COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 04 · CODE 273
Kleberg County
Kleberg County permitting is running about one permit a month over the trailing 90 days (3 total, after a quiet prior quarter).
Headington Energy Partners, LLC leads with 2 permits in the past 12 months, one of 2 operators active in the county.
One operator filed a first Kleberg County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 12,152 ft (prior year: 12,600 ft); 67% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 11 active disposal and injection permits, with 541K barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
4,187 drilling permits have been issued in Kleberg County since 1977.
4,187 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Sep 23, 2026
Watch Kleberg CountyAlso: every Kleberg County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 3
- permits issued, 90d
- —
- vs prior 90d (0)
- 2
- operators filing
- 67%
- horizontal
- 10,552
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 190
- 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 22 · prior 12 21(+5%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Headington Energy Partners, LLC | 2 | 12 |
| Cimarron Engineering, LLC | 1 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Kleberg County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Cimarron Engineering, LLC1 permitJul 31, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Kleberg County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Kleberg County the Frio is reported in 84 wells, median top 5,790 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 11
- active UIC permits of 392
- 45.5K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 541K
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Kleberg 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 918623 | Sep 25, 2026 | Sep 23, 2026 | Headington Energy Partners, LLC | King Ranch Madero #2620HH | 12,152 | 27332705 |
| 918530 | Sep 20, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | Headington Energy Partners, LLC | King Ranch Madero #2619HH | 12,303 | 27332704 |
| 917520 | Jul 31, 2026 | Jul 31, 2026 | Cimarron Engineering, LLC | Welch #1 | 7,200 | 27332703 |
| 911303 | Oct 24, 2025 | Oct 24, 2025 | Headington Energy Partners, LLC | King Ranch Vadero #2518HH | 12,600 | 27332702 |
| 902372 | Sep 4, 2024 | Sep 4, 2024 | Sutton Producing Corp. | Malin Gas Unit #2 | 9,500 | 27332701 |
| 895678 | Dec 6, 2023 | Dec 6, 2023 | Headington Energy Partners, LLC | King Ranch Visnaga #2317SW | 7,500 | 27332700 |
| 894610 | Oct 24, 2023 | Oct 24, 2023 | Magnum Producing, LP | May Field Unit #20 | 11,402 | 27300872 |
| 893994 | Sep 27, 2023 | Sep 27, 2023 | Headington Energy Partners, LLC | King Ranch Visnaga #24 | 7,500 | 27331676 |
| 891273 | Jun 20, 2023 | Jun 20, 2023 | Headington Energy Partners, LLC | King Ranch Gallito #2316 | 14,000 | 27332696 |
| 891320 | Jun 13, 2023 | Jun 13, 2023 | OXY Low Carbon Ventures, LLC | Becerra Izm #01 | 11,200 | 27332699 |
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/kleberg?days=90, documented in the API reference.