COUNTIES · EAGLE FORD SHALE · DISTRICT 01 · CODE 331
Milam County, Texas
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 →
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- permits issued, 30d
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- vs prior 30d (0)
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- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
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- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 5, 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%)
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 | 2 |
| 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
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- 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 |
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| 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. 4,846 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: 980 active, 1,948 plugged, and 2 permitted and not yet drilled. 116 are horizontal, and 47 operators hold them.
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?
289,592 barrels of water were injected in Milam County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 154 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?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Milam County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Milam 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/milam?days=30, documented in the API reference.