Reeves County Texas Drilling Permits And Reported Spuds (2026)

Reeves County had 64 Texas drilling permit records with valid API county coding in the 90-day window ending July 10, 2026. The same source review found 86 trailing-12-month permit records and 13 source-filed operator labels with recent permit activity.

The Texas reported-spud source was current through June 23. Reeves County had 5 deduplicated reported-spud events in the 90-day spud window ending on that date. The latest Reeves County spud in the reviewed window was April 11.

These are separate record stages. A permit records planned or authorized drilling activity. A reported spud records a drilling start where a date is available. Neither count is a completed-well or production total.

EnergyNetWatch reviewed Texas permit and reported-spud records on July 22, 2026. County permit totals include records with valid Texas API county coding.

Reeves County Texas Drilling Activity Snapshot

The permit count uses the 90 days beginning April 11. The spud count uses the 90 days beginning March 25. Each start date is tied to the latest available date in its own Texas source table.

Reeves has the broadest recent operator mix among Midland, Reeves, Loving, and Upton in this review. Its leading operator accounts for 18 of 64 permits, or 28.1% of the county total. That is a different distribution from Midland and Loving, where a smaller group of operator labels accounts for most recent permit records.

Leading Reeves County Operator Labels

This public preview shows five of the 13 source-filed operator labels with recent API-coded Reeves County permits. It does not publish the complete county table or the individual permit rows behind each total.

The names stay as filed in the source. They are not consolidated into inferred parent-company groups. Preserving the filed label keeps the public total tied to the source record and leaves corporate-family normalization as a separate analysis step.

Reeves Has A Broader Current Operator Mix

The five displayed operators account for 44 of 64 recent permits, or 68.8% of the current API-coded Reeves County count. The remaining 20 permits are spread across eight additional source-filed operator labels.

Anadarko leads the displayed table with 18 permits. Mewbourne follows with 8, and VTX has 7. Greenlake and U.S. Energy Development add 11 combined. No single displayed label controls a majority of the recent total.

That distribution is useful for understanding concentration, but it should not be extended beyond the permit records. It does not measure leasehold, working interest, rig count, capital allocation, production, or vendor spend. It describes the operator names appearing on recent county permit filings.

The annual column also shows that several current operators are new or newly concentrated in the latest window. Anadarko and Mewbourne each have the same 90-day and 12-month count in this review. Greenlake also has all six of its displayed annual permits inside the current 90-day window. Those facts describe filing timing, not whether each permit will be drilled.

Permit Timing And Spud Timing

Reeves County's permit source was current through July 10. The reported-spud source was current through June 23, and the latest Reeves event in the 90-day window was April 11.

The five-event spud count is the deduplicated total available after API-based county matching. It should not be read as a complete count of every Reeves County drilling start. Texas spud reporting has a different cadence and coverage profile from the permit table, and some source records do not support reliable county attribution.

It also is not a permit-to-spud conversion rate. The permit and spud windows are anchored to different dates, and a spud in the current window may relate to a permit issued before the current permit window.

Record sequence: permit issue, reported spud, completion or status record, first production, then production history.

EnergyNetWatch keeps each stage separate so a permit does not become a drilled well through assumption.

What The Underlying Reeves Records Add

The county and operator totals identify concentration. The individual records provide the fields needed to validate timing and location.

The current Reeves table can therefore be filtered by operator, date, lease, field, and location without changing the meaning of the record. Rows without a reported-spud date remain permit-only rows.

Reeves County Compared With Other Reviewed Counties

The selected Permian county review used the same source cut and county-matching rules.

Reeves sits close to Upton on current permit volume but has more source-filed operator labels. Loving has fewer permits and more reported spuds. Midland has roughly twice the Reeves permit count but less operator diversity in this cut.

This is a selected Permian county comparison, not a complete statewide rank. It is designed to show how county totals differ when permit volume, operator concentration, and reported-spud coverage are kept visible.

Texas County Matching And Coverage

Texas county attribution on this page comes from the three-digit county FIPS segment of the API number. The statewide 90-day permit review contained 2,096 records. Of those, 1,091 had a valid API county segment and could be included in county totals.

Rows without valid API county coding remain in the statewide dataset. They are not assigned to Reeves through field_county_code. Field geography can cross county boundaries and does not establish the permit's surface county.

This method produces a smaller but defensible county total. The page therefore uses the label API-coded permit records and describes the county comparison as the reviewed Permian group.

Source Dates And Definitions

EnergyNetWatch ran the read-only Texas county review on July 22, 2026. The latest Texas permit issue date was July 10. The latest Texas reported-spud date was June 23. The 90-day permit window begins April 11, and the 90-day spud window begins March 25.

Permit records are counted by issue date. Reported-spud events are deduplicated by API and spud date. Operator totals on this page count permit records only because operator attribution is not complete for every spud event in the reviewed source.

The figures do not represent unique producing wells, completions, reserves, production volume, acreage, revenue, capital guidance, or forecast activity. Current records can change as the state source publishes later filings or corrections.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many recent drilling permits are in Reeves County, Texas?

EnergyNetWatch found 64 permit records with valid Reeves County API coding in the 90-day window ending July 10, 2026. The trailing-12-month count was 86.

Are 64 permits the same as 64 drilled wells?

No. A permit is an authorization or drilling-intent record. A reported spud supplies separate drilling-start evidence, and later records are needed for completion or production claims.

Which operator has the most Reeves County permits in this review?

Anadarko E&P Onshore LLC leads the public preview with 18 permits. The county total is relatively distributed: those 18 records equal 28.1% of the current count.

Why are reported-spud totals shown separately?

Spuds represent a different record stage and follow a different source clock. The county had five deduplicated reported-spud events in the reviewed window, but that number should not be divided by the permit count as a conversion rate.

Does this include every Texas permit row that may relate to Reeves County?

No. The county total only includes records with valid API county coding. Rows without that geography remain in the statewide table and are not assigned from field-county values.

Is this a production or operator-size ranking?

No. It ranks recent permit records by source-filed operator label. Production and company size require separate datasets.

Related EnergyNetWatch Pages

• Midland County Texas drilling permits and reported spuds
• Loving County Texas drilling permits and reported spuds
• Upton County Texas drilling permits and reported spuds
• Texas RRC data guide
• How to track drilling permits by operator
• Texas oil and gas permit activity watchlist