COUNTIES · EAGLE FORD SHALE · DISTRICT 02 · CODE 285
Lavaca County
Lavaca County permitting is running 2.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (7 total, down 50% on the prior quarter). 2 were issued in the past week.
FW Eagle Ford I, LLC leads with 22 permits in the past 12 months, one of 11 operators active in the county.
One operator filed a first Lavaca County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 14,000 ft (prior year: 14,500 ft); 73% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 28 active disposal and injection permits, with 8.1M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
TexNet located 1 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M2.7.
5,300 drilling permits have been issued in Lavaca County since 1977.
5,300 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 27, 2026
Watch Lavaca CountyAlso: every Lavaca County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 7
- permits issued, 90d
- -50%
- vs prior 90d (14)
- 4
- operators filing
- 71%
- horizontal
- 13,864
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 691
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 110 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 75 · prior 12 50(+50%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Lavaca County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Paleo Oil Company LLC1 permitMar 9, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Permit types, 90d
| Type | Window | Prior | All time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drill | 5 | 11 | 3,901 |
| Recompletion | 1 | 3 | 1,271 |
| Reenter | 1 | 0 | 71 |
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Lavaca County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Lavaca County the Vicksburg is reported in 426 wells, median top 1,950 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilcox | 891 | 27 | 5,930 | 4,024–8,730 |
| Yegua | 786 | 22 | 3,720 | 1,450–5,500 |
| Frio | 723 | 8 | 2,400 | 400–3,229 |
| Eagle Ford | 525 | 62 | 11,650 | 10,558–12,625 |
| Vicksburg | 426 | 8 | 1,950 | 550–4,000 |
| Catahoula | 404 | 7 | 1,400 | 200–2,520 |
| Austin Chalk | 389 | 62 | 11,127 | 9,975–13,007 |
| Anacacho | 258 | 58 | 10,838 | 9,754–11,699 |
| Miocene (undifferentiated) | 226 | 1 | 1,512 | 1–2,398 |
| Edwards | 84 | 1 | 13,438 | 13,185–13,776 |
| Pecan Gap | 49 | 0 | 10,412 | 9,882–12,410 |
| Midway | 48 | 5 | 10,000 | 7,327–10,533 |
| Navarro | 45 | 0 | 10,435 | 9,027–11,386 |
| Jackson | 40 | 0 | 3,920 | 2,040–4,365 |
| Cook Mountain | 13 | 1 | 6,282 | 2,768–6,838 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 28
- active UIC permits of 104
- 149K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 8.1M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Lavaca County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 1
- M2+ events in the area
- M2.7
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919505 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 27, 2026 | FW Eagle Ford I, LLC | Blonde SA B #2HH | 14,500 | 28534384 |
| 919504 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 27, 2026 | FW Eagle Ford I, LLC | Blonde SA A #1HH | 14,500 | 28534383 |
| 919176 | Oct 22, 2026 | Oct 20, 2026 | Hilcorp Energy Company | L. Kaskie Gas Unit #1 | 14,350 | 28532808 |
| 919320 | Oct 22, 2026 | Oct 20, 2026 | FW Eagle Ford I, LLC | Rhino Hunter SA B #2HH | 14,500 | 28534382 |
| 919316 | Oct 22, 2026 | Oct 20, 2026 | FW Eagle Ford I, LLC | Rhino Hunter SA A #1HH | 14,500 | 28534381 |
| 919177 | Oct 15, 2026 | Oct 13, 2026 | Trio Consulting & Management,llc | Kallus #2ST | 10,700 | 28534358 |
| 919124 | Oct 11, 2026 | Oct 9, 2026 | Capital Star Oil & Gas, Inc. | Lanik 3 #3HH | 14,000 | 28534380 |
| 917215 | Sep 6, 2026 | Jul 22, 2026 | FW Eagle Ford I, LLC | Korriban B #2HH | 14,500 | 28534379 |
| 917215 | Jul 22, 2026 | Jul 22, 2026 | FW Eagle Ford I, LLC | Korriban B #2HH | 14,500 | 28534379 |
| 917100 | Sep 6, 2026 | Jul 17, 2026 | FW Eagle Ford I, LLC | Korriban C #201HH | 14,500 | 28534378 |
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/lavaca?days=90, documented in the API reference.