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Orange County, Texas

Oil wells and drilling locations near Vidor

  • 355wells
  • 11drilling locations in two years
  • 26producing leases

Within 10 miles

Wells and drilling locations around Vidor

Map of Vidor, Texas: 355 wells and 11 recent drilling locations within 10 miles, inside a dashed circle.
  • Drilling locations11Permits issued in the last two years
  • Producing wells142On a lease reporting production now
  • Not producing58Shut in, inactive or no lease on record
  • Plugged155The state's wellbore record says plugged

The dashed circle is 10 miles from the town's point (30.13160, -94.01545); 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 Vidor are holding steady: 5 permits in the last 12 months, 6 in the 12 months before. Most of them are south-west of town: 10 of 11 lie on that side. The nearest is 5.1 miles south of the town's point. 355 wells and 11 drilling locations permitted in the last two years lie within 10 miles of Vidor, each where the state puts it. 26 producing leases have a well in the circle.
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<p style="margin:4px 0 0;font-size:14px">Map: <a href="https://royaltyclerk.com/texas/towns/vidor-tx">Vidor, 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 Vidor

The 11 drilling permits of the last two years within 10 miles, by direction from the town's point, and what became of each one.
N 1NE E SE S 1SW 9W NW
Each wedge is the permits on that side of town. The centre is the town's point.

What became of the 11 permits

  • 1finished, on a lease that reports productionThe well was completed and its lease is reporting oil or gas to the state.
  • 2finished, no production reported yetA completion is on file. The first production report follows weeks or months later.
  • 3drilling startedThe operator reported a start date. No completion is on file yet.
  • 5still only a permitNothing after the permit is on file. Many permits wait a year or more, and some are never drilled.

Wells finished in the last two years: 1 south-west, 1 north-west of town.

A horizontal well runs sideways underground. 2 wells start outside the 10-mile circle and end inside it. 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.

In numbers

Oil and gas within 10 miles of Vidor

wells with a location on the state's map
355
drilling permits in the last 24 months
11
producing leases with a well in the circle
26
operators running them
11
oil and condensate those leases reported in their latest 12 months
82,866 bbl
gas those leases reported in their latest 12 months
404,244 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 Vidor sold for

The 26 producing leases with a well near Vidor sold about $7.6 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
$7.6 million
oil and condensate sold
83,247 bbl
gas sold
374,978 mcf
the middle lease: half sold more, half less
$199,440

A 0.01 share (1%) of the middle producing lease near Vidor comes to about $1,994 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 Vidor

The 17 newest permits with a well location within 10 miles, with the coordinates of the surface location.
Newest drilling permits within 10 miles of Vidor
IssuedLease and wellWhere
2026-07-27GOLDEN TRIANGLE STORAGE 11vertical · API 42-245-32940 · permit 0917427Golden Triangle Storage, LLC8.7 mi SW30.01839, -94.07904 on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)
2026-07-07GOLDEN TRIANGLE STORAGE 10vertical · API 42-245-32939 · permit 0916905Golden Triangle Storage, LLC8.8 mi SW30.01658, -94.07958 on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)
2026-05-12GLADYS CITY 206vertical · API 42-245-32937 · permit 0915524Rheaco Oil Company, Ltd.8.8 mi SW30.01594, -94.07665 on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)
2026-04-21GOLDEN TRIANGLE STORAGE 8vertical · API 42-245-32936 · permit 0914942Golden Triangle Storage, LLC8.3 mi SW30.02400, -94.07734 on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)
2026-03-26GLADYS CITY 210vertical · API 42-245-32930 · permit 0912492Rheaco Oil Company, Ltd.8.8 mi SW30.01594, -94.07929 on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)
2025-10-20STATE-DARNEILLE 1vertical · API 42-361-30995 · permit 0911148Block T Operating (Texas), LLC5.1 mi S30.05819, -94.02884 on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)
2025-06-04RR RADLEY 1vertical · API 42-245-32926 · permit 0907803Rheaco Oil Company, Ltd.8.4 mi SW30.02297, -94.07904 on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)
2025-06-02GOLDEN TRIANGLE STORAGE DISPOSAL 3Avertical · API 42-245-32925 · permit 0908369Golden Triangle Storage, LLC9.4 mi SW30.02403, -94.11261 on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)
2025-05-15GLADYS CITY 205vertical · API 42-245-32922 · permit 0907794Rheaco Oil Company, Ltd.8.9 mi SW30.01447, -94.07860 on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)
2025-05-07GLADYS CITY 209vertical · API 42-245-32923 · permit 0907801Rheaco Oil Company, Ltd.8.7 mi SW30.01748, -94.07934 on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)
2025-03-07ORISKANY A-152 1vertical · API 42-241-30920 · permit 0906406Fafo Operating LLC8.3 mi N30.24779, -94.05105 on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)
2024-10-29BRINE DISPOSAL #1 3vertical · API 42-245-32917 · permit 0903616Energy Transfer Spindletop LLC9.3 mi SW30.02490, -94.11000 on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)
2024-07-30GOLDEN TRIANGLE STORAGE 3vertical · API 42-245-32916 · permit 0901639Golden Triangle Storage, LLC8.4 mi SW30.02219, -94.07598 on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)
2024-07-30GOLDEN TRIANGLE STORAGE 4vertical · API 42-245-32915 · permit 0901630Golden Triangle Storage, LLC8.2 mi SW30.02475, -94.07527 on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)
2024-07-29NORTH LAKEVIEW 1vertical · API 42-361-30994 · permit 0901553Ballard Exploration Company,inc.6.8 mi NW30.22064, -94.06641 on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)
2024-01-09BARRACUDA 1vertical · API 42-241-30924 · permit 0896414Atoka Operating, Inc.9.4 mi N30.26616, -94.04075 on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)
2023-11-17TEN MILE 1vertical · API 42-361-30993 · permit 0895283Atoka Operating, Inc.6.5 mi N30.22611, -94.02306 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 Vidor

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-55 VEATCH, J A9 permits, newest July 27, 2026
  • A-239 GC&SF RR CO, section 11 permit, newest October 20, 2025
  • A-152 GRAY, S, section 2071 permit, newest March 7, 2025

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

Who is on the county roll

17 mineral accounts near Vidor are still in the name of an estate

The 2026 county mineral roll lists 980 accounts under 485 owner names on 22 leases with a well near Vidor.
mineral accounts on the roll
980
owner names
485
appraised value of those accounts
$5.0 million
the middle account's appraised value
$370
the middle account in all of Orange County
$600
accounts titled to an estate
17

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 $15,530 together. If a parent or grandparent owned minerals near Vidor, 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 Orange County values minerals, and how to protest · Inherited minerals: where to start

Producing leases

Top producing leases near Vidor

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. 1North Lakeview18,839 bbl · 208,676 mcf a yearBallard Exploration Company,inc. · Orange County · 1 well in the circle
  2. 2Gladys City16,362 bbl · 0 mcf a yearRheaco Oil Company, Ltd. · Jefferson County · 104 wells in the circle
  3. 3Mil-Vid5,496 bbl · 64,578 mcf a yearOlipdp II, LLC · Orange County · 1 well in the circle
  4. 4MVP 'A-183'2,417 bbl · 49,475 mcf a yearSouthern Oil of Louisiana LLC · Orange County · 1 well in the circle
  5. 5Williams2,953 bbl · 17,892 mcf a yearHilcorp Energy Company · Orange County · 1 well in the circle
  6. 6Stark5,760 bbl · 0 mcf a yearKodiak Oil & Gas, Inc. · Orange County · 8 wells in the circle
  7. 7Williams2,735 bbl · 16,079 mcf a yearHilcorp Energy Company · Orange County · 1 well in the circle
  8. 8Clark5,075 bbl · 0 mcf a yearRheaco Oil Company, Ltd. · Jefferson County · 25 wells in the circle
  9. 9Gladys City4,072 bbl · 0 mcf a yearKingwood Exploration LLC · Jefferson County · 15 wells in the circle
  10. 10Polk, J. V. -B- O/A3,556 bbl · 725 mcf a yearTorrent Oil LLC · Orange County · 20 wells in the circle
  11. 11Langham1,953 bbl · 9,810 mcf a yearWhite Stride LLC · Jefferson County · 1 well in the circle
  12. 12Williams2,397 bbl · 5,667 mcf a yearHilcorp Energy Company · Orange County · 1 well in the circle
  13. 13Langham Unit1,920 bbl · 7,870 mcf a yearWhite Stride LLC · Jefferson County · 1 well in the circle
  14. 14McFaddin, W.p.h.3,189 bbl · 0 mcf a yearKingwood Exploration LLC · Jefferson County · 17 wells in the circle
  15. 15Gladys City 'A'1,858 bbl · 0 mcf a yearKingwood Exploration LLC · Jefferson County · 2 wells in the circle
  16. 16Miller-Vidor Properties1,811 bbl · 0 mcf a yearPetex · Orange County · 1 well in the circle
  17. 17Polk, J. V., -A-0 bbl · 9,317 mcf a yearTorrent Oil LLC · Orange County · 1 well in the circle
  18. 18Langham Unit360 bbl · 4,522 mcf a yearWhite Stride LLC · Jefferson County · 1 well in the circle
  19. 19Loneacre901 bbl · 0 mcf a yearRheaco Oil Company, Ltd. · Jefferson County · 2 wells in the circle
  20. 20Williams123 bbl · 4,260 mcf a yearHilcorp Energy Company · Orange County · 1 well in the circle

Whose name is on the check

Who buys the oil and gas near Vidor

The companies named most often on the current state filings of the 26 producing leases near Vidor. A royalty check can come from the buyer or from the operator.

Oil and condensate

  • ENERGY TRANSFER MARKETING & TERM8 leases
  • SHELL TRADING (US) COMPANY6 leases
  • ENERGY TRANS CRUDE MARKETING LLC5 leases
  • MARTIN CRUDE MARKETING CO.5 leases
  • LESSLEY SERVICES LLC3 leases

Gas

  • HILCORP ENERGY COMPANY7 leases
  • TORRENT OIL LLC5 leases
  • COKINOS ENERGY, L.L.C.3 leases
  • BALLARD NATURAL GAS II, LLC1 lease
  • CENTANA INTRASTATE PIPELINE, LLC1 lease

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 Vidor 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.

14 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?

5 leases got a new operator in two years

Checks often pause after a change while the new company sets up its owner records. The newest first.

My royalty checks stopped: what to do

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 Vidor, by year

Of the last 6 full years, these leases produced the most in 2021: 1,427,881 mcf of gas. 2025 was 447,400, 69% lower.
Oil and gas reported by the leases with a well within 10 miles of Vidor, by year
YearOil, bblGas, mcf
2026 so far52,822223,259
202587,819447,400
202479,416487,593
2023109,804455,359
2022167,030591,730
2021168,6311,427,881
2020137,4991,301,874

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, 80 of these leases reported 12,454,624 bbl of oil and condensate and 94,549,872 mcf of gas. Each lease page carries that lease's history back to January 1993.

Around it

Towns near Vidor

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

Vidor is in ZIP code 77662: its wells and permits

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

Press and community kit

Writing about Vidor? Take what you need

For a local paper, a county office, a school or a community group: the figures, the map and the words, free to use with the credit line. Data as of November 15, 2026.
Fact sheet · one page · PDFVidor, Texas355wells within 10 miles142on producing leases213not producing or plugged5permits, 12 monthsDownload the fact sheet

Three facts to quote

  • 355 oil and gas wells on the state's map lie within 10 miles of Vidor: 142 on producing leases, 58 not producing and 155 plugged.
  • The Railroad Commission of Texas issued 5 drilling permits within 10 miles of Vidor in the last 12 months, the newest dated July 27, 2026.
  • The 26 producing leases with a well in that circle, run by 11 operators, reported 82,866 barrels of oil and 404,244 thousand cubic feet of gas over their latest 12 months.

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How to cite

Railroad Commission of Texas records of the wells and drilling permits within 10 miles of Vidor, mapped by Royalty Clerk (https://royaltyclerk.com/texas/towns/vidor-tx), data as of November 15, 2026.

Under a map or a chart: Source: Railroad Commission of Texas · Map: Royalty Clerk, with a link to this page.

The figures say where the state's records put wells and permits, not who owns the land or the minerals. Kits for other Texas towns

Follow it

Watch the 10 miles around Vidor

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 Orange County well watch.

FAQ

Questions people ask

How many oil and gas wells are near Vidor?

355 wells with a location on the Railroad Commission's map lie within 10 miles of Vidor: 142 on leases that are producing, 58 not producing and 155 plugged. The state also issued 11 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 Vidor?

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 Orange County roll lists it.

Search a name

Is drilling near Vidor picking up or slowing down?

Drilling permits near Vidor are holding steady: 5 permits in the last 12 months, 6 in the 12 months before. Most of them are south-west of town: 10 of 11 lie on that side. The nearest is 5.1 miles south of the town's point. A permit is permission to drill, not a well.

How much are the oil and gas near Vidor worth?

The 26 producing leases with a well within 10 miles sold about $7.6 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 Vidor and has died. What now?

The county mineral roll still lists 17 accounts in the name of an estate on leases near Vidor. 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 Vidor, 14 leases went quiet and 5 changed operator; both lists are on this page.

What to do when royalty checks stop

Own land or minerals near Vidor?

17 accounts near Vidor are still in the name of an estate. 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.