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Texas Oil and Gas Production Statistics for October 2024

January 13, 2025

Statewide and county crude oil and natural gas production for October 2024 reported in the tables below came from 159,986 oil wells and 83,497 gas wells.

Crude oil production reported by the RRC is limited to oil produced from oil leases and does not include condensate, which is reported separately by the RRC. For full oil and gas production statistics, you can visit the links below.

Statewide totals: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/oil-and-gas/research-and-statistics/production-data/texas-monthly-oil-gas-production/

County rankings: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/oil-and-gas/research-and-statistics/production-data/texas-monthly-oil-gas-production-by-county-ranking/


TABLE 1 - October
2024 STATEWIDE PRODUCTION*

PRODUCT

PRELIMINARY REPORTED TOTAL VOLUME

AVERAGE DAILY PRODUCTION

Crude Oil

122,145,230 BBLS (barrels)

3,940,168 BBLS

Natural Gas

898,859,331 mcf (thousand cubic feet)

28,995,462 mcf

* These are preliminary figures based on production volumes reported by operators and will be updated as late and corrected production reports are received.

TABLE 2 - October 2023 STATEWIDE PRODUCTION

PRODUCT

UPDATED REPORTED TOTAL VOLUME

PRELIMINARY REPORTED TOTAL VOLUME

Crude Oil

142,554,792 BBLS

114,547,597 BBLS

Natural Gas

1,062,326,913 mcf

893,803,295 mcf

 

TABLE 3October 2024 TEXAS TOP TEN CRUDE OIL PRODUCING COUNTIES RANKED BY PRELIMINARY PRODUCTION

RANK

COUNTY

CRUDE OIL (BBLS)

1.

MARTIN

18,736,747

2.

MIDLAND

18,219,038

3.

UPTON

8,418,897

4.

LOVING

7,292,931

5.

REAGAN

6,094,728

6.

KARNES

5,691,494

7.

HOWARD

5,674,358

8.

ANDREWS

4,612,781

9.

ECTOR

4,584,028

10.

REEVES

4,427,582

TABLE 4 – October 2024 TEXAS TOP TEN TOTAL GAS (GAS WELL GAS & CASINGHEAD) PRODUCING COUNTIES RANKED BY PRELIMINARY PRODUCTION

RANK

COUNTY

TOTAL GAS (MCF)

1.

REEVES

85,847,976

2.

MIDLAND

81,742,992

3.

MARTIN

56,335,230

4.

WEBB

53,719,532

5.

LOVING

47,304,064

6.

CULBERSON

38,941,193

7.

UPTON

37,051,445

8.

REAGAN

36,373,954

9.

PANOLA

28,221,873

10.

HARRISON

28,214,657

 

 

TABLE 5 – October 2024 TEXAS TOP TEN TOTAL CONDENSATE PRODUCING COUNTIES RANKED BY PRELIMINARY PRODUCTION

RANK

COUNTY

CONDENSATE (BBLS)

1.

REEVES

6,837,294

2.

LOVING

4,728,693

3.

CULBERSON

3,182,980

4.

DE WITT

1,572,783

5.

KARNES

1,317,898

6.

WEBB

1,182,754

7.

LIVE OAK

855,356

8.

LA SALLE

491,451

9.

WARD

477,060

10.

MCMULLEN

274,015

 


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