Plans for new SWDs in the Permian up nearly 15% in February 2022

By Greg Tsichlis - March 16, 2022

Before any permit for a new salt water disposal or injection well can be filed in Texas or New Mexico a public notice of intent is required to be published for public viewing and comment. Only Sourcenergy captures and tracks these notices which provides insight into future drilling plans ahead of the drilling permit.

Sourcenergy reports an increase of 14.6% in the number of public notices of intent to drill new SWD wells in the Permian Basin for the month of February 2022 vs January 2022.  February totals come in at 47 vs 41 in January 2022.  (Year over year, February 2022 is up nearly 3x vs the February 2021 total of 16.)

Saltwater disposal pre-permits February 2022

Here are the top 10 operators (and wells) driving these plans for new injection and SWD wells:

  • Wasser Operating (8)
  • CrownQuest Operating (5)
  • Kinder Morgan (5)
  • Lagoon Water (4)
  • Occidental Permian (3)
  • Apache Corporation (3)
  • McClure Oil Company (2)
  • Mid-States Operating (2)
  • Sabinal Energy Operating (2)
  • Citation Oil & Gas (1)

Counties (and wells) identified for these new SWDs include:

  • Martin (12)
  • Scurry (5)
  • Andrews (4)
  • Hockley (4)
  • Yoakum (3)
  • Cochran (3)
  • Gaines (3)
  • Howard (3)
  • Dawson (2)
  • Midland (2)

Formations include:

  • San Andres (21)
  • Wolfcamp/Cisco/Canyon Reef (5)
  • Grayburg & San Andres (4)
  • ABO (2)
  • Devonian (2)
  • Drinkard (1)
  • Clear Fork (1)
  • Delaware Mountain Group (1)
  • Ellenburger (1)
  • Glorieta and Upper ClearFork (1)

About this data

Sourcenergy SWD Pre-Permit Alert allows you to track, monitor and analyze these plans and intent to drill new SWD and injection wells. Our data includes operator, lease, location, formation, well specifications and other details for these new well development plans.

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