COUNTIES · EAST TEXAS · DISTRICT 06 · CODE 001
Anderson County, Texas
Anderson County permitting is running 1.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (4 total, versus 7 in the prior quarter). 1 was issued in the past week.
Trueblood Resources, Inc. leads with 3 permits in the past 12 months, one of 10 operators active in the county.
3 operators filed a first Anderson County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 2,400 ft (prior year: 10,000 ft); 15% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 137 active disposal and injection permits, with 21M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
2,273 drilling permits have been issued in Anderson County since 1977.
2,273 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Nov 3, 2026
Watch Anderson CountyAlso: every Anderson County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 13
- permits issued, 365d
- +0%
- vs prior 365d (13)
- 10
- operators filing
- 15%
- horizontal
- 5,064
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 430
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 8, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 13 · prior 12 13(+0%)
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. 3 in total.
- 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 →
| 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
- 137
- active UIC permits of 558
- 676K
- 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 →
USGS catalog, Texas
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919833 | Nov 5, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 | Jamex, Inc. | Saunders #1HH | 10,000 | 00132881 |
| 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 |
Questions about Anderson County
How many drilling permits were issued in Anderson County in the last 12 months?
13 permits were issued in Anderson County in the last 12 months, level with 13 in the 12 months before. 15% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Nov 3, 2026. 2,273 are on file since 1977.
Every Anderson County permit →Who is the most active operator in Anderson County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Trueblood Resources, Inc. is the most active operator in Anderson County, with 3 of 13, followed by Tsar Energy, LLC (2) and Upstream Resource Partners, LLC (1). 4 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Anderson County →How many oil and gas wells are in Anderson County?
3,819 wells are on file in Anderson County, including 732 active, 1,715 plugged, and 15 permitted and not yet drilled. 25 are horizontal. The active wells are under 46 operators.
Every well in Anderson County →How much oil and gas does Anderson County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Anderson County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Anderson County →How much water is injected in Anderson County?
21.0 million barrels of water were injected in Anderson County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 137 of the county's 558 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Anderson County →What formations are drilled in Anderson County?
Completion filings for wells in Anderson County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Carrizo (651 wells, median top 534 ft), the Woodbine (295 wells, median top 5,050 ft), and the Austin Chalk (207 wells, median top 4,580 ft).
Formations in Anderson County →What basin is Anderson County in?
Petrora lists Anderson County in the East Texas. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 06.
The East Texas →Have there been earthquakes in Anderson County?
No earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of Anderson County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Anderson County →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=365, documented in the API reference.