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Texas Oil & Gas Operators — Drilling Permit Activity by Company (2026)

Every company that filed a drilling permit with the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) between 2026-03-01 to 2026-07-20: 385 operators and 4,120 W-1 permits, 80% of them horizontal. Each row is one operator, keyed by its RRC P-5 operator number, with how many permits it filed, how many were horizontal, how many counties and RRC districts it filed in, its busiest county, and its first and last filing date in the window. Where the operator number also appears in the RRC wellbore file, the row carries that company's existing footprint: total wellbore records and how many are coded producing, shut in or injection (250 of the 385 operators, 209,125 wellbore records in total). Drilling in Texas is concentrated: the ten busiest filers account for 33% of all permits in the window.

Data: texas-oil-gas-operator-permit-activity.csv — one row per operator, 385 operators.

Column notes — please read before citing

column	meaning
rrc_operator_number	the operator's RRC P-5 number. This is the stable key; company names change and the same firm can appear under a new number after a restructuring.
operator_name	the name as filed on that operator's permits in this window.
drilling_permits_filed_in_window	W-1 drilling permits with a filed date in 2026-03-01 to 2026-07-20.
horizontal_permits_in_window	of those, the ones flagged horizontal.
counties_permitted_in_window / rrc_districts_in_window	distinct counties and RRC districts the operator filed in.
busiest_county_in_window / permits_in_busiest_county	the county where it filed the most permits, and how many.
first_permit_filed_in_window / last_permit_filed_in_window	filing-date range inside the window, not the company's real first or last permit ever.
wellbore_records … counties_on_wellbore_record	the operator's existing footprint in the RRC OG_WELLBORE_EWA wellbore file. Blank means the operator number does not appear in that file at all — a new entrant or a changed operator number — which is a different fact from a zero. 135 of 385 operators are blank here.
wells_status_producing / _shut_in / _injection	wells whose coded status is PRODUCING / SHUT IN / INJECTION. The RRC file leaves status blank on about two-thirds of records, so these are counts of coded records, not shares of all wells — compare them against wellbore_records_with_status_code, not wellbore_records.
profile_url	the operator's public activity page. Every URL in this file was checked live before publication; blank where no page exists.

Scope limits, stated plainly. These are active drillers only — an operator is in this file because it filed at least one permit in the window. It is not every operator the RRC has on record (the wellbore file alone carries about 23,500 operator numbers, most of them historical and inactive). The 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. RRC permit filings also run roughly 5-8 days behind real-world activity, so the last few days of the window are lighter than they will eventually be. 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.

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 (texasmineralradar.com) — free per-operator profiles, county activity pages, 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.

Companion dataset: Texas oil & gas county-level statistics — the same RRC source aggregated by county instead of by company.

The 50 busiest filers in this window

• Diamondback E&P Llc — 315 permits, busiest in Midland County
• Pioneer Natural Res. Usa, Inc. — 267 permits, busiest in Midland County
• Eog Resources, Inc. — 158 permits, busiest in Webb County
• Apache Corporation — 108 permits, busiest in Upton County
• Ovintiv Usa Inc. — 102 permits, busiest in Upton County
• Oxy Usa Inc. — 101 permits, busiest in Gaines County
• Anadarko E&P Onshore Llc — 81 permits, busiest in Reeves County
• Continental Resources, Inc. — 78 permits, busiest in Winkler County
• Burlington Resources O & G Co Lp — 74 permits, busiest in Dewitt County
• De Central Operating, Llc — 68 permits, busiest in Reagan County
• Blackbeard Operating, Llc — 67 permits, busiest in Crane County
• Apex Natural Gas, Llc — 63 permits, busiest in San Augustine County
• Cog Operating Llc — 62 permits, busiest in Andrews County
• Oxyrock Operating, Llc — 52 permits, busiest in Martin County
• Magnolia Oil & Gas Operating Llc — 50 permits, busiest in Karnes County
• Kinder Morgan Production Co Llc — 47 permits, busiest in Pecos County
• Civitas Permian Operating, Llc — 44 permits, busiest in Upton County
• Hilcorp Energy Company — 43 permits, busiest in Freestone County
• Mewbourne Oil Company — 41 permits, busiest in Reeves County
• Permian Deep Rock Oil Co., Llc — 41 permits, busiest in Midland County
• Bpx Operating Company — 39 permits, busiest in Reeves County
• Coterra Energy Operating Co. — 38 permits, busiest in Culberson County
• Devon Energy Production Co, L.P. — 37 permits, busiest in Dewitt County
• Adamas Energy Llc — 36 permits, busiest in San Augustine County
• Occidental Permian Ltd. — 36 permits, busiest in Yoakum County
• Admiral Permian Operating Llc — 35 permits, busiest in Loving County
• Firebird Energy Ii Llc — 34 permits, busiest in Midland County
• Chevron U. S. A. Inc. — 33 permits, busiest in Upton County
• Marathon Oil Ef Llc — 33 permits, busiest in Karnes County
• Rosewood Resources, Inc. — 33 permits, busiest in Fayette County
• Fasken Oil And Ranch, Ltd. — 31 permits, busiest in Andrews County
• Permian Resources Operating, Llc — 31 permits, busiest in Reagan County
• Triple Crown Resources, Llc — 30 permits, busiest in Irion County
• Pdeh Llc — 29 permits, busiest in Loving County
• Tgnr Panola Llc — 27 permits, busiest in Panola County
• Jonah Energy Llc — 26 permits, busiest in Dimmit County
• Sabine Energy Inc. — 26 permits, busiest in Panola County
• Caturus Energy, Llc — 25 permits, busiest in Webb County
• Silver Hill Energy Operating Llc — 25 permits, busiest in Shelby County
• Comstock Oil & Gas, Llc — 24 permits, busiest in Leon County
• Rockcliff Energy Operating Iii — 24 permits, busiest in San Augustine County
• Sm Energy Company — 24 permits, busiest in Webb County
• U.S. Energy Development Corp — 24 permits, busiest in Reeves County
• Waggoner Operating, L.L.C. — 23 permits, busiest in Baylor County
• Lewis Petro Properties, Inc. — 22 permits, busiest in Webb County
• Rfe Operating, Llc — 22 permits, busiest in Harrison County
• Fw Eagle Ford I, Llc — 21 permits, busiest in Lavaca County
• Highpeak Energy Holdings, Llc — 21 permits, busiest in Borden County
• Vtx Energy Operating, Llc — 21 permits, busiest in Reeves County
• Wildfire Energy Operating Llc — 21 permits, busiest in Burleson County

Every operator: https://texasmineralradar.com/operators/ · Recent permits statewide: https://texasmineralradar.com/permits/