COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 03 · CODE 157
Fort Bend County, Texas
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 76 active disposal and injection permits, with 24.1M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
3,036 drilling permits have been issued in Fort Bend County since 1977.
3,036 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Sep 18, 2025
Email me new permitsAlso: every Fort Bend County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
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- permits issued, 180d
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- vs prior 180d (0)
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- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
- 425
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 8, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 0 · prior 12 1(-100%)
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 →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
- 76
- active UIC permits of 339
- 521K
- 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 →
USGS catalog, Texas
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Questions about Fort Bend County
How many drilling permits were issued in Fort Bend County in the last 12 months?
0 permits were issued in Fort Bend County in the last 12 months, down 100% from 1 in the 12 months before. The most recent was issued Sep 18, 2025. 3,036 are on file since 1977.
Every Fort Bend County permit →Which operator has the most wells in Fort Bend County?
No operator has filed a drilling permit in Fort Bend County in the last 12 months. By wells on file, the largest is P.o.&g. Operating LLC, with 495, followed by Blue Ridge Operating LLC (330) and Hamman Oil & Refining Company (207).
Operators in Fort Bend County →How many oil and gas wells are in Fort Bend County?
3,931 wells are on file in Fort Bend County, including 291 active and 2,197 plugged. 9 are horizontal. The active wells are under 27 operators.
Every well in Fort Bend County →How much oil and gas does Fort Bend County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Fort Bend County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Fort Bend County →How much water is injected in Fort Bend County?
24.1 million barrels of water were injected in Fort Bend County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 76 of the county's 339 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Fort Bend County →What formations are drilled in Fort Bend County?
Completion filings for wells in Fort Bend County report tops for 13 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Frio (833 wells, median top 4,088 ft), the Miocene (undifferentiated) (382 wells, median top 2,600 ft), and the Yegua (198 wells, median top 7,700 ft).
Formations in Fort Bend County →What basin is Fort Bend County in?
Petrora lists Fort Bend County in the Texas Gulf Coast. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 03.
The Texas Gulf Coast →Have there been earthquakes in Fort Bend County?
No earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of Fort Bend County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Fort Bend 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/fort-bend?days=180, documented in the API reference.