COUNTIES · EAGLE FORD SHALE · DISTRICT 01 · CODE 331
Milam County, Texas
1 drilling permit was issued in Milam County in the past 90 days, none in the 90 days before.
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc and Energy Transfer Company each filed one permit in the past 12 months.
The county has 149 active disposal and injection permits of 236 on file, with 1.28M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through September 2025.
4,692 drilling permits have been issued in Milam County since 1977.
4,692 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Sep 2, 2026
Email me new permitsAlso: every Milam County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 980
- active wells · 5,376 on file
- 47
- operators of the active wells
- 1,948
- plugged wells
Wells by status
5,376 WELLBORES ON FILE
From the RRC wellbore file and the permit record. Other sites count the RRC's map locations, which include dry holes and locations this file does not hold, so their totals differ.
Wells spudded, by year
HorizontalVertical and directional
Drilling permits
- 1
- permits issued, 90d
- —
- vs prior 90d (0)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 4,451
- avg permitted depth, ft
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 11, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 2 · prior 12 3(-33%)
Operators by permits, 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 | 2 |
| Energy Transfer Company | 1 | 0 |
Full operator directory: 475 operators have filed a permit here since 1977 →
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 →
Fewer than ten wells in Milam County report the Caprock, so it is below this table's cutoff. Back to the formation →
| 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
- 149
- active UIC permits of 236
- 156K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 1.28M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Sep 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Milam 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
- —
- 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 |
Questions about Milam County
How many drilling permits were issued in Milam County in the last 12 months?
2 permits were issued in Milam County in the last 12 months, down 33% from 3 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Sep 2, 2026. 4,692 are on file since 1977.
Every Milam County permit →Who is the most active operator in Milam County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Halliburton Energy Services, Inc is the most active operator in Milam County, with 1 of 2, followed by Energy Transfer Company (1). 1 operator filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Milam County →How many oil and gas wells are in Milam County?
5,376 wells are on file in Milam County, including 980 active, 1,948 plugged, and 2 permitted and not yet drilled. 116 are horizontal. The active wells are under 47 operators.
Every well in Milam County →How much oil and gas does Milam County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Milam County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Milam County →How much water is injected in Milam County?
1.3 million barrels of water were injected in Milam County in the 12 months through September 2025, reported on form H-10. 149 of the county's 236 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Milam County →What formations are drilled in Milam County?
Completion filings for wells in Milam County report tops for 10 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Navarro (1,828 wells, median top 653 ft), the Wilcox (265 wells, median top 675 ft), and the Midway (196 wells, median top 400 ft).
Formations in Milam County →What basin is Milam County in?
Petrora lists Milam County in the Eagle Ford Shale. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 01.
The Eagle Ford Shale →Have there been earthquakes in Milam County?
No earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of Milam County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Milam County →About this data
Wells from the RRC wellbore file and the permit record. 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.