COUNTIES · EAGLE FORD SHALE · DISTRICT 01 · CODE 331
Milam County
Milam County permitting is running 0.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (1 total, after a quiet prior quarter).
Halliburton Energy Services, 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 2,376 ft (prior year: 6,500 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 154 active disposal and injection permits, with 290K barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
4,846 drilling permits have been issued in Milam County since 1977.
4,846 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Sep 2, 2026
Watch Milam CountyAlso: every Milam County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 1
- permits issued, 90d
- —
- vs prior 90d (0)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 4,451
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 477
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 64 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 14 · prior 12 27(-48%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Halliburton Energy Services, Inc | 1 | 1 |
| Energy Transfer Company | 1 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Milam County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Milam 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Navarro | 1,828 | 3 | 653 | 307–1,623 |
| Wilcox | 265 | 0 | 675 | 1–2,144 |
| Midway | 196 | 0 | 400 | 1–2,100 |
| Austin Chalk | 121 | 5 | 5,464 | 4,760–5,948 |
| Pecan Gap | 90 | 3 | 4,497 | 3,888–4,860 |
| Buda | 61 | 2 | 5,991 | 5,555–6,473 |
| Edwards | 46 | 0 | 5,250 | 1,100–6,422 |
| Eagle Ford | 28 | 2 | 5,724 | 1,883–6,167 |
| Georgetown | 26 | 0 | 5,878 | 2,915–6,472 |
| Taylor | 20 | 4 | 3,432 | 350–3,846 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 154
- active UIC permits of 236
- 157K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 290K
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Milam 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 917741 | Sep 4, 2026 | Sep 2, 2026 | Halliburton Energy Services, Inc | Elk Ranch #5 | 4,451 | 33135137 |
| 913134 | Feb 11, 2026 | Feb 11, 2026 | Energy Transfer Company | Cathodic Protection #35 | 300 | 33135135 |
| 910145 | Sep 2, 2025 | Sep 2, 2025 | Magnolia Oil & Gas Operating LLC | Track Pharoah #4HAH | 6,500 | 33135133 |
| 910144 | Sep 2, 2025 | Sep 2, 2025 | Magnolia Oil & Gas Operating LLC | Track Justify #2HEH | 6,500 | 33135132 |
| 909804 | Aug 15, 2025 | Aug 15, 2025 | Buffco Production Inc. | Bonorden #1HH | 12,000 | 33134808 |
| 902245 | Aug 27, 2024 | Aug 27, 2024 | Magnolia Oil & Gas Operating LLC | Creek A #1HH | 6,800 | 33133551 |
| 902218 | Aug 27, 2024 | Aug 27, 2024 | Magnolia Oil & Gas Operating LLC | Caddo A #1HH | 6,047 | 33133509 |
| 901569 | Jul 29, 2024 | Jul 29, 2024 | Garrison Resource Developmnt LLC | Cunningham #2 | 1,800 | 33135117 |
| 898433 | Apr 1, 2024 | Apr 1, 2024 | Halliburton Energy Services, Inc | Elk Ranch #4 | 700 | 33135131 |
| 896233 | Jan 5, 2024 | Jan 5, 2024 | Winchester Oil & Gas LLC | Krupesh #4 | 2,000 | 33135130 |
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/milam?days=90, documented in the API reference.