COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 7B · CODE 049
Brown County, Texas
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.
5,199 drilling permits have been issued in Brown County since 1977.
5,199 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)
- 0
- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
- 853
- 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 0 · prior 12 1(-100%)
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. | — | 256 |
| Quest Emg Inc. | — | 106 |
| KLH Oil & Gas Inc. | — | 103 |
| Southeastern Resources Corp. | — | 95 |
| Reach Oil | — | 77 |
| Shady Oil Co. | — | 67 |
| Unidentified | — | 67 |
| M.K.B. Energy Corp | — | 66 |
| Bayou Operating Company Inc. | — | 60 |
| Davco Oil LLC | — | 58 |
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 Strawn is reported in 48 wells, median top 1,188 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 →
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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| 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 |
Questions about Brown County
How many drilling permits were issued in Brown County in the last 12 months?
0 permits were issued in Brown County in the last 12 months, down 100% from 1 in the 12 months before. The most recent was issued Dec 4, 2024. 5,199 are on file since 1977.
Every Brown County permit →Which operator has the most wells in Brown County?
No operator has filed a drilling permit in Brown County in the last 12 months. By wells on file, the largest is Southwest Gas Systems Inc., with 256, followed by Quest Emg Inc. (106) and KLH Oil & Gas Inc. (103).
Operators in Brown County →How many oil and gas wells are in Brown County?
6,467 wells are on file in Brown County, including 775 active and 3,978 plugged. 3 are horizontal. The active wells are under 89 operators.
Every well in Brown County →How much oil and gas does Brown County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Brown County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Brown County →How much water is injected in Brown County?
575,530 barrels of water were injected in Brown County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 85 of the county's 612 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Brown County →What formations are drilled in Brown County?
Completion filings for wells in Brown County report tops for 10 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Caddo (848 wells, median top 1,602 ft), the Marble Falls (733 wells, median top 2,260 ft), and the Duffer (179 wells, median top 2,910 ft).
Formations in Brown County →What basin is Brown County in?
Petrora lists Brown County in the Barnett Shale and North Texas. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 7B.
The Barnett Shale and North Texas →Have there been earthquakes in Brown County?
No earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of Brown County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Brown 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/brown?days=90, documented in the API reference.