What share of open Texas disposal wells actually inject each year?
Short answer: in 2025, 6,956 of the 9,612 Texas disposal wells that still look open injected water, which is about 72 percent.
What counts as an open well?
A well counts as open if it has injected at some point by the end of the year and has no plugged date (W3) and no cancel date on or before that year end.
What does utilization mean here?
It is the number of open wells that injected any water that year, divided by all open wells. It counts wells online, not barrels moved.
What did 2025 look like?
There were 9,612 open wells and 6,956 of them injected, for 72.37 percent utilization. A straight line fit to 1990 through 2025 points to about 73.1 percent by 2035, but that fit is loose (R squared of 0.2379). The share has stayed in the low to mid 70s.
Why does it matter to operators?
Most open wells are working in any given year. Wells that are already plugged or cancelled are not part of this count, so this is not a story about every well that ever injected.
What can you control at the tank?
Oil floating on top of the water in your tanks still leaves on a vacuum truck, and that costs you money every haul. The Freedom Tool skims that oil off inside the tank, captures richer vapors, and cuts down on vacuum truck trips. It has no moving parts. Contact us to see if it fits your site.
Source: Railroad Commission of Texas injection well annual reports (Form H10) and the H10 public query, charted by X Tank Co.