COUNTIES · PERMIAN BASIN · DISTRICT 01 · CODE 465
Val Verde County, Texas
Val Verde County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued April 14, 2022.
The county has 5 active disposal and injection permits, with 3.84K barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
741 drilling permits have been issued in Val Verde County since 1977.
741 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Apr 14, 2022
Watch Val Verde CountyAlso: every Val Verde 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 (0)
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- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
- 148
- 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 0 · prior 12 0
Operators by well inventory
No permits in the last year; ranked by wells on the RRC wellbore file instead.
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Val Verde County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Val Verde County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Val Verde County the Devonian is reported in 17 wells, median top 12,250 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
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| Canyon | 184 | 0 | 4,584 | 3,036–11,051 |
| Strawn | 113 | 0 | 10,121 | 9,502–12,121 |
| Wolfcamp | 72 | 0 | 2,278 | 1,195–3,207 |
| Paluxy | 40 | 0 | 358 | 298–572 |
| Base Cretaceous (marker) | 28 | 0 | 856 | 335–1,626 |
| Ellenburger | 26 | 0 | 13,640 | 12,538–14,102 |
| Glen Rose | 18 | 0 | 502 | 485–582 |
| Devonian | 17 | 0 | 12,250 | 11,428–13,278 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
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- active UIC permits of 40
- 2.78K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 3.84K
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Val Verde 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 |
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| 879013 | Apr 14, 2022 | Apr 14, 2022 | Paluxy Oil & Gas, LLC | Garcia #9HV | 700 | 46530904 |
| 879012 | Apr 14, 2022 | Apr 14, 2022 | Paluxy Oil & Gas, LLC | Garcia #5HV | 700 | 46530903 |
| 879011 | Apr 14, 2022 | Apr 14, 2022 | Paluxy Oil & Gas, LLC | Garcia #4HV | 700 | 46530902 |
| 879010 | Apr 14, 2022 | Apr 14, 2022 | Paluxy Oil & Gas, LLC | Garcia #3HV | 700 | 46530901 |
| 879009 | Apr 14, 2022 | Apr 14, 2022 | Paluxy Oil & Gas, LLC | Garcia #2HV | 700 | 46530900 |
| 879007 | Apr 14, 2022 | Apr 14, 2022 | Paluxy Oil & Gas, LLC | Garcia #1HM | 700 | 46530899 |
| 879006 | Apr 14, 2022 | Apr 14, 2022 | Paluxy Oil & Gas, LLC | Garcia #1HV | 700 | 46530898 |
| 877978 | Mar 14, 2022 | Mar 14, 2022 | Paluxy Oil & Gas, LLC | Garcia #1A | 800 | 46530897 |
| 876755 | Feb 8, 2022 | Feb 8, 2022 | Paluxy Oil & Gas, LLC | Garcia #15 | 675 | 46530896 |
| 876752 | Feb 8, 2022 | Feb 8, 2022 | Paluxy Oil & Gas, LLC | Garcia #14 | 675 | 46530895 |
Questions about Val Verde County
How many drilling permits were issued in Val Verde County in the last 12 months?
0 permits were issued in Val Verde County in the last 12 months. The most recent was issued Apr 14, 2022. 741 are on file since 1977.
Every Val Verde County permit →Which operator has the most wells in Val Verde County?
No operator has filed a drilling permit in Val Verde County in the last 12 months. By wells on file, the largest is Wolfcamp Energy LLC, with 49, followed by White Rock Oil & Gas LLC (35) and Perdido Energy LLC (33).
Operators in Val Verde County →How many oil and gas wells are in Val Verde County?
696 wells are on file in Val Verde County: 226 active and 273 plugged. 12 are horizontal, and 18 operators hold them.
Every well in Val Verde County →How much oil and gas does Val Verde County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Val Verde County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Val Verde County →How much water is injected in Val Verde County?
3,835 barrels of water were injected in Val Verde County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 5 of the county's 40 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Val Verde County →What formations are drilled in Val Verde County?
Completion filings for wells in Val Verde County report tops for 8 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Canyon (184 wells, median top 4,584 ft), the Strawn (113 wells, median top 10,121 ft), and the Wolfcamp (72 wells, median top 2,278 ft).
Formations in Val Verde County →What basin is Val Verde County in?
Petrora lists Val Verde County in the Permian Basin. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 01.
The Permian Basin →Have there been earthquakes in Val Verde County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Val Verde County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Val Verde 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/val-verde?days=90, documented in the API reference.