COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 03 · CODE 015
Austin County, Texas
Austin County permitting is running 1.7 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (5 total, after a quiet prior quarter).
Enhanced Energy Partners Corp leads with 4 permits in the past 12 months, one of 3 operators active in the county.
One operator filed a first Austin County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 4,000 ft (prior year: 3,975 ft); 29% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 15 active disposal and injection permits, with 2.96M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
1,340 drilling permits have been issued in Austin County since 1977.
1,340 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 26, 2026
Watch Austin CountyAlso: every Austin County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 1
- permits issued, 30d
- -67%
- vs prior 30d (3)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 3,602
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 185
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 5, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 7 · prior 12 4(+75%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Enhanced Energy Partners Corp | 4 | 253 |
| Verdun Oil & Gas LLC | 2 | 10 |
| Bear Creek Energy, LLC | 1 | 25 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Austin County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Bear Creek Energy, LLC1 permitOct 26, 2026 · new to Texas permits
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Austin County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilcox | 126 | 2 | 7,100 | 6,290–9,515 |
| Yegua | 84 | 1 | 4,568 | 2,750–6,007 |
| Miocene (undifferentiated) | 78 | 3 | 1,786 | 1,308–2,715 |
| Jackson | 71 | 6 | 3,115 | 2,960–3,406 |
| Frio | 37 | 0 | 3,200 | 1,462–3,530 |
| Oakville | 35 | 1 | 900 | 160–1,086 |
| Austin Chalk | 33 | 0 | 15,315 | 13,559–15,748 |
| Sparta | 28 | 2 | 5,825 | 5,385–5,988 |
| Midway | 23 | 0 | 11,437 | 10,969–11,924 |
| Pecan Gap | 17 | 0 | 14,309 | 13,371–14,945 |
| Vicksburg | 17 | 1 | 2,920 | 2,763–3,682 |
| Navarro | 13 | 0 | 12,347 | 12,131–13,412 |
| Cook Mountain | 11 | 0 | 5,158 | 4,360–7,754 |
| Taylor | 10 | 0 | 12,922 | 12,388–13,602 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 15
- active UIC permits of 68
- 117K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 2.96M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Austin County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 0
- M2+ events in the area
- —
- largest
Monthly counts, magnitudes, and every recent event in the area →
Events are not tagged with a county; this counts M2+ events inside the bounding box of the county’s located permits, padded 0.1°. About TexNet →
Latest permits
NEWEST FIRST BY ISSUE DATE
| Permit | Seen | Issued | Operator | Lease / well | Depth | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919569 | Oct 28, 2026 | Oct 26, 2026 | Bear Creek Energy, LLC | Herman #5 | 3,602 | 01530679 |
| 918730 | Sep 23, 2026 | Sep 21, 2026 | Enhanced Energy Partners Corp | Paine, Robert G. #10 | 2,930 | 01500356 |
| 918650 | Sep 19, 2026 | Sep 17, 2026 | Verdun Oil & Gas LLC | Vimy Ridge Unit #2HH | 13,800 | 01531088 |
| 918649 | Sep 19, 2026 | Sep 17, 2026 | Verdun Oil & Gas LLC | Mons Unit #2HH | 13,800 | 01531087 |
| 917764 | Aug 15, 2026 | Aug 13, 2026 | Enhanced Energy Partners Corp | Walton, J.C. 'A' #21 | 3,330 | 01531079 |
| 914133 | Mar 18, 2026 | Mar 18, 2026 | Enhanced Energy Partners Corp | Thompson, R. W. #38 | 4,300 | 01531086 |
| 913889 | Mar 10, 2026 | Mar 10, 2026 | Enhanced Energy Partners Corp | Hellmuth, Sarah E. #27 | 4,000 | 01531085 |
| 906875 | Mar 25, 2025 | Mar 25, 2025 | Enhanced Energy Partners Corp | Waterflood Unit #1 #107 | 3,650 | 01531084 |
| 906734 | Mar 19, 2025 | Mar 19, 2025 | Enhanced Energy Partners Corp | Sehow OU 1 #1 | 4,300 | 01531083 |
| 906734 | Mar 19, 2025 | Mar 19, 2025 | Enhanced Energy Partners Corp | Hellmuth, Sarah E. #26 | 4,300 | 01531083 |
Questions about Austin County
How many drilling permits were issued in Austin County in the last 12 months?
7 permits were issued in Austin County in the last 12 months, up 75% from 4 in the 12 months before. 29% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Oct 26, 2026. 1,340 are on file since 1977.
Every Austin County permit →Who is the most active operator in Austin County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Enhanced Energy Partners Corp is the most active operator in Austin County, with 4 of 7, followed by Verdun Oil & Gas LLC (2) and Bear Creek Energy, LLC (1). 3 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Austin County →How many oil and gas wells are in Austin County?
1,268 wells are on file in Austin County: 189 active, 716 plugged, and 3 permitted and not yet drilled. 43 are horizontal, and 14 operators hold them.
Every well in Austin County →How much oil and gas does Austin County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Austin County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Austin County →How much water is injected in Austin County?
3.0 million barrels of water were injected in Austin County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 15 of the county's 68 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Austin County →What formations are drilled in Austin County?
Completion filings for wells in Austin County report tops for 14 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Wilcox (126 wells, median top 7,100 ft), the Yegua (84 wells, median top 4,568 ft), and the Miocene (undifferentiated) (78 wells, median top 1,786 ft).
Formations in Austin County →What basin is Austin County in?
Petrora lists Austin County in the Texas Gulf Coast. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 03.
The Texas Gulf Coast →Have there been earthquakes in Austin County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Austin County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Austin County →About this data
Drilling permits from the RRC OGA049M master and daily daf420 files, rebuilt nightly into per-county figures; windows are on the date issued. Disposal from UIC permits and H-10 reports at the last settled month; earthquakes from the TexNet catalog inside the county's located-permit footprint.
Developers: this page as JSON is GET /v1/data/counties/tx/austin?days=30, documented in the API reference.