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AUSTIN––The Railroad Commission of Texas issued a total of 1,133 original drilling permits in January 2020, compared to 1,199 in January 2019. The January 2020 total included 1,041 permits to drill new oil or gas wells— only nine of those in the Panhandle District— eight to re-enter plugged well bores and 84 for recompletions of existing well bores. The breakdown of well types for those permits is 310 oil, 61 gas, 751 oil or gas, 33 injection, zero service, and one other permit.

AUSTIN—The Texas Railroad Commission received reports in December 2019 of crude-oil and natural-gas production from 174,016 oil wells and 87,595 gas wells. From January 2019 to December 2019, total Texas reported production was 1.455 billion barrels of crude oil and 9.8 trillion cubic feet of total gas. Crude-oil production reported by the RRC is limited to oil produced from oil leases and does not include condensate, which is reported separately. Average daily statewide production in December 2019 was 3.298,738 Bbls of crude oil, up from 2,910,743 Bbls in December 2018, and 22,827,243 Mcf of natural gas, an increase from December 2018 production of 20,881,305 Mcf. For additional oil and gas production statistics, including the ranking of each Texas county by crude-oil, total gas, and condensate production, visit the RRC’s website at http://www.rrc.texas.gov/oil-gas/research-and-statistics/production-data/ texas-monthly-oil-gas-production/.

PAMPA—Laycee Johnson of Pampa has been named Xcel Energy manager for Community and Economic Development for a six-county area in the eastern and northeastern Texas Panhandle.

AUSTIN—Crude-oil and natural-gas production during November 2019 came from 173,528 oil wells and 88,349 gas wells, according to the Texas Railroad Commission.