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Travis County, Texas

Oil wells and drilling locations near Austin

  • 0wells
  • 1drilling location in two years

Within 10 miles

Wells and drilling locations around Austin

Map of Austin, Texas: 0 wells and 1 recent drilling locations within 10 miles, inside a dashed circle.
  • Drilling locations1Permits issued in the last two years
  • Producing wells0On a lease reporting production now
  • Not producing0Shut in, inactive or no lease on record
  • Plugged0The state's wellbore record says plugged

The dashed circle is 10 miles from the town's point (30.26715, -97.74306); the counts are for wells inside it. Sources: Railroad Commission of Texas well layers and permit files, US Census Bureau county outlines, town points from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), base map from USGS The National Map.

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Drilling permits near Austin are new: 1 permit in the last 12 months, 0 in the 12 months before. The nearest is 9.5 miles south-east of the town's point. 0 wells and 1 drilling location permitted in the last two years lie within 10 miles of Austin, each where the state puts it.
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<p style="margin:4px 0 0;font-size:14px">Map: <a href="https://royaltyclerk.com/texas/towns/austin-tx">Austin, Texas oil and gas wells</a> by Royalty Clerk, from Railroad Commission of Texas records</p>

Which way it is heading

Where the new drilling is around Austin

The 1 drilling permit of the last two years within 10 miles, by direction from the town's point, and what became of each one.
N NE E SE 1S SW W NW
Each wedge is the permits on that side of town. The centre is the town's point.

What became of the 1 permit

  • 1drilling startedThe operator reported a start date. No completion is on file yet.

A permit is permission to drill, not a well, and a well nearby says nothing about who owns the minerals under it. Direction is taken from the well's surface location. Source: Railroad Commission of Texas drilling permits and wellbore records.

In numbers

Oil and gas within 10 miles of Austin

wells with a location on the state's map
0
drilling permits in the last 24 months
1
producing leases with a well in the circle
0
operators running them
0
oil and condensate those leases reported in their latest 12 months
0 bbl
gas those leases reported in their latest 12 months
0 mcf

A lease counts when at least one of its wells is inside the circle; its whole production is counted, so a lease reaching beyond the circle counts in full.

Drilling locations

The newest drilling permits near Austin

The 2 newest permits with a well location within 10 miles, with the coordinates of the surface location.
Newest drilling permits within 10 miles of Austin
IssuedLease and wellWhere
2026-03-06HC-285.03 1vertical · API 42-453-30390 · permit 0912177Kinder Morgan Texas Pipeline LLC9.5 mi SE30.15204, -97.65415 on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)
2024-01-05SAMSUNG METER SITE 1vertical · API 42-453-30389 · permit 0896213Enterprise Products Texas Op LLC9.3 mi NE30.37241, -97.64433 on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)

A permit is permission to drill, not a well. Distances are from the town's point to the well's surface location. Source: Railroad Commission of Texas drilling permits.

Find your land

The surveys under the new drilling near Austin

Your deed or county tax notice names a survey and an abstract number. These are the ones with the most drilling permits in the last two years. Each has its own page with its wells and permits.
  • A-61 BAIN, N M, section 11 permit, newest March 6, 2026

Not in the list? Search every survey in the county by name or abstract number.

Who is on the county roll

What the county mineral roll lists near Austin

Counted the other way: 156,620 royalty-interest records on Texas county mineral rolls (rolls of 2024 to 2026) carry Austin as their mailing city, wherever in Texas the minerals lie. See the count for every city

Totals from the county appraisal district's mineral roll, matched to leases by the state lease number. No owner is named here, and a count under 10 accounts or 5 owner names is left out. How Travis County values minerals, and how to protest · Inherited minerals: where to start

Around it

Towns near Austin

Austin has more wells than 7 of the 10 nearest towns. Each count is for that town's own 10-mile circle.

Austin is in ZIP code 78701: its wells and permits

All of Travis County: leases, operators and production · Travis County well map

Follow it

Watch the 10 miles around Austin

One email a week at most, and only when something is filed: a new drilling permit, a finished well, or first production with a well location inside this circle.

Watching a place says nothing about who owns the land or the minerals there. For the whole county, or one survey, use the Travis County well watch.

FAQ

Questions people ask

How many oil and gas wells are near Austin?

0 wells with a location on the Railroad Commission's map lie within 10 miles of Austin: 0 on leases that are producing, 0 not producing and 0 plugged. The state also issued 1 drilling permit with a well location in that circle in the last 24 months.

What are the coordinates on this page?

Latitude and longitude of the well's surface location in NAD83, the coordinates map apps use. They come from the Railroad Commission's well layers as published, and from its drilling permit files, which are published in the older NAD27 and converted here. Paste them into any map app. A horizontal well's bottom hole can be a mile or two away from its surface location.

Do I own minerals under a well near Austin?

A well nearby says nothing about who owns the minerals under it. The county's mineral roll lists who is paid on each producing lease. Search a name to see whether the Travis County roll lists it.

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Is drilling near Austin picking up or slowing down?

Drilling permits near Austin are new: 1 permit in the last 12 months, 0 in the 12 months before. The nearest is 9.5 miles south-east of the town's point. A permit is permission to drill, not a well.

My checks from a lease here stopped. Why?

The usual reasons: the lease stopped producing, a new operator took it over, or the operator put the payments in suspense over a title or address question.

What to do when royalty checks stop

Own land or minerals near Austin?

See whether a county roll lists your name, and get an email when a permit or a new well is filed near you.

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Sources

Primary sources, opened on 29 September 2026. Statute text is the current version on statutes.capitol.texas.gov.