COUNTIES · EAGLE FORD SHALE · DISTRICT 02 · CODE 057
Calhoun County, Texas
Calhoun County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued April 21, 2026.
Hominy Consulting, LLC leads with 1 permit in the past 12 months, the only operator active in the county.
One operator filed a first Calhoun County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 9,900 ft (prior year: 5,500 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 21 active disposal and injection permits, with 13.2M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
1,967 drilling permits have been issued in Calhoun County since 1977.
1,967 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Apr 21, 2026
Watch Calhoun CountyAlso: every Calhoun County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
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- permits issued, 180d
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- vs prior 180d (1)
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- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
- 357
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 5, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 1 · prior 12 1(+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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hominy Consulting, LLC | 1 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Calhoun County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Hominy Consulting, LLC1 permitApr 21, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Calhoun 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
- 21
- active UIC permits of 93
- 128K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 13.2M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Calhoun 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 914943 | Apr 21, 2026 | Apr 21, 2026 | Hominy Consulting, LLC | D & C #1 | 9,900 | 05731828 |
| 906330 | Apr 1, 2025 | Apr 1, 2025 | B&L Resources, L.L.C. | Welder #28HH | 5,500 | 05731827 |
| 900061 | Jun 21, 2024 | Jun 21, 2024 | Kebo Oil & Gas, Inc. | Double Downn #2 | 7,500 | 05731826 |
| 884593 | Oct 13, 2022 | Oct 13, 2022 | B&L Resources, L.L.C. | Welder #63HH | 5,423 | 05731815 |
| 882022 | Sep 12, 2022 | Sep 12, 2022 | Initial Energy Services, LLC | Sheriff Greta #2 | 5,650 | 05700515 |
| 880504 | Jun 3, 2022 | Jun 3, 2022 | B&L Resources, L.L.C. | Welder #66HH | 5,500 | 05731825 |
| 877284 | Apr 14, 2022 | Apr 14, 2022 | Wagner Oil Company | Traylor, Maude B. #30 | 8,850 | 05731547 |
| 876330 | Jan 31, 2022 | Jan 31, 2022 | McGowan Working Partners, Inc. | Bennett, W. H. #11 | 5,512 | 05700016 |
| 875107 | Dec 10, 2021 | Dec 10, 2021 | Kebo Oil & Gas, Inc. | Double Down #1 | 7,500 | 05731824 |
| 874680 | Nov 29, 2021 | Nov 29, 2021 | B&L Resources, L.L.C. | Welder M #62HH | 5,500 | 05731823 |
Questions about Calhoun County
How many drilling permits were issued in Calhoun County in the last 12 months?
1 permit was issued in Calhoun County in the last 12 months, level with 1 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Apr 21, 2026. 1,967 are on file since 1977.
Every Calhoun County permit →Who is the most active operator in Calhoun County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Hominy Consulting, LLC is the most active operator in Calhoun County, with 1 of 1. 0 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Calhoun County →How many oil and gas wells are in Calhoun County?
1,865 wells are on file in Calhoun County: 69 active, 1,146 plugged, and 1 permitted and not yet drilled. 8 are horizontal, and 20 operators hold them.
Every well in Calhoun County →How much oil and gas does Calhoun County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Calhoun County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Calhoun County →How much water is injected in Calhoun County?
13.2 million barrels of water were injected in Calhoun County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 21 of the county's 93 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Calhoun County →What formations are drilled in Calhoun County?
Completion filings for wells in Calhoun County report tops for 6 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Frio (216 wells, median top 7,272 ft), the Miocene (undifferentiated) (100 wells, median top 3,175 ft), and the Catahoula (65 wells, median top 4,050 ft).
Formations in Calhoun County →What basin is Calhoun County in?
Petrora lists Calhoun County in the Eagle Ford Shale. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 02.
The Eagle Ford Shale →Have there been earthquakes in Calhoun County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Calhoun County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Calhoun 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/calhoun?days=180, documented in the API reference.