Texas county · RRC district 8A
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
- 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.
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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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.
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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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- 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.
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.
SourceTexas Railroad Commission Production Data Query, county totals, through Jul 2026, file dated Oct 20, 2026.
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</script>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.
| Year | Oilbbl | Gasmcf |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 130,804 | 1,392,025 |
| 2024 | 143,137 | 1,547,141 |
| 2023 | 162,590 | 1,514,350 |
| 2022 | 148,100 | 1,468,580 |
| 2021 | 113,579 | 1,715,388 |
| 2020 | 100,105 | 1,798,098 |
| 2019 | 123,177 | 2,596,480 |
| 2018 | 147,636 | 2,872,158 |
| 2017 | 192,143 | 3,164,339 |
| 2016 | 136,447 | 3,483,983 |
| 2015 | 117,048 | 4,122,249 |
| 2014 | 137,301 | 4,132,269 |
| 2013 | 138,909 | 3,520,052 |
| 2012 | 148,129 | 3,804,476 |
| 2011 | 134,947 | 3,605,731 |
| 2010 | 111,704 | 4,840,107 |
| 2009 | 153,972 | 6,309,228 |
| 2008 | 189,002 | 6,784,885 |
| 2007 | 153,843 | 6,422,576 |
| 2006 | 113,375 | 5,569,397 |
| 2005 | 108,350 | 4,923,868 |
| 2004 | 102,045 | 4,623,968 |
| 2003 | 101,039 | 5,059,192 |
| 2002 | 83,084 | 5,189,543 |
| 2001 | 76,623 | 4,927,940 |
| 2000 | 82,442 | 4,443,441 |
| 1999 | 84,782 | 5,167,907 |
| 1998 | 87,379 | 4,586,999 |
| 1997 | 98,784 | 4,258,431 |
| 1996 | 77,502 | 3,013,834 |
| 1995 | 86,787 | 2,206,674 |
| 1994 | 94,606 | 1,476,227 |
| 1993 | 88,081 | 1,735,497 |
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.
26,055bbl oil−11%
18,786bbl oil+22%
16,219bbl oil−6%
10,703bbl oil+479%
8,684bbl oil+10%
7,250bbl oil−3%
4,444bbl oil−17%
4,423bbl oil−9%
4,075bbl oil−36%
84,874mcf gas−4%
84,644mcf gas−11%
3,543bbl oil−34%
- SWENSON
8A-66138PetexProthro (Canyon)
3,494bbl oil−16%
3,144bbl oil+10%
68,216mcf gas−2%
67,583mcf gas−9%
64,450mcf gas−5%
2,738bbl oil−26%
2,667bbl oil−20%
58,561mcf gas−10%
56,329mcf gas−6%
2,402bbl oil0%
53,269mcf gas0%
53,031mcf gas−14%
1,652bbl oil−19%
Showing 25 of 71, ranked by output value.
SourceTexas Railroad Commission Production Data Query.
Who runs the leases, and what they produce
Operators in Cottle County, by oil
Gunn Oil leads
Fields in Cottle County, by oil
Stescott (Canyon) leads
- Stescott (Canyon)7 leases · District 8A · Field 8602080079.2kbbl
- Prothro (Canyon)8 leases · District 8A · Field 7328930035.8kbbl
- Broken Bone (Congl.)19 leases · District 8A · Field 121505003,620bbl
- Whalen (Silver Bow II)1 lease · District 8A · Field 966927253,144bbl
- Moon Camp (Conglomerate)2 leases · District 8A · Field 626972003,063bbl
- Jack Grimm (Congl.)1 lease · District 8A · Field 453105002,402bbl
- VCG (Congl.)5 leases · District 8A · Field 928145001,325bbl
- Rhombochasm (Bend Conglomerate)25 leases · District 8A · Field 76251025122bbl
More operators here
Every operator in Cottle County →Recent drilling permits in Cottle County
EUNICE #1
new drill · Gunn Oil Company · Cottle County
Permit 0909562 · Jul 30, 2025
DELWIN-JETT #2
new drill · West Texas Crude Energy LLC · Cottle County
Permit 0907181 · Apr 8, 2025
'THOMPSON' #2
new drill · West Texas Crude Energy LLC · Cottle County
Permit 0903333 · Oct 18, 2024
HOWARD SMITH #1
new drill · Gunn Oil Company · Cottle County
Permit 0902778 · Sep 20, 2024
'THOMPSON' #1
new drill · West Texas Crude Energy LLC · Cottle County
Permit 0901160 · Jul 15, 2024
FARMLAND RESERVE #1
new drill · Gunn Oil Company · Cottle County
Permit 0896737 · Jan 24, 2024