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COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 03 · CODE 313

Madison County

Madison County permitting is running 1.7 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (5 total, versus 6 in the prior quarter).

Empire Texas Operating LLC leads with 8 permits in the past 12 months, one of 3 operators active in the county.

2 operators filed a first Madison County permit in the past year.

Median permitted depth over the past year is 9,740 ft (prior year: 9,500 ft); 38% of the past year's permits are horizontal.

The county has 23 active disposal and injection permits, with 5.76M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

1,837 drilling permits have been issued in Madison County since 1977.

1,837 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Sep 21, 2026

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Also: every Madison County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →

Window30 days90 days180 days365 days
11
permits issued, 180d
+450%
vs prior 180d (2)
2
operators filing
36%
horizontal
11,693
avg permitted depth, ft
263
operators, all time

WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER

Permits issued by month

LAST 57 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 22 · prior 12 27(-19%)

0510152017201820192020202120222023202420252026

Top operators, last 12 months

By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.

OperatorPermitsWells
Empire Texas Operating LLC863
Cytex South Texas Operating LLC40
CML Exploration, LLC116
Bull Run Resources, LLC10

Full operator directory →

New entrants, last 12 months

Operators whose first permit in Madison County came in the last year. 2 in total.

Permit types, 180d

TypeWindowPriorAll time
Recompletion81253
Drill411,523

What the types mean →

Formations in completed wells

RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS

Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Madison County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →

FormationWellsPermitted last 3 yrsMedian top, ftP10–P90
Woodbine48548,5558,114–9,205
Austin Chalk45468,0467,424–8,543
Sub-Clarksville38458,3527,750–9,009
Buda28329,4049,051–10,236
Georgetown22649,4919,194–10,240
Eagle Ford225118,5967,850–9,443
Wilcox16913,4201,681–5,154
Pecan Gap12667,1266,566–7,816
Edwards108110,1649,568–10,734
Glen Rose96010,83810,192–11,317
Midway7704,9964,410–5,953
Frio4713,120456–5,120
Paluxy38010,66210,260–11,080
Navarro3606,0755,070–6,624
Del Rio3509,4419,294–10,048

Beyond the permit record

RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes

Disposal and injection

23
active UIC permits of 123
184K
permitted bbl/day, active
5.76M
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025
reported through

Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Madison 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

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorLease / wellDepthAPI
919704Oct 30, 2026Oct 28, 2026CML Exploration, LLCHerbich #1REH9,00031330813
918715Sep 23, 2026Sep 21, 2026Cytex South Texas Operating LLCBowie S #2HH8,50031331419
918714Sep 23, 2026Sep 21, 2026Cytex South Texas Operating LLCBowie N #1HH8,50031331418
917995Sep 6, 2026Sep 4, 2026Cytex South Texas Operating LLCCrockett B #2HH9,00031331416
917998Sep 4, 2026Sep 2, 2026Cytex South Texas Operating LLCCrockett A #1HH9,00031331417
917352Aug 3, 2026Aug 3, 2026Empire Texas Operating LLCFT Trinidad Upper Glen Rose Unit #1410,88531331209
916990Aug 19, 2026Jul 10, 2026Empire Texas Operating LLCForrest D State Unit #8029,74031331235
916990Jul 10, 2026Jul 10, 2026Empire Texas Operating LLCForrest #8029,74031331235
916220Jun 10, 2026Jun 10, 2026Empire Texas Operating LLCJoyce D Unit #10213,94731331176
916220Jun 10, 2026Jun 10, 2026Empire Texas Operating LLCJoyce D Unit #10218,00031331176

All Madison County permits →

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/madison?days=180, documented in the API reference.