COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 04 · CODE 355
Nueces County, Texas
Nueces County permitting is running 0.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (1 total, versus 1 in the prior quarter).
Paloma Operating, LLC leads with 3 permits in the past 12 months, one of 2 operators active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 7,555 ft (prior year: 7,600 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 36 active disposal and injection permits, with 2.39M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
5,951 drilling permits have been issued in Nueces County since 1977.
5,951 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 5, 2026
Email me new permitsAlso: every Nueces County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 1
- permits issued, 90d
- +0%
- vs prior 90d (1)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 400
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 752
- 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 3 · prior 12 8(-62%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Paloma Operating, LLC | 3 | 8 |
| Enterprise Products Operatingllc | 1 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Nueces County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Nueces 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 Nueces County report the Jackson, so it is below this table's cutoff. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frio | 501 | 3 | 5,300 | 3,680–7,900 |
| Catahoula | 236 | 11 | 3,965 | 2,828–4,554 |
| Miocene (undifferentiated) | 165 | 9 | 2,450 | 1,370–5,679 |
| Vicksburg | 157 | 4 | 8,000 | 7,025–10,365 |
| Oakville | 65 | 0 | 3,550 | 2,600–4,000 |
| Greta | 52 | 1 | 4,867 | 3,328–6,263 |
| Anahuac | 47 | 0 | 5,000 | 3,070–6,740 |
| Lagarto | 35 | 0 | 2,750 | 2,730–3,118 |
| Goliad | 22 | 0 | 465 | 300–984 |
| Austin Chalk | 19 | 0 | 6,838 | 6,539–6,954 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 36
- active UIC permits of 358
- 199K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 2.39M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Nueces 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 918810 | Oct 7, 2026 | Oct 5, 2026 | Enterprise Products Operatingllc | Cp# 26-180 Cathodic Protection #45 | 400 | 35534233 |
| 916490 | Jun 18, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | Paloma Operating, LLC | Harlan #1 | 7,800 | 35534232 |
| 912711Amendment | Jan 14, 2026 | Jan 14, 2026 | Paloma Operating, LLC | Rivers #1 | 7,700 | 35534231 |
| 912711 | Jan 14, 2026 | Jan 14, 2026 | Paloma Operating, LLC | Rivers #1 | 7,700 | 35534231 |
| 911800 | Nov 18, 2025 | Nov 18, 2025 | Paloma Operating, LLC | Driscoll Foundation #1D | 7,410 | 35504918 |
| 910960 | Oct 16, 2025 | Oct 16, 2025 | Pangea's Edge Operating Co LLC | Kittoe #1 | 11,000 | 35534230 |
| 908496 | Jun 11, 2025 | Jun 11, 2025 | Dewbre Petroleum Corporation | Flinn Gas Unit #1 | 8,989 | 35505946 |
| 907748 | May 19, 2025 | May 19, 2025 | Harris Energy Services, LLC | Miller Unit #4U | 6,925 | 35532949 |
| 907495 | Apr 22, 2025 | Apr 22, 2025 | Anderson Oil Ltd. | Frank E. Bliss #22 | 9,232 | 35501633 |
| 906709 | Mar 17, 2025 | Mar 17, 2025 | Paloma Operating, LLC | H.A. Johnson #1R | 6,750 | 35506651 |
Questions about Nueces County
How many drilling permits were issued in Nueces County in the last 12 months?
4 permits were issued in Nueces County in the last 12 months, down 43% from 7 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Oct 5, 2026. 5,951 are on file since 1977.
Every Nueces County permit →Who is the most active operator in Nueces County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Paloma Operating, LLC is the most active operator in Nueces County, with 3 of 4, followed by Enterprise Products Operatingllc (1). 1 operator filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Nueces County →How many oil and gas wells are in Nueces County?
6,682 wells are on file in Nueces County, including 562 active, 3,719 plugged, and 3 permitted and not yet drilled. 11 are horizontal. The active wells are under 54 operators.
Every well in Nueces County →How much oil and gas does Nueces County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Nueces County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Nueces County →How much water is injected in Nueces County?
2.4 million barrels of water were injected in Nueces County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 36 of the county's 358 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Nueces County →What formations are drilled in Nueces County?
Completion filings for wells in Nueces County report tops for 10 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Frio (501 wells, median top 5,300 ft), the Catahoula (236 wells, median top 3,965 ft), and the Miocene (undifferentiated) (165 wells, median top 2,450 ft).
Formations in Nueces County →What basin is Nueces County in?
Petrora lists Nueces County in the Texas Gulf Coast. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 04.
The Texas Gulf Coast →Have there been earthquakes in Nueces County?
No earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of Nueces County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Nueces 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/nueces?days=90, documented in the API reference.