COUNTIES · EAGLE FORD SHALE · DISTRICT 01 · CODE 187
Guadalupe County
Guadalupe County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued June 17, 2026.
DJ Exploration, Inc. leads with 1 permit in the past 12 months, one of 3 operators active in the county.
2 operators filed a first Guadalupe County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 3,000 ft (prior year: 2,400 ft); 67% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 52 active disposal and injection permits, with 260M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
3,389 drilling permits have been issued in Guadalupe County since 1977.
3,389 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Jun 17, 2026
Watch Guadalupe CountyAlso: every Guadalupe County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 3
- permits issued, 365d
- +0%
- vs prior 365d (3)
- 3
- operators filing
- 67%
- horizontal
- 2,133
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 409
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 40 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 32 · prior 12 30(+7%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| DJ Exploration, Inc. | 1 | 99 |
| Tri-W Oil | 1 | 23 |
| Energy Transfer Company | 1 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Guadalupe County came in the last year. 2 in total.
- DJ Exploration, Inc.1 permitJun 17, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Tri-W Oil1 permitMar 26, 2026 · new to Texas permits
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Guadalupe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Navarro | 387 | 0 | 801 | 630–1,245 |
| Austin Chalk | 385 | 1 | 2,148 | 1,701–2,470 |
| Buda | 375 | 2 | 2,362 | 1,901–2,593 |
| Edwards | 267 | 1 | 2,520 | 2,060–2,605 |
| Eagle Ford | 205 | 1 | 2,335 | 1,886–2,646 |
| Georgetown | 113 | 0 | 2,456 | 1,985–2,571 |
| Taylor | 95 | 0 | 1,940 | 1,282–2,287 |
| Del Rio | 88 | 0 | 2,402 | 1,956–2,545 |
| Pecan Gap | 73 | 1 | 1,790 | 1,597–2,190 |
| Midway | 68 | 0 | 458 | 407–1,730 |
| Wilcox | 53 | 0 | 325 | 1–1,050 |
| Anacacho | 14 | 0 | 2,830 | 1,650–3,881 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 52
- active UIC permits of 185
- 1.94M
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 260M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Guadalupe County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
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
| Permit | Seen | Issued | Operator | Lease / well | Depth | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 916425 | Jun 17, 2026 | Jun 17, 2026 | DJ Exploration, Inc. | Bilby #2HH | 3,000 | 18733726 |
| 916140 | Jun 8, 2026 | Jun 8, 2026 | Energy Transfer Company | Huber RD Unit #1 | 400 | 18733725 |
| 914303 | Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | Tri-W Oil | Larison #1HH | 3,000 | 18733724 |
| 904264 | Dec 2, 2024 | Dec 2, 2024 | Texas Petroleum Investment Co. | Dix & McKean C #5HH | 2,600 | 18733723 |
| 904257 | Dec 2, 2024 | Dec 2, 2024 | Texas Petroleum Investment Co. | Schubert, A. H. #1HH | 2,190 | 18733722 |
| 904257 | Dec 2, 2024 | Dec 2, 2024 | Texas Petroleum Investment Co. | Schubert, A. H. #1HH | 2,400 | 18733722 |
| 902816 | Sep 27, 2024 | Sep 27, 2024 | Texas Petroleum Investment Co. | Allen, J.E. -A- #15HH | 2,120 | 18733721 |
| 901908 | Aug 13, 2024 | Aug 13, 2024 | Texas Petroleum Investment Co. | Roberts A #2HH | 2,150 | 18733720 |
| 901824 | Aug 13, 2024 | Aug 13, 2024 | Texas Petroleum Investment Co. | McKean,a.j.&j.m. -a- /137.50AC./ #2HH | 2,170 | 18733719 |
| 899068 | Apr 24, 2024 | Apr 24, 2024 | Texas Petroleum Investment Co. | Knobloch, C. #9HH | 2,550 | 18733718 |
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/guadalupe?days=365, documented in the API reference.