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Hidalgo County, Texas

Oil wells and drilling locations near Mission

  • 232wells
  • 3drilling locations in two years
  • 88producing leases

Within 10 miles

Wells and drilling locations around Mission

Map of Mission, Texas: 232 wells and 3 recent drilling locations within 10 miles, inside a dashed circle.
  • Drilling locations3Permits issued in the last two years
  • Producing wells88On a lease reporting production now
  • Not producing115Shut in, inactive or no lease on record
  • Plugged29The state's wellbore record says plugged

The dashed circle is 10 miles from the town's point (26.21591, -98.32529); 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 Mission are holding steady: 1 permit in the last 12 months, 2 in the 12 months before. The nearest is 9.5 miles north-east of the town's point. 232 wells and 3 drilling locations permitted in the last two years lie within 10 miles of Mission, each where the state puts it. 88 producing leases have a well in the circle.
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Which way it is heading

Where the new drilling is around Mission

The 3 drilling permits of the last two years within 10 miles, by direction from the town's point, and what became of each one.
N NE 3E SE S SW W NW
Each wedge is the permits on that side of town. The centre is the town's point.

What became of the 3 permits

  • 2finished, no production reported yetA completion is on file. The first production report follows weeks or months later.
  • 1still only a permitNothing after the permit is on file. Many permits wait a year or more, and some are never drilled.

A horizontal well runs sideways underground. 2 start inside and end outside. So a well can drain land a mile or two from the spot where it shows on a map.

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.

When a new well starts paying

First checks coming due near Mission

1 first check falls due on leases with a well near Mission from today on. Texas law gives the payor 120 days after the end of the month of first sale.

The date is the earliest the law allows a first payment to be late (Texas Natural Resources Code 91.402), worked out from the first month of production on file. It is not a promise of a check: title questions and unsigned division orders can hold one back. Work out a first-check date · What to do before the first check

In numbers

Oil and gas within 10 miles of Mission

wells with a location on the state's map
232
drilling permits in the last 24 months
3
producing leases with a well in the circle
88
operators running them
5
oil and condensate those leases reported in their latest 12 months
32,376 bbl
gas those leases reported in their latest 12 months
2,180,255 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.

In dollars

What the oil and gas near Mission sold for

The 88 producing leases with a well near Mission sold about $9.9 million of oil and gas from September 2025 to August 2026, at the public monthly prices.
sale value of 12 months, before taxes and costs
$9.9 million
oil and condensate sold
32,230 bbl
gas sold
2,099,648 mcf
the middle lease: half sold more, half less
$46,386

A 0.01 share (1%) of the middle producing lease near Mission comes to about $464 for the 12 months.

Sold volumes at the public monthly prices, before severance tax and any costs. A guide to the size, not what any owner was paid.

Sold volumes from each lease's monthly report to the Railroad Commission, times the month's West Texas Intermediate oil price and Henry Hub gas price (EIA). Real prices at the lease differ. A lease counts in full when one of its wells is near the town. Check a statement against what the lease sold

Drilling locations

The newest drilling permits near Mission

The 3 newest permits with a well location within 10 miles, with the coordinates of the surface location.
Newest drilling permits within 10 miles of Mission
IssuedLease and wellWhere
2026-09-03EDINBURG UNIT 10vertical · API 42-215-31846 · permit 0918203Royal Production Company, Inc.9.6 mi NE26.28083, -98.18839 on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)
2025-06-05EDINBURG UNIT 7vertical · API 42-215-34144 · permit 0908132Royal Production Company, Inc.9.9 mi NE26.27219, -98.17767 on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)
2024-12-31EDINBURG GAS UNIT 12vertical · API 42-215-33271 · permit 0904887Royal Production Company, Inc.9.5 mi NE26.28040, -98.18947 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 Mission

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-28 COMACHO, G, section 682 permits, newest September 3, 2026
  • A-40 HINOJOSA, J J, section 691 permit, newest June 5, 2025

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

Who is on the county roll

253 mineral accounts near Mission are still in the name of an estate

The 2026 county mineral roll lists 14,744 accounts under 6,047 owner names on 97 leases with a well near Mission.
mineral accounts on the roll
14,744
owner names
6,047
appraised value of those accounts
$6.9 million
the middle account's appraised value
$0
the middle account in all of Hidalgo County
$0
accounts titled to an estate
253

An account in the name of an estate usually means the owner died and the title was never moved to the heirs. The account stays on the roll, and these are appraised at $17,390 together. If a parent or grandparent owned minerals near Mission, their name may be one of them.

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 Hidalgo County values minerals, and how to protest · Inherited minerals: where to start

Producing leases

Top producing leases near Mission

The 20 producing leases with a well inside the circle, most oil and gas first. Each lease page carries that lease's history back to January 1993, free.
  1. 1McAllen Fieldwide Unit444 bbl · 210,741 mcf a yearMerit Energy Company · Hidalgo County · 1 well in the circle
  2. 2McAllen Fieldwide Unit4,723 bbl · 183,582 mcf a yearMerit Energy Company · Hidalgo County · 1 well in the circle
  3. 3McAllen Fieldwide Unit444 bbl · 153,830 mcf a yearMerit Energy Company · Hidalgo County · 1 well in the circle
  4. 4McAllen Fieldwide Unit711 bbl · 122,337 mcf a yearMerit Energy Company · Hidalgo County · 1 well in the circle
  5. 5Pharr Fieldwide Unit0 bbl · 98,582 mcf a yearMerit Energy Company · Hidalgo County · 1 well in the circle
  6. 6Longoria, A. Gas Unit 212 bbl · 79,741 mcf a yearHilcorp Energy Company · Hidalgo County · 1 well in the circle
  7. 7McAllen Fieldwide Unit72 bbl · 69,503 mcf a yearMerit Energy Company · Hidalgo County · 1 well in the circle
  8. 8Ochoa7,849 bbl · 20,440 mcf a yearCapital Star Oil & Gas, Inc. · Hidalgo County · 1 well in the circle
  9. 9Chestnut, F. E.722 bbl · 60,824 mcf a yearHilcorp Energy Company · Hidalgo County · 1 well in the circle
  10. 10West, Temple W.2,330 bbl · 47,400 mcf a yearHilcorp Energy Company · Hidalgo County · 1 well in the circle
  11. 11Everett Bell Gas Unit II190 bbl · 58,062 mcf a yearHilcorp Energy Company · Hidalgo County · 1 well in the circle
  12. 12Volz, Fred394 bbl · 50,832 mcf a yearHilcorp Energy Company · Hidalgo County · 1 well in the circle
  13. 13Voltz Et Al Gas Unit 1497 bbl · 48,485 mcf a yearHilcorp Energy Company · Hidalgo County · 1 well in the circle
  14. 14Reyna215 bbl · 46,947 mcf a yearCapital Star Oil & Gas, Inc. · Hidalgo County · 1 well in the circle
  15. 15Page, Roy C Gas Unit 1204 bbl · 45,529 mcf a yearHilcorp Energy Company · Hidalgo County · 1 well in the circle
  16. 16Pharr Fieldwide Unit0 bbl · 46,721 mcf a yearMerit Energy Company · Hidalgo County · 1 well in the circle
  17. 17Ethyl L. Carter Et Al G.u.371 bbl · 44,337 mcf a yearHilcorp Energy Company · Hidalgo County · 1 well in the circle
  18. 18Chestnut, F. E.0 bbl · 38,516 mcf a yearHilcorp Energy Company · Hidalgo County · 1 well in the circle
  19. 19West, Temple W.961 bbl · 32,338 mcf a yearHilcorp Energy Company · Hidalgo County · 1 well in the circle
  20. 20Eia State Gas Unit281 bbl · 36,164 mcf a yearCapital Star Oil & Gas, Inc. · Hidalgo County · 1 well in the circle

Whose name is on the check

Who buys the oil and gas near Mission

The companies named most often on the current state filings of the 88 producing leases near Mission. A royalty check can come from the buyer or from the operator.

Oil and condensate

  • GULFMARK ENERGY, INC.43 leases
  • FLINT HILLS RESOURCES, LP42 leases
  • ENTERPRISE CRUDE OIL LLC19 leases
  • SHELL TRADING (US) COMPANY10 leases
  • BUCKHEAD MIDSTREAM, LLC8 leases

Gas

  • ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING LLC37 leases
  • MERIT ENERGY COMPANY27 leases
  • CAPITAL STAR OIL & GAS, INC.8 leases
  • HILCORP ENERGY COMPANY8 leases
  • DEWBRE PETROLEUM CORPORATION4 leases

From each lease's newest Form P-4 filing with the Railroad Commission, which names its gatherers and purchasers. One lease can name several.

If your checks stopped

Leases near Mission that went quiet or changed hands

The two most common reasons a royalty check stops: the lease stopped reporting production, or a new company took it over and the paperwork is catching up.

12 leases reported nothing for a year or more

Leases that reported within the last four years and then stopped. The newest to stop first; 10 shown.

Is my lease still active?

From the monthly production reports operators file with the Railroad Commission. The newest months fill in late, so a lease is listed only after 12 months with no report.

Year by year

Production of the leases near Mission, by year

Of the last 6 full years, these leases produced the most in 2020: 3,887,780 mcf of gas. 2025 was 2,704,757, 30% lower.
Oil and gas reported by the leases with a well within 10 miles of Mission, by year
YearOil, bblGas, mcf
2026 so far21,4861,480,586
202538,4652,704,757
202457,0223,553,178
202358,2243,061,692
202243,4872,760,285
202157,8353,389,706
202041,2393,887,780

Every lease with a well in the circle, producing now or not, as reported to the Railroad Commission. The newest months fill in as operators report.

The long view: in the state's records from January 1993 on, 230 of these leases reported 3,001,319 bbl of oil and condensate and 310,501,777 mcf of gas. Each lease page carries that lease's history back to January 1993.

Around it

Towns near Mission

Mission has more wells than 5 of the 10 nearest towns. Each count is for that town's own 10-mile circle.

Mission is in ZIP code 78572: its wells and permits

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

Follow it

Watch the 10 miles around Mission

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 Hidalgo County well watch.

FAQ

Questions people ask

How many oil and gas wells are near Mission?

232 wells with a location on the Railroad Commission's map lie within 10 miles of Mission: 88 on leases that are producing, 115 not producing and 29 plugged. The state also issued 3 drilling permits 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 Mission?

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 Hidalgo County roll lists it.

Search a name

Is drilling near Mission picking up or slowing down?

Drilling permits near Mission are holding steady: 1 permit in the last 12 months, 2 in the 12 months before. The nearest is 9.5 miles north-east of the town's point. A permit is permission to drill, not a well.

When does a new well near Mission start paying royalties?

Texas law gives the payor 120 days after the end of the month of first sale to send the first payment (Natural Resources Code 91.402). The next date on file for a lease near Mission is December 29, 2026. The date is the earliest a first payment becomes late, not a promise: a title question or an unsigned division order can hold a check back.

Work out a first-check date

How much are the oil and gas near Mission worth?

The 88 producing leases with a well within 10 miles sold about $9.9 million of oil and gas in their newest 12 months on file, at the public monthly prices and before taxes and costs. That is what the leases sold, not what a tract of land or a mineral interest is worth: an owner is paid a share of one lease.

A relative owned minerals near Mission and has died. What now?

The county mineral roll still lists 253 accounts in the name of an estate on leases near Mission. Search the family name first. If an account turns up, the title usually has to be moved to the heirs before the operator will pay them.

Inherited minerals: where to start

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. Near Mission, 12 leases went quiet and 0 changed operator; both lists are on this page.

What to do when royalty checks stop

Own land or minerals near Mission?

The next first check near Mission falls due by December 29, 2026. See whether a county roll lists your name, and get an email when a permit or a new well is filed near you.

Search a family nameWatch Hidalgo County

Sources

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