COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 04 · CODE 479
Webb County
Webb County permitting is running 26 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (79 total, down 4% on the prior quarter). 5 were issued in the past week.
EOG Resources, Inc. leads with 72 permits in the past 12 months, one of 20 operators active in the county.
3 operators filed a first Webb County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 12,000 ft (prior year: 11,000 ft); 99% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 66 active disposal and injection permits, with 7.57M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
TexNet located 3 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M2.3.
17,840 drilling permits have been issued in Webb County since 1977.
17,840 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 27, 2026
Watch Webb CountyAlso: every Webb County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 79
- permits issued, 90d
- -4%
- vs prior 90d (82)
- 9
- operators filing
- 100%
- horizontal
- 11,223
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 701
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 119 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 310 · prior 12 316(-2%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| EOG Resources, Inc. | 72 | 374 |
| Lewis Petro Properties, Inc. | 46 | 2,107 |
| Caturus Energy, LLC | 41 | 284 |
| SM Energy Company | 36 | 1,084 |
| Silverbow Resources Oper, LLC | 21 | 25 |
| Crescent Energy Operating, LLC | 14 | 407 |
| Killam Oil Co., Ltd. | 13 | 523 |
| Rosetta Resources Operating LP | 8 | 555 |
| Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd. | 8 | 90 |
| Javelin Energy Partners Mgmt LLC | 6 | 169 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Webb County came in the last year. 3 in total.
- Crescent Energy Operating, LLC14 permitsMay 26, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Warwick Poseidon, GP5 permitsJul 13, 2026 · new to Texas permits
- Strike Operating Company LLC1 permitDec 29, 2025 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Webb County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
Fewer than ten wells in Webb County report the Buda, so it is below this table's cutoff. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilcox | 5,454 | 335 | 4,280 | 1,800–8,695 |
| Olmos | 4,088 | 400 | 5,750 | 3,903–7,606 |
| Escondido | 4,002 | 402 | 4,350 | 2,556–6,270 |
| Eagle Ford | 2,618 | 97 | 8,654 | 7,319–10,810 |
| Queen City | 2,194 | 129 | 2,204 | 900–4,485 |
| Austin Chalk | 1,870 | 257 | 8,180 | 6,757–11,460 |
| Wills Point | 1,329 | 0 | 9,700 | 8,452–11,712 |
| Anacacho | 936 | 111 | 7,434 | 6,172–8,508 |
| San Miguel | 844 | 117 | 6,436 | 4,831–7,677 |
| Midway | 688 | 84 | 3,816 | 2,056–9,090 |
| Yegua | 506 | 5 | 1,300 | 1,098–2,738 |
| Carrizo | 375 | 18 | 3,360 | 1,598–6,273 |
| Cook Mountain | 283 | 12 | 3,970 | 547–3,970 |
| Jackson | 260 | 4 | 690 | 690–1,210 |
| Catahoula | 226 | 6 | 1,500 | 950–1,500 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 66
- active UIC permits of 501
- 301K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 7.57M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Webb County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 3
- M2+ events in the area
- M2.3
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919494 | Nov 1, 2026 | Oct 30, 2026 | Troubadour Operating, LLC | Cactus Jack #211HH | 9,500 | 47945772 |
| 919492 | Nov 1, 2026 | Oct 30, 2026 | Troubadour Operating, LLC | Cactus Jack #210HH | 9,500 | 47945771 |
| 919490 | Nov 1, 2026 | Oct 30, 2026 | Troubadour Operating, LLC | Cactus Jack #209HH | 9,500 | 47945770 |
| 919489 | Nov 1, 2026 | Oct 30, 2026 | Troubadour Operating, LLC | Cactus Jack #208HH | 9,500 | 47945769 |
| 919178 | Nov 1, 2026 | Oct 30, 2026 | Lewis Petro Properties, Inc. | Apache Ranch #2HH | 9,000 | 47945764 |
| 919634 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 27, 2026 | SM Energy Company | Briscoe R (SA48) #0221HH | 6,900 | 47945779 |
| 919633 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 27, 2026 | SM Energy Company | Briscoe R (SA47) #0211HH | 6,900 | 47945778 |
| 919632 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 27, 2026 | SM Energy Company | Briscoe R (SA46) #0201HH | 6,900 | 47945777 |
| 919631 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 27, 2026 | SM Energy Company | Briscoe R (SA45) #0199HH | 6,900 | 47945776 |
| 919180 | Oct 28, 2026 | Oct 26, 2026 | Lewis Petro Properties, Inc. | Apache Ranch #1001HH | 9,000 | 47945773 |
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/webb?days=90, documented in the API reference.