COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 03 · CODE 361
Orange County
Orange County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued July 16, 2026.
Bruington Operating II, LLC leads with 1 permit in the past 12 months, the only operator active in the county.
One operator filed a first Orange County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 8,500 ft (prior year: 11,000 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 26 active disposal and injection permits, with 4.34M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
1,029 drilling permits have been issued in Orange County since 1977.
1,029 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Jul 16, 2026
Watch Orange CountyAlso: every Orange County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
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- permits issued, 90d
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- vs prior 90d (1)
- 0
- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
- 238
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 22 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 14
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Bruington Operating II, LLC | 1 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Orange County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Bruington Operating II, LLC1 permitJul 16, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Orange 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 | 150 | 1 | 6,260 | 5,412–7,442 |
| Miocene (undifferentiated) | 87 | 0 | 3,640 | 1,030–6,499 |
| Yegua | 70 | 2 | 11,932 | 9,900–12,679 |
| Vicksburg | 41 | 0 | 8,950 | 8,420–9,240 |
| Anahuac | 14 | 0 | 5,674 | 5,509–6,618 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 26
- active UIC permits of 79
- 131K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 4.34M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Orange 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 917101 | Jul 16, 2026 | Jul 16, 2026 | Bruington Operating II, LLC | Powell Group #1 | 8,500 | 36130996 |
| 911148 | Oct 20, 2025 | Oct 20, 2025 | Block "T" Petroleum, Inc. | State-Darneille #1 | 11,000 | 36130995 |
| 911148 | Oct 20, 2025 | Oct 20, 2025 | Block T Operating (Texas), LLC | State-Darneille #1 | 11,000 | 36130995 |
| 901553 | Jul 29, 2024 | Jul 29, 2024 | Ballard Exploration Company,inc. | North Lakeview #1 | 13,000 | 36130994 |
| 895283 | Nov 17, 2023 | Nov 17, 2023 | Atoka Operating, Inc. | Ten Mile #1 | 12,700 | 36130993 |
| 882461 | Jul 28, 2022 | Jul 28, 2022 | Costa Energy, LLC | Breece Unit #1ST | 7,980 | 36130977 |
| 873392 | Oct 13, 2021 | Oct 13, 2021 | Cimarron Engineering, LLC | Emerald #1 | 8,000 | 36130992 |
| 872548 | Sep 29, 2021 | Sep 29, 2021 | Vantage Operating, LLC | Moonshine #1 | 9,950 | 36130991 |
| 868962 | Apr 13, 2021 | Apr 13, 2021 | Hilcorp Energy Company | Williams #8 | 13,458 | 36130933 |
| 862643 | Mar 11, 2020 | Mar 11, 2020 | Vantage Operating, LLC | Allar #1 | 8,000 | 36130990 |
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/orange?days=90, documented in the API reference.