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Nueces County, Texas
A full read of activity around your Nueces County tract
Recent permits, completions, active operators, horizontal mix, nearby producing wellbores, production on matched leases, and the Rule 37/38 exceptions on record through 2024 — in one report, with sources.
Weighing an offer to sell your Nueces County minerals?
Buyers make unsolicited offers on mineral rights constantly, and the activity on record here is the context that tells you whether an offer is well-timed. Nueces County has 2 new drilling permits in the last year, 255 producing wells, 0 horizontal permits and 7 active operators on record. New drilling — especially horizontal wells that can drain a tract from a mile away — is what moves both a mineral tract's value and your leverage in a sale. This page shows that activity free; watching the county tells you the moment it changes, so an offer never lands before you know what's driving it.
This is public Railroad Commission activity — the same data a mineral buyer looks at, in your hands. It is not an appraisal, and not a record of who owns the minerals.
Recent drilling permits in Nueces County
| Filed | Operator | Lease | Type | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-16 | PALOMA OPERATING, LLC | HARLAN | Drill | |
| 2026-03-04 | PALOMA OPERATING, LLC | RIVERS | Drill | |
| 2024-12-18 | VIPER S.W.D., LLC | VIPER DUGGER | Drill | |
| 2022-12-08 | DAHCO OPERATING, LLC | LUBY | Drill | |
| 2019-12-04 | CINCO NATURAL RESOURCES CORP. | STATE TRACT 345 | Drill | |
| 2018-12-19 | GREAT WESTERN DRILLING COMPANY | GANDY TRUST | Drill | |
| 2017-11-30 | GREAT WESTERN DRILLING COMPANY | PERKINS-LAGASSE | Recompletion | |
| 2017-11-17 | DOUBLE PLAY OIL & GAS, INC | HERRMANN | Drill | |
| 2017-10-19 | CITGO REF. & CHEMICALS CO. L.P. | RECTIFIER 91-REC-002 | Drill |
Who is drilling in Nueces County
7 companies hold drilling permits in Nueces County, Texas. These are the ones on record, by permits filed. Open a company to see every county it drills in and every permit it has filed.
| Operator | Permits here | Horizontal | Last filed | Wells on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PALOMA OPERATING, LLC | 2 | 0 | 2026-06-16 | — |
| GREAT WESTERN DRILLING COMPANY | 2 | 0 | 2018-12-19 | 625 |
| VIPER S.W.D., LLC | 1 | 0 | 2024-12-18 | 61 |
| DAHCO OPERATING, LLC | 1 | 0 | 2022-12-08 | — |
| CINCO NATURAL RESOURCES CORP. | 1 | 0 | 2019-12-04 | 38 |
| DOUBLE PLAY OIL & GAS, INC | 1 | 0 | 2017-11-17 | 108 |
| CITGO REF. & CHEMICALS CO. L.P. | 1 | 0 | 2017-10-19 | — |