COUNTIES · EAGLE FORD SHALE · DISTRICT 02 · CODE 123
De Witt County, Texas
De Witt County permitting is running 12 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (35 total, down 26% on the prior quarter). 6 were issued in the past week.
Burlington Resources O & G Co LP leads with 67 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.
37 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M4.6.
5,880 drilling permits have been issued in De Witt County since 1977.
5,880 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Nov 6, 2026
Email me new permitsAlso: every De Witt County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 35
- permits issued, 90d
- -26%
- vs prior 90d (47)
- 5
- operators filing
- 97%
- horizontal
- 16,331
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 645
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 9, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 172 · prior 12 228(-25%)
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 →
Fewer than ten wells in De Witt County report the Jackson, so it is below this table's cutoff. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin Chalk | 2,824 | 315 | 12,369 | 11,632–13,117 |
| Eagle Ford | 2,769 | 311 | 12,774 | 12,069–13,456 |
| Wilcox | 2,368 | 285 | 5,680 | 4,900–7,621 |
| Yegua | 2,018 | 213 | 2,500 | 1,812–4,660 |
| Vicksburg | 1,267 | 131 | 1,513 | 1,059–3,300 |
| Frio | 1,158 | 104 | 900 | 300–2,500 |
| Pecan Gap | 858 | 29 | 12,096 | 11,420–12,771 |
| Anacacho | 568 | 14 | 12,182 | 11,265–13,007 |
| Catahoula | 479 | 62 | 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 →
USGS catalog, Texas
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
Questions about De Witt County
How many drilling permits were issued in De Witt County in the last 12 months?
174 permits were issued in De Witt County in the last 12 months, down 26% from 235 in the 12 months before. 99% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Nov 6, 2026. 5,880 are on file since 1977.
Every De Witt County permit →Who is the most active operator in De Witt County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Burlington Resources O & G Co LP is the most active operator in De Witt County, with 67 of 174, followed by Devon Energy Production Co, L.P. (53) and BPX Operating Company (29). 5 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in De Witt County →How many oil and gas wells are in De Witt County?
5,844 wells are on file in De Witt County, including 2,509 active, 1,614 plugged, and 107 permitted and not yet drilled. 3,191 are horizontal. The active wells are under 63 operators.
Every well in De Witt County →How much oil and gas does De Witt County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in De Witt County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in De Witt County →How much water is injected in De Witt County?
22.9 million barrels of water were injected in De Witt County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 31 of the county's 141 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in De Witt County →What formations are drilled in De Witt County?
Completion filings for wells in De Witt County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Austin Chalk (2,824 wells, median top 12,369 ft), the Eagle Ford (2,769 wells, median top 12,774 ft), and the Wilcox (2,368 wells, median top 5,680 ft).
Formations in De Witt County →What basin is De Witt County in?
Petrora lists De Witt County in the Eagle Ford Shale. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 02.
The Eagle Ford Shale →Have there been earthquakes in De Witt County?
37 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of De Witt County's permitted wells in the last 2 years; the largest was M4.6.
Earthquakes in De Witt 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.
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