COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 04 · CODE 355
Nueces County
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 4 permits in the past 12 months, one of 2 operators active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 7,700 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.
6,657 drilling permits have been issued in Nueces County since 1977.
6,657 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 5, 2026
Watch Nueces CountyAlso: every Nueces County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 2
- permits issued, 180d
- -33%
- vs prior 180d (3)
- 2
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 4,100
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 760
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 73 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 16 · prior 12 25(-36%)
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 | 4 | 6 |
| 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 →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frio | 501 | 3 | 5,300 | 3,680–7,900 |
| Catahoula | 236 | 12 | 3,965 | 2,828–4,554 |
| Miocene (undifferentiated) | 165 | 10 | 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 | 2 | 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 →
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 912711 | 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 |
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.
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