COUNTIES · EAGLE FORD SHALE · DISTRICT 01 · CODE 493

Wilson County

Wilson County permitting is running 3.0 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (9 total, down 10% on the prior quarter).

Warwick-Artemis, LLC leads with 22 permits in the past 12 months, one of 4 operators active in the county.

2 operators filed a first Wilson County permit in the past year.

Median permitted depth over the past year is 8,900 ft (prior year: 9,800 ft); 90% of the past year's permits are horizontal.

The county has 50 active disposal and injection permits, with 15.5M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

TexNet located 141 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M4.6.

3,419 drilling permits have been issued in Wilson County since 1977.

3,419 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Sep 25, 2026

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Also: every Wilson County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →

29
permits issued, 365d
-12%
vs prior 365d (33)
4
operators filing
90%
horizontal
7,798
avg permitted depth, ft
539
operators, all time

WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER

Permits issued by month

LAST 72 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 53 · prior 12 41(+29%)

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Top operators, last 12 months

By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.

Full operator directory →

New entrants, last 12 months

Operators whose first permit in Wilson County came in the last year. 2 in total.

Permit types, 365d

TypeWindowPriorAll time
Drill29242,928
Recompletion02323

What the types mean →

Formations in completed wells

RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS

Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Wilson County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →

FormationWellsPermitted last 3 yrsMedian top, ftP10–P90
Austin Chalk672497,0114,795–8,503
Eagle Ford467477,7415,983–8,908
Anacacho458467,2894,529–8,459
Navarro416384,8261,426–6,750
Wilcox337371,974536–3,986
Buda25836,5365,034–7,749
Olmos256506,6705,970–7,482
Carrizo17413724300–2,102
Midway15022,7501,962–4,810
Taylor6224,1982,587–6,178
Escondido48105,5532,781–5,748
Del Rio4716,5225,130–8,051
Georgetown4215,3564,392–7,648
Reklaw420857396–2,304
Bartosh4101,5951,090–1,700

Beyond the permit record

RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes

Disposal and injection

50
active UIC permits of 239
94.8K
permitted bbl/day, active
15.5M
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025
reported through

Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Wilson County →

Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →

TexNet catalog via USGS

Seismicity, last 2 years

141
M2+ events in the area
M4.6
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

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorLease / wellDepthAPI
918763Sep 27, 2026Sep 25, 2026Warwick-Artemis, LLCIM Staying #4HH8,75049333047
918762Sep 26, 2026Sep 24, 2026Warwick-Artemis, LLCThere Are Rules #3HH8,75049333046
918574Sep 20, 2026Sep 18, 2026Titan Opco, LLCJohns, Otto #191,50049333045
918573Sep 20, 2026Sep 18, 2026Titan Opco, LLCJohns, Otto #181,50049333044
918571Sep 20, 2026Sep 18, 2026Titan Opco, LLCJohns, Otto #171,50049333043
918101Aug 30, 2026Aug 28, 2026Warwick-Artemis, LLCH. Moczygemba A #6HH8,90049333042
918100Aug 30, 2026Aug 28, 2026Warwick-Artemis, LLCH. Moczygemba A #5HH8,90049333041
917942Aug 22, 2026Aug 20, 2026Warwick-Artemis, LLCKolenda B #2HH8,50049333040
917835Aug 17, 2026Aug 14, 2026Paloma Operating, LLCWiseman #1HH2,80049333039
916689Jul 2, 2026Jul 2, 2026Paloma Operating, LLCMcBee-Mattke Unit #1HH4,14849333037

All Wilson County permits →

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/wilson?days=365, documented in the API reference.