COUNTIES · EAGLE FORD SHALE · DISTRICT 02 · CODE 297
Live Oak County, Texas
Live Oak County permitting is running 5.7 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (17 total, down 23% on the prior quarter). 2 were issued in the past week.
Burlington Resources O & G Co LP leads with 49 permits in the past 12 months, one of 16 operators active in the county.
4 operators filed a first Live Oak County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 17,500 ft (prior year: 12,650 ft); 85% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 54 active disposal and injection permits, with 6.35M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
37 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M3.5.
6,214 drilling permits have been issued in Live Oak County since 1977.
6,214 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Nov 5, 2026
Email me new permitsAlso: every Live Oak County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 17
- permits issued, 90d
- -23%
- vs prior 90d (22)
- 8
- operators filing
- 71%
- horizontal
- 13,443
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 751
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 9, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 72 · prior 12 126(-43%)
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 Live Oak County came in the last year. 4 in total.
- Viper S.W.D., LLC1 permitNov 2, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Sandalwood Exploration, L.P.1 permitSep 17, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Hydrocarbon Operating, Inc.1 permitJul 21, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- BPX Operating Company1 permitMar 19, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Permit types, 90d
| Type | Window | Prior | All time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drill | 13 | 21 | 5,041 |
| Recompletion | 4 | 0 | 950 |
| Reenter | 0 | 1 | 83 |
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Live Oak County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Live Oak County the Jackson is reported in 711 wells, median top 1,435 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilcox | 1,159 | 112 | 5,337 | 4,568–8,200 |
| Austin Chalk | 1,136 | 149 | 11,824 | 11,093–12,664 |
| Eagle Ford | 1,094 | 154 | 11,879 | 11,198–12,709 |
| Queen City | 997 | 102 | 3,780 | 3,036–6,172 |
| Jackson | 711 | 82 | 1,435 | 755–2,846 |
| Cook Mountain | 690 | 90 | 2,600 | 1,993–4,287 |
| Yegua | 238 | 2 | 4,844 | 2,409–5,600 |
| Frio | 206 | 31 | 2,000 | 138–3,215 |
| Pecan Gap | 206 | 45 | 11,457 | 10,903–12,235 |
| Anacacho | 163 | 7 | 11,412 | 10,976–12,534 |
| Midway | 155 | 5 | 8,009 | 7,261–8,514 |
| Carrizo | 119 | 2 | 5,096 | 4,350–5,709 |
| Olmos | 63 | 8 | 9,760 | 9,297–12,019 |
| Edwards | 35 | 0 | 13,234 | 12,849–13,861 |
| Reklaw | 33 | 2 | 6,739 | 4,099–8,018 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 54
- active UIC permits of 221
- 240K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 6.35M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Live Oak County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
USGS catalog, Texas
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 37
- M2+ events in the area
- M3.5
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919925 | Nov 7, 2026 | Nov 5, 2026 | Burlington Resources O & G Co LP | Plomero-Ivas-TS Usw D #4H | 17,500 | 29736613 |
| 919854 | Nov 4, 2026 | Nov 2, 2026 | Viper S.W.D., LLC | Granberry 'a' Unit #2 | 5,800 | 29736610 |
| 919417 | Oct 25, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 | Burlington Resources O & G Co LP | JO Ann Esse Unit D #1H | 11,429 | 29734959 |
| 919469 | Oct 22, 2026 | Oct 20, 2026 | Burlington Resources O & G Co LP | Schroeder Unit B #1H | 11,437 | 29735078 |
| 919466 | Oct 22, 2026 | Oct 20, 2026 | Burlington Resources O & G Co LP | Burgess Unit A #1H | 11,911 | 29734956 |
| 919321 | Oct 18, 2026 | Oct 16, 2026 | Royal Production Company, Inc. | Shore Trust #1 | 5,750 | 29736609 |
| 919170 | Oct 11, 2026 | Oct 9, 2026 | Caturus Energy, LLC | Three Rivers Unit A #4HH | 17,500 | 29736608 |
| 919169 | Oct 11, 2026 | Oct 9, 2026 | Caturus Energy, LLC | Three Rivers Unit A #3HH | 17,500 | 29736607 |
| 919161 | Oct 11, 2026 | Oct 9, 2026 | Caturus Energy, LLC | Three Rivers Unit A #2HH | 17,500 | 29736606 |
| 918872 | Sep 27, 2026 | Sep 25, 2026 | Paloma Operating, LLC | McNeill Ranch #1 | 6,000 | 29736605 |
Questions about Live Oak County
How many drilling permits were issued in Live Oak County in the last 12 months?
79 permits were issued in Live Oak County in the last 12 months, down 34% from 119 in the 12 months before. 85% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Nov 5, 2026. 6,214 are on file since 1977.
Every Live Oak County permit →Who is the most active operator in Live Oak County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Burlington Resources O & G Co LP is the most active operator in Live Oak County, with 49 of 79, followed by Caturus Energy, LLC (5) and Marathon Oil EF LLC (4). 8 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Live Oak County →How many oil and gas wells are in Live Oak County?
6,196 wells are on file in Live Oak County, including 1,404 active, 2,863 plugged, and 36 permitted and not yet drilled. 1,361 are horizontal. The active wells are under 75 operators.
Every well in Live Oak County →How much oil and gas does Live Oak County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Live Oak County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Live Oak County →How much water is injected in Live Oak County?
6.4 million barrels of water were injected in Live Oak County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 54 of the county's 221 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Live Oak County →What formations are drilled in Live Oak County?
Completion filings for wells in Live Oak County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Wilcox (1,159 wells, median top 5,337 ft), the Austin Chalk (1,136 wells, median top 11,824 ft), and the Eagle Ford (1,094 wells, median top 11,879 ft).
Formations in Live Oak County →What basin is Live Oak County in?
Petrora lists Live Oak County in the Eagle Ford Shale. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 02.
The Eagle Ford Shale →Have there been earthquakes in Live Oak County?
37 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of Live Oak County's permitted wells in the last 2 years; the largest was M3.5.
Earthquakes in Live Oak 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/live-oak?days=90, documented in the API reference.