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McLennan County, Texas

Oil wells and drilling locations near West

  • 1well
  • 1drilling location in two years

Within 10 miles

Wells and drilling locations around West

Map of West, Texas: 1 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 producing1Shut 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 (31.80238, -97.09167); 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 West are new: 1 permit in the last 12 months, 0 in the 12 months before. The nearest is 9.1 miles south of the town's point. 1 wells and 1 drilling location permitted in the last two years lie within 10 miles of West, 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/west-tx">West, 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 West

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 S 1SW 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

  • 1still only a permitNothing after the permit is on file. Many permits wait a year or more, and some are never drilled.

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 West

wells with a location on the state's map
1
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 West

The newest permit with a well location within 10 miles, with the coordinates of the surface location.
Newest drilling permits within 10 miles of West
IssuedLease and wellWhere
2026-06-05CPS SB-372.284 1vertical · API 42-309-30444 · permit 0915979Enterprise Products Operatingllc9.1 mi S31.67115, -97.07558 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 West

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-400 HENSLEY, J1 permit, newest June 5, 2026

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

If your checks stopped

Leases near West 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.

1 lease reported nothing for a year or more

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

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 West, by year

Of the last 4 full years, these leases produced the most in 2020: 28,681 mcf of gas. 2023 was 8,471, 70% lower.
Oil and gas reported by the leases with a well within 10 miles of West, by year
YearOil, bblGas, mcf
202308,471
2022028,035
202100
2020028,681

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 April 2008 on, 1 of these leases reported 0 bbl of oil and condensate and 518,679 mcf of gas. Each lease page carries that lease's history back to January 1993.

Around it

Towns near West

West has more wells than 4 of the 10 nearest towns. Each count is for that town's own 10-mile circle.

West is in ZIP code 76691: its wells and permits

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

Follow it

Watch the 10 miles around West

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 McLennan County well watch.

FAQ

Questions people ask

How many oil and gas wells are near West?

1 wells with a location on the Railroad Commission's map lie within 10 miles of West: 0 on leases that are producing, 1 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 West?

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 McLennan County roll lists it.

Search a name

Is drilling near West picking up or slowing down?

Drilling permits near West are new: 1 permit in the last 12 months, 0 in the 12 months before. The nearest is 9.1 miles south 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. Near West, 1 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 West?

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.