Permit Watch — Texas
See new drilling permits filed in your Texas county, narrow them to your survey, abstract or operator, and get a free alert on your phone or by email when a new one shows up. Built for mineral and royalty owners. Free, from public Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) data.
Find permits
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Only show permits near my tract (optional)
Works for permits that include a surface location. Enter your tract's latitude and longitude (decimal degrees, from your lease plat, county appraisal map or a map app), or click "Use a point" and then click the plot of permits below. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Recent permits
Get alerts for County
Every county has its own RSS feed. A free RSS app checks it for you and tells you when a new permit is added.
- Phone alerts: install a free RSS reader (for example Feedly or Inoreader), choose "add feed" or "follow", paste the address above, and turn on notifications for it.
- Email alerts: use a free "RSS to email" service, such as an IFTTT applet ("If new feed item, then send me an email") or Blogtrottr, and paste the address above.
- Only care about one survey or operator? Most readers can filter or highlight by keyword. Use the same words you typed in the filter.
These are third-party apps with their own terms; we don't control them and aren't paid by them. The feed updates once a day.
Your saved watches
None yet. Pick a county, add a filter if you like, then "Watch this county" and "Save this watch". Saved on this device only.
We'll email you the day a permit is filed that matches your county, survey, abstract or operator, with no RSS app needed. This paid tier isn't available yet: it needs an email-sending service that we haven't set up. Nothing to buy and no sign-up on this page. Until then, the free RSS alerts above do the same job once a day.
About the data
Where does this come from?
The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) publishes its drilling permit data as free downloadable files. We download the RRC's daily drilling permit file once a day, keep the last 30 days, and show it here. Each permit links to the RRC's own Drilling Permit (W-1) Query, where you can search the permit number to see the official record and plats.
How fresh is it?
We update once a day, in the morning (Texas time). Data may lag the RRC's site by up to a day, and our history starts the day this tool began collecting it. If an RRC file is late or changes format, an update can be skipped; the date at the top shows when the data was last refreshed.
Why does a permit say "Pending" or have no location?
Some records in the RRC file are applications not yet approved, and some have no surface coordinates yet. Survey, abstract and API fields are only shown when the file provides them in a form we can read. Always check the official RRC record.
What does a permit mean for a mineral owner?
A drilling permit (Form W-1) means an operator has applied for, or received, approval to drill, re-enter or recomplete a well at a location. It doesn't mean a well will be drilled. Texas law requires notice to the surface owner, not to mineral owners who don't own the surface, which is why many mineral owners watch permits themselves.