COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 03 · CODE 473
Waller County, Texas
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 →
- 2
- permits issued, 365d
- —
- vs prior 365d (0)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 4,850
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 132
- 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 0
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 →
| 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 |
Questions about Waller County
How many drilling permits were issued in Waller County in the last 12 months?
2 permits were issued in Waller County in the last 12 months. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Oct 20, 2026. 1,648 are on file since 1977.
Every Waller County permit →Who is the most active operator in Waller County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Paloma Operating, LLC is the most active operator in Waller County, with 2 of 2. 1 operator filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Waller County →How many oil and gas wells are in Waller County?
1,220 wells are on file in Waller County: 163 active, 626 plugged, and 1 permitted and not yet drilled. 2 are horizontal, and 18 operators hold them.
Every well in Waller County →How much oil and gas does Waller County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Waller County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Waller County →How much water is injected in Waller County?
5.9 million barrels of water were injected in Waller County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 42 of the county's 107 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Waller County →What formations are drilled in Waller County?
Completion filings for wells in Waller County report tops for 8 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Catahoula (193 wells, median top 2,314 ft), the Frio (193 wells, median top 3,000 ft), and the Miocene (undifferentiated) (155 wells, median top 1,200 ft).
Formations in Waller County →What basin is Waller County in?
Petrora lists Waller County in the Texas Gulf Coast. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 03.
The Texas Gulf Coast →Have there been earthquakes in Waller County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Waller County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Waller 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/waller?days=365, documented in the API reference.