Four permits for horizontal oil drilling operations in the southern half of Dawson County have been approved by the Texas Railroad Commission since the first of the year.Midland-based SM Energy Co. received a permit on Feb. 21 to drill the No. 2182DN Joey MacDonald at a location about 12.4 miles southwest of Lamesa.The surface drilling location is less than a mile west of Klondike Baptist Church, just south of FM 828.Scheduled for a total depth of 12,500 feet, the wellbore is slated to travel horizontally to the northnorthwest for a distance of about two and a half miles.A permit was ...