COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 03 · CODE 481
Wharton County, Texas
2 drilling permits were issued in Wharton County in the past 90 days, 2 in the 90 days before.
Paloma Operating, LLC leads with 3 permits in the past 12 months, one of 5 operators active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 7,300 ft; 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 102 active disposal and injection permits of 470 on file, with 26.2M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through September 2025.
6,026 drilling permits have been issued in Wharton County since 1977.
6,026 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Nov 6, 2026
Email me new permitsAlso: every Wharton County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 465
- active wells · 6,608 on file
- 59
- operators of the active wells
- 4,249
- plugged wells
Wells by status
6,608 WELLBORES ON FILE
From the RRC wellbore file and the permit record. Other sites count the RRC's map locations, which include dry holes and locations this file does not hold, so their totals differ.
Wells spudded, by year
HorizontalVertical and directional
Drilling permits
- 2
- permits issued, 90d
- +0%
- vs prior 90d (2)
- 2
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 6,750
- avg permitted depth, ft
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 11, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 10 · prior 12 9(+11%)
Operators by permits, 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 | 3 | 15 |
| Remora Management, LLC | 2 | 340 |
| Ricochet Energy, Inc. | 2 | 28 |
| MB Energy, LLC | 2 | 14 |
| Amexco, LLC | 1 | 16 |
Full operator directory: 858 operators have filed a permit here since 1977 →
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Wharton County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Wharton County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Wharton County the Caprock is reported in 10 wells, median top 1,588 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frio | 1,306 | 22 | 4,314 | 3,100–5,628 |
| Yegua | 640 | 5 | 6,846 | 6,255–8,765 |
| Miocene (undifferentiated) | 621 | 20 | 2,610 | 950–5,000 |
| Catahoula | 400 | 20 | 3,266 | 2,879–4,430 |
| Vicksburg | 264 | 3 | 5,500 | 4,909–6,440 |
| Wilcox | 182 | 0 | 11,050 | 9,780–12,990 |
| Jackson | 158 | 1 | 5,808 | 5,159–6,990 |
| Anahuac | 155 | 12 | 4,848 | 3,620–5,004 |
| Cook Mountain | 94 | 0 | 7,984 | 7,452–9,579 |
| Greta | 87 | 1 | 4,250 | 3,738–5,208 |
| Queen City | 53 | 0 | 9,789 | 9,274–10,363 |
| Oakville | 33 | 0 | 300 | 280–3,400 |
| Weches | 15 | 0 | 8,685 | 8,685–9,400 |
| Caprock | 10 | 0 | 1,588 | 653–2,808 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 102
- active UIC permits of 470
- 825K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 26.2M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Sep 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Wharton County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
USGS catalog, Texas
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919980 | Nov 9, 2026 | Nov 6, 2026 | MB Energy, LLC | Carolyn Lange #4 | 6,200 | 48135526 |
| 918104 | Aug 28, 2026 | Aug 26, 2026 | Paloma Operating, LLC | Appling #1 | 7,300 | 48135525 |
| 915598 | May 28, 2026 | May 28, 2026 | Remora Management, LLC | Pierce Estates #C269 | 7,150 | 48135523 |
| 915684 | May 20, 2026 | May 20, 2026 | Remora Management, LLC | Broussard, J. E. NCT-1 #64 | 6,300 | 48135524 |
| 915244 | Apr 30, 2026 | Apr 30, 2026 | MB Energy, LLC | Kainer Heirs Unit #2 | 5,400 | 48135522 |
| 914427 | Mar 31, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | Ricochet Energy, Inc. | Naiser-Stovall Gas Unit #2 | 8,000 | 48135521 |
| 914240 | Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 20, 2026 | Amexco, LLC | Kubela #3 | 11,000 | 48135329 |
| 913443 | Feb 20, 2026 | Feb 20, 2026 | Paloma Operating, LLC | Reck-Kelly #1 | 7,300 | 48135520 |
| 912266 | Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | Ricochet Energy, Inc. | Ednamaye #2 | 9,000 | 48135519 |
| 912073 | Dec 11, 2025 | Dec 11, 2025 | Paloma Operating, LLC | Daboval, C.J. #A 11 | 7,400 | 48135518 |
Questions about Wharton County
How many drilling permits were issued in Wharton County in the last 12 months?
10 permits were issued in Wharton County in the last 12 months, down 23% from 13 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Nov 6, 2026. 6,026 are on file since 1977.
Every Wharton County permit →Who is the most active operator in Wharton County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Paloma Operating, LLC is the most active operator in Wharton County, with 3 of 10, followed by Remora Management, LLC (2) and Ricochet Energy, Inc. (2). 2 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Wharton County →How many oil and gas wells are in Wharton County?
6,608 wells are on file in Wharton County, including 465 active, 4,249 plugged, and 3 permitted and not yet drilled. 4 are horizontal. The active wells are under 59 operators.
Every well in Wharton County →How much oil and gas does Wharton County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Wharton County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Wharton County →How much water is injected in Wharton County?
26.2 million barrels of water were injected in Wharton County in the 12 months through September 2025, reported on form H-10. 102 of the county's 470 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Wharton County →What formations are drilled in Wharton County?
Completion filings for wells in Wharton County report tops for 14 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Frio (1,306 wells, median top 4,314 ft), the Yegua (640 wells, median top 6,846 ft), and the Miocene (undifferentiated) (621 wells, median top 2,610 ft).
Formations in Wharton County →What basin is Wharton County in?
Petrora lists Wharton County in the Texas Gulf Coast. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 03.
The Texas Gulf Coast →Have there been earthquakes in Wharton County?
No earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of Wharton County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Wharton County →About this data
Wells from the RRC wellbore file and the permit record. 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/wharton?days=90, documented in the API reference.