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COUNTIES · EAST TEXAS · DISTRICT 06 · CODE 005

Angelina County

Angelina County permitting is running 1.7 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (5 total, after a quiet prior quarter). 2 were issued in the past week.

Adamas Energy LLC leads with 7 permits in the past 12 months, one of 2 operators active in the county.

2 operators filed a first Angelina County permit in the past year.

Median permitted depth over the past year is 16,550 ft (prior year: 16,500 ft); 100% of the past year's permits are horizontal.

The county has 3 active disposal and injection permits, with 3.71M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

TexNet located 2 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M3.5.

621 drilling permits have been issued in Angelina County since 1978.

621 permits on file since 1978 · last issued Oct 23, 2026

Watch Angelina County

Also: every Angelina County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →

Window30 days90 days180 days365 days
5
permits issued, 90d
—
vs prior 90d (0)
2
operators filing
100%
horizontal
17,240
avg permitted depth, ft
106
operators, all time

WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER

Permits issued by month

LAST 43 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 47 · prior 12 80(-41%)

051015201820192020202120222023202420252026

Top operators, last 12 months

By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.

OperatorPermitsWells
Adamas Energy LLC764
Caturus Energy, LLC30

Full operator directory →

New entrants, last 12 months

Operators whose first permit in Angelina County came in the last year. 2 in total.

Permit types, 90d

TypeWindowPriorAll time
Drill50555

What the types mean →

Formations in completed wells

RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS

Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Angelina County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →

In Angelina County the James Lime is reported in 83 wells, median top 9,527 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →

FormationWellsPermitted last 3 yrsMedian top, ftP10–P90
Travis Peak1871910,61810,400–11,039
Pettit176199,7779,580–10,156
Glen Rose165197,4167,216–7,794
Haynesville931814,57014,162–15,579
James Lime8309,5279,303–9,871
Austin Chalk5406,0145,685–8,626
Nacatoch53185,1483,904–6,023
Cotton Valley39013,87913,523–14,384
Rodessa3508,9058,425–9,183
Paluxy2407,1086,942–7,398
Queen City1801,440565–1,890
Midway1703,7093,662–6,093
Buda1306,1895,858–6,631
Weches110410400–1,160

Beyond the permit record

RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes

Disposal and injection

3
active UIC permits of 11
50K
permitted bbl/day, active
3.71M
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025
reported through

Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Angelina County →

Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →

TexNet catalog via USGS

Seismicity, last 2 years

2
M2+ events in the area
M3.5
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

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorLease / wellDepthAPI
919425Oct 25, 2026Oct 23, 2026Adamas Energy LLCKinabalu #2HBH16,60000530532
919424Oct 25, 2026Oct 23, 2026Adamas Energy LLCKinabalu #1HH17,10000530531
917568Oct 15, 2026Aug 11, 2026Caturus Energy, LLCSturgeon #1HBH17,50000530530
917568Aug 13, 2026Aug 11, 2026Caturus Energy, LLCSturgeon #1HBH17,50000530530
917564Aug 9, 2026Aug 7, 2026Caturus Energy, LLCStoneroller #1HBH17,50000530529
914189Oct 24, 2026Mar 19, 2026Adamas Energy LLCDracorex-Utahraptor A #4HBH16,50000530527
914190Mar 19, 2026Mar 19, 2026Adamas Energy LLCUtahraptor Gas Unit #5HH16,50000530528
914189Mar 19, 2026Mar 19, 2026Adamas Energy LLCUtahraptor Gas Unit #4HBH16,50000530527
914187Mar 19, 2026Mar 19, 2026Adamas Energy LLCUtahraptor Gas Unit #3HH16,50000530526
914186Mar 19, 2026Mar 19, 2026Adamas Energy LLCUtahraptor Gas Unit #2HBH16,50000530525

All Angelina County permits →

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/angelina?days=90, documented in the API reference.