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Texas Oil & Gas Wells and Drilling Permits — County-Level Statistics (2026)

County-level statistics for oil and gas activity in Texas, compiled from Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) public bulk data: 1,006,559 wellbore records across 275 counties with their reported status (producing, shut in, injection) and the number of distinct operators on record, plus every drilling permit filed between 2026-03-01 to 2026-07-20 (4,120 permits, 80% of them horizontal) broken out by county, with the count of operators filing in each. Aggregate county rollups only — individual permit and wellbore records are not included.

Data: texas-oil-gas-county-statistics.csv — one row per county, 275 counties.

Column notes — please read before citing

column	meaning
wellbore_records	rows for that county in the RRC OG_WELLBORE_EWA wellbore file. Complete for the file's vintage.
wellbores_with_status_code	how many of those rows carry a well-status code at all. The RRC file leaves status blank on about two-thirds of records, so the three status columns below are counts of coded records, not shares of all wells.
wells_status_producing / _shut_in / _injection	wells whose coded status is PRODUCING / SHUT IN / INJECTION.
operators_on_wellbore_record	distinct RRC operator numbers appearing on that county's wellbore records (historical operators included).
drilling_permits_filed_in_window	W-1 drilling permits with a filed date in 2026-03-01 to 2026-07-20.
horizontal_permits_in_window	of those, the ones flagged horizontal.
operators_filing_permits_in_window	distinct operators that filed at least one permit in the window.
last_permit_filed_date	most recent permit filed date in the window, blank if none.

Scope limits, stated plainly. The permit window starts 2026-03-01 because that is where our load of the RRC daily permit feed reaches full monthly strength; earlier months are partial and are excluded rather than published as if complete. This is not the complete historical RRC permit record. Spacing-exception (Rule 37 / Rule 38) counts are deliberately excluded — the RRC stopped populating those fields in its bulk permit feed in mid-2024, so any current count would be misleading. RRC permit filings also run roughly 5-8 days behind real-world activity.

Source and license

Derived from public data published by the Railroad Commission of Texas, the state agency of record for oil and gas drilling permits (W-1), completions, well status and lease production. Licensed CC-BY-4.0.

Compiled and maintained by Texas Mineral Radar (texasmineralradar.com) — free county activity pages, per-operator profiles, and a searchable index of recent Texas drilling permits, plus free alerts when a new permit is filed near a tract you own. Mineral ownership itself lives in county deed records; this dataset and the site describe drilling activity, not ownership.

Per-county pages (top 60 by wellbore count)

• Wichita County — 28,364 wellbore records
• Andrews County — 24,878 wellbore records
• Ector County — 22,323 wellbore records
• Archer County — 18,832 wellbore records
• Young County — 15,949 wellbore records
• Midland County — 15,738 wellbore records
• Webb County — 14,663 wellbore records
• Crockett County — 14,660 wellbore records
• Upton County — 14,424 wellbore records
• Howard County — 14,274 wellbore records
• Pecos County — 14,117 wellbore records
• Martin County — 13,188 wellbore records
• Reagan County — 12,965 wellbore records
• Jack County — 12,696 wellbore records
• Shackelford County — 12,636 wellbore records
• Duval County — 12,353 wellbore records
• Crane County — 12,228 wellbore records
• Gregg County — 11,774 wellbore records
• Ward County — 11,462 wellbore records
• Rusk County — 11,315 wellbore records
• Gaines County — 11,267 wellbore records
• Hockley County — 10,152 wellbore records
• Yoakum County — 9,903 wellbore records
• Panola County — 9,567 wellbore records
• Hutchinson County — 9,530 wellbore records
• Wise County — 9,509 wellbore records
• Reeves County — 9,481 wellbore records
• Bexar County — 9,428 wellbore records
• Scurry County — 9,377 wellbore records
• Montague County — 9,168 wellbore records
• Winkler County — 8,840 wellbore records
• Glasscock County — 8,819 wellbore records
• Callahan County — 8,651 wellbore records
• Sutton County — 8,635 wellbore records
• Eastland County — 8,624 wellbore records
• Cooke County — 8,556 wellbore records
• Stephens County — 8,555 wellbore records
• Navarro County — 8,400 wellbore records
• Dimmit County — 7,978 wellbore records
• Caldwell County — 7,747 wellbore records
• Gray County — 7,693 wellbore records
• Throckmorton County — 7,688 wellbore records
• Coleman County — 7,439 wellbore records
• Mcmullen County — 7,211 wellbore records
• Clay County — 7,174 wellbore records
• Mitchell County — 7,154 wellbore records
• Karnes County — 7,092 wellbore records
• Runnels County — 7,060 wellbore records
• Zapata County — 6,989 wellbore records
• Tarrant County — 6,967 wellbore records
• La Salle County — 6,812 wellbore records
• Atascosa County — 6,698 wellbore records
• Nueces County — 6,635 wellbore records
• Harrison County — 6,623 wellbore records
• Wharton County — 6,550 wellbore records
• Jones County — 6,529 wellbore records
• Brown County — 6,451 wellbore records
• Irion County — 6,312 wellbore records
• Starr County — 6,184 wellbore records
• Palo Pinto County — 6,165 wellbore records

Every county: https://texasmineralradar.com/counties/ · Recent permits statewide: https://texasmineralradar.com/permits/