COUNTIES · EAGLE FORD SHALE · DISTRICT 02 · CODE 123
DE Witt County
De Witt County permitting is running 9.7 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (29 total, down 44% on the prior quarter). 1 was issued in the past week.
Devon Energy Production Co, L.P. leads with 69 permits in the past 12 months, one of 9 operators active in the county.
3 operators filed a first De Witt County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 14,000 ft; 99% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 31 active disposal and injection permits, with 22.9M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
TexNet located 37 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M4.6.
6,986 drilling permits have been issued in De Witt County since 1977.
6,986 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 22, 2026
Watch DE Witt CountyAlso: every DE Witt County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 29
- permits issued, 90d
- -44%
- vs prior 90d (52)
- 5
- operators filing
- 97%
- horizontal
- 16,090
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 648
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 117 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 191 · prior 12 286(-33%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in DE Witt County came in the last year. 3 in total.
- Ensign Natural Resources II LLC6 permitsAug 21, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Crescent Energy Operating, LLC5 permitsSep 30, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Rusk Energy Operating LLC1 permitOct 1, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in DE Witt County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In DE Witt County the Austin Chalk is reported in 2,823 wells, median top 12,369 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin Chalk | 2,823 | 329 | 12,369 | 11,631–13,117 |
| Eagle Ford | 2,768 | 325 | 12,774 | 12,069–13,456 |
| Wilcox | 2,367 | 297 | 5,680 | 4,900–7,621 |
| Yegua | 2,018 | 223 | 2,500 | 1,812–4,660 |
| Vicksburg | 1,267 | 137 | 1,513 | 1,059–3,300 |
| Frio | 1,158 | 110 | 900 | 300–2,500 |
| Pecan Gap | 858 | 30 | 12,096 | 11,420–12,771 |
| Anacacho | 568 | 14 | 12,182 | 11,265–13,007 |
| Catahoula | 479 | 68 | 700 | 200–1,450 |
| Midway | 261 | 5 | 9,569 | 8,950–10,293 |
| Cook Mountain | 133 | 0 | 3,280 | 2,700–4,057 |
| Sparta | 124 | 0 | 3,896 | 3,380–4,532 |
| Navarro | 119 | 2 | 10,618 | 9,924–11,434 |
| Edwards | 72 | 0 | 14,232 | 13,720–14,554 |
| Miocene (undifferentiated) | 48 | 0 | 1,588 | 1–2,453 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 31
- active UIC permits of 141
- 355K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 22.9M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in DE Witt County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 37
- M2+ events in the area
- M4.6
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 918754 | Oct 24, 2026 | Oct 22, 2026 | Burlington Resources O & G Co LP | N Steinmann Unit A #6H | 17,500 | 12335841 |
| 918753 | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 21, 2026 | Burlington Resources O & G Co LP | N Steinmann Unit A #5H | 17,500 | 12335840 |
| 918752 | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 21, 2026 | Burlington Resources O & G Co LP | N Steinmann Unit A #4H | 17,500 | 12335839 |
| 918749 | Sep 30, 2026 | Oct 21, 2026 | Burlington Resources O & G Co LP | N Steinmann Unit A #7H | 17,500 | 12335836 |
| 919232 | Oct 17, 2026 | Oct 15, 2026 | Ensign Natural Resources II LLC | Henderson #12HH | 13,300 | 12335859 |
| 919231 | Oct 17, 2026 | Oct 15, 2026 | Ensign Natural Resources II LLC | Henderson #11HH | 13,300 | 12335858 |
| 918952 | Oct 15, 2026 | Oct 13, 2026 | Crescent Energy Operating, LLC | Turkey Bottom-McKee #1HH | 14,000 | 12335846 |
| 919063 | Oct 11, 2026 | Oct 9, 2026 | Burlington Resources O & G Co LP | Franz Unit A #5H | 17,500 | 12335849 |
| 919061 | Oct 9, 2026 | Oct 7, 2026 | Burlington Resources O & G Co LP | Franz Unit A #6H | 17,500 | 12335848 |
| 919065 | Oct 8, 2026 | Oct 6, 2026 | Burlington Resources O & G Co LP | Franz Unit A #8H | 17,500 | 12335851 |
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/de-witt?days=90, documented in the API reference.