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Oil and gas wells in and near ZIP code 79072
- 1well inside the ZIP
- 1within 3 miles of it
- 1drilling location in two years
- 395square miles of land
The ZIP code and 3 miles around it
Wells and drilling locations in and around 79072
- Drilling locations1Permits issued in the last two years
- Producing wells0On a lease reporting production now
- Not producing1Shut in, inactive or no lease on record
- Plugged0The state's wellbore record says plugged
The solid line is ZIP code 79072 as the US Census Bureau draws it; the dashed line is 3 miles out. The counts are for everything inside the dashed line: 1 of the wells are inside the ZIP itself. Sources: Railroad Commission of Texas well layers and permit files, US Census Bureau ZIP Code Tabulation Areas and county outlines, town points from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), base map from USGS The National Map.
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<p style="margin:4px 0 0;font-size:14px">Map: <a href="https://royaltyclerk.com/texas/zip/79072">Oil and gas wells in ZIP code 79072, Texas</a> by Royalty Clerk, from Railroad Commission of Texas records</p>In numbers
Wells in 79072 and within 3 miles
| What | Inside 79072 | Within 3 miles |
|---|---|---|
| Producing wells | 0 | 0 |
| Not producing wells | 1 | 1 |
| Plugged wells | 0 | 0 |
| Drilling permits, last 24 months | 1 | 1 |
| All wells | 1 | 1 |
ZIP code 79072 covers 395 square miles of land: about 0.0 wells to the square mile.
Drilling locations
The newest drilling permits in and near 79072
| Issued | Lease and well | Where | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | PYTHON 3vertical · API 42-189-30529 · permit 0919685North Texas Carbon, LLC | in 7907234.18334, -101.60060 on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab) | North Texas Carbon, LLC |
A permit is permission to drill, not a well. Source: Railroad Commission of Texas drilling permits. This week's permits, statewide
Nearest wells
The wells nearest the middle of 79072
- 1Corey 14.9 mi NENot producing · API 42-189-30526 · Octane Energy Operating, LLC · inside 79072
- 2Lutrick 117 mi SNot producing · API 42-189-30346 · Southwest Petroleum
- 3Carmickle, E. M. "A" 119 mi SENot producing · API 42-153-00003 · Southwest Petroleum
- 4Stansell 120 mi SENot producing · API 42-153-30243 · Esco Oil Operating Company LLC
- 5Givens, Ercell 126 mi SProducing · API 42-303-30667 · McDonald Production, LLC
- 6Shaw, Howard 126 mi SProducing · API 42-303-30694 · McDonald Production, LLC
Who runs them
Operators of the wells in 79072
- 1Octane Energy Operating, LLC1 wellnone on a producing lease
Around it
Towns and ZIP codes around 79072
FAQ
Questions people ask
Are there oil or gas wells near 79072?
Yes. 1 oil and gas well with a location on the state's map lies inside ZIP code 79072, 0 of them on producing leases, and 1 within 3 miles of its edge. The state issued 1 drilling permit with a well location within 3 miles in the last 24 months, the newest on November 2, 2026.
Is this the same area as the Postal Service's ZIP code?
Nearly. The Postal Service does not publish ZIP code boundaries, so we use the US Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Area for 79072, built from census blocks where most addresses use that ZIP. The edges can differ from mail delivery by a street or two, and a few ZIP codes (post office boxes, single buildings) have no area of their own.
Do I own minerals under a well in 79072?
A well nearby says nothing about who owns the minerals under it. The county's mineral roll lists who is paid on each producing lease. Search a name to see whether the Hale County roll lists it.
Where do the numbers come from?
Every dot is a well location from the Railroad Commission of Texas well layers, or a drilling permit's surface location from its permit files, issued in the last 24 months. A well counts as producing when its lease reported oil or gas in its newest months, and as plugged when the state's wellbore record says so. Nothing on this page comes from owners or from addresses.
Own land or minerals near 79072?
See whether a county roll lists your name, and get an email when a permit or a new well is filed near you.
Sources
This page is left out of search engines until 10 or more wells lie inside the ZIP.
- US Census Bureau, 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, cartographic boundary file at 1:500,000 (cb_2020_us_zcta520_500k)www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2020/shp/cb_2020_us_zcta520_500k.zip · file of May 19, 2023, read November 14, 2026
- Railroad Commission of Texas, well layers and drilling permit fileswww.rrc.texas.gov/resource-center/research/data-sets-available-for-download/ · loaded as the state publishes them; figures kept six hours
- US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary files (county lines), through the us-atlas package 3.0.1www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/cartographic-boundary.html · built into the site with its well maps
- GeoNames, towns and their points (CC BY 4.0)www.geonames.org/ · built into the site with its town pages
- USGS The National Map, basemap services (topo and imagery map under the wells), public domainapps.nationalmap.gov/services/ · tiles drawn under the map when it is made