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Cottle County, Texas oil and gas

  • 131,331bbl oil in the last 12 months
  • 71producing leases
  • 175wells on the map
  • 2drilling locations in two years

Oil wells and drilling locations in Cottle County

Map of Cottle County, Texas, with 175 oil and gas wells and 2 recent drilling locations as dots.
  • Drilling locations2Permits issued in the last two years
  • Producing wells95On a lease reporting production now
  • Not producing39Shut in, inactive or no lease on record
  • Plugged41The 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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175 wells with a location on the state's map (95 producing, 39 not producing, 41 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: Paducah · Newest drilling permits in Cottle County · Wells by ZIP code

Cottle County is one of the 61 counties of the Permian Basin

Cottle County reported 131,331 barrels of oil and 1.2 million mcf of gas in the last 12 months. That ranks 146th of 225 Texas counties by oil.

County dossier

131,331bbl oil, last 12 months−2% 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
71of 119 on record
Operators
8
Fields
11
Top operator
Gunn Oil Company

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Cottle County · RRC district 8A
Gas, last 12 months
1,169,266 mcf
Share of Texas oil
<0.1%
Wells on record
175on leases with production reports
Data through
Jul 2026

Five years of output in Cottle County

Oil output in Cottle County held steady over the last 12 months

131k bbl through Jul 2026, against 134k bbl a year earlier. Peak Jan 2023: 16.2k bbl.

Oil output in Cottle County held steady over the last 12 months131k bbl through Jul 2026, against 134k bbl a year earlier. Peak Jan 2023: 16.2k bbl.Oil, bbl per month05,00010k15k20kPeak 16.2k (Jan 23)9,76320222023202420252026
Oil output in Cottle County held steady over the last 12 months131k bbl through Jul 2026, against 134k bbl a year earlier. Peak Jan 2023: 16.2k bbl.Oil, bbl per month05,00010k15k20kPeak 16.2k (Jan 23)9,763'22'23'24'25'26

Gas output in Cottle County fell 22% over the last 12 months

1.2M mcf through Jul 2026, against 1.5M mcf a year earlier. Peak May 2022: 166k mcf.

Gas output in Cottle County fell 22% over the last 12 months1.2M mcf through Jul 2026, against 1.5M mcf a year earlier. Peak May 2022: 166k mcf.Gas, mcf per month050k100k150k200kPeak 166k (May 22)88.5k20222023202420252026
Gas output in Cottle County fell 22% over the last 12 months1.2M mcf through Jul 2026, against 1.5M mcf a year earlier. Peak May 2022: 166k mcf.Gas, mcf per month050k100k150k200kPeak 166k (May 22)88.5k'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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Cottle 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 2017, at 192,143 bbl. The highest year for gas was 2008, at 6,784,885 mcf.

Cottle County, Texas: oil and gas produced each year, 1993 to 2025
YearOilbblGasmcf
2025130,8041,392,025
2024143,1371,547,141
2023162,5901,514,350
2022148,1001,468,580
2021113,5791,715,388
2020100,1051,798,098
2019123,1772,596,480
2018147,6362,872,158
2017192,1433,164,339
2016136,4473,483,983
2015117,0484,122,249
2014137,3014,132,269
2013138,9093,520,052
2012148,1293,804,476
2011134,9473,605,731
2010111,7044,840,107
2009153,9726,309,228
2008189,0026,784,885
2007153,8436,422,576
2006113,3755,569,397
2005108,3504,923,868
2004102,0454,623,968
2003101,0395,059,192
200283,0845,189,543
200176,6234,927,940
200082,4424,443,441
199984,7825,167,907
199887,3794,586,999
199798,7844,258,431
199677,5023,013,834
199586,7872,206,674
199494,6061,476,227
199388,0811,735,497

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 Cottle County

Under each volume: change on the year before.

Showing 25 of 71, ranked by output value.

SourceTexas Railroad Commission Production Data Query.

Who runs the leases, and what they produce

Recent drilling permits in Cottle County