COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 03 · CODE 089
Colorado County, Texas
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: 6,750 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.
2,961 drilling permits have been issued in Colorado County since 1977.
2,961 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 →
- 0
- permits issued, 30d
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- vs prior 30d (1)
- 0
- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
- 629
- 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 2 · prior 12 3(-33%)
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 | 26 |
| Shiner Exploration, LLC | 1 | 4 |
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 →
| 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 →
USGS catalog, Texas
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 0
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Questions about Colorado County
How many drilling permits were issued in Colorado County in the last 12 months?
2 permits were issued in Colorado County in the last 12 months, down 33% from 3 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Sep 14, 2026. 2,961 are on file since 1977.
Every Colorado County permit →Who is the most active operator in Colorado County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Strand Energy, L.C. is the most active operator in Colorado County, with 1 of 2, followed by Shiner Exploration, LLC (1). 2 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Colorado County →How many oil and gas wells are in Colorado County?
2,640 wells are on file in Colorado County, including 217 active, 1,842 plugged, and 1 permitted and not yet drilled. 10 are horizontal. The active wells are under 46 operators.
Every well in Colorado County →How much oil and gas does Colorado County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Colorado County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Colorado County →How much water is injected in Colorado County?
1.6 million barrels of water were injected in Colorado County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 20 of the county's 93 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Colorado County →What formations are drilled in Colorado County?
Completion filings for wells in Colorado County report tops for 11 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Wilcox (431 wells, median top 7,795 ft), the Yegua (387 wells, median top 5,550 ft), and the Frio (376 wells, median top 3,100 ft).
Formations in Colorado County →What basin is Colorado County in?
Petrora lists Colorado County in the Texas Gulf Coast. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 03.
The Texas Gulf Coast →Have there been earthquakes in Colorado County?
No earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of Colorado County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Colorado 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/colorado?days=30, documented in the API reference.