COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 04 · CODE 047
Brooks County, Texas
Brooks County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued April 22, 2026.
Logas Energy, LLC leads with 1 permit in the past 12 months, one of 3 operators active in the county.
2 operators filed a first Brooks County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 8,000 ft (prior year: 10,300 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 22 active disposal and injection permits, with 1.13M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
3,835 drilling permits have been issued in Brooks County since 1977.
3,835 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Apr 22, 2026
Watch Brooks CountyAlso: every Brooks 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
- 311
- 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 3 · prior 12 3(+0%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Logas Energy, LLC | 1 | 35 |
| Stroud Petroleum, Inc. | 1 | 3 |
| Overton Park Oil & Gas LP | 1 | 2 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Brooks County came in the last year. 2 in total.
- Logas Energy, LLC1 permitApr 22, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Stroud Petroleum, Inc.1 permitMar 5, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Brooks County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Brooks County the Frio is reported in 226 wells, median top 4,375 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 22
- active UIC permits of 197
- 81.9K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 1.13M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Brooks 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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| 914986 | Apr 22, 2026 | Apr 22, 2026 | Logas Energy, LLC | Strickland-Kruse #1 | 7,850 | 04732560 |
| 913778 | Mar 5, 2026 | Mar 5, 2026 | Stroud Petroleum, Inc. | Pita #1 | 9,892 | 04732537 |
| 912713 | Jan 15, 2026 | Jan 15, 2026 | Overton Park Oil & Gas LP | State-Marshall #2024 | 8,000 | 04732556 |
| 908389 | Jun 4, 2025 | Jun 4, 2025 | EOG Resources, Inc. | Kleberg, R J Jr TR Quiteria Past #719 | 11,900 | 04732447 |
| 907300 | Apr 22, 2025 | Apr 22, 2025 | Millennium Exploration Co. LLC | Garcia Benavides Gas Unit 2 #1 | 10,000 | 04731667 |
| 905214 | Jan 17, 2025 | Jan 17, 2025 | EOG Resources, Inc. | Kleberg, R J Jr TR Quiteria Past #709 | 10,300 | 04732531 |
| 902955 | Oct 3, 2024 | Oct 3, 2024 | Energy Transfer Company | Cathodic Protection #11 | 400 | 04732559 |
| 902996 | Oct 1, 2024 | Oct 1, 2024 | Hughes, Dan A. Company, L.P. | Santa FE Ranch #301 | 15,900 | 04732351 |
| 900030 | May 31, 2024 | May 31, 2024 | Energy Transfer Company | Cathodic Protection #1 | 400 | 04732558 |
| 898291 | Mar 25, 2024 | Mar 25, 2024 | Overton Park Oil & Gas LP | Kelsey Unit #M 1FG | 9,000 | 04732557 |
Questions about Brooks County
How many drilling permits were issued in Brooks County in the last 12 months?
3 permits were issued in Brooks County in the last 12 months, level with 3 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Apr 22, 2026. 3,835 are on file since 1977.
Every Brooks County permit →Who is the most active operator in Brooks County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Logas Energy, LLC is the most active operator in Brooks County, with 1 of 3, followed by Stroud Petroleum, Inc. (1) and Overton Park Oil & Gas LP (1). 0 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Brooks County →How many oil and gas wells are in Brooks County?
3,287 wells are on file in Brooks County, including 322 active and 2,063 plugged. 4 are horizontal. The active wells are under 27 operators.
Every well in Brooks County →How much oil and gas does Brooks County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Brooks County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Brooks County →How much water is injected in Brooks County?
1.1 million barrels of water were injected in Brooks County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 22 of the county's 197 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Brooks County →What formations are drilled in Brooks County?
Completion filings for wells in Brooks County report tops for 6 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Vicksburg (331 wells, median top 8,540 ft), the Frio (226 wells, median top 4,375 ft), and the Miocene (undifferentiated) (74 wells, median top 2,000 ft).
Formations in Brooks County →What basin is Brooks County in?
Petrora lists Brooks County in the Texas Gulf Coast. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 04.
The Texas Gulf Coast →Have there been earthquakes in Brooks County?
No earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of Brooks County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Brooks 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/brooks?days=90, documented in the API reference.