COUNTIES · EAGLE FORD SHALE · DISTRICT 02 · CODE 297
Live Oak County
Live Oak County permitting is running 9.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (28 total, up 40% on the prior quarter). 1 was issued in the past week.
Burlington Resources O & G Co LP leads with 56 permits in the past 12 months, one of 15 operators active in the county.
3 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: 15,000 ft); 86% 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.
TexNet located 39 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M3.5.
7,071 drilling permits have been issued in Live Oak County since 1977.
7,071 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 23, 2026
Watch Live Oak CountyAlso: every Live Oak County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 7
- permits issued, 30d
- -50%
- vs prior 30d (14)
- 3
- operators filing
- 86%
- horizontal
- 13,290
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 758
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 109 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 92 · prior 12 164(-44%)
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. 3 in total.
- Sandalwood Exploration, L.P.2 permitsSep 17, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Hydrocarbon Operating, Inc.1 permitJul 21, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- BPX Operating Company1 permitMar 19, 2026 · active elsewhere first
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 →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilcox | 1,158 | 111 | 5,338 | 4,567–8,200 |
| Austin Chalk | 1,135 | 148 | 11,824 | 11,093–12,664 |
| Eagle Ford | 1,093 | 153 | 11,880 | 11,198–12,709 |
| Queen City | 996 | 101 | 3,780 | 3,036–6,175 |
| Jackson | 710 | 81 | 1,436 | 755–2,846 |
| Cook Mountain | 689 | 89 | 2,600 | 1,993–4,290 |
| Yegua | 238 | 2 | 4,844 | 2,409–5,600 |
| Pecan Gap | 206 | 45 | 11,457 | 10,903–12,235 |
| Frio | 205 | 30 | 2,000 | 142–3,218 |
| 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 →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 39
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 918398 | Oct 28, 2026 | Sep 21, 2026 | Marathon Oil EF LLC | Whitsett-Taylor-Mass SA C #1H | 17,500 | 29736602 |
| 918391 | Oct 28, 2026 | Sep 21, 2026 | Marathon Oil EF LLC | Whitsett-Taylor-Mass SA B #1H | 17,500 | 29736600 |
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=30, documented in the API reference.