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Brazos County, Texas

Brazos County permitting is running 0.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (1 total, after a quiet prior quarter).

Wildfire Energy Operating LLC leads with 2 permits in the past 12 months, one of 2 operators active in the county.

Median permitted depth over the past year is 8,000 ft (prior year: 8,500 ft); 100% of the past year's permits are horizontal.

The county has 24 active disposal and injection permits, with 4.66M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

3,767 drilling permits have been issued in Brazos County since 1977.

3,767 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Sep 28, 2026

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Also: every Brazos County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →

Window30 days90 days180 days365 days
1
permits issued, 180d
-50%
vs prior 180d (2)
1
operators filing
100%
horizontal
9,200
avg permitted depth, ft
347
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 3 · prior 12 29(-90%)

01020302017201820192020202120222023202420252026

Top operators, last 12 months

By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.

OperatorPermitsWells
Wildfire Energy Operating LLC2608
CML Exploration, LLC123

Full operator directory →

New entrants, last 12 months

Operators whose first permit in Brazos County came in the last year. None.

Permit types, 180d

TypeWindowPriorAll time
Recompletion10732
Drill022,905

What the types mean →

Formations in completed wells

RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS

Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Brazos County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →

FormationWellsPermitted last 3 yrsMedian top, ftP10–P90
Austin Chalk1,333247,8647,018–10,327
Woodbine525118,2707,567–9,449
Buda50328,2707,579–9,779
Eagle Ford440107,7237,143–10,315
Pecan Gap430187,4406,055–10,363
Navarro42225,7354,657–8,472
Georgetown41128,3107,620–10,161
Wilcox31123,6101,896–4,449
Midway21515,0333,793–7,739
Sparta19322,8402,000–2,840
Del Rio7008,0997,522–8,714
Taylor3306,8975,131–10,590
Sub-Clarksville2908,1637,909–9,027
Edwards2619,8482,200–12,345
Nacatoch2606,5025,556–7,780

Beyond the permit record

RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes

Disposal and injection

24
active UIC permits of 197
98.6K
permitted bbl/day, active
4.66M
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025
reported through

Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Brazos 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

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorLease / wellDepthAPI
917710Sep 30, 2026Sep 28, 2026CML Exploration, LLCPeters #5REH9,20004131982
915332May 6, 2026May 6, 2026Wildfire Energy Operating LLCGolden #1HAH8,00004132686
915332May 6, 2026May 6, 2026Wildfire Energy Operating LLCGolden #1HAH8,00004132686
909228Aug 29, 2025Aug 29, 2025Wildfire Energy Operating LLCOrca B WB #2HH9,00004132684
909227Aug 29, 2025Aug 29, 2025Wildfire Energy Operating LLCOrca a WB #1HH9,00004132683
909595Aug 4, 2025Aug 4, 2025Wildfire Energy Operating LLCPorterfield B #2HEH8,90004132685
909595Aug 4, 2025Aug 4, 2025Wildfire Energy Operating LLCPorterfield B #2HEH8,90004132685
907005Apr 2, 2025Apr 2, 2025CML Exploration, LLCFridel #1H8,60004131950
907005Apr 2, 2025Apr 2, 2025CML Exploration, LLCFridel #1H8,60004131950
907003Apr 2, 2025Apr 2, 2025CML Exploration, LLCLloyd #1H9,10004131962

All Brazos County permits →

Questions about Brazos County

How many drilling permits were issued in Brazos County in the last 12 months?

3 permits were issued in Brazos County in the last 12 months, down 90% from 29 in the 12 months before. 100% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Sep 28, 2026. 3,767 are on file since 1977.

Every Brazos County permit →

Who is the most active operator in Brazos County?

By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Wildfire Energy Operating LLC is the most active operator in Brazos County, with 2 of 3, followed by CML Exploration, LLC (1). 1 operator filed permits here in the last 90 days.

Operators in Brazos County →

How many oil and gas wells are in Brazos County?

2,386 wells are on file in Brazos County: 789 active and 1,072 plugged. 1,077 are horizontal, and 33 operators hold them.

Every well in Brazos County →

How much oil and gas does Brazos County produce?

The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Brazos County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.

Leases in Brazos County →

How much water is injected in Brazos County?

4.7 million barrels of water were injected in Brazos County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 24 of the county's 197 disposal and injection permits are active.

Disposal and injection in Brazos County →

What formations are drilled in Brazos County?

Completion filings for wells in Brazos County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Austin Chalk (1,333 wells, median top 7,864 ft), the Woodbine (525 wells, median top 8,270 ft), and the Buda (503 wells, median top 8,270 ft).

Formations in Brazos County →

What basin is Brazos County in?

Petrora lists Brazos County in the Texas Gulf Coast. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 03.

The Texas Gulf Coast →

Have there been earthquakes in Brazos County?

TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Brazos County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.

Earthquakes in Brazos 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/brazos?days=180, documented in the API reference.