COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 04 · CODE 409
San Patricio County, Texas
San Patricio County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued July 20, 2026.
MPG Petroleum, Inc. leads with 1 permit in the past 12 months, one of 2 operators active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 9,700 ft (prior year: 6,900 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 54 active disposal and injection permits, with 12.1M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
4,203 drilling permits have been issued in San Patricio County since 1977.
4,203 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Jul 20, 2026
Watch San Patricio CountyAlso: every San Patricio 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
- 690
- 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 2 · prior 12 5(-60%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| MPG Petroleum, Inc. | 1 | 8 |
| Aurora Resources Corporation | 1 | 1 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in San Patricio County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in San Patricio 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 | 351 | 0 | 5,100 | 3,600–7,072 |
| Catahoula | 305 | 2 | 3,978 | 3,084–4,409 |
| Miocene (undifferentiated) | 214 | 1 | 2,024 | 1–4,470 |
| Greta | 148 | 0 | 4,821 | 3,640–5,149 |
| Vicksburg | 118 | 0 | 5,736 | 4,500–9,053 |
| Oakville | 113 | 0 | 3,245 | 2,160–3,700 |
| Anahuac | 88 | 0 | 4,475 | 4,280–4,900 |
| Midway | 20 | 0 | 5,880 | 5,283–10,610 |
| Douglas | 10 | 0 | 6,668 | 6,513–7,040 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 54
- active UIC permits of 372
- 439K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 12.1M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in San Patricio 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 917216 | Jul 20, 2026 | Jul 20, 2026 | Aurora Resources Corporation | Barrett-Berry #1 | 5,600 | 40933115 |
| 913835 | Mar 6, 2026 | Mar 6, 2026 | MPG Petroleum, Inc. | Gorman #1 | 13,800 | 40933149 |
| 910790 | Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 1, 2025 | Ozona CCS LLC | Gulley #1 | 5,000 | 40933148 |
| 909764 | Sep 5, 2025 | Sep 5, 2025 | Aurora Resources Corporation | Berry Ranch #1 | 5,700 | 40933147 |
| 909503 | Aug 25, 2025 | Aug 25, 2025 | Paloma Operating, LLC | Ney #1 | 7,000 | 40933146 |
| 909503 | Aug 25, 2025 | Aug 25, 2025 | Paloma Operating, LLC | Ney #1 | 7,300 | 40933146 |
| 904823 | Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | Dove Creek Energy, Inc. | Godwin Farms #1 | 6,900 | 40933145 |
| 900323 | Jun 20, 2024 | Jun 20, 2024 | Harris Energy Services, LLC | Riverside Ranch #1 | 7,200 | 40933144 |
| 894371 | Oct 9, 2023 | Oct 9, 2023 | Kebo Oil & Gas, Inc. | St. Paul #1 | 4,750 | 40933142 |
| 894242 | Oct 3, 2023 | Oct 3, 2023 | Dove Creek Energy, Inc. | Dimmick #1 | 6,000 | 40933141 |
Questions about San Patricio County
How many drilling permits were issued in San Patricio County in the last 12 months?
2 permits were issued in San Patricio County in the last 12 months, down 60% from 5 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Jul 20, 2026. 4,203 are on file since 1977.
Every San Patricio County permit →Who is the most active operator in San Patricio County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, MPG Petroleum, Inc. is the most active operator in San Patricio County, with 1 of 2, followed by Aurora Resources Corporation (1). 0 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in San Patricio County →How many oil and gas wells are in San Patricio County?
4,230 wells are on file in San Patricio County: 172 active, 2,800 plugged, and 1 permitted and not yet drilled. 30 are horizontal, and 35 operators hold them.
Every well in San Patricio County →How much oil and gas does San Patricio County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in San Patricio County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in San Patricio County →How much water is injected in San Patricio County?
12.1 million barrels of water were injected in San Patricio County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 54 of the county's 372 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in San Patricio County →What formations are drilled in San Patricio County?
Completion filings for wells in San Patricio County report tops for 9 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Frio (351 wells, median top 5,100 ft), the Catahoula (305 wells, median top 3,978 ft), and the Miocene (undifferentiated) (214 wells, median top 2,024 ft).
Formations in San Patricio County →What basin is San Patricio County in?
Petrora lists San Patricio County in the Texas Gulf Coast. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 04.
The Texas Gulf Coast →Have there been earthquakes in San Patricio County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of San Patricio County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in San Patricio 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/san-patricio?days=90, documented in the API reference.