COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 03 · CODE 167
Galveston County
Galveston County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued July 6, 2026.
Sandpoint Texas LLC leads with 1 permit in the past 12 months, one of 4 operators active in the county.
One operator filed a first Galveston County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 11,304 ft (prior year: 15,000 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 31 active disposal and injection permits, with 1.8M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
1,847 drilling permits have been issued in Galveston County since 1977.
1,847 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Jul 6, 2026
Watch Galveston CountyAlso: every Galveston 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 (1)
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- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
- 375
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 35 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 15 · prior 12 20(-25%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Sandpoint Texas LLC | 1 | 287 |
| Hilcorp Energy Company | 1 | 48 |
| Kaler Energy Corp. | 1 | 2 |
| Frio Resources, LLC | 1 | 1 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Galveston County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Sandpoint Texas LLC1 permitApr 16, 2026 · new to Texas permits
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Galveston County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Galveston County the Frio is reported in 161 wells, median top 8,975 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frio | 161 | 7 | 8,975 | 7,588–10,388 |
| Miocene (undifferentiated) | 147 | 7 | 5,460 | 3,000–7,404 |
| Anahuac | 37 | 0 | 7,100 | 6,660–7,638 |
| Vicksburg | 10 | 0 | 12,254 | 9,338–14,661 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 31
- active UIC permits of 185
- 155K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 1.8M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Galveston 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 916817 | Jul 6, 2026 | Jul 6, 2026 | Frio Resources, LLC | Stewart Title #1 | 10,548 | 16731547 |
| 914839 | Apr 16, 2026 | Apr 16, 2026 | Sandpoint Texas LLC | Moody Estate Trustee #1 | 7,147 | 16731198 |
| 913807 | Mar 3, 2026 | Mar 3, 2026 | Kaler Energy Corp. | Tidwell #3 | 13,300 | 16731535 |
| 911788 | Nov 19, 2025 | Nov 19, 2025 | Hilcorp Energy Company | Franks /8900 Sand/ Unit #3 | 12,061 | 16731374 |
| 908798 | Jun 24, 2025 | Jun 24, 2025 | Hilcorp Energy Company | Gordon #4 | 15,000 | 16731373 |
| 908798 | Jun 24, 2025 | Jun 24, 2025 | Hilcorp Energy Company | Franks /8900 Sand/ Unit #4 | 15,000 | 16731373 |
| 901798 | Aug 6, 2024 | Aug 6, 2024 | Quidnet Energy Deployment LLC | Sunny Ernst #1 | 15,575 | 16731352 |
| 899354 | May 6, 2024 | May 6, 2024 | Hilcorp Energy Company | E.W. Craig #9 | 9,500 | 16731549 |
| 899354 | May 6, 2024 | May 6, 2024 | Hilcorp Energy Company | E.W. Craig #9 | 10,500 | 16731549 |
| 899069 | Apr 26, 2024 | Apr 26, 2024 | Houston Oil Prod Enterprises,inc | Cade, E. K. #159 | 7,900 | 16731548 |
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?days=90, documented in the API reference.