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Fort Bend County, Texas oil and gas

  • 435,893bbl oil in the last 12 months
  • 105producing leases
  • 1,260wells on the map
  • 1drilling location in two years

Oil wells and drilling locations in Fort Bend County

Map of Fort Bend County, Texas, with 1,260 oil and gas wells and 1 recent drilling locations as dots.
  • Drilling locations1Permits issued in the last two years
  • Producing wells734On a lease reporting production now
  • Not producing141Shut in, inactive or no lease on record
  • Plugged385The 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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1,260 wells with a location on the state's map (734 producing, 141 not producing, 385 plugged) and 1 drilling location permitted in the last 24 months, each where the Railroad Commission puts it.

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Wells near a town: Arcola · Cinco Ranch · Fairchilds · Fifth Street · Four Corners · Fresno · Fulshear · Greatwood · Meadows Place · Mission Bend · Missouri City · Needville · New Territory · Pecan Grove · Pleak · Richmond · Rosenberg · Sienna Plantation · Stafford · Sugar Land · Weston Lakes · Newest drilling permits in Fort Bend County · Wells by ZIP code

Fort Bend County reported 435,893 barrels of oil and 2.9 million mcf of gas in the last 12 months. That ranks 101st of 225 Texas counties by oil.

County dossier

435,893bbl oil, last 12 months−10% 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
105of 259 on record
Operators
22
Fields
32

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Fort Bend County · RRC district 03
Gas, last 12 months
2,900,374 mcf
Share of Texas oil
<0.1%
Wells on record
1,270on leases with production reports
Data through
Jul 2026

Five years of output in Fort Bend County

Oil output in Fort Bend County fell 10% over the last 12 months

436k bbl through Jul 2026, against 485k bbl a year earlier. Peak Aug 2021: 65k bbl.

Oil output in Fort Bend County fell 10% over the last 12 months436k bbl through Jul 2026, against 485k bbl a year earlier. Peak Aug 2021: 65k bbl.Oil, bbl per month025k50k75kPeak 65k (Aug 21)34.7k20222023202420252026
Oil output in Fort Bend County fell 10% over the last 12 months436k bbl through Jul 2026, against 485k bbl a year earlier. Peak Aug 2021: 65k bbl.Oil, bbl per month025k50k75kPeak 65k (Aug 21)34.7k'22'23'24'25'26

Gas output in Fort Bend County held steady over the last 12 months

2.9M mcf through Jul 2026, against 3M mcf a year earlier. Peak Aug 2021: 379k mcf.

Gas output in Fort Bend County held steady over the last 12 months2.9M mcf through Jul 2026, against 3M mcf a year earlier. Peak Aug 2021: 379k mcf.Gas, mcf per month0100k200k300k400kPeak 379k (Aug 21)239k20222023202420252026
Gas output in Fort Bend County held steady over the last 12 months2.9M mcf through Jul 2026, against 3M mcf a year earlier. Peak Aug 2021: 379k mcf.Gas, mcf per month0100k200k300k400kPeak 379k (Aug 21)239k'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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Fort Bend 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 1997, at 3,407,890 bbl. The highest year for gas was 2003, at 52,688,970 mcf.

Fort Bend County, Texas: oil and gas produced each year, 1993 to 2025
YearOilbblGasmcf
2025452,8473,006,036
2024513,6893,163,731
2023557,7033,540,403
2022641,5993,407,373
2021754,5144,396,377
2020793,3875,501,978
2019871,9206,253,190
2018968,7646,757,412
20171,016,3307,034,160
20161,052,8667,744,970
20151,417,5998,575,496
20141,725,9779,309,382
20131,776,55811,292,957
20121,788,47612,567,633
20111,840,29213,121,339
20101,850,85814,239,672
20091,780,26717,273,260
20082,003,22923,648,688
20072,132,21830,450,348
20062,524,96634,253,896
20052,885,43845,253,329
20043,049,69649,500,851
20033,280,60052,688,970
20023,044,03145,216,774
20012,838,23341,524,329
20002,483,87235,551,732
19992,550,63132,002,746
19982,881,97728,779,103
19973,407,89024,257,478
19963,210,95221,860,723
19952,875,71518,056,813
19942,805,06517,196,284
19933,181,53817,657,317

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.

Fort Bend County appraisal district, 2026 mineral roll

Mineral owners in Fort Bend County: 11,137 royalty records on the roll

At least 106 of the 11,137 royalty-interest records on Fort Bend County's 2026 mineral roll are still titled to an estate (0.95%). We publish counts only. No owner’s name or address is on this page; to look for one family, search its name.

Royalty-interest records, 2026 roll
11,137
Still titled to an estate, at least
106
Share of the roll
0.95%

SourceRoyalty Clerk count of the Fort Bend County mineral appraisal roll of 2026, read November 2026. A record is one line of the roll, not one person.

The biggest leases in Fort Bend County

Under each volume: change on the year before.

Showing 25 of 105, ranked by output value.

SourceTexas Railroad Commission Production Data Query.

Who runs the leases, and what they produce

Recent drilling permits in Fort Bend County