The Texas oil and gas well map

Yes. Looking at the map, searching a street address, ZIP code or abstract number, listing what is near a spot, showing one operator's wells and drawing on the map are free, with no account. A free account adds saving your maps, sharing them with your drawings, and downloads: a picture, a page to print, and your drawings for Google Earth.

From the Railroad Commission of Texas: its well layers for where each well is and where its bottom hole is, its drilling permit files, its wellbore records for which wells are plugged, and the monthly production reports for which leases are producing. The survey lines are the Commission's, drawn from General Land Office maps. Under them are streets and places from OpenStreetMap (through OpenFreeMap) on the statewide map, and the US Geological Survey's National Map, as a topo map or satellite photos.

Type a street address or a ZIP code into the search box on the map above, and it goes there. For land without a street address, look on your deed, lease, division order or county tax bill for the county, the survey and the abstract number, like A-669, and type the abstract number instead: the map shades that survey and gives its size. Then tap Near on it to list the wells and permits around it, nearest first.

Yes. Type your street address, or tap "Use my location" on a phone, and the map goes there and draws rings at half a mile, 1 mile and 3 miles, with how many wells and recent permits are inside each, nearest first. The address is sent to the US Census Bureau to find it on the map and is never saved, put in the page's address or shared.

A year slider plays the wells and permits year by year, with the year over the map. A heat view shows where drilling is busiest across the state. On any well's card, "See it underground" draws the well's depth and reach to scale, to print on one page. And every Texas ZIP code has its own page of the wells inside it and near it.

Oil and gas wells by ZIP code

No. They are approximate: a guide to which survey a spot is in, not a boundary survey. Where a line matters, the deed's own description and a licensed surveyor decide.

Not exactly. The map draws a straight line from where the well starts at the surface to its bottom hole on file with the Railroad Commission. A horizontal well turns and can curve underground, so the line shows which way the well reaches and how far, not every turn of it. Dashed lines are recent drilling permits.

Drilling permits are checked every night, the well layers and wellbore records every week, and production, which decides whether a well shows as producing, every month. The Railroad Commission publishes on its own schedule, so a new well can take days or weeks to appear.

No. A well near your land, or a line under it, does not say who owns the minerals or who is paid. That depends on your lease, the unit the well is pooled in and the division order. If a well reaches your tract and no check comes, look up the lease and ask the operator in writing.

Texas lease lookup

Yes. Pick a spot on the map (right-click it, or hold a finger on it on a phone) and tap Alert me: you get an email when a drilling permit is filed within 1, 3, 5 or 10 miles of it. Texas Well Watch also sends one email a week when the Railroad Commission records something new on an abstract, a lease or an operator you follow: a permit, a completion or first production. Both are free.

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