COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 03 · CODE 481
Wharton County, Texas
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 104 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 →
- 9
- permits issued, 365d
- -36%
- vs prior 365d (14)
- 5
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 7,650
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 866
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 7, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 9 · prior 12 9(+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 | 3 | 15 |
| Remora Management, LLC | 2 | 340 |
| Ricochet Energy, Inc. | 2 | 28 |
| Amexco, LLC | 1 | 16 |
| MB Energy, LLC | 1 | 14 |
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 →
| 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
- 104
- active UIC permits of 470
- 828K
- 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 →
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Questions about Wharton County
How many drilling permits were issued in Wharton County in the last 12 months?
9 permits were issued in Wharton County in the last 12 months, down 36% from 14 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Aug 26, 2026. 6,721 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 9, followed by Remora Management, LLC (2) and Ricochet Energy, Inc. (2). 1 operator filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Wharton County →How many oil and gas wells are in Wharton County?
6,607 wells are on file in Wharton County, including 465 active, 4,249 plugged, and 2 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?
26.9 million barrels of water were injected in Wharton County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 104 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
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=365, documented in the API reference.