COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 03 · CODE 071
Chambers County, Texas
Chambers County permitting is running 0.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (1 total, after a quiet prior quarter).
Gulf Resource Recovery Corp. 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: 4,144 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 NOV 5, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 4 · prior 12 4(+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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gulf Resource Recovery Corp. | 1 | 2 |
| Zachry Exploration, LLC | 1 | 2 |
| 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 →
Fewer than ten wells in Chambers County report the Jackson, so it is below this table's cutoff. 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 |
Questions about Chambers County
How many drilling permits were issued in Chambers County in the last 12 months?
4 permits were issued in Chambers County in the last 12 months, level with 4 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Sep 16, 2026. 3,804 are on file since 1977.
Every Chambers County permit →Who is the most active operator in Chambers County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Gulf Resource Recovery Corp. is the most active operator in Chambers County, with 1 of 4, followed by Zachry Exploration, LLC (1) and Magnetar Operating LLC (1). 1 operator filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Chambers County →How many oil and gas wells are in Chambers County?
4,072 wells are on file in Chambers County: 423 active, 2,211 plugged, and 2 permitted and not yet drilled. 8 are horizontal, and 37 operators hold them.
Every well in Chambers County →How much oil and gas does Chambers County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Chambers County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Chambers County →How much water is injected in Chambers County?
50.0 million barrels of water were injected in Chambers County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 290 of the county's 664 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Chambers County →What formations are drilled in Chambers County?
Completion filings for wells in Chambers County report tops for 6 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Frio (541 wells, median top 7,571 ft), the Miocene (undifferentiated) (292 wells, median top 4,974 ft), and the Caprock (175 wells, median top 750 ft).
Formations in Chambers County →What basin is Chambers County in?
Petrora lists Chambers County in the Texas Gulf Coast. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 03.
The Texas Gulf Coast →Have there been earthquakes in Chambers County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Chambers County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Chambers 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/chambers?days=90, documented in the API reference.