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
Watch Brown CountyAlso: every Brown 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
- 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
Operators by well inventory
No permits in the last year; ranked by wells on the RRC wellbore file instead.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Brown County came in the last year. None.
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 →
In Brown County the Ellenburger is reported in 173 wells, median top 2,644 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
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| Caddo | 848 | 0 | 1,602 | 880–2,146 |
| Marble Falls | 733 | 0 | 2,260 | 1,130–2,810 |
| Duffer | 179 | 0 | 2,910 | 2,192–3,185 |
| Ellenburger | 173 | 0 | 2,644 | 2,300–3,358 |
| Mississippian | 50 | 0 | 2,348 | 2,007–2,948 |
| Strawn | 48 | 0 | 1,188 | 614–1,484 |
| Palo Pinto | 37 | 0 | 1,112 | 750–1,266 |
| Barnett | 28 | 0 | 2,528 | 1,476–3,168 |
| Coleman Junction | 14 | 0 | 776 | 600–800 |
| Canyon | 13 | 0 | 205 | 178–665 |
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
| Permit | Seen | Issued | Operator | Lease / well | Depth | API |
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| 904151 | Dec 4, 2024 | Dec 4, 2024 | Reach Oil | Moore, E. C. #5 | 1,154 | 04903186 |
| 894469 | Oct 12, 2023 | Oct 12, 2023 | Cpmak Investments, Inc. | D.V. Goode 272 #4 | 1,999 | 04936200 |
| 892753 | Aug 16, 2023 | Aug 16, 2023 | Cpmak Investments, Inc. | D.V. Goode 272 #6 | 1,999 | 04936199 |
| 892752 | Aug 16, 2023 | Aug 16, 2023 | Cpmak Investments, Inc. | D.V. Goode 272 #5 | 1,999 | 04936198 |
| 873028 | Oct 4, 2021 | Oct 4, 2021 | Xplore Operating, LLC | Newton, Ross #14 | 1,400 | 04936197 |
| 872542 | Sep 9, 2021 | Sep 9, 2021 | Lawrence Energy Company | Thomason, Worth #5 | 1,999 | 04936183 |
| 870654 | Jun 24, 2021 | Jun 24, 2021 | Cpmak Investments, Inc. | D.V. Goode 272 #1 | 1,999 | 04936196 |
| 869948 | May 21, 2021 | May 21, 2021 | Xhorizons Energy LLC | Bowers, D.L. 'C' #2C | 2,590 | 04931629 |
| 867317 | Jan 28, 2021 | Jan 28, 2021 | Blue Diamond Mountain, LLC | Blue #3 | 2,000 | 04936195 |
| 867315 | Jan 28, 2021 | Jan 28, 2021 | Blue Diamond Mountain, LLC | Blue #2 | 2,000 | 04936194 |
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.