COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 03 · CODE 481
Wharton County
Wharton County permitting is running 0.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (1 total, versus 2 in the prior quarter).
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 (prior year: 7,225 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 112 active disposal and injection permits, with 26.9M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
6,721 drilling permits have been issued in Wharton County since 1977.
6,721 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Aug 26, 2026
Watch Wharton CountyAlso: every Wharton County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 1
- permits issued, 90d
- -50%
- vs prior 90d (2)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 7,300
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 866
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 90 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 17 · prior 12 26(-35%)
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 | 3 | 7 |
| Remora Management, LLC | 2 | 259 |
| Ricochet Energy, Inc. | 2 | 24 |
| MB Energy, LLC | 1 | 13 |
| Amexco, LLC | 1 | 10 |
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 Wilcox is reported in 182 wells, median top 11,050 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frio | 1,305 | 23 | 4,319 | 3,100–5,628 |
| Yegua | 639 | 4 | 6,844 | 6,255–8,769 |
| Miocene (undifferentiated) | 620 | 21 | 2,614 | 950–5,025 |
| Catahoula | 399 | 21 | 3,264 | 2,879–4,430 |
| Vicksburg | 263 | 2 | 5,500 | 4,908–6,440 |
| Wilcox | 182 | 0 | 11,050 | 9,780–12,990 |
| Jackson | 157 | 0 | 5,807 | 5,157–6,990 |
| Anahuac | 155 | 14 | 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
- 112
- active UIC permits of 479
- 1.4M
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 26.9M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Wharton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 909819 | Aug 15, 2025 | Aug 15, 2025 | Magnum Producing, LP | Stovall-Lancaster #1 | 5,400 | 48135517 |
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/wharton?days=90, documented in the API reference.