COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 03 · CODE 071
Chambers County
Chambers County permitting is running 0.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (1 total, after a quiet prior quarter).
Zachry Exploration, LLC leads with 1 permit in the past 12 months, one of 4 operators active in the county.
3 operators filed a first Chambers County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 12,715 ft (prior year: 5,000 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 290 active disposal and injection permits, with 50M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
3,804 drilling permits have been issued in Chambers County since 1977.
3,804 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Sep 16, 2026
Watch Chambers CountyAlso: every Chambers County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 1
- permits issued, 90d
- —
- vs prior 90d (0)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 15,550
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 519
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 60 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 20 · prior 12 22(-9%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Zachry Exploration, LLC | 1 | 2 |
| Gulf Resource Recovery Corp. | 1 | 1 |
| Magnetar Operating LLC | 1 | 1 |
| Kaler Energy Corp. | 1 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Chambers County came in the last year. 3 in total.
- Kaler Energy Corp.1 permitSep 16, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Gulf Resource Recovery Corp.1 permitApr 15, 2026 · new to Texas permits
- Magnetar Operating LLC1 permitJan 6, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Chambers County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Chambers County the Frio is reported in 541 wells, median top 7,571 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 290
- active UIC permits of 664
- 29.7M
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 50M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Chambers 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 918639 | Sep 18, 2026 | Sep 16, 2026 | Kaler Energy Corp. | Barrow #1 | 15,550 | 07132684 |
| 914637 | Apr 15, 2026 | Apr 15, 2026 | Gulf Resource Recovery Corp. | RFR Frio 15 GU #1 | 13,830 | 07132270 |
| 912359 | Jan 7, 2026 | Jan 7, 2026 | Zachry Exploration, LLC | Lopez #1 | 9,950 | 07132683 |
| 912095 | Jan 6, 2026 | Jan 6, 2026 | Magnetar Operating LLC | Turner Unit #1 | 11,600 | 07132682 |
| 910362 | Sep 17, 2025 | Sep 17, 2025 | Oneok Hydrocarbon Southwest, LLC | Fee #3A | 3,150 | 07132681 |
| 908005 | May 16, 2025 | May 16, 2025 | Targa Downstream LLC | Fee #16A | 3,288 | 07132680 |
| 906049 | Feb 24, 2025 | Feb 24, 2025 | Mont Belvieu Caverns, LLC | Central Storage Terminal #3 | 7,600 | 07132679 |
| 905364 | Jan 23, 2025 | Jan 23, 2025 | Energy Transfer MT Belv Ngls LP | Lone Star NGL MB Central Term #24NT | 5,000 | 07132678 |
| 903714 | Oct 31, 2024 | Oct 31, 2024 | Energy Transfer MT Belv Ngls LP | Lone Star NGL MB Central Term #22NT | 5,500 | 07132677 |
| 903160 | Oct 9, 2024 | Oct 9, 2024 | OXY Low Carbon Ventures, LLC | Bluebonnet Usdw #02 | 2,750 | 07132676 |
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/chambers?days=90, documented in the API reference.