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Brooks County, Texas oil and gas

  • 5,955,103mcf gas in the last 12 months
  • 219producing leases
  • 727wells on the map
  • 6drilling locations in two years

Oil wells and drilling locations in Brooks County

Map of Brooks County, Texas, with 727 oil and gas wells and 6 recent drilling locations as dots.
  • Drilling locations6Permits issued in the last two years
  • Producing wells258On a lease reporting production now
  • Not producing295Shut in, inactive or no lease on record
  • Plugged174The state's wellbore record says plugged

Sources: Railroad Commission of Texas well layers and permit files, US Census Bureau county outline, town points from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), base map from USGS The National Map. A dot is a surface location; a horizontal well runs a mile or more from it.

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727 wells with a location on the state's map (258 producing, 295 not producing, 174 plugged) and 6 drilling locations permitted in the last 24 months, each where the Railroad Commission puts it.

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Wells near a town: Falfurrias · Newest drilling permits in Brooks County · Wells by ZIP code

Brooks County reported 6 million mcf of gas and 185,064 barrels of oil in the last 12 months. That ranks 91st of 197 Texas counties by gas.

County dossier

5,955,103mcf gas, last 12 months−18% vs prior year

August 2026 is still coming in. About 89% of Texas leases have reported it so far, so this page counts through July 2026 until it is fully reported.

Producing leases
219of 631 on record
Operators
21
Fields
66

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Brooks County · RRC district 04
Oil, last 12 months
185,064 bbl
Share of Texas gas
<0.1%
Wells on record
728on leases with production reports
Data through
Jul 2026

Five years of output in Brooks County

Gas output in Brooks County fell 18% over the last 12 months

6M mcf through Jul 2026, against 7.2M mcf a year earlier. Peak Jan 2023: 976k mcf.

Gas output in Brooks County fell 18% over the last 12 months6M mcf through Jul 2026, against 7.2M mcf a year earlier. Peak Jan 2023: 976k mcf.Gas, mcf per month0250k500k750k1MPeak 976k (Jan 23)464k20222023202420252026
Gas output in Brooks County fell 18% over the last 12 months6M mcf through Jul 2026, against 7.2M mcf a year earlier. Peak Jan 2023: 976k mcf.Gas, mcf per month0250k500k750k1MPeak 976k (Jan 23)464k'22'23'24'25'26

Oil output in Brooks County fell 19% over the last 12 months

185k bbl through Jul 2026, against 229k bbl a year earlier. Peak Oct 2021: 30k bbl.

Oil output in Brooks County fell 19% over the last 12 months185k bbl through Jul 2026, against 229k bbl a year earlier. Peak Oct 2021: 30k bbl.Oil, bbl per month010k20k30k40kPeak 30k (Oct 21)13.1k20222023202420252026
Oil output in Brooks County fell 19% over the last 12 months185k bbl through Jul 2026, against 229k bbl a year earlier. Peak Oct 2021: 30k bbl.Oil, bbl per month010k20k30k40kPeak 30k (Oct 21)13.1k'22'23'24'25'26

SourceTexas Railroad Commission Production Data Query, county totals, through Jul 2026, file dated Oct 20, 2026.

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Brooks County oil and gas production by year, 1993 to 2025

Every full year we hold, 1993 to 2025. The highest year for oil since 1993 was 2002, at 2,347,929 bbl. The highest year for gas was 2002, at 135,154,665 mcf.

Brooks County, Texas: oil and gas produced each year, 1993 to 2025
YearOilbblGasmcf
2025213,3566,921,845
2024261,0037,693,885
2023287,9879,747,830
2022288,57310,456,902
2021318,1469,948,001
2020323,62211,266,534
2019461,86014,310,011
2018613,49516,628,395
2017671,29118,284,671
2016706,49618,240,880
2015820,05323,460,468
20141,154,34030,584,973
2013800,83626,890,394
2012840,18030,038,024
2011896,53135,429,678
2010859,26637,556,366
2009971,56845,604,703
20081,117,44150,014,164
20071,302,27157,023,122
20061,420,15666,768,504
20051,425,07279,393,855
20041,417,44188,121,812
20031,493,144100,602,726
20022,347,929135,154,665
20011,514,52275,650,663
20001,080,33249,674,291
1999945,02443,619,054
1998913,46442,788,422
1997771,58243,312,093
1996994,05346,614,849
19951,004,19647,098,754
19941,075,21544,444,504
1993870,75038,344,804

SourceTexas Railroad Commission production records, added up by county and calendar year. Oil includes condensate; gas includes casinghead gas. The year in progress is left out until it is complete.

The biggest leases in Brooks County

Under each volume: change on the year before.

Showing 25 of 150 (the 150 largest of 219), ranked by output value.

SourceTexas Railroad Commission Production Data Query.

Who runs the leases, and what they produce

Recent drilling permits in Brooks County