How many oil and gas wells are in Texas?

Texas has 964,375 catalogued oil & gas wells on WellCensus: 343,268 active, 403,530 plugged & abandoned and 5,854 documented orphans.

How many orphaned wells does Texas have?

5,854 wells in Texas are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record.

Oil & gas wells in Texas

964,375 catalogued wellbores in Texas, from the state regulator's well-location index plus the federal orphaned-well inventory.

Dataset updated July 2026 . Derived from public data sources.

Coverage note: Texasis ingested from the regulator’s well-location index: every catalogued wellbore’s API number, coordinates and status class is here, but operator names and lifecycle dates await the state’s full-attribute bulk file (enrichment queued). Details in the methodology.

Catalogued wells

964,375

Active

343,268

Plugged

403,530

Documented orphans

5,854

Counties in Texas

Counties with 25 or more catalogued wells.