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Oil & gas wells in Frio County, TX

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

Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.

At a glance

Frio County, Texas has 31 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 0 plugged & abandoned (0%) and 11 documented orphans. It ranks 52nd 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

31

Active

0

Plugged

0

Documented orphans

11

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 Frio County?

0% of Frio County's wells are active, 35 percentage points below the Texas share of 35%. 0% are plugged & abandoned, against 42% statewide and 47% nationally. 11 wells (35%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 0.9% across Texas and 4% nationally. The remaining 20 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.

What kinds of wells are in Frio County?

By product class, 18 of the county's wells (58%) are oil wells, 0 (0%) gas wells and 1 (3%) 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 Frio County compare with other Texas counties?

Frio County has the 52nd-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 45th in Texas.

Who operates wells in Frio 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 Frio County, TX
WellAPI # / state IDStatusTypeOperator
Well API 42-163-3022642-163-30226OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-163-3023842-163-30238OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-163-3148042-163-31480OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-163-3198042-163-31980OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-163-3252342-163-32523OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-163-3259442-163-32594OrphanedOther type—
Well API 42-163-3292342-163-32923OrphanedOther type—
Well API 42-163-3322942-163-33229OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-163-3301342-163-33013Other statusOther type—
Well API 42-163-3303842-163-33038Other statusOther type—
Well API 42-163-3308442-163-33084Other statusOther type—
Well API 42-163-3308642-163-33086Other statusOther type—
Well API 42-163-3310942-163-33109Other statusOther type—
Well API 42-163-3380842-163-33808Other statusOther type—
Well API 42-163-3300742-163-33007OrphanedOther type—
Well API 42-163-3159442-163-31594Other statusOil—
Well API 42-163-0011442-163-00114OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-163-3188542-163-31885OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-163-3029842-163-30298Other statusInjection—
Well API 42-163-3056442-163-30564Other statusOil—
Well API 42-163-3069642-163-30696Other statusOil—
Well API 42-163-3093642-163-30936Other statusOil—
Well API 42-163-3096742-163-30967Other statusOil—
Well API 42-163-3103742-163-31037Other statusOil—
Well API 42-163-3104642-163-31046Other statusOil—

A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 31 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 Frio County, TX?

Frio County, Texas has 31 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 0 plugged and 11 documented orphans. Texas county counts cover only wells whose source record names the county.

How many orphaned wells are in Frio County?

11 wells in Frio County, Texas are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 45th-highest count among Texas counties.

What share of wells in Frio County are plugged?

0 of Frio County's 31 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); Frio County ranks 52nd with 31.

Nearby in the Texas rankings

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 Frio County, Texas”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/texas/frio (data as of October 10, 2026).