About 40 oil and gas companies filed 110 drilling permits with Railroad Commission of Texas in the first week of April, according to Houston Chronicle, the state’s lowest weekly total of the year. Almost 20 percent of the permits were for drilling in Midland County. Double Eagle Development of Fort Worth filed 10 permits for horizontal wells targeting Spraberry. Others include Parsley Energy of Austin (3 horizontal wells for Spraberry), Concho Resources of Midland (7 horizontal wells for Parks field) and Solaris Midstream of Houston (saltwater disposal well).
Chronicle said Midland’s Diamondback Energy filed permits to drill horizontal wells in Howard, Pecos and Reeves counties.