COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 04 · CODE 273
Kleberg County, Texas
Kleberg County permitting is running 0.7 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (2 total, versus 1 in the 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.
3,952 drilling permits have been issued in Kleberg County since 1977.
3,952 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, 365d
- +200%
- vs prior 365d (1)
- 2
- operators filing
- 67%
- horizontal
- 10,552
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 188
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 8, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 3 · prior 12 1(+200%)
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 →
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 11
- active UIC permits of 390
- 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 →
USGS catalog, Texas
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 |
Questions about Kleberg County
How many drilling permits were issued in Kleberg County in the last 12 months?
3 permits were issued in Kleberg County in the last 12 months, up 200% from 1 in the 12 months before. 67% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Sep 23, 2026. 3,952 are on file since 1977.
Every Kleberg County permit →Who is the most active operator in Kleberg County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Headington Energy Partners, LLC is the most active operator in Kleberg County, with 2 of 3, followed by Cimarron Engineering, LLC (1). 1 operator filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Kleberg County →How many oil and gas wells are in Kleberg County?
3,577 wells are on file in Kleberg County, including 136 active, 2,619 plugged, and 3 permitted and not yet drilled. 19 are horizontal. The active wells are under 16 operators.
Every well in Kleberg County →How much oil and gas does Kleberg County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Kleberg County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Kleberg County →How much water is injected in Kleberg County?
541,223 barrels of water were injected in Kleberg County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 11 of the county's 390 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Kleberg County →What formations are drilled in Kleberg County?
Completion filings for wells in Kleberg County report tops for 6 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Vicksburg (85 wells, median top 8,700 ft), the Frio (84 wells, median top 5,790 ft), and the Miocene (undifferentiated) (54 wells, median top 2,500 ft).
Formations in Kleberg County →What basin is Kleberg County in?
Petrora lists Kleberg County in the Texas Gulf Coast. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 04.
The Texas Gulf Coast →Have there been earthquakes in Kleberg County?
No earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of Kleberg County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Kleberg County →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=365, documented in the API reference.