COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 04 · CODE 249
Jim Wells County
Jim Wells County permitting is running 0.7 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (2 total, versus 1 in the prior quarter).
Paloma Operating, LLC leads with 2 permits in the past 12 months, one of 3 operators active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 5,712 ft (prior year: 5,700 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 19 active disposal and injection permits, with 528K barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
3,733 drilling permits have been issued in Jim Wells County since 1977.
3,733 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Aug 10, 2026
Watch Jim Wells CountyAlso: every Jim Wells County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 2
- permits issued, 90d
- +100%
- vs prior 90d (1)
- 2
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 8,163
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 595
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 53 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 15 · prior 12 16(-6%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Paloma Operating, LLC | 2 | 5 |
| Cimarron Engineering, LLC | 1 | 21 |
| Paladin Petroleum III, L.L.C. | 1 | 4 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Jim Wells County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Jim Wells County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Jim Wells County the Yegua is reported in 128 wells, median top 6,980 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 19
- active UIC permits of 317
- 83.4K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 528K
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Jim Wells 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 917691 | Aug 12, 2026 | Aug 10, 2026 | Paladin Petroleum III, L.L.C. | Russell #8 | 10,500 | 24932472 |
| 917565 | Aug 6, 2026 | Aug 4, 2026 | Paloma Operating, LLC | Koehn #1 | 5,825 | 24932689 |
| 915331 | May 5, 2026 | May 5, 2026 | Paloma Operating, LLC | Myra Sue #1 | 5,250 | 24932688 |
| 912428 | Dec 29, 2025 | Dec 29, 2025 | Cimarron Engineering, LLC | Edelen #1 | 5,600 | 24932687 |
| 910201 | Sep 4, 2025 | Sep 4, 2025 | Cimarron Engineering, LLC | Chippo #1 | 5,800 | 24932686 |
| 908782 | Jun 24, 2025 | Jun 24, 2025 | Cimarron Engineering, LLC | Rovast #1 | 5,910 | 24932685 |
| 908121 | May 22, 2025 | May 22, 2025 | Cimarron Engineering, LLC | Lake Alice #1 | 5,450 | 24932684 |
| 907295 | Apr 10, 2025 | Apr 10, 2025 | Paloma Operating, LLC | D. Peters #3 | 5,700 | 24932669 |
| 904761 | Dec 18, 2024 | Dec 18, 2024 | Paloma Operating, LLC | Meischen #1 | 5,825 | 24932683 |
| 904029 | Nov 14, 2024 | Nov 14, 2024 | Paloma Operating, LLC | Bell-Mosser #1 | 5,300 | 24932670 |
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/jim-wells?days=90, documented in the API reference.