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Howard County, Texas
Oil & gas activity from Railroad Commission records · permits 2026-10-15 · completions 2026-02-13 · well status 2026-10
Drilling permits
633
164 last year
Rule 37/38 exceptions
233
Horizontal permits
584
Producing wells
3,860
of 14,274 wellbores
The mineral owners under these permits
Howard County is in the Midland Basin package of the Permit Owner File. Every Monday, each new drilling permit filed here is matched by abstract, block and section to the Howard County Appraisal District's certified mineral roll, and the appraisal-roll listed owners under it are delivered as a CSV with mailing addresses and CAD interest decimals. In a two-week Martin County sample, 22 permits produced 84 individual and trust recipients.
Recent drilling permits in Howard County
Who is drilling in Howard County
40 companies hold drilling permits in Howard County, Texas. These are the 40 most active, by permits filed. Open a company to see every county it drills in and every permit it has filed.
This report compiles and structures publicly available oil & gas records from the Railroad Commission of Texas — drilling permits, completions, well status, and lease production. We monitor development activity and public filings near a location you tell us about; we do NOT determine mineral ownership, confirm what you own, or provide legal, tax, or investment advice. Nothing here replaces a title opinion, a landman, or reading the official RRC filing. Activity is mapped to the locations the operator filed with the RRC: the permit surface location (NAD27, precision disclaimed by the RRC) and, for horizontal permits in owner files, the W-1H terminus tract. Neither is a title-verified mineral tract. Data is current only as of the source vintage shown on the page. Our total liability for any report is capped at the amount you paid for it. Found an error? Reply to any email and a human will correct it.