COUNTIES · EAGLE FORD SHALE · DISTRICT 02 · CODE 469
Victoria County
Victoria County permitting is running 0.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (1 total, versus 1 in the prior quarter).
Big Lake Corporation leads with 1 permit in the past 12 months, one of 4 operators active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 6,092 ft (prior year: 7,350 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 94 active disposal and injection permits, with 37M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
6,304 drilling permits have been issued in Victoria County since 1977.
6,304 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Aug 12, 2026
Watch Victoria CountyAlso: every Victoria County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 4
- permits issued, 365d
- -33%
- vs prior 365d (6)
- 4
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 6,621
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 825
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 81 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 17 · prior 12 25(-32%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Big Lake Corporation | 1 | 19 |
| Ampak Oil Company | 1 | 17 |
| Shore Petroleum Corp. | 1 | 7 |
| Kebo Oil & Gas, Inc. | 1 | 4 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Victoria County came in the last year. None.
Permit types, 365d
| Type | Window | Prior | All time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recompletion | 3 | 2 | 2,149 |
| Drill | 1 | 3 | 3,978 |
| Reenter | 0 | 1 | 72 |
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Victoria 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 | 935 | 13 | 3,800 | 2,500–5,487 |
| Catahoula | 856 | 14 | 3,300 | 2,433–4,068 |
| Greta | 411 | 0 | 4,650 | 3,240–5,010 |
| Miocene (undifferentiated) | 404 | 2 | 1,425 | 1–2,634 |
| Vicksburg | 215 | 2 | 4,830 | 3,400–5,988 |
| Yegua | 162 | 2 | 5,320 | 2,100–6,725 |
| Wilcox | 104 | 0 | 8,512 | 8,050–9,764 |
| Oakville | 81 | 1 | 2,290 | 1,570–3,750 |
| Anahuac | 15 | 0 | 4,180 | 3,694–4,522 |
| Jackson | 14 | 0 | 4,905 | 4,030–6,138 |
| Lagarto | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1–1 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 94
- active UIC permits of 430
- 753K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 37M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Victoria 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 917740 | Aug 14, 2026 | Aug 12, 2026 | Kebo Oil & Gas, Inc. | Patagonia #1 | 9,300 | 46934528 |
| 917363 | Jul 27, 2026 | Jul 27, 2026 | Big Lake Corporation | Salinas, J. #14 | 5,000 | 46933965 |
| 913984 | Mar 11, 2026 | Mar 11, 2026 | Shore Petroleum Corp. | Zorilla-Malone #7 | 7,184 | 46934506 |
| 912587 | Jan 13, 2026 | Jan 13, 2026 | Ampak Oil Company | Perez #3 | 5,000 | 46934166 |
| 907134 | May 5, 2025 | May 5, 2025 | Forza Operating, LLC | Stevens #1 | 9,240 | 46934526 |
| 907134 | May 5, 2025 | May 5, 2025 | Forza Operating, LLC | Stevens #1 | 9,050 | 46934526 |
| 907683 | May 1, 2025 | May 1, 2025 | Aurora Resources Corporation | Willemin #1 | 5,000 | 46934527 |
| 907363 | Apr 23, 2025 | Apr 23, 2025 | Shore Petroleum Corp. | Zorilla-Malone #8W | 7,400 | 46931492 |
| 906299 | Mar 18, 2025 | Mar 18, 2025 | Shore Petroleum Corp. | Zorilla-Malone #3 | 7,300 | 46934426 |
| 904065 | Nov 21, 2024 | Nov 21, 2024 | Paloma Operating, LLC | Vandenberge & Hill #39 | 5,450 | 46933842 |
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/victoria?days=365, documented in the API reference.