map (2,593 producing, 476 not producing, 1,430 plugged) and 2 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/cochran-county-tx">Cochran County, Texas oil and gas wells</a> by Royalty Clerk, from Railroad Commission of Texas records</p>Wells near a town: Morton · Newest drilling permits in Cochran County · Wells by ZIP code
Cochran County is one of the 61 counties of the Permian Basin
Cochran County reported 1.5 million barrels of oil and 1.6 million mcf of gas in the last 12 months. That ranks 57th of 225 Texas counties by oil.
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
- 169of 275 on record
- Operators
- 45
- Fields
- 18
- Top operator
- Hilcorp Energy Company
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- Gas, last 12 months
- 1,575,600 mcf
- Share of Texas oil
- <0.1%
- Wells on record
- 4,504on leases with production reports
- Data through
- Jul 2026
Five years of output in Cochran County
Oil output in Cochran County fell 9% over the last 12 months
1.5M bbl through Jul 2026, against 1.6M bbl a year earlier. Peak Jul 2022: 199k bbl.
Gas output in Cochran County fell 5% over the last 12 months
1.6M mcf through Jul 2026, against 1.7M mcf a year earlier. Peak May 2024: 204k mcf.
SourceTexas Railroad Commission Production Data Query, county totals, through Jul 2026, file dated Oct 20, 2026.
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</script>Cochran 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 5,710,493 bbl. The highest year for gas was 1994, at 4,855,157 mcf.
| Year | Oilbbl | Gasmcf |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,568,817 | 1,592,603 |
| 2024 | 1,755,201 | 1,815,790 |
| 2023 | 1,984,809 | 1,173,221 |
| 2022 | 2,200,413 | 1,222,134 |
| 2021 | 2,091,808 | 1,351,112 |
| 2020 | 2,312,309 | 1,733,086 |
| 2019 | 2,438,842 | 2,577,483 |
| 2018 | 2,421,954 | 1,669,602 |
| 2017 | 2,388,757 | 1,508,647 |
| 2016 | 2,425,691 | 1,446,307 |
| 2015 | 2,634,125 | 1,532,999 |
| 2014 | 2,863,767 | 1,679,385 |
| 2013 | 2,904,178 | 1,885,232 |
| 2012 | 3,082,623 | 1,950,867 |
| 2011 | 3,147,527 | 2,078,844 |
| 2010 | 3,068,700 | 2,126,345 |
| 2009 | 3,119,670 | 2,127,152 |
| 2008 | 3,248,306 | 2,319,166 |
| 2007 | 3,296,496 | 2,358,569 |
| 2006 | 3,271,323 | 2,304,034 |
| 2005 | 3,300,349 | 2,483,284 |
| 2004 | 3,350,866 | 2,782,355 |
| 2003 | 3,514,024 | 2,785,219 |
| 2002 | 3,574,005 | 2,963,752 |
| 2001 | 3,791,846 | 2,981,805 |
| 2000 | 4,025,452 | 3,313,379 |
| 1999 | 4,051,488 | 3,342,328 |
| 1998 | 4,393,893 | 3,471,745 |
| 1997 | 4,711,507 | 3,637,366 |
| 1996 | 4,901,211 | 4,098,259 |
| 1995 | 4,963,505 | 4,646,161 |
| 1994 | 5,259,943 | 4,855,157 |
| 1993 | 5,710,493 | 4,674,141 |
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 Cochran County
Under each volume: change on the year before.
178,936bbl oil+1%
126,157bbl oil−14%
118,050bbl oil−13%
85,734bbl oil+9%
58,099bbl oil+3%
39,395bbl oil+34%
38,508bbl oil+1%
- IKE CLANTON C
8A-71518Manzano, LLCCochran (San Andres)
38,480bbl oiln/a
37,796bbl oil−1%
32,238bbl oil−7%
30,554bbl oil+4%
27,999bbl oil−32%
27,410bbl oiln/a
25,338bbl oil+18%
24,550bbl oil0%
22,239bbl oil−16%
21,696bbl oil−8%
19,948bbl oil−8%
18,735bbl oil−56%
16,172bbl oiln/a
14,318bbl oil+1%
14,107bbl oil−21%
13,595bbl oil−25%
12,979bbl oil−21%
12,655bbl oil−24%
Showing 25 of 150 (the 150 largest of 169), ranked by output value.
SourceTexas Railroad Commission Production Data Query.
Who runs the leases, and what they produce
Operators in Cochran County, by oil
Hilcorp Energy leads
Fields in Cochran County, by oil
Levelland leads
- Levelland86 leases · District 8A · Field 53411001559kbbl
- Slaughter25 leases · District 8A · Field 83991001529kbbl
- Cochran (San Andres)25 leases · District 8A · Field 19261666310kbbl
- Buckshot (4950)9 leases · District 8A · Field 1296150022.8kbbl
- Cochran (Devonian)1 lease · District 8A · Field 1926133311.5kbbl
- Platang (San Andres)1 lease · District 8A · Field 718236667,693bbl
- Landon1 lease · District 8A · Field 518120016,720bbl
- Bonanza, East (San Andres)4 leases · District 8A · Field 104075006,531bbl
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Recent drilling permits in Cochran County
WHITEFACE UNIT #59W
reclass · Double Barrel Oil LLC · Cochran County
Permit 0918692 · Sep 21, 2026
IKE CLANTON C #3H
new drill · horizontal · Manzano, LLC · Cochran County
Permit 0909542 · Aug 1, 2025
BUFFALO BILL B #1H
new drill · horizontal · Manzano, LLC · Cochran County
Permit 0902219 · Aug 28, 2024
BLACK JACK #1H
new drill · horizontal · Manzano, LLC · Cochran County
Permit 0901658 · Aug 2, 2024
BELLE STARR #1H
new drill · horizontal · Manzano, LLC · Cochran County
Permit 0901183 · Jul 16, 2024
IKE CLANTON 'B' #2H
new drill · horizontal · Manzano, LLC · Cochran County
Permit 0896798 · Jan 24, 2024