COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 04 · CODE 215
Hidalgo County
Hidalgo County permitting is running 0.7 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (2 total, versus 1 in the prior quarter).
Royal Production Company, Inc. leads with 2 permits in the past 12 months, one of 2 operators active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 13,650 ft (prior year: 11,300 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 47 active disposal and injection permits, with 4.03M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
6,603 drilling permits have been issued in Hidalgo County since 1977.
6,603 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Sep 3, 2026
Watch Hidalgo CountyAlso: every Hidalgo County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 3
- permits issued, 365d
- +0%
- vs prior 365d (3)
- 2
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 12,900
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 467
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 41 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 19 · prior 12 21(-10%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Royal Production Company, Inc. | 2 | 8 |
| Merit Energy Company | 1 | 750 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Hidalgo County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Hidalgo 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vicksburg | 877 | 2 | 9,144 | 6,786–12,256 |
| Frio | 623 | 0 | 5,900 | 3,637–8,314 |
| Catahoula | 74 | 0 | 4,206 | 740–6,033 |
| Miocene (undifferentiated) | 71 | 0 | 2,203 | 990–5,000 |
| Jackson | 28 | 0 | 11,800 | 11,273–15,720 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 47
- active UIC permits of 183
- 228K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 4.03M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Hidalgo 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 918203 | Oct 24, 2026 | Sep 3, 2026 | Royal Production Company, Inc. | Edinburg Unit #10 | 13,650 | 21531846 |
| 918203 | Sep 5, 2026 | Sep 3, 2026 | Royal Production Company, Inc. | Edinburg Unit #10 | 10,650 | 21531846 |
| 916390 | Jun 29, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | Merit Energy Company | McAllen, A. A. #109 | 14,400 | 21532844 |
| 909254 | Jul 16, 2025 | Jul 16, 2025 | Midas Resources, Inc. | Mary Bell Doffing Gas Unit #2 | 10,300 | 21534171 |
| 908132 | Jun 5, 2025 | Jun 5, 2025 | Royal Production Company, Inc. | Edinburg Unit #7 | 12,416 | 21534144 |
| 904887 | Dec 31, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | Royal Production Company, Inc. | Edinburg Gas Unit #12 | 11,300 | 21533271 |
| 896922 | Apr 15, 2024 | Apr 15, 2024 | Merit Energy Company | Woods Christian #42 | 10,530 | 21532952 |
| 897120 | Feb 26, 2024 | Feb 26, 2024 | Merit Energy Company | Woods Christian #34 | 11,150 | 21531822 |
| 896969 | Feb 8, 2024 | Feb 8, 2024 | Merit Energy Company | Woods Christian #44 | 11,415 | 21533148 |
| 896781 | Feb 5, 2024 | Feb 5, 2024 | Merit Energy Company | Woods Christian #30 | 11,130 | 21531777 |
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/hidalgo?days=365, documented in the API reference.