COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 03 · CODE 287
Lee County, Texas
Lee County permitting is running 1.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (4 total, down 64% on the prior quarter).
Sage Natural Resources LLC leads with 22 permits in the past 12 months, one of 4 operators active in the county.
2 operators filed a first Lee County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 8,200 ft (prior year: 8,500 ft); 100% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 6 active disposal and injection permits, with 5.08M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
3,691 drilling permits have been issued in Lee County since 1977.
3,691 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 19, 2026
Watch Lee CountyAlso: every Lee County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 4
- permits issued, 90d
- -64%
- vs prior 90d (11)
- 2
- operators filing
- 100%
- horizontal
- 8,500
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 388
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 6, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 29 · prior 12 27(+7%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Sage Natural Resources LLC | 22 | 26 |
| Magnolia Oil & Gas Operating LLC | 3 | 550 |
| Wildfire Energy Operating LLC | 2 | 26 |
| Ironbloom Operating, LLC | 2 | 7 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Lee County came in the last year. 2 in total.
- Wildfire Energy Operating LLC2 permitsAug 21, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Ironbloom Operating, LLC2 permitsJul 16, 2026 · new to Texas permits
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Lee County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Lee County the Buda is reported in 171 wells, median top 8,340 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin Chalk | 852 | 36 | 7,662 | 6,763–8,918 |
| Pecan Gap | 562 | 13 | 7,249 | 6,496–8,338 |
| Navarro | 501 | 8 | 5,125 | 3,986–6,515 |
| Eagle Ford | 465 | 23 | 8,256 | 7,355–9,287 |
| Taylor | 395 | 7 | 5,605 | 5,319–7,057 |
| Wilcox | 227 | 25 | 3,650 | 1,300–4,800 |
| Midway | 173 | 13 | 4,601 | 4,045–6,068 |
| Buda | 171 | 0 | 8,340 | 7,935–9,338 |
| Georgetown | 105 | 0 | 8,455 | 7,997–9,391 |
| Del Rio | 25 | 0 | 8,365 | 8,108–9,122 |
| Carrizo | 23 | 0 | 1,260 | 1,078–2,448 |
| Edwards | 11 | 0 | 9,415 | 6,980–9,555 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 6
- active UIC permits of 28
- 79K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 5.08M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Lee 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919028 | Oct 21, 2026 | Oct 19, 2026 | Sage Natural Resources LLC | Pedro East EF #1HH | 9,000 | 28732827 |
| 919039 | Oct 7, 2026 | Oct 5, 2026 | Sage Natural Resources LLC | Pedro West EF #1HH | 9,000 | 28732828 |
| 917913 | Sep 12, 2026 | Sep 10, 2026 | Wildfire Energy Operating LLC | Laguna A #1HEH | 8,000 | 28732825 |
| 917927 | Aug 23, 2026 | Aug 21, 2026 | Wildfire Energy Operating LLC | Laguna B #2HEH | 8,000 | 28732826 |
| 917170 | Jul 16, 2026 | Jul 16, 2026 | Ironbloom Operating, LLC | Nelda #1HH | 9,063 | 28732749 |
| 917170 | Jul 16, 2026 | Jul 16, 2026 | Ironbloom Operating, LLC | Nelda #1HH | 9,063 | 28732749 |
| 916801 | Jul 8, 2026 | Jul 8, 2026 | Magnolia Oil & Gas Operating LLC | Buck Travis Two #H 02BTH | 10,000 | 28732823 |
| 916816 | Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 1, 2026 | Sage Natural Resources LLC | Albert Luecke EF North #1HH | 9,000 | 28732824 |
| 916745 | Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 1, 2026 | Sage Natural Resources LLC | Albert Luecke EF South #2HH | 9,000 | 28732822 |
| 916816 | Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 1, 2026 | Sage Natural Resources LLC | Albert Luecke EF North #1HH | 9,000 | 28732824 |
Questions about Lee County
How many drilling permits were issued in Lee County in the last 12 months?
29 permits were issued in Lee County in the last 12 months, up 7% from 27 in the 12 months before. 100% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Oct 19, 2026. 3,691 are on file since 1977.
Every Lee County permit →Who is the most active operator in Lee County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Sage Natural Resources LLC is the most active operator in Lee County, with 22 of 29, followed by Magnolia Oil & Gas Operating LLC (3) and Wildfire Energy Operating LLC (2). 2 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Lee County →How many oil and gas wells are in Lee County?
2,611 wells are on file in Lee County: 673 active, 1,237 plugged, and 5 permitted and not yet drilled. 668 are horizontal, and 34 operators hold them.
Every well in Lee County →How much oil and gas does Lee County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Lee County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Lee County →How much water is injected in Lee County?
5.1 million barrels of water were injected in Lee County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 6 of the county's 28 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Lee County →What formations are drilled in Lee County?
Completion filings for wells in Lee County report tops for 12 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Austin Chalk (852 wells, median top 7,662 ft), the Pecan Gap (562 wells, median top 7,249 ft), and the Navarro (501 wells, median top 5,125 ft).
Formations in Lee County →What basin is Lee County in?
Petrora lists Lee County in the Texas Gulf Coast. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 03.
The Texas Gulf Coast →Have there been earthquakes in Lee County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Lee County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Lee 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/lee?days=90, documented in the API reference.