COUNTIES · EAGLE FORD SHALE · DISTRICT 01 · CODE 325
Medina County
Medina County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued May 27, 2026.
Premier Minerals, Inc. leads with 4 permits in the past 12 months, the only operator active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 1,500 ft (prior year: 8,300 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 20 active disposal and injection permits, with 26.9K barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
3,726 drilling permits have been issued in Medina County since 1977.
3,726 permits on file since 1977 · last issued May 27, 2026
Watch Medina CountyAlso: every Medina County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 4
- permits issued, 365d
- +300%
- vs prior 365d (1)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 1,500
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 332
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 53 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 69 · prior 12 70(-1%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Premier Minerals, Inc. | 4 | 9 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Medina County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Medina 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olmos | 807 | 12 | 902 | 788–1,014 |
| Escondido | 695 | 12 | 394 | 241–620 |
| Anacacho | 244 | 12 | 1,281 | 910–1,446 |
| Navarro | 82 | 0 | 452 | 386–1,000 |
| Austin Chalk | 51 | 0 | 1,455 | 1,358–1,690 |
| Buda | 30 | 0 | 1,352 | 1,232–2,242 |
| Wilcox | 21 | 0 | 200 | 25–225 |
| Midway | 18 | 0 | 300 | 154–300 |
| San Miguel | 15 | 0 | 1,072 | 1,061–1,076 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 20
- active UIC permits of 158
- 2.48K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 26.9K
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Medina 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 915859 | May 27, 2026 | May 27, 2026 | Premier Minerals, Inc. | Ralph & Sons Farms, Inc #18 | 1,500 | 32534389 |
| 915858 | May 27, 2026 | May 27, 2026 | Premier Minerals, Inc. | Ralph & Sons Farms, Inc #17 | 1,500 | 32534388 |
| 915857 | May 27, 2026 | May 27, 2026 | Premier Minerals, Inc. | Ralph & Sons Farms, Inc #16 | 1,500 | 32534387 |
| 915591 | May 15, 2026 | May 15, 2026 | Premier Minerals, Inc. | Ralph & Sons Farms, Inc #15 | 1,500 | 32534386 |
| 909236 | Jul 15, 2025 | Jul 15, 2025 | 1859 Operating LLC | Pioneer #1 | 8,300 | 32534385 |
| 902986 | Sep 30, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | Premier Minerals, Inc. | Ralph & Sons Farms, Inc. #13 | 1,500 | 32534384 |
| 902985 | Sep 30, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | Premier Minerals, Inc. | Ralph & Sons Farms, Inc. #12 | 1,500 | 32534383 |
| 902984 | Sep 30, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | Premier Minerals, Inc. | Ralph & Sons Farms, Inc. #11 | 1,500 | 32534382 |
| 902983 | Sep 30, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | Premier Minerals, Inc. | Ralph & Sons Farms, Inc. #10 | 1,500 | 32534381 |
| 902964 | Sep 30, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | Premier Minerals, Inc. | Ralph & Sons Farms, Inc. #9 | 1,500 | 32534380 |
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/medina?days=365, documented in the API reference.