Texas oil and gas data

Where this comes from

Well records come from Texas Railroad Commission (RRC). Facility and emissions layers, where present, come from EPA programs including GHGRP, NEI and ECHO, and from PHMSA for pipeline incidents. Atlas normalises these into one schema and joins them on the well API number.

Regulatory data has limits worth knowing. It does not capture failure-mode emissions, it can carry operator reporting errors, and it lags current conditions. Every figure above is a count of what the agency published, not an independent measurement.

Analysis

• Texas Drilling Permits: How to Search RRC Permits by County How to search Texas drilling permits by county in the Railroad Commission's W-1 Query, what each permit code means, and which counties get the most permits.
• Texas Oil and Gas Map: 1.2 Million Well Records on One Map A Texas oil and gas map of about 1.2 million RRC well records: production, inspections, pipelines and orphan wells on one map, plus gas analysis where sampled.
• Permian Basin Oil Fields: Every Well, County and Operator The Permian Basin holds 389,187 wells on record across West Texas and southeastern New Mexico. Counts, counties, operators, and 2024 production, on one map.
• Texas Oil Fields: 65,000 Names and Two Drilling Eras Texas files 65,038 field designations that roll up to 23,923 fields. Most contain no horizontal well at all, and a few hundred hold the shale inventory.
• Saltwater Disposal Wells: Counts by State and Where to Find Them Seven states permit 45,637 saltwater disposal wells, Texas 36,918 of them. State-by-state counts, why shares differ, and the agency files behind each number.
• RRC GIS Viewer: Every Texas Railroad Commission Map Layer The Texas Railroad Commission GIS viewer in plain terms: all 22 map layers, how to download RRC GIS data, and why production and permits are not on the map.
• Oil Field Map: Find Every Well in a Named Field, State by State Texas well records carry 55,791 field names, Colorado 1,556 and Wyoming 1,174. What a field name means, where outlines exist, and how to map its wells.
• RRC Wellbore Query: Search Tips and Fixes for Empty Results How to search the Texas RRC Wellbore Query by API, operator or lease, which field is fastest, why a search comes back empty, and where production lives.
• Class II Injection Wells and the Other UIC Classes, Explained About 180,000 Class II oil and gas injection wells operate in the US, most for enhanced recovery, not disposal. The six UIC classes and where records live.
• Natural Gas Pipeline Map for Texas and the Permian Basin Texas gas pipeline map from RRC records, densest in the Permian Basin near Midland and Odessa, with 1,292 PHMSA incidents logged from 2010 through mid-2026.
• Southern Permian Oil Jumped 14% in 2024: Emissions Impact Southern Permian oil (RRC District 7C) jumped 14% to 186M barrels in 2024. Compliance and ops implications for associated gas and methane intensity.