COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 03 · CODE 157
Fort Bend County
Fort Bend County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued September 18, 2025.
The county has 91 active disposal and injection permits, with 24.1M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
3,343 drilling permits have been issued in Fort Bend County since 1977.
3,343 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Sep 18, 2025
Watch Fort Bend CountyAlso: every Fort Bend County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
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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
- 431
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 33 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 21 · prior 12 28(-25%)
Operators by well inventory
No permits in the last year; ranked by wells on the RRC wellbore file instead.
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Fort Bend County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Fort Bend County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Fort Bend County the Jackson is reported in 32 wells, median top 6,476 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
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| Frio | 833 | 0 | 4,088 | 2,700–5,210 |
| Miocene (undifferentiated) | 382 | 1 | 2,600 | 514–4,017 |
| Yegua | 198 | 1 | 7,700 | 6,859–8,529 |
| Anahuac | 177 | 0 | 4,503 | 3,884–4,737 |
| Vicksburg | 158 | 0 | 6,426 | 4,590–7,623 |
| Wilcox | 100 | 0 | 11,932 | 10,100–12,926 |
| Cook Mountain | 70 | 0 | 8,418 | 7,771–9,016 |
| Jackson | 32 | 0 | 6,476 | 5,973–7,583 |
| Catahoula | 30 | 0 | 3,944 | 2,985–4,600 |
| Weches | 29 | 0 | 10,260 | 9,640–10,387 |
| Caprock | 25 | 0 | 3,580 | 3,167–3,746 |
| Reklaw | 14 | 0 | 10,632 | 10,163–11,301 |
| Queen City | 11 | 0 | 10,730 | 10,425–11,320 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 91
- active UIC permits of 357
- 914K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 24.1M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Fort Bend County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
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- 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 |
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| 910496 | Sep 18, 2025 | Sep 18, 2025 | CML Exploration, LLC | Moore #10 | 8,400 | 15731368 |
| 894650 | Oct 24, 2023 | Oct 24, 2023 | Delfin Operating, LLC | Panther #2 | 4,500 | 15733286 |
| 891556 | Aug 7, 2023 | Aug 7, 2023 | Denbury Onshore, LLC | Myers, A. E. #9D | 5,349 | 15702520 |
| 887831 | May 10, 2023 | May 10, 2023 | United Salt Blue Ridge Hldgs,llc | Salt #2A | 2,133 | 15733281 |
| 890024 | Apr 28, 2023 | Apr 28, 2023 | Hamman Oil & Refining Company | Davis, T. W. #318 | 5,000 | 15733285 |
| 890023 | Apr 28, 2023 | Apr 28, 2023 | Hamman Oil & Refining Company | Davis, T. W. #312 | 5,000 | 15733284 |
| 890022 | Apr 28, 2023 | Apr 28, 2023 | Hamman Oil & Refining Company | Davis #317 | 5,000 | 15733283 |
| 889675 | Apr 18, 2023 | Apr 18, 2023 | Crest Resources, Inc. | Grigar R #1 | 12,350 | 15731827 |
| 889669 | Apr 13, 2023 | Apr 13, 2023 | Crest Resources, Inc. | Grigar #3 | 12,850 | 15732004 |
| 889106 | Mar 20, 2023 | Mar 20, 2023 | Kebo Oil & Gas, Inc. | Lehman #1 | 7,600 | 15733282 |
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/fort-bend?days=90, documented in the API reference.