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Oil & gas wells in Gregg County, TX

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

Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.

At a glance

Gregg County, Texas has 44 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 0 plugged & abandoned (0%) and 1 documented orphans. It ranks 37th 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

44

Active

0

Plugged

0

Documented orphans

1

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 Gregg County?

0% of Gregg County's wells are active, 35 percentage points below the Texas share of 35%. 0% are plugged & abandoned, against 42% statewide and 47% nationally. 1 wells (2%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 0.9% across Texas and 4% nationally. The remaining 43 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.

What kinds of wells are in Gregg County?

By product class, 44 of the county's wells (100%) are oil wells, 0 (0%) gas wells and 0 (0%) 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 Gregg County compare with other Texas counties?

Gregg County has the 37th-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 61st in Texas.

Who operates wells in Gregg 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 Gregg County, TX
WellAPI # / state IDStatusTypeOperator
Well API 42-183-8587542-183-85875Other statusOil—
Well API 42-183-3124142-183-31241OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-183-8579142-183-85791Other statusOil—
Well API 42-183-8579242-183-85792Other statusOil—
Well API 42-183-8579342-183-85793Other statusOil—
Well API 42-183-8579442-183-85794Other statusOil—
Well API 42-183-8579542-183-85795Other statusOil—
Well API 42-183-8235942-183-82359Other statusOil—
Well API 42-183-8525842-183-85258Other statusOil—
Well API 42-183-8983042-183-89830Other statusOil—
Well API 42-183-0452542-183-04525Other statusOil—
Well API 42-183-3120842-183-31208Other statusOil—
Well API 42-183-3122542-183-31225Other statusOil—
Well API 42-183-3125042-183-31250Other statusOil—
Well API 42-183-8167442-183-81674Other statusOil—
Well API 42-183-8167542-183-81675Other statusOil—
Well API 42-183-8372542-183-83725Other statusOil—
Well API 42-183-8525942-183-85259Other statusOil—
Well API 42-183-8526042-183-85260Other statusOil—
Well API 42-183-8578742-183-85787Other statusOil—
Well API 42-183-8578842-183-85788Other statusOil—
Well API 42-183-8578942-183-85789Other statusOil—
Well API 42-183-8579042-183-85790Other statusOil—
Well API 42-183-8579742-183-85797Other statusOil—
Well API 42-183-8579942-183-85799Other statusOil—

A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 44 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 Gregg County, TX?

Gregg County, Texas has 44 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 0 plugged and 1 documented orphans. Texas county counts cover only wells whose source record names the county.

How many orphaned wells are in Gregg County?

1 wells in Gregg County, Texas are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 61st-highest count among Texas counties.

What share of wells in Gregg County are plugged?

0 of Gregg County's 44 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); Gregg County ranks 37th with 44.

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