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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

Map of Cochran County, Texas, with 4,499 oil and gas wells and 2 recent drilling locations as dots.
  • 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.

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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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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

1,488,021bbl oil, last 12 months−9% vs prior year

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

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This county

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Cochran County · RRC district 8A
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.

Oil output in Cochran County fell 9% over the last 12 months1.5M bbl through Jul 2026, against 1.6M bbl a year earlier. Peak Jul 2022: 199k bbl.Oil, bbl per month050k100k150k200kPeak 199k (Jul 22)117k20222023202420252026
Oil output in Cochran County fell 9% over the last 12 months1.5M bbl through Jul 2026, against 1.6M bbl a year earlier. Peak Jul 2022: 199k bbl.Oil, bbl per month050k100k150k200kPeak 199k (Jul 22)117k'22'23'24'25'26

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.

Gas output in Cochran County fell 5% over the last 12 months1.6M mcf through Jul 2026, against 1.7M mcf a year earlier. Peak May 2024: 204k mcf.Gas, mcf per month050k100k150k200k250kPeak 204k (May 24)143k20222023202420252026
Gas output in Cochran County fell 5% over the last 12 months1.6M mcf through Jul 2026, against 1.7M mcf a year earlier. Peak May 2024: 204k mcf.Gas, mcf per month050k100k150k200k250kPeak 204k (May 24)143k'22'23'24'25'26

SourceTexas Railroad Commission Production Data Query, county totals, through Jul 2026, file dated Oct 20, 2026.

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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.

Cochran County, Texas: oil and gas produced each year, 1993 to 2025
YearOilbblGasmcf
20251,568,8171,592,603
20241,755,2011,815,790
20231,984,8091,173,221
20222,200,4131,222,134
20212,091,8081,351,112
20202,312,3091,733,086
20192,438,8422,577,483
20182,421,9541,669,602
20172,388,7571,508,647
20162,425,6911,446,307
20152,634,1251,532,999
20142,863,7671,679,385
20132,904,1781,885,232
20123,082,6231,950,867
20113,147,5272,078,844
20103,068,7002,126,345
20093,119,6702,127,152
20083,248,3062,319,166
20073,296,4962,358,569
20063,271,3232,304,034
20053,300,3492,483,284
20043,350,8662,782,355
20033,514,0242,785,219
20023,574,0052,963,752
20013,791,8462,981,805
20004,025,4523,313,379
19994,051,4883,342,328
19984,393,8933,471,745
19974,711,5073,637,366
19964,901,2114,098,259
19954,963,5054,646,161
19945,259,9434,855,157
19935,710,4934,674,141

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.

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

Recent drilling permits in Cochran County