COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 03 · CODE 361
Orange County, Texas
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)
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- 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 NOV 6, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 1 · prior 12 2(-50%)
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 →
Fewer than ten wells in Orange 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 | 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 |
Questions about Orange County
How many drilling permits were issued in Orange County in the last 12 months?
1 permit was issued in Orange County in the last 12 months, down 50% from 2 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Jul 16, 2026. 1,029 are on file since 1977.
Every Orange County permit →Who is the most active operator in Orange County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Bruington Operating II, LLC is the most active operator in Orange County, with 1 of 1. 0 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Orange County →How many oil and gas wells are in Orange County?
1,329 wells are on file in Orange County: 114 active and 762 plugged. 3 are horizontal, and 17 operators hold them.
Every well in Orange County →How much oil and gas does Orange County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Orange County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Orange County →How much water is injected in Orange County?
4.3 million barrels of water were injected in Orange County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 26 of the county's 79 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Orange County →What formations are drilled in Orange County?
Completion filings for wells in Orange County report tops for 5 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Frio (150 wells, median top 6,260 ft), the Miocene (undifferentiated) (87 wells, median top 3,640 ft), and the Yegua (70 wells, median top 11,932 ft).
Formations in Orange County →What basin is Orange County in?
Petrora lists Orange County in the Texas Gulf Coast. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 03.
The Texas Gulf Coast →Have there been earthquakes in Orange County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Orange County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Orange 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/orange?days=90, documented in the API reference.