COUNTIES · EAGLE FORD SHALE · DISTRICT 01 · CODE 021
Bastrop County, Texas
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 6 active disposal and injection permits, with 530K barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
1,543 drilling permits have been issued in Bastrop County since 1977.
1,543 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Sep 29, 2025
Email me new permitsAlso: 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
- 384
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 8, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 0 · prior 12 2(-100%)
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 Buda is reported in 48 wells, median top 2,694 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
- 6
- active UIC permits of 52
- 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 →
USGS catalog, Texas
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 |
| 891593Amendment | 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 |
Questions about Bastrop County
How many drilling permits were issued in Bastrop County in the last 12 months?
0 permits were issued in Bastrop County in the last 12 months, down 100% from 2 in the 12 months before. The most recent was issued Sep 29, 2025. 1,543 are on file since 1977.
Every Bastrop County permit →Which operator has the most wells in Bastrop County?
No operator has filed a drilling permit in Bastrop County in the last 12 months. By wells on file, the largest is Trivista Operating LLC, with 169, followed by Digital Operating Company LLC (35) and Armada Resources Corporation (29).
Operators in Bastrop County →How many oil and gas wells are in Bastrop County?
1,579 wells are on file in Bastrop County, including 189 active, 725 plugged, and 1 permitted and not yet drilled. 31 are horizontal. The active wells are under 16 operators.
Every well in Bastrop County →How much oil and gas does Bastrop County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Bastrop County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Bastrop County →How much water is injected in Bastrop County?
530,352 barrels of water were injected in Bastrop County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 6 of the county's 52 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Bastrop County →What formations are drilled in Bastrop County?
Completion filings for wells in Bastrop County report tops for 10 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Taylor (334 wells, median top 5,140 ft), the Navarro (183 wells, median top 4,415 ft), and the Austin Chalk (151 wells, median top 2,227 ft).
Formations in Bastrop County →What basin is Bastrop County in?
Petrora lists Bastrop County in the Eagle Ford Shale. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 01.
The Eagle Ford Shale →Have there been earthquakes in Bastrop County?
No earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of Bastrop County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Bastrop 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/bastrop?days=90, documented in the API reference.