Texas county · RRC district 7B
Somervell County, Texas oil and gas
- 2,075,649mcf gas in the last 12 months
- 67producing leases
- 113wells on the map
- 0drilling locations in two years
Oil wells and drilling locations in Somervell County
- Drilling locations0Permits issued in the last two years
- Producing wells67On a lease reporting production now
- Not producing45Shut in, inactive or no lease on record
- Plugged1The 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.
113 wells with a location on the state's map (67 producing, 45 not producing, 1 plugged) and 0 drilling locations permitted in the last 24 months, each where the Railroad Commission puts it.
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<p style="margin:4px 0 0;font-size:14px">Map: <a href="https://royaltyclerk.com/texas/counties/somervell-county-tx">Somervell County, Texas oil and gas wells</a> by Royalty Clerk, from Railroad Commission of Texas records</p>Wells near a town: Glen Rose · Newest drilling permits in Somervell County · Wells by ZIP code
Somervell County is one of the 25 counties of the Barnett Shale
Somervell County reported 2.1 million mcf of gas and 1,461 barrels of oil in the last 12 months. That ranks 123rd of 197 Texas counties by gas.
County dossier
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
- 67of 113 on record
- Operators
- 3
- Fields
- 3
- Top operator
- Eagleridge Operating, LLC
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- Oil, last 12 months
- 1,461 bbl
- Share of Texas gas
- <0.1%
- Wells on record
- 113on leases with production reports
- Data through
- Jul 2026
Five years of output in Somervell County
Gas output in Somervell County held steady over the last 12 months
2.1M mcf through Jul 2026, against 2.1M mcf a year earlier. Peak Jun 2022: 349k mcf.
Oil output in Somervell County fell 32% over the last 12 months
1,461 bbl through Jul 2026, against 2,144 bbl a year earlier. Peak Nov 2022: 516 bbl.
SourceTexas Railroad Commission Production Data Query, county totals, through Jul 2026, file dated Oct 20, 2026.
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</script>Somervell 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 2011, at 17,431 bbl. The highest year for gas was 2011, at 10,296,390 mcf.
| Year | Oilbbl | Gasmcf |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,800 | 2,097,429 |
| 2024 | 1,542 | 2,291,910 |
| 2023 | 2,114 | 2,649,991 |
| 2022 | 2,456 | 3,433,959 |
| 2021 | 2,546 | 2,573,478 |
| 2020 | 3,579 | 3,060,377 |
| 2019 | 3,515 | 3,610,893 |
| 2018 | 4,334 | 4,112,782 |
| 2017 | 4,107 | 4,522,865 |
| 2016 | 3,079 | 3,918,525 |
| 2015 | 3,012 | 3,548,234 |
| 2014 | 4,899 | 5,239,301 |
| 2013 | 6,313 | 6,176,147 |
| 2012 | 10,957 | 7,895,418 |
| 2011 | 17,431 | 10,296,390 |
| 2010 | 12,563 | 8,074,387 |
| 2009 | 11,916 | 7,132,748 |
| 2008 | 10,330 | 4,775,220 |
| 2007 | 6,568 | 4,310,873 |
| 2006 | 812 | 622,497 |
| 2005 | 0 | 124,056 |
| 2004 | 0 | 12,443 |
| 2003 | 0 | 18,211 |
| 2002 | 0 | 17,578 |
| 2001 | 0 | 19,476 |
| 2000 | 0 | 20,908 |
| 1999 | 0 | 18,767 |
| 1998 | 0 | 20,423 |
| 1997 | 0 | 20,477 |
| 1996 | 0 | 24,653 |
| 1995 | 0 | 25,992 |
| 1994 | 0 | 35,273 |
| 1993 | 0 | 23,543 |
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 Somervell County
Under each volume: change on the year before.
134,503mcf gas−8%
107,818mcf gas−7%
81,297mcf gas−18%
80,604mcf gas−15%
78,971mcf gas+5%
76,936mcf gas−18%
74,930mcf gas−4%
70,797mcf gas−5%
68,708mcf gas−8%
61,112mcf gas+3%
58,312mcf gas−1%
55,714mcf gas−1%
54,502mcf gas+2%
54,157mcf gas+10%
51,597mcf gas−14%
50,638mcf gas+1%
49,609mcf gas−8%
45,716mcf gas+48%
45,104mcf gas−2%
43,257mcf gas−4%
40,122mcf gas+11%
39,917mcf gas+2%
39,507mcf gas−4%
37,306mcf gas+55%
36,548mcf gas−34%
Showing 25 of 67, ranked by output value.
SourceTexas Railroad Commission Production Data Query.
Who runs the leases, and what they produce
Operators in Somervell County, by gas
Eagleridge Operating leads
Fields in Somervell County, by gas
Newark, East (Barnett Shale) leads
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