COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 03 · CODE 473
Waller County
Waller County permitting is running 0.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (1 total, after a quiet prior quarter).
Paloma Operating, LLC leads with 2 permits in the past 12 months, the only operator active in the county.
One operator filed a first Waller County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 4,850 ft; 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 42 active disposal and injection permits, with 5.93M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
1,648 drilling permits have been issued in Waller County since 1977.
1,648 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 20, 2026
Watch Waller CountyAlso: every Waller County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 1
- permits issued, 90d
- —
- vs prior 90d (0)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 4,700
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 132
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 16 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 17
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Paloma Operating, LLC | 2 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Waller County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Paloma Operating, LLC2 permitsJan 14, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Waller County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Waller County the Wilcox is reported in 74 wells, median top 9,984 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catahoula | 193 | 0 | 2,314 | 2,192–2,464 |
| Frio | 193 | 0 | 3,000 | 2,434–4,000 |
| Miocene (undifferentiated) | 155 | 0 | 1,200 | 1–2,292 |
| Wilcox | 74 | 0 | 9,984 | 6,936–10,309 |
| Yegua | 62 | 0 | 6,368 | 3,868–6,968 |
| Caprock | 23 | 0 | 1,900 | 1,900–3,356 |
| Vicksburg | 20 | 0 | 4,562 | 4,341–5,102 |
| Cook Mountain | 13 | 0 | 7,576 | 5,179–7,901 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 42
- active UIC permits of 107
- 229K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 5.93M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Waller 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919511 | Oct 22, 2026 | Oct 20, 2026 | Paloma Operating, LLC | Kuratti #10 | 4,700 | 47331297 |
| 912436 | Jan 14, 2026 | Jan 14, 2026 | Paloma Operating, LLC | Kuratti #9 | 5,000 | 47331296 |
| 902678 | Sep 17, 2024 | Sep 17, 2024 | Enhanced Energy Partners Corp | Hardy, Rufus -B- #33 | 4,130 | 47330919 |
| 890953 | Jun 2, 2023 | Jun 2, 2023 | Triangle Three Resources L.L.C. | LGB #1 | 6,000 | 47331295 |
| 890953 | Jun 2, 2023 | Jun 2, 2023 | Triangle Three Resources L.L.C. | LGB #1 | 6,000 | 47331295 |
| 884356 | Sep 30, 2022 | Sep 30, 2022 | Triangle Three Resources L.L.C. | Bains-Montgomery Unit #12 #1 | 4,800 | 47331294 |
| 884356 | Sep 30, 2022 | Sep 30, 2022 | Triangle Three Resources L.L.C. | Bains-Montgomery Unit #12 #1 | 5,200 | 47331294 |
| 883563 | Sep 7, 2022 | Sep 7, 2022 | Mvu Brazos Corp. | Morgan #1 | 12,500 | 47331293 |
| 883563 | Sep 7, 2022 | Sep 7, 2022 | Mvu Brazos Corp. | Morgan #1 | 12,500 | 47331293 |
| 879261 | Apr 25, 2022 | Apr 25, 2022 | Hilcorp Energy Company | Kgfcu (III-A) #8305 | 10,795 | 47330026 |
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/waller?days=90, documented in the API reference.