COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 03 · CODE 291
Liberty County
Liberty County permitting is running 0.7 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (2 total, versus 2 in the prior quarter).
Exxonmobil Low C Sol on Stor LLC leads with 4 permits in the past 12 months, one of 4 operators active in the county.
One operator filed a first Liberty County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 8,500 ft (prior year: 900 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 119 active disposal and injection permits, with 8.75M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
2,585 drilling permits have been issued in Liberty County since 1977.
2,585 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 6, 2026
Watch Liberty CountyAlso: every Liberty County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 4
- permits issued, 180d
- -20%
- vs prior 180d (5)
- 4
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 8,500
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 581
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 44 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 22 · prior 12 18(+22%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Exxonmobil Low C Sol on Stor LLC | 4 | 0 |
| Drum Oil & Gas, Inc. | 3 | 37 |
| RBT Oil Group, LLC | 1 | 1 |
| Veracity Energy LLC | 1 | 1 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Liberty County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- RBT Oil Group, LLC1 permitSep 24, 2026 · new to Texas permits
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Liberty County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frio | 424 | 0 | 4,335 | 2,772–6,398 |
| Yegua | 385 | 0 | 7,357 | 3,737–10,997 |
| Miocene (undifferentiated) | 309 | 3 | 1,800 | 556–3,912 |
| Vicksburg | 198 | 0 | 7,100 | 3,714–8,366 |
| Cook Mountain | 82 | 0 | 10,903 | 7,191–13,930 |
| Jackson | 80 | 0 | 6,542 | 3,675–9,705 |
| Caprock | 51 | 1 | 815 | 325–2,660 |
| Anahuac | 38 | 0 | 3,988 | 2,470–5,695 |
| Wilcox | 33 | 0 | 9,053 | 8,830–12,440 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 119
- active UIC permits of 446
- 1.48M
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 8.75M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Liberty 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919050 | Oct 8, 2026 | Oct 6, 2026 | Drum Oil & Gas, Inc. | Odum Fee #4 | 1,000 | 29132980 |
| 918781 | Sep 26, 2026 | Sep 24, 2026 | RBT Oil Group, LLC | Herrin #1 | 16,500 | 29132791 |
| 915685 | Jun 26, 2026 | Jun 26, 2026 | Veracity Energy LLC | Laporte Land Company #2 | 12,500 | 29132977 |
| 916285 | Jun 10, 2026 | Jun 10, 2026 | Exxonmobil Low C Sol on Stor LLC | Sunflower 1 Azm #1 | 4,000 | 29132978 |
| 912899 | Feb 11, 2026 | Feb 11, 2026 | Exxonmobil Low C Sol on Stor LLC | Sunflower Inj 1 #1 | 8,500 | 29132968 |
| 912906 | Feb 5, 2026 | Feb 5, 2026 | Exxonmobil Low C Sol on Stor LLC | Sunflower Inj 5 #5 | 8,500 | 29132972 |
| 912904 | Feb 5, 2026 | Feb 5, 2026 | Exxonmobil Low C Sol on Stor LLC | Sunflower Inj 4 #4 | 8,500 | 29132976 |
| 913115 | Jan 29, 2026 | Jan 29, 2026 | Drum Oil & Gas, Inc. | Gulf Chambers Fee #23 | 950 | 29132974 |
| 913113 | Jan 29, 2026 | Jan 29, 2026 | Drum Oil & Gas, Inc. | Gulf Chambers Fee #22 | 950 | 29132975 |
| 905076 | Jan 10, 2025 | Jan 10, 2025 | Bkverde Texas Development, LLC | Rayo Luna #1 | 7,700 | 29132967 |
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/liberty?days=180, documented in the API reference.