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Edwards County

Edwards County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued December 3, 2024.

The county has 10 active disposal and injection permits, with 140K barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

1,882 drilling permits have been issued in Edwards County since 1977.

1,882 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Dec 3, 2024

Watch Edwards County

Also: every Edwards County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →

Window30 days90 days180 days365 days
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permits issued, 90d
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vs prior 90d (0)
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operators filing
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horizontal
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avg permitted depth, ft
176
operators, all time

WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER

Permits issued by month

LAST 46 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 19 · prior 12 15(+27%)

05102018201920202021202220232024

Operators by well inventory

No permits in the last year; ranked by wells on the RRC wellbore file instead.

OperatorPermitsWells
Upp Operating LLC—202
Henry Petroleum LLC—153
Lakeshore Operating LLC—114
Uhc Petroleum Corporation—100
Hilcorp Energy Company—86
Wright Brothers Energy Inc.—74
Muskegon Development Company—45
Coastal States Gas Prod. Co.—39
North American Royalties Inc.—38
PNP Operating Company LLC—36

Full operator directory →

New entrants, last 12 months

Operators whose first permit in Edwards County came in the last year. None.

Permit types, 90d

TypeWindowPriorAll time

What the types mean →

Formations in completed wells

RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS

Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Edwards County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →

In Edwards County the Base Cretaceous (marker) is reported in 263 wells, median top 1,027 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →

FormationWellsPermitted last 3 yrsMedian top, ftP10–P90
Canyon50103,0301,888–6,655
Base Cretaceous (marker)26301,027930–1,200
Wolfcamp20501,6061,170–2,305
Ellenburger12807,0275,571–10,842
Strawn12006,6644,842–9,750
Glen Rose890238228–361
Paluxy781404275–553
Pennsylvanian5106,6802,703–8,980
Cisco1802,3561,927–2,735

Beyond the permit record

RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes

Disposal and injection

10
active UIC permits of 55
13K
permitted bbl/day, active
140K
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025
reported through

Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Edwards 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
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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

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorLease / wellDepthAPI
904347Dec 3, 2024Dec 3, 2024PNP Operating Company LLCDunbar #1350013732275
904252Nov 25, 2024Nov 25, 2024PNP Operating Company LLCDunbar #1250013732274
900095May 31, 2024May 31, 2024PNP Operating Company LLCFarm #560013732272
899726May 17, 2024May 17, 2024PNP Operating Company LLCFriess Brothers #270013730780
899725May 17, 2024May 17, 2024PNP Operating Company LLCFarm #460013732271
899628May 14, 2024May 14, 2024PNP Operating Company LLCSchenkel 'A' #1350013732270
899096Apr 24, 2024Apr 24, 2024PNP Operating Company LLCSchenkel 'A' #1250013732267
899095Apr 24, 2024Apr 24, 2024PNP Operating Company LLCDunbar #1150013732269
899094Apr 24, 2024Apr 24, 2024PNP Operating Company LLCDunbar #1050013732268
898090Mar 12, 2024Mar 12, 2024PNP Operating Company LLCFarm #2R60013732266

All Edwards County permits →

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/edwards?days=90, documented in the API reference.