COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 04 · CODE 047
Brooks County
Brooks County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued April 22, 2026.
Overton Park Oil & Gas LP 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.
4,242 drilling permits have been issued in Brooks County since 1977.
4,242 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 →
- 3
- permits issued, 365d
- +0%
- vs prior 365d (3)
- 3
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 8,581
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 314
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 61 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 16 · prior 12 28(-43%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Overton Park Oil & Gas LP | 1 | 22 |
| Logas Energy, LLC | 1 | 11 |
| Stroud Petroleum, Inc. | 1 | 1 |
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 →
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 →
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
| Permit | Seen | Issued | Operator | Lease / well | Depth | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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=365, documented in the API reference.