COUNTIES · EAGLE FORD SHALE · DISTRICT 01 · CODE 021
Bastrop County
Bastrop County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued September 29, 2025.
The county has 13 active disposal and injection permits, with 530K barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
1,625 drilling permits have been issued in Bastrop County since 1977.
1,625 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Sep 29, 2025
Watch Bastrop CountyAlso: every Bastrop County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
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- permits issued, 90d
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- vs prior 90d (0)
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- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
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- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 7 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 9
Operators by well inventory
No permits in the last year; ranked by wells on the RRC wellbore file instead.
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Bastrop County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Bastrop County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Bastrop County the Austin Chalk is reported in 151 wells, median top 2,227 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
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| Taylor | 334 | 0 | 5,140 | 1,448–5,468 |
| Navarro | 183 | 0 | 4,415 | 584–4,908 |
| Austin Chalk | 151 | 0 | 2,227 | 1,913–6,350 |
| Midway | 82 | 0 | 2,200 | 551–4,150 |
| Wilcox | 59 | 0 | 2,129 | 1–4,070 |
| Buda | 48 | 0 | 2,694 | 2,224–7,220 |
| Eagle Ford | 31 | 0 | 6,530 | 2,342–7,188 |
| Carrizo | 18 | 0 | 990 | 737–1,156 |
| Pecan Gap | 16 | 0 | 5,800 | 1,984–6,596 |
| Georgetown | 14 | 0 | 3,230 | 2,508–7,703 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 13
- active UIC permits of 59
- 18.5K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 530K
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Bastrop County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
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- M2+ events in the area
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- 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 |
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| 910435 | Sep 29, 2025 | Sep 29, 2025 | Enterprise Products Texas OP LLC | MP 75.8 #1 | 400 | 02131652 |
| 908143 | May 23, 2025 | May 23, 2025 | S & S Operating Company, Inc. | Jerry Krchnak #001 | 8,900 | 02131651 |
| 891593 | Jun 23, 2023 | Jun 23, 2023 | Walker Operating Company | Brinkley #2 | 2,600 | 02131649 |
| 891593 | Jun 23, 2023 | Jun 23, 2023 | Walker Operating Company | Brinkley #2 | 2,600 | 02131649 |
| 891405 | Jun 16, 2023 | Jun 16, 2023 | Walker Operating Company | Brinkley #1 | 2,600 | 02131648 |
| 890514 | May 24, 2023 | May 24, 2023 | Enterprise Products Texas OP LLC | MP75.6 #1 | 427 | 02131647 |
| 887134 | Jan 18, 2023 | Jan 18, 2023 | Bastrop Energy Group | Bahena #1 | 2,800 | 02131646 |
| 883686 | Sep 13, 2022 | Sep 13, 2022 | Baker Oil, Inc | M.E. Bryant #2 | 5,000 | 02131645 |
| 874674 | Dec 3, 2021 | Dec 3, 2021 | Baker Oil, Inc | M.E. Bryant #1 | 5,000 | 02131644 |
| 813244 | Jan 22, 2016 | Jan 22, 2016 | Finger Oil & Gas, Inc. | Bettie Buchanan #1 | 3,500 | 02131643 |
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/bastrop?days=90, documented in the API reference.