COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 03 · CODE 149
Fayette County, Texas
Fayette County permitting is running 5.7 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (17 total, versus 6 in the prior quarter).
Magnolia Oil & Gas Operating LLC leads with 21 permits in the past 12 months, one of 7 operators active in the county.
3 operators filed a first Fayette County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 11,500 ft; 98% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 10 active disposal and injection permits, with 4.16M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
4,700 drilling permits have been issued in Fayette County since 1977.
4,700 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 16, 2026
Watch Fayette CountyAlso: every Fayette County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 17
- permits issued, 90d
- +183%
- vs prior 90d (6)
- 5
- operators filing
- 94%
- horizontal
- 10,541
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 535
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 7, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 46 · prior 12 22(+109%)
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 Fayette County came in the last year. 3 in total.
- Tidal Petroleum, Inc.5 permitsDec 5, 2025 · active elsewhere first
- Flat Land Oil & Gas, LLC4 permitsOct 2, 2026 · new to Texas permits
- Sage Natural Resources LLC4 permitsAug 26, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Fayette County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Fayette County the Buda is reported in 215 wells, median top 9,033 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin Chalk | 1,348 | 34 | 9,920 | 7,758–11,832 |
| Pecan Gap | 934 | 32 | 9,510 | 7,512–11,188 |
| Eagle Ford | 541 | 3 | 10,551 | 8,136–11,890 |
| Navarro | 399 | 25 | 7,835 | 6,047–9,668 |
| Midway | 382 | 28 | 6,777 | 5,377–8,939 |
| Wilcox | 365 | 21 | 4,300 | 2,392–6,223 |
| Taylor | 272 | 24 | 7,873 | 6,701–10,000 |
| Buda | 215 | 0 | 9,033 | 7,878–12,311 |
| Georgetown | 92 | 0 | 10,890 | 8,224–12,481 |
| Glen Rose | 69 | 0 | 11,340 | 9,997–12,859 |
| Edwards | 64 | 0 | 11,952 | 9,640–12,678 |
| Sparta | 60 | 2 | 1,135 | 411–1,340 |
| Queen City | 51 | 2 | 1,595 | 730–2,060 |
| Del Rio | 39 | 0 | 8,295 | 7,482–9,089 |
| Anacacho | 37 | 0 | 9,032 | 7,636–9,967 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 10
- active UIC permits of 47
- 105K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 4.16M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Fayette 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
- —
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919187 | Oct 18, 2026 | Oct 16, 2026 | McA Petroleum Corporation | Arnim Warren Lease #5 | 2,000 | 14933661 |
| 918957 | Oct 8, 2026 | Oct 6, 2026 | Flat Land Oil & Gas, LLC | Skater Unit #1HH | 8,500 | 14933657 |
| 918959 | Oct 7, 2026 | Oct 5, 2026 | Flat Land Oil & Gas, LLC | Spectre Unit #1HH | 8,500 | 14933659 |
| 918958 | Oct 7, 2026 | Oct 5, 2026 | Flat Land Oil & Gas, LLC | Fountain Unit #1HH | 8,500 | 14933658 |
| 918960 | Oct 4, 2026 | Oct 2, 2026 | Flat Land Oil & Gas, LLC | Velocity Unit #1HH | 8,500 | 14933660 |
| 918823 | Sep 26, 2026 | Sep 24, 2026 | Verdun Oil & Gas LLC | Passchendaele #3HH | 14,500 | 14933656 |
| 918820 | Sep 26, 2026 | Sep 24, 2026 | Verdun Oil & Gas LLC | Cantigny #3HH | 14,500 | 14933655 |
| 918724 | Sep 23, 2026 | Sep 21, 2026 | Magnolia Oil & Gas Operating LLC | Tex One #H 01TKH | 12,800 | 14933652 |
| 918725 | Sep 23, 2026 | Sep 21, 2026 | Magnolia Oil & Gas Operating LLC | Kyle Two #H 02TKH | 12,800 | 14933653 |
| 918726 | Sep 23, 2026 | Sep 21, 2026 | Magnolia Oil & Gas Operating LLC | Kyle Four #H 04TKH | 12,800 | 14933654 |
Questions about Fayette County
How many drilling permits were issued in Fayette County in the last 12 months?
46 permits were issued in Fayette County in the last 12 months, up 77% from 26 in the 12 months before. 98% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Oct 16, 2026. 4,700 are on file since 1977.
Every Fayette County permit →Who is the most active operator in Fayette County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Magnolia Oil & Gas Operating LLC is the most active operator in Fayette County, with 21 of 46, followed by Rosewood Resources, Inc. (9) and Tidal Petroleum, Inc. (5). 5 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Fayette County →How many oil and gas wells are in Fayette County?
3,404 wells are on file in Fayette County, including 749 active, 1,941 plugged, and 13 permitted and not yet drilled. 1,104 are horizontal. The active wells are under 36 operators.
Every well in Fayette County →How much oil and gas does Fayette County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Fayette County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Fayette County →How much water is injected in Fayette County?
4.2 million barrels of water were injected in Fayette County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 10 of the county's 47 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Fayette County →What formations are drilled in Fayette County?
Completion filings for wells in Fayette County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Austin Chalk (1,348 wells, median top 9,920 ft), the Pecan Gap (934 wells, median top 9,510 ft), and the Eagle Ford (541 wells, median top 10,551 ft).
Formations in Fayette County →What basin is Fayette County in?
Petrora lists Fayette County in the Texas Gulf Coast. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 03.
The Texas Gulf Coast →Have there been earthquakes in Fayette County?
No earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of Fayette County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Fayette 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/fayette?days=90, documented in the API reference.