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Texas Oil & Gas Wells and Drilling Permits — County-Level Statistics (2026) County-level statistics for oil and gas activity in Texas, compiled from Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) public bulk data: 1,006,559 wellbore records across 275 counties with their reported status (producing, shut in, injection) and the number of distinct operators on record, plus every drilling permit filed between 2026-03-01 to 2026-07-20 (4,120 permits, 80% of them horizontal) broken out by county… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/rrhagentbiz/texas-oil-gas-county-statistics.

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Texas Oil & Gas Wells and Drilling Permits — County-Level Statistics (2026)

County-level statistics for oil and gas activity in Texas, compiled from Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) public bulk data: 1,006,559 wellbore records across 275 counties with their reported status (producing, shut in, injection) and the number of distinct operators on record, plus every drilling permit filed between 2026-03-01 to 2026-07-20 (4,120 permits, 80% of them horizontal) broken out by county, with the count of operators filing in each. Aggregate county rollups only — individual permit and wellbore records are not included.

Data: `texas-oil-gas-county-statistics.csv` — one row per county, 275 counties.

Column notes — please read before citing

columnmeaning
wellbore_recordsrows for that county in the RRC OG_WELLBORE_EWA wellbore file. Complete for the file's vintage.
wellbores_with_status_codehow many of those rows carry a well-status code at all. The RRC file leaves status blank on about two-thirds of records, so the three status columns below are counts of coded records, not shares of all wells.
wells_status_producing / _shut_in / _injectionwells whose coded status is PRODUCING / SHUT IN / INJECTION.
operators_on_wellbore_recorddistinct RRC operator numbers appearing on that county's wellbore records (historical operators included).
drilling_permits_filed_in_windowW-1 drilling permits with a filed date in 2026-03-01 to 2026-07-20.
horizontal_permits_in_windowof those, the ones flagged horizontal.
operators_filing_permits_in_windowdistinct operators that filed at least one permit in the window.
last_permit_filed_datemost recent permit filed date in the window, blank if none.

Scope limits, stated plainly. The permit window starts 2026-03-01 because that is where our load of the RRC daily permit feed reaches full monthly strength; earlier months are partial and are excluded rather than published as if complete. This is not the complete historical RRC permit record. Spacing-exception (Rule 37 / Rule 38) counts are deliberately excluded — the RRC stopped populating those fields in its bulk permit feed in mid-2024, so any current count would be misleading. RRC permit filings also run roughly 5-8 days behind real-world activity.

Source and license

Derived from public data published by the Railroad Commission of Texas, the state agency of record for oil and gas drilling permits (W-1), completions, well status and lease production. Licensed CC-BY-4.0.

Compiled and maintained by [Texas Mineral Radar](https://texasmineralradar.com) (texasmineralradar.com) — free county activity pages, per-operator profiles, and a searchable index of recent Texas drilling permits, plus free alerts when a new permit is filed near a tract you own. Mineral ownership itself lives in county deed records; this dataset and the site describe drilling activity, not ownership.

Per-county pages (top 60 by wellbore count)

Every county: https://texasmineralradar.com/counties/ · Recent permits statewide: https://texasmineralradar.com/permits/