COUNTIES · EAGLE FORD SHALE · DISTRICT 02 · CODE 025
Bee County, Texas
Bee County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued July 22, 2026.
Paloma Operating, LLC leads with 4 permits in the past 12 months, one of 5 operators active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 7,600 ft (prior year: 9,500 ft); 11% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 41 active disposal and injection permits, with 2.57M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
TexNet located 2 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M2.1.
4,506 drilling permits have been issued in Bee County since 1977.
4,506 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Jul 22, 2026
Watch Bee CountyAlso: every Bee 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 (3)
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- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
- 704
- 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 9 · prior 12 30(-70%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Paloma Operating, LLC | 4 | 10 |
| Everest Resource Company | 2 | 0 |
| Dahco Operating, LLC | 1 | 4 |
| Suemaur Operating LLC | 1 | 2 |
| Royal Production Company, Inc. | 1 | 1 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Bee County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Bee County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Bee County the Frio is reported in 369 wells, median top 2,850 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frio | 369 | 13 | 2,850 | 1,500–4,062 |
| Vicksburg | 322 | 12 | 3,296 | 2,700–5,070 |
| Wilcox | 206 | 11 | 6,829 | 5,529–8,608 |
| Catahoula | 202 | 13 | 2,525 | 1,001–3,246 |
| Yegua | 170 | 0 | 4,139 | 3,248–5,452 |
| Queen City | 125 | 3 | 5,550 | 4,356–6,773 |
| Jackson | 105 | 7 | 3,060 | 1,937–4,626 |
| Edwards | 94 | 0 | 13,538 | 13,323–13,783 |
| Reklaw | 76 | 2 | 6,834 | 4,836–8,705 |
| Miocene (undifferentiated) | 71 | 0 | 1,360 | 1–2,306 |
| Eagle Ford | 56 | 13 | 12,852 | 12,560–13,433 |
| Oakville | 45 | 0 | 1,840 | 582–2,586 |
| Austin Chalk | 43 | 5 | 13,047 | 12,340–13,444 |
| Midway | 37 | 0 | 9,352 | 8,565–9,565 |
| Olmos | 30 | 11 | 10,816 | 10,158–12,640 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 41
- active UIC permits of 188
- 178K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 2.57M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Bee County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 2
- M2+ events in the area
- M2.1
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 917268 | Aug 9, 2026 | Jul 22, 2026 | Everest Resource Company | Brinkoeter #1 | 8,000 | 02534087 |
| 917268 | Jul 22, 2026 | Jul 22, 2026 | Everest Resource Company | Brinkoeter #1 | 8,000 | 02534087 |
| 915787 | May 22, 2026 | May 22, 2026 | Paloma Operating, LLC | Taylor Ranch #1 | 7,600 | 02534086 |
| 915106 | Apr 27, 2026 | Apr 27, 2026 | Suemaur Operating LLC | Teal #1 | 10,000 | 02534085 |
| 914613 | Apr 8, 2026 | Apr 8, 2026 | Paloma Operating, LLC | Mia #1 | 7,800 | 02534084 |
| 914219 | Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 20, 2026 | Royal Production Company, Inc. | South Texas Children's Home #1T | 4,838 | 02534002 |
| 914171 | Mar 19, 2026 | Mar 19, 2026 | Paloma Operating, LLC | Lyla #1 | 7,200 | 02534083 |
| 914171 | Mar 19, 2026 | Mar 19, 2026 | Paloma Operating, LLC | Lyla #1 | 7,000 | 02534083 |
| 912443 | Dec 29, 2025 | Dec 29, 2025 | Dahco Operating, LLC | Bob White #2HH | 3,250 | 02534082 |
| 910798 | Sep 30, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | Welderxp Ltd. | Davis, Nona Berry #76 | 3,900 | 02534081 |
Questions about Bee County
How many drilling permits were issued in Bee County in the last 12 months?
9 permits were issued in Bee County in the last 12 months, down 70% from 30 in the 12 months before. 11% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Jul 22, 2026. 4,506 are on file since 1977.
Every Bee County permit →Who is the most active operator in Bee County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Paloma Operating, LLC is the most active operator in Bee County, with 4 of 9, followed by Everest Resource Company (2) and Dahco Operating, LLC (1). 0 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Bee County →How many oil and gas wells are in Bee County?
4,551 wells are on file in Bee County: 432 active, 2,751 plugged, and 6 permitted and not yet drilled. 143 are horizontal, and 62 operators hold them.
Every well in Bee County →How much oil and gas does Bee County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Bee County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Bee County →How much water is injected in Bee County?
2.6 million barrels of water were injected in Bee County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 41 of the county's 188 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Bee County →What formations are drilled in Bee County?
Completion filings for wells in Bee County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Frio (369 wells, median top 2,850 ft), the Vicksburg (322 wells, median top 3,296 ft), and the Wilcox (206 wells, median top 6,829 ft).
Formations in Bee County →What basin is Bee County in?
Petrora lists Bee County in the Eagle Ford Shale. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 02.
The Eagle Ford Shale →Have there been earthquakes in Bee County?
TexNet located 2 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Bee County's permitted wells in the last 2 years; the largest was M2.1.
Earthquakes in Bee 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/bee?days=90, documented in the API reference.