COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 03 · CODE 321
Matagorda County, Texas
Matagorda County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued March 9, 2026.
Kebo Oil & Gas, Inc. leads with 1 permit in the past 12 months, one of 2 operators active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 8,145 ft (prior year: 10,466 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 46 active disposal and injection permits, with 4.22M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
3,110 drilling permits have been issued in Matagorda County since 1977.
3,110 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Mar 9, 2026
Email me new permitsAlso: every Matagorda County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
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- permits issued, 180d
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- vs prior 180d (2)
- 0
- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
- 624
- 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 1 · prior 12 9(-89%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Kebo Oil & Gas, Inc. | 1 | 40 |
| Underground Services Markham,llc | 1 | 14 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Matagorda County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Matagorda County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 46
- active UIC permits of 329
- 383K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 4.22M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Matagorda County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
USGS catalog, Texas
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 0
- M2+ events in the area
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- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 913910 | Mar 9, 2026 | Mar 9, 2026 | Underground Services Markham,llc | Smith, Lewis Edwin et Al #4 | 7,400 | 32132464 |
| 911812 | Nov 19, 2025 | Nov 19, 2025 | Kebo Oil & Gas, Inc. | Boonie Jensen #1 | 8,890 | 32132417 |
| 911471 | Oct 30, 2025 | Oct 30, 2025 | Underground Services Markham,llc | H. Smith #1 | 7,400 | 32132463 |
| 910613 | Sep 23, 2025 | Sep 23, 2025 | Magnum Producing, LP | Anderson #1 | 10,700 | 32132361 |
| 910613Amendment | Sep 23, 2025 | Sep 23, 2025 | Magnum Producing, LP | Anderson #1 | 10,700 | 32132361 |
| 909087 | Jul 14, 2025 | Jul 14, 2025 | Ponderosa Oil & Gas, LLC | Bunk #1 | 12,000 | 32132444 |
| 908778 | Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 26, 2025 | Bruington Operating II, LLC | Jensen #1 | 8,900 | 32132462 |
| 906689 | Apr 15, 2025 | Apr 15, 2025 | Ponderosa Oil & Gas, LLC | Norris #3 | 11,300 | 32131914 |
| 897896 | Apr 3, 2025 | Apr 3, 2025 | Ponderosa Oil & Gas, LLC | Norris #2 | 11,500 | 32132437 |
| 905056 | Feb 5, 2025 | Feb 5, 2025 | Kebo Oil & Gas, Inc. | Elder #1 | 9,350 | 32132461 |
Questions about Matagorda County
How many drilling permits were issued in Matagorda County in the last 12 months?
2 permits were issued in Matagorda County in the last 12 months, down 75% from 8 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Mar 9, 2026. 3,110 are on file since 1977.
Every Matagorda County permit →Who is the most active operator in Matagorda County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Kebo Oil & Gas, Inc. is the most active operator in Matagorda County, with 1 of 2, followed by Underground Services Markham,llc (1). 0 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Matagorda County →How many oil and gas wells are in Matagorda County?
3,137 wells are on file in Matagorda County, including 206 active and 1,986 plugged. 5 are horizontal. The active wells are under 51 operators.
Every well in Matagorda County →How much oil and gas does Matagorda County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Matagorda County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Matagorda County →How much water is injected in Matagorda County?
4.2 million barrels of water were injected in Matagorda County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 46 of the county's 329 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Matagorda County →What formations are drilled in Matagorda County?
Completion filings for wells in Matagorda County report tops for 6 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Frio (470 wells, median top 7,455 ft), the Miocene (undifferentiated) (293 wells, median top 2,550 ft), and the Anahuac (160 wells, median top 5,695 ft).
Formations in Matagorda County →What basin is Matagorda County in?
Petrora lists Matagorda County in the Texas Gulf Coast. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 03.
The Texas Gulf Coast →Have there been earthquakes in Matagorda County?
No earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of Matagorda County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Matagorda 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/matagorda?days=180, documented in the API reference.