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Oil & gas wells in Callahan County, TX

84 catalogued wells in Callahan County, Texas, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.

Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.

At a glance

Callahan County, Texas has 84 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 0 plugged & abandoned (0%) and 14 documented orphans. It ranks 20th of the 65 Texas counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.0% of the state's 964,593 catalogued wells. Texas county counts cover only wells whose source record names the county (see below).

Catalogued wells

84

Active

0

Plugged

0

Documented orphans

14

Coverage note: The Railroad Commission's statewide location layer that supplies most Texas records carries no county field, so this county count covers only wells whose source record names the county — chiefly the federal orphaned-well inventory — and is far below the true number of wells in the county. The statewide total is on the Texas page: 964,593 wells in Texas.

What is the status of oil and gas wells in Callahan County?

0% of Callahan County's wells are active, 35 percentage points below the Texas share of 35%. 0% are plugged & abandoned, against 42% statewide and 47% nationally. 14 wells (17%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 0.9% across Texas and 4% nationally. The remaining 70 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.

What kinds of wells are in Callahan County?

By product class, 70 of the county's wells (83%) are oil wells, 0 (0%) gas wells and 10 (12%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 48% and the gas share 13%. 100% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.

How does Callahan County compare with other Texas counties?

Callahan County has the 20th-most catalogued wells of the 65 Texas counties with at least 25. The median Texas county on WellCensus has 50 wells. The largest, Pecos County, has 489. By documented orphans it ranks 41st in Texas.

Who operates wells in Callahan County?

Texas records come from the Railroad Commission's statewide surface-well layer, which publishes each wellbore's API number, coordinates and map symbol (status) but no well name, operator, county, dates or depth; those fields await the RRC's full-attribute bulk file.

Oil & gas wells in Callahan County, TX
WellAPI # / state IDStatusTypeOperator
France W. M. 142-059-31126OrphanedOther type—
Well API 42-059-3629542-059-36295Other statusOil—
Well API 42-059-8180042-059-81800Other statusOil—
Well API 42-059-8180742-059-81807Other statusOil—
Well API 42-059-3133342-059-31333OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-059-3138142-059-31381OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-059-3401942-059-34019Other statusInjection—
Well API 42-059-3412642-059-34126Other statusOil—
Well API 42-059-3489942-059-34899Other statusOil—
Well API 42-059-3580642-059-35806Other statusOil—
Well API 42-059-3590942-059-35909Other statusOil—
Well API 42-059-3616042-059-36160Other statusOil—
Well API 42-059-3639542-059-36395Other statusOil—
Well API 42-059-3639742-059-36397Other statusOil—
Well API 42-059-0193842-059-01938Other statusOil—
Well API 42-059-0193942-059-01939Other statusOil—
Well API 42-059-0251042-059-02510Other statusOil—
Well API 42-059-0251242-059-02512Other statusInjection—
Well API 42-059-0272242-059-02722Other statusOil—
Well API 42-059-0288342-059-02883Other statusOil—
Well API 42-059-3664042-059-36640Other statusOil—
Well API 42-059-3692342-059-36923Other statusOil—
Well API 42-059-3692442-059-36924Other statusOil—
Well API 42-059-3693842-059-36938Other statusOil—
Well API 42-059-3701242-059-37012Other statusOil—

A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 84 in search → (filter by operator, status and type, then export), or find a specific well on the live map.

Frequently asked questions

How many oil and gas wells are in Callahan County, TX?

Callahan County, Texas has 84 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 0 plugged and 14 documented orphans. Texas county counts cover only wells whose source record names the county.

How many orphaned wells are in Callahan County?

14 wells in Callahan County, Texas are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 41st-highest count among Texas counties.

What share of wells in Callahan County are plugged?

0 of Callahan County's 84 catalogued wells (0%) are plugged & abandoned, compared with 42% across Texas.

Which Texas county has the most oil and gas wells?

Pecos County has the most catalogued wells of any Texas county on WellCensus (489); Callahan County ranks 20th with 84.

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About this data

Source: Texas Railroad Commission statewide surface-well layer (August 2019 snapshot), plus the USGS United States Documented Orphaned Well Database (2026, doi 10.5066/P13FHBYG), as published October 10, 2026 — WellCensus refreshes it monthly. See the methodology for how records are matched, cleaned and scored.

Cite as: WellCensus, “Oil & gas wells in Callahan County, Texas”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/texas/callahan (data as of October 10, 2026).