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Oil & gas wells in Reeves County, TX

85 catalogued wells in Reeves County, Texas, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.

Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.

At a glance

Reeves County, Texas has 85 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 0 plugged & abandoned (0%) and 50 documented orphans. It ranks 19th of the 65 Texas counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.0% of the state's 964,593 catalogued wells. Texas county counts cover only wells whose source record names the county (see below).

Catalogued wells

85

Active

0

Plugged

0

Documented orphans

50

Coverage note: The Railroad Commission's statewide location layer that supplies most Texas records carries no county field, so this county count covers only wells whose source record names the county — chiefly the federal orphaned-well inventory — and is far below the true number of wells in the county. The statewide total is on the Texas page: 964,593 wells in Texas.

What is the status of oil and gas wells in Reeves County?

0% of Reeves County's wells are active, 35 percentage points below the Texas share of 35%. 0% are plugged & abandoned, against 42% statewide and 47% nationally. 50 wells (59%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 0.9% across Texas and 4% nationally. The remaining 35 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.

What kinds of wells are in Reeves County?

By product class, 67 of the county's wells (79%) are oil wells, 2 (2%) gas wells and 8 (9%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 48% and the gas share 13%. 100% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.

How does Reeves County compare with other Texas counties?

Reeves County has the 19th-most catalogued wells of the 65 Texas counties with at least 25. The median Texas county on WellCensus has 50 wells. The largest, Pecos County, has 489. By documented orphans it ranks 11th in Texas.

Who operates wells in Reeves County?

Texas records come from the Railroad Commission's statewide surface-well layer, which publishes each wellbore's API number, coordinates and map symbol (status) but no well name, operator, county, dates or depth; those fields await the RRC's full-attribute bulk file.

Oil & gas wells in Reeves County, TX
WellAPI # / state IDStatusTypeOperator
Well API 42-389-3268242-389-32682Other statusOil—
Well API 42-389-3204942-389-32049OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-389-3207442-389-32074OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-389-3087342-389-30873Other statusInjection—
Well API 42-389-0001042-389-00010Other statusOil—
Well API 42-389-0001342-389-00013Other statusOil—
Well API 42-389-0015442-389-00154Other statusOil—
Well API 42-389-3134442-389-31344Other statusOil—
Well API 42-389-3172442-389-31724Other statusOil—
Well API 42-389-3174842-389-31748Other statusOther type—
Well API 42-389-3177842-389-31778Other statusOil—
Well API 42-389-3181842-389-31818Other statusOil—
Well API 42-389-3225742-389-32257Other statusOil—
Well API 42-389-0027442-389-00274Other statusOil—
Well API 42-389-3041342-389-30413Other statusOil—
Well API 42-389-3188642-389-31886Other statusInjection—
Well API 42-389-3188742-389-31887Other statusOil—
Well API 42-389-3204742-389-32047Other statusOil—
Well API 42-389-3207742-389-32077Other statusOil—
Well API 42-389-3222742-389-32227Other statusOil—
Well API 42-389-3259342-389-32593Other statusOil—
Well API 42-389-3259542-389-32595Other statusGas—
Well API 42-389-3259642-389-32596Other statusOil—
Well API 42-389-0027942-389-00279OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-389-0064042-389-00640OrphanedOil—

A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 85 in search → (filter by operator, status and type, then export), or find a specific well on the live map.

Frequently asked questions

How many oil and gas wells are in Reeves County, TX?

Reeves County, Texas has 85 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 0 plugged and 50 documented orphans. Texas county counts cover only wells whose source record names the county.

How many orphaned wells are in Reeves County?

50 wells in Reeves County, Texas are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 11th-highest count among Texas counties.

What share of wells in Reeves County are plugged?

0 of Reeves County's 85 catalogued wells (0%) are plugged & abandoned, compared with 42% across Texas.

Which Texas county has the most oil and gas wells?

Pecos County has the most catalogued wells of any Texas county on WellCensus (489); Reeves County ranks 19th with 85.

Nearby in the Texas rankings

About this data

Source: Texas Railroad Commission statewide surface-well layer (August 2019 snapshot), plus the USGS United States Documented Orphaned Well Database (2026, doi 10.5066/P13FHBYG), as published October 10, 2026 — WellCensus refreshes it monthly. See the methodology for how records are matched, cleaned and scored.

Cite as: WellCensus, “Oil & gas wells in Reeves County, Texas”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/texas/reeves (data as of October 10, 2026).