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Sterling County, Texas

Oil & gas activity from Railroad Commission records · permits 2026-08-26 · completions 2026-02-13 · well status 2026-09
Drilling permits
5
3 last year
Rule 37/38 exceptions
1
Horizontal permits
2
Producing wells
870
of 3,558 wellbores
Mineral Activity Report · $79

A full read of activity around your Sterling 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 Sterling 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. Sterling County has 3 new drilling permits in the last year, 870 producing wells, 2 horizontal permits and 4 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.

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Recent drilling permits in Sterling County

FiledOperatorLeaseTypeFlags
2026-07-05 IKE OPERATING, LLC DANA POINT Drill Horiz
2026-07-03 IKE OPERATING, LLC SAN MARINO Drill Horiz
2026-04-24 AMPAK OIL COMPANY PARRAMORE Recompletion
2019-12-18 ATOKA OPERATING PERMIAN, LLC REED RANCH Drill Rule 38
2019-12-04 RELENTLESS PERMIAN OPERATING LLC RENDERBROOK CREEK (MISS) UNIT Recompletion

Who is drilling in Sterling County

4 companies hold drilling permits in Sterling 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.

OperatorPermits hereHorizontalLast filedWells on record
IKE OPERATING, LLC 2 2 2026-07-05 —
AMPAK OIL COMPANY 1 0 2026-04-24 96
ATOKA OPERATING PERMIAN, LLC 1 0 2019-12-18 70
RELENTLESS PERMIAN OPERATING LLC 1 0 2019-12-04 358
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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 operator-filed permit surface location (NAD27, precision disclaimed by the RRC), not your 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.