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COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 7B · CODE 049

Brown County

Brown County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued December 4, 2024.

The county has 85 active disposal and injection permits, with 576K barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

5,366 drilling permits have been issued in Brown County since 1977.

5,366 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Dec 4, 2024

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

Window30 days90 days180 days365 days
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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
855
operators, all time

WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER

Permits issued by month

LAST 19 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 19

012320192020202120232024

Operators by well inventory

No permits in the last year; ranked by wells on the RRC wellbore file instead.

OperatorPermitsWells
Southwest Gas Systems Inc.—204
Southeastern Resources Corp.—105
Quest Emg Inc.—95
KLH Oil & Gas Inc.—80
Ziegler-Peru Inc.—72
Unidentified—67
Reach Oil—63
Shady Oil Co.—57
Xtreme Operating Company LLC—57
Davco Oil LLC—55

Full operator directory →

New entrants, last 12 months

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

Permit types, 90d

TypeWindowPriorAll time

What the types mean →

Formations in completed wells

RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS

Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Brown 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
Caddo84801,602880–2,146
Marble Falls73302,2601,130–2,810
Duffer17902,9102,192–3,185
Ellenburger17302,6442,300–3,358
Mississippian5002,3482,007–2,948
Strawn4801,188614–1,484
Palo Pinto3701,112750–1,266
Barnett2802,5281,476–3,168
Coleman Junction140776600–800
Canyon130205178–665

Beyond the permit record

RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes

Disposal and injection

85
active UIC permits of 612
32.6K
permitted bbl/day, active
576K
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025
reported through

Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Brown County →

Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →

TexNet catalog via USGS

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

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorLease / wellDepthAPI
904151Dec 4, 2024Dec 4, 2024Reach OilMoore, E. C. #51,15404903186
894469Oct 12, 2023Oct 12, 2023Cpmak Investments, Inc.D.V. Goode 272 #41,99904936200
892753Aug 16, 2023Aug 16, 2023Cpmak Investments, Inc.D.V. Goode 272 #61,99904936199
892752Aug 16, 2023Aug 16, 2023Cpmak Investments, Inc.D.V. Goode 272 #51,99904936198
873028Oct 4, 2021Oct 4, 2021Xplore Operating, LLCNewton, Ross #141,40004936197
872542Sep 9, 2021Sep 9, 2021Lawrence Energy CompanyThomason, Worth #51,99904936183
870654Jun 24, 2021Jun 24, 2021Cpmak Investments, Inc.D.V. Goode 272 #11,99904936196
869948May 21, 2021May 21, 2021Xhorizons Energy LLCBowers, D.L. 'C' #2C2,59004931629
867317Jan 28, 2021Jan 28, 2021Blue Diamond Mountain, LLCBlue #32,00004936195
867315Jan 28, 2021Jan 28, 2021Blue Diamond Mountain, LLCBlue #22,00004936194

All Brown County permits →

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/brown?days=90, documented in the API reference.