COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 03 · CODE 089
Colorado County
Colorado County permitting is running 0.7 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (2 total, after a quiet prior quarter).
Strand Energy, L.C. leads with 1 permit in the past 12 months, one of 2 operators active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 12,336 ft (prior year: 7,550 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 20 active disposal and injection permits, with 1.63M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
3,319 drilling permits have been issued in Colorado County since 1977.
3,319 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Sep 14, 2026
Watch Colorado CountyAlso: every Colorado County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 2
- permits issued, 90d
- —
- vs prior 90d (0)
- 2
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 12,337
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 634
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 48 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 13 · prior 12 18(-28%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Strand Energy, L.C. | 1 | 12 |
| Shiner Exploration, LLC | 1 | 2 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Colorado County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Colorado County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Colorado County the Sparta is reported in 13 wells, median top 5,354 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilcox | 431 | 5 | 7,795 | 6,648–9,469 |
| Yegua | 387 | 6 | 5,550 | 3,773–6,084 |
| Frio | 376 | 4 | 3,100 | 2,432–3,962 |
| Miocene (undifferentiated) | 180 | 3 | 1,939 | 429–2,978 |
| Catahoula | 127 | 5 | 2,700 | 2,044–2,851 |
| Vicksburg | 82 | 4 | 4,124 | 3,260–4,619 |
| Jackson | 33 | 0 | 4,685 | 2,644–5,236 |
| Midway | 25 | 3 | 10,830 | 9,996–12,612 |
| Cook Mountain | 16 | 0 | 6,215 | 5,030–7,198 |
| Queen City | 14 | 0 | 7,448 | 4,544–8,281 |
| Sparta | 13 | 0 | 5,354 | 4,602–5,640 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 20
- active UIC permits of 93
- 66.4K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 1.63M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Colorado 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 918564 | Sep 17, 2026 | Sep 14, 2026 | Shiner Exploration, LLC | Beth Offutt #1 | 12,173 | 08932769 |
| 918180 | Sep 2, 2026 | Aug 31, 2026 | Strand Energy, L.C. | Cullen, H. R. et AL #14 | 12,500 | 08932781 |
| 910662 | Sep 24, 2025 | Sep 24, 2025 | Strand Energy, L.C. | Hastedt 'A' #6 | 12,875 | 08932780 |
| 909623 | Aug 5, 2025 | Aug 5, 2025 | B D Production Co., Inc. | Balusek Wootton #1 | 2,650 | 08932707 |
| 907448 | Apr 22, 2025 | Apr 22, 2025 | B D Production Co., Inc. | Balusek-Wootton Unit #2 | 6,750 | 08932779 |
| 903772 | Nov 4, 2024 | Nov 4, 2024 | Shiner Exploration, LLC | Durbin Gas Unit #1 | 8,350 | 08932753 |
| 902230 | Sep 6, 2024 | Sep 6, 2024 | Strand Energy, L.C. | Columbus Field Unit #510 | 13,000 | 08932778 |
| 898773 | Apr 16, 2024 | Apr 16, 2024 | B D Production Co., Inc. | Balusek-Wootton #19 | 6,200 | 08900608 |
| 895860 | Dec 13, 2023 | Dec 13, 2023 | Bruington Operating II, LLC | Chappel Unit #1 | 12,000 | 08932777 |
| 895239 | Nov 13, 2023 | Nov 13, 2023 | Enhanced Energy Partners Corp | Berger #1 | 10,200 | 08932776 |
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/colorado?days=90, documented in the API reference.