COUNTIES · EAST TEXAS · DISTRICT 06 · CODE 001
Anderson County
Anderson County permitting is running about one permit a month over the trailing 90 days (3 total, versus 6 in the prior quarter).
Trueblood Resources, Inc. leads with 3 permits in the past 12 months, one of 9 operators active in the county.
4 operators filed a first Anderson County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 4,000 ft (prior year: 10,000 ft); 8% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 166 active disposal and injection permits, with 21M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
2,415 drilling permits have been issued in Anderson County since 1977.
2,415 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Sep 14, 2026
Watch Anderson CountyAlso: every Anderson County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 3
- permits issued, 90d
- -50%
- vs prior 90d (6)
- 3
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 2,770
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 432
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 62 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 24 · prior 12 27(-11%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Anderson County came in the last year. 4 in total.
- Energy Transfer Company2 permitsNov 5, 2025 · active elsewhere first
- Stroud Petroleum, Inc.1 permitSep 14, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Performance Operating Partners,1 permitJul 8, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Expand Operating LLC1 permitMar 10, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Anderson County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Anderson County the Massive Anhydrite (marker) is reported in 44 wells, median top 9,065 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carrizo | 651 | 4 | 534 | 404–580 |
| Woodbine | 295 | 11 | 5,050 | 3,919–5,702 |
| Austin Chalk | 207 | 0 | 4,580 | 3,330–5,357 |
| Rodessa | 165 | 10 | 8,973 | 7,204–9,861 |
| Pecan Gap | 141 | 8 | 3,578 | 2,660–4,317 |
| Wilcox | 123 | 0 | 755 | 691–2,112 |
| Pettit | 121 | 1 | 9,595 | 7,836–10,721 |
| Travis Peak | 86 | 1 | 8,164 | 7,963–10,642 |
| Sub-Clarksville | 78 | 7 | 5,244 | 4,124–6,045 |
| James Lime | 61 | 1 | 9,880 | 9,407–10,525 |
| Glen Rose | 49 | 0 | 7,494 | 5,924–8,360 |
| Buda | 44 | 0 | 5,855 | 5,096–6,504 |
| Massive Anhydrite (marker) | 44 | 0 | 9,065 | 8,072–9,360 |
| Eagle Ford | 37 | 0 | 4,529 | 4,197–5,394 |
| Bossier | 33 | 0 | 10,921 | 10,830–15,887 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 166
- active UIC permits of 592
- 686K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 21M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Anderson County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 0
- M2+ events in the area
- —
- largest
Monthly counts, magnitudes, and every recent event in the area →
Events are not tagged with a county; this counts M2+ events inside the bounding box of the county’s located permits, padded 0.1°. About TexNet →
Latest permits
NEWEST FIRST BY ISSUE DATE
| Permit | Seen | Issued | Operator | Lease / well | Depth | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919660 | Oct 30, 2026 | Oct 28, 2026 | Tsar Energy, LLC | Thompson #2 | 710 | 00132880 |
| 918584 | Sep 17, 2026 | Sep 14, 2026 | Stroud Petroleum, Inc. | Mustang #1 | 5,600 | 00132879 |
| 918006 | Aug 26, 2026 | Aug 24, 2026 | Upstream Resource Partners, LLC | May WX #1 | 2,000 | 00132878 |
| 916248 | Aug 6, 2026 | Aug 4, 2026 | Tsar Energy, LLC | Thompson #3 | 710 | 00132872 |
| 917354 | Jul 22, 2026 | Jul 22, 2026 | Weathers Exploration, Inc. | Sheridan #1 | 2,400 | 00132877 |
| 917214 | Jul 16, 2026 | Jul 16, 2026 | Maximus Operating, Ltd. | Gibson #1 | 6,000 | 00132876 |
| 916200 | Jul 8, 2026 | Jul 8, 2026 | Performance Operating Partners, | Edens-Bowyer (AW) #1HH | 11,300 | 00132873 |
| 916699 | Jun 30, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | Trueblood Resources, Inc. | Fitzgerald #I011 | 670 | 00132874 |
| 916698 | Jun 26, 2026 | Jun 26, 2026 | Trueblood Resources, Inc. | Fitzgerald #19 | 670 | 00132875 |
| 915917 | May 28, 2026 | May 28, 2026 | Energy Transfer Company | Elijah Glenn #3 | 6,500 | 00132871 |
About this data
Drilling permits from the RRC OGA049M master and daily daf420 files, rebuilt nightly into per-county figures; windows are on the date issued. Disposal from UIC permits and H-10 reports at the last settled month; earthquakes from the TexNet catalog inside the county's located-permit footprint.
Developers: this page as JSON is GET /v1/data/counties/tx/anderson?days=90, documented in the API reference.