The Railroad Fee of Texas (RRC) revealed its newest preliminary crude oil and pure fuel manufacturing figures in a press release posted on its web site earlier this month.
The preliminary reported complete quantity of crude oil in Texas in August was 128,748,039 barrels, in response to the assertion, which confirmed that the preliminary reported complete quantity of pure fuel within the state throughout the identical month was 1.01 trillion cubic ft.
The RRC famous within the assertion that crude oil and pure fuel manufacturing for August got here from 157,458 oil wells and 84,131 fuel wells.
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In its assertion, the RRC highlighted that crude oil manufacturing reported by the RRC is proscribed to grease produced from oil leases and doesn’t embody condensate, which the group stated is reported individually by the RRC. The RRC additionally identified within the assertion that preliminary figures are primarily based on manufacturing volumes reported by operators and stated they are going to be up to date as late and corrected manufacturing studies are acquired.
The RRC’s assertion confirmed that the up to date reported complete quantity of crude oil in Texas in August 2024 was 148,390,542 barrels. The preliminary reported complete quantity was 123,916,622 barrels, the assertion highlighted. It confirmed that the up to date reported complete quantity of pure fuel within the state got here in at 1.10 trillion cubic ft in August final yr. The preliminary reported complete quantity was 981.1 billion cubic ft, the assertion outlined.
In line with the RRC’s assertion, the county in Texas with the best preliminary crude oil manufacturing determine in August 2025 was Martin, with 19,266,841 barrels.
Midland ranked second, with 18,206,629 barrels, Upton was third, with 8,291,536 barrels, Loving was fourth, with 7,956,038 barrels, Karnes was fifth, with 6,778,154 barrels, Howard was sixth, with 6,065,122 barrels, Reeves was seventh, with 5,876,621 barrels, Andrews was eighth, with 5,669,782 barrels, and Reagan was ninth, with 5,633,546 barrels, and Glasscock was tenth, with 3,788,476 barrels, the RRC assertion confirmed.
The county in Texas with the best preliminary complete fuel manufacturing determine in August was Reeves, with 97.0 billion cubic ft, the assertion revealed.
Webb ranked second, with 91.2 billion cubic ft, Midland was third, with 79.9 billion cubic ft, Martin was fourth, with 58.7 billion cubic ft, Loving was fifth, with 53.6 billion cubic ft, Culberson was sixth, with 42.1 billion cubic ft, Reagan was seventh, with 39.8 billion cubic ft, Upton was eighth, with 37.5 billion cubic ft, Panola was ninth, with 34.7 billion cubic ft, and Harrison was tenth, with 27.7 billion cubic ft, the assertion highlighted.
The RRC outlined within the assertion that its complete fuel rating contains fuel nicely fuel and casinghead figures.
The RRC’s assertion additionally highlighted that the county in Texas with the best preliminary complete condensate manufacturing determine in August was Reeves, with 7,185,667 barrels.
Loving ranked second, with 4,690,846 barrels, Culberson was third, with 3,302,564 barrels, De Witt was fourth, with 1,749,454 barrels, Webb was fifth, with 1,190,538 barrels, Karnes was sixth, with 949,345 barrels, Stay Oak was seventh, with 856,160 barrels, Dimmit was eighth, with 695,577 barrels, Ward was ninth, with 650,539 barrels, and McMullen was tenth, with 592,897 barrels, the assertion confirmed.
In one other assertion posted on its website in November, the RRC introduced that it had issued a complete of 756 unique drilling permits in October 2025.
“The overall contains 654 to drill new oil or fuel wells, six to re-enter plugged wellbores, 22 area transfers and 74 for re-completion,” the RRC stated on this assertion.
“The breakdown of nicely varieties for complete unique drilling permits in October 2025 is: 112 oil, 50 fuel, 567 oil and fuel, 19 injection, 4 service and 4 different permits,” it added.
“In October 2025, Fee employees processed 1,366 oil, 370 fuel, and 247 injection completions,” the RRC continued.
The Texas RRC notes on its website that it’s the state company with main regulatory jurisdiction over the oil and pure fuel trade, pipeline transporters, pure fuel and dangerous liquid pipeline trade, pure fuel utilities, the LP-gas trade, essential pure fuel infrastructure, and coal and uranium floor mining operations.
The fee exists beneath provisions of the Texas Structure and workout routines its statutory tasks beneath state and federal legal guidelines for regulation and enforcement of the state’s vitality industries, the positioning provides, noting that the fee additionally has regulatory and enforcement tasks beneath federal legislation together with the Floor Coal Mining Management and Reclamation Act, Protected Consuming Water Act, Pipeline Security Acts, Useful resource Conservation Restoration Act, and Clear Water Act.
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