COUNTIES · EAGLE FORD SHALE · DISTRICT 02 · CODE 391
Refugio County, Texas
Refugio County permitting is running 4.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (13 total, up 8% on the prior quarter).
Rising Star Energy Partners II, leads with 17 permits in the past 12 months, one of 4 operators active in the county.
2 operators filed a first Refugio County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 7,300 ft (prior year: 6,234 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 231 active disposal and injection permits, with 73.5M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
7,909 drilling permits have been issued in Refugio County since 1977.
7,909 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 28, 2026
Watch Refugio CountyAlso: every Refugio County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 13
- permits issued, 90d
- +8%
- vs prior 90d (12)
- 3
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 6,843
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 406
- 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 30 · prior 12 16(+88%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Rising Star Energy Partners II, | 17 | 56 |
| T-C Oil Company, LLC | 7 | 618 |
| Hilcorp Energy Company | 5 | 1,348 |
| Dallas Petroleum Group, LLC | 1 | 5 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Refugio County came in the last year. 2 in total.
- Rising Star Energy Partners II,17 permitsMay 13, 2026 · new to Texas permits
- Dallas Petroleum Group, LLC1 permitApr 10, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Refugio County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Refugio County the Jackson is reported in 98 wells, median top 2,682 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catahoula | 1,671 | 66 | 3,564 | 3,300–4,000 |
| Frio | 1,484 | 51 | 4,365 | 3,862–5,117 |
| Lagarto | 1,069 | 30 | 1,500 | 1–2,750 |
| Oakville | 853 | 31 | 2,750 | 2,750–3,300 |
| Greta | 804 | 28 | 4,377 | 3,953–4,525 |
| Anahuac | 728 | 27 | 4,100 | 4,100–4,365 |
| Miocene (undifferentiated) | 525 | 20 | 2,265 | 1,200–3,050 |
| Jackson | 98 | 9 | 2,682 | 1,977–4,866 |
| Vicksburg | 67 | 0 | 6,300 | 5,883–8,350 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 231
- active UIC permits of 829
- 2.11M
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 73.5M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Refugio 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919747 | Oct 31, 2026 | Oct 28, 2026 | T-C Oil Company, LLC | O'Connor -H- #H 37 | 5,480 | 39133186 |
| 918995 | Oct 4, 2026 | Oct 2, 2026 | T-C Oil Company, LLC | Clay Pasture -E- State Unit #1 | 5,692 | 39133235 |
| 919005 | Oct 3, 2026 | Oct 1, 2026 | Rising Star Energy Partners II, | Rooke. B.D. SWD #3 | 6,000 | 39133360 |
| 919003 | Oct 3, 2026 | Oct 1, 2026 | Rising Star Energy Partners II, | Rooke. B.D. SWD #2 | 6,000 | 39133359 |
| 919001 | Oct 3, 2026 | Oct 1, 2026 | Rising Star Energy Partners II, | Rooke. B.D. SWD #1 | 6,000 | 39133358 |
| 918856 | Sep 27, 2026 | Sep 25, 2026 | T-C Oil Company, LLC | Anderson, Mary Alice et al 'A' #A 12 | 6,212 | 39131640 |
| 918764 | Sep 27, 2026 | Sep 25, 2026 | Hilcorp Energy Company | Heard, Fannie V.W. Mrs. #14 | 5,925 | 39100683 |
| 918648 | Sep 24, 2026 | Sep 22, 2026 | Rising Star Energy Partners II, | Rooke. B.D. #8201P | 8,600 | 39133355 |
| 918741 | Sep 23, 2026 | Sep 21, 2026 | Rising Star Energy Partners II, | Rooke. B.D. #8204J | 8,600 | 39133357 |
| 918727 | Sep 23, 2026 | Sep 21, 2026 | Rising Star Energy Partners II, | Rooke. B.D. #8202P | 8,600 | 39133356 |
Questions about Refugio County
How many drilling permits were issued in Refugio County in the last 12 months?
30 permits were issued in Refugio County in the last 12 months, up 88% from 16 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Oct 28, 2026. 7,909 are on file since 1977.
Every Refugio County permit →Who is the most active operator in Refugio County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Rising Star Energy Partners II, is the most active operator in Refugio County, with 17 of 30, followed by T-C Oil Company, LLC (7) and Hilcorp Energy Company (5). 3 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Refugio County →How many oil and gas wells are in Refugio County?
5,449 wells are on file in Refugio County: 563 active, 2,977 plugged, and 9 permitted and not yet drilled. 19 are horizontal, and 24 operators hold them.
Every well in Refugio County →How much oil and gas does Refugio County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Refugio County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Refugio County →How much water is injected in Refugio County?
73.5 million barrels of water were injected in Refugio County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 231 of the county's 829 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Refugio County →What formations are drilled in Refugio County?
Completion filings for wells in Refugio County report tops for 9 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Catahoula (1,671 wells, median top 3,564 ft), the Frio (1,484 wells, median top 4,365 ft), and the Lagarto (1,069 wells, median top 1,500 ft).
Formations in Refugio County →What basin is Refugio County in?
Petrora lists Refugio County in the Eagle Ford Shale. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 02.
The Eagle Ford Shale →Have there been earthquakes in Refugio County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Refugio County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Refugio 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/refugio?days=90, documented in the API reference.