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COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 03 · CODE 706

Galveston-LB County

Galveston-Lb County permitting is running 1.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (4 total, after a quiet prior quarter).

Emerald Gather and Trans, LLC leads with 4 permits in the past 12 months, the only operator active in the county.

Median permitted depth over the past year is 6,250 ft; 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.

191 drilling permits have been issued in Galveston-Lb County since 1977.

191 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 20, 2026

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

Window30 days90 days180 days365 days
4
permits issued, 90d
—
vs prior 90d (0)
1
operators filing
0%
horizontal
6,269
avg permitted depth, ft
56
operators, all time

WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 5, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER

Permits issued by month

LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 4 · prior 12 0

01232017201820192020202120222023202420252026

Top operators, last 12 months

By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.

OperatorPermitsWells
Emerald Gather and Trans, LLC43

Full operator directory →

New entrants, last 12 months

Operators whose first permit in Galveston-LB County came in the last year. None.

Permit types, 90d

TypeWindowPriorAll time
Drill30161
Recompletion1023

What the types mean →

Beyond the permit record

TexNet catalog via USGS

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

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorLease / wellDepthAPI
919389Oct 22, 2026Oct 20, 2026Emerald Gather and Trans, LLCGalveston 215 #15,97570630236
918401Sep 17, 2026Sep 15, 2026Emerald Gather and Trans, LLCGalveston 215 #96,60070630258
918402Sep 17, 2026Sep 15, 2026Emerald Gather and Trans, LLCGalveston 215 #46,30070630257
918403Sep 11, 2026Sep 9, 2026Emerald Gather and Trans, LLCS.T. 186-L S/2 SE/4 #26,20070630256
897567Feb 27, 2024Feb 27, 2024Emerald Gather and Trans, LLCSt 215-L N/2 NE/4 #95,10070630258
897567Feb 27, 2024Feb 27, 2024Emerald Gather and Trans, LLCGalveston 215 #96,60070630258
897566Feb 27, 2024Feb 27, 2024Emerald Gather and Trans, LLCSt 215-L N/2 NE/4 #46,30070630257
867975Mar 4, 2021Mar 4, 2021Emerald Gather and Trans, LLCS. T. 186-L S/2 SE/4 #17,00070630250
866422Jan 4, 2021Jan 4, 2021Emerald Gather and Trans, LLCSt 186-L S/2 SE/4 #26,20070630256
822694Feb 13, 2017Feb 13, 2017Emerald Gather and Trans, LLCS.T. 214-L S/2 NW/4 #36,58770630252

All Galveston-LB 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/galveston-lb?days=90, documented in the API reference.