COUNTIES · EAST TEXAS · DISTRICT 06 · CODE 037
Bowie County, Texas
Bowie County permitting is running 0.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (1 total, after a quiet prior quarter).
Machin & Associates, Inc. leads with 1 permit in the past 12 months, the only operator active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 5,200 ft; 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 4 active disposal and injection permits, with 234K barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
195 drilling permits have been issued in Bowie County since 1977.
195 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 7, 2026
Watch Bowie CountyAlso: every Bowie County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 1
- permits issued, 180d
- —
- vs prior 180d (0)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 5,200
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 90
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 6, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 1 · prior 12 4(-75%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Machin & Associates, Inc. | 1 | 7 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Bowie County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Bowie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smackover | 21 | 1 | 7,634 | 7,504–8,572 |
| Travis Peak | 16 | 1 | 5,332 | 5,238–5,913 |
| Woodbine | 13 | 3 | 3,240 | 2,863–3,334 |
| Nacatoch | 12 | 2 | 1,240 | 986–1,329 |
| Cotton Valley | 11 | 0 | 6,252 | 6,142–7,158 |
| Buckner | 10 | 0 | 7,457 | 7,325–8,341 |
| Paluxy | 10 | 2 | 3,624 | 3,355–4,105 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 4
- active UIC permits of 13
- 22.3K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 234K
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Bowie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919111 | Oct 9, 2026 | Oct 7, 2026 | Machin & Associates, Inc. | Runners Refuge #1 | 5,200 | 03730359 |
| 910383 | Sep 15, 2025 | Sep 15, 2025 | Machin & Associates, Inc. | Elliott #1 | 9,500 | 03730357 |
| 907744 | May 5, 2025 | May 5, 2025 | Machin & Associates, Inc. | Telford Unit #1 | 5,200 | 03730358 |
| 907744 | May 5, 2025 | May 5, 2025 | Machin & Associates, Inc. | Telford Unit #1 | 5,200 | 03730358 |
| 905561 | Feb 4, 2025 | Feb 4, 2025 | Machin & Associates, Inc. | McDaniel SWD #4 | 3,000 | 03730353 |
| 903296 | Oct 24, 2024 | Oct 24, 2024 | Machin & Associates, Inc. | Elliott #1 | 4,750 | 03730357 |
| 900891 | Jul 3, 2024 | Jul 3, 2024 | Mertz Energy Texas LLC | Bessie #2ST | 9,000 | 03730354 |
| 899622 | May 16, 2024 | May 16, 2024 | Machin & Associates, Inc. | Summers 'A' #2 | 5,200 | 03730356 |
| 899621 | May 15, 2024 | May 15, 2024 | Machin & Associates, Inc. | Summers #1 | 5,200 | 03730355 |
| 897115 | Feb 9, 2024 | Feb 9, 2024 | Mertz Energy Texas LLC | Bessie #2 | 9,000 | 03730354 |
Questions about Bowie County
How many drilling permits were issued in Bowie County in the last 12 months?
1 permit was issued in Bowie County in the last 12 months, down 75% from 4 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Oct 7, 2026. 195 are on file since 1977.
Every Bowie County permit →Who is the most active operator in Bowie County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Machin & Associates, Inc. is the most active operator in Bowie County, with 1 of 1. 1 operator filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Bowie County →How many oil and gas wells are in Bowie County?
211 wells are on file in Bowie County: 17 active and 160 plugged. 3 are horizontal, and 8 operators hold them.
Every well in Bowie County →How much oil and gas does Bowie County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Bowie County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Bowie County →How much water is injected in Bowie County?
233,627 barrels of water were injected in Bowie County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 4 of the county's 13 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Bowie County →What formations are drilled in Bowie County?
Completion filings for wells in Bowie County report tops for 7 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Smackover (21 wells, median top 7,634 ft), the Travis Peak (16 wells, median top 5,332 ft), and the Woodbine (13 wells, median top 3,240 ft).
Formations in Bowie County →What basin is Bowie County in?
Petrora lists Bowie County in the East Texas. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 06.
The East Texas →Have there been earthquakes in Bowie County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Bowie County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Bowie 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/bowie?days=180, documented in the API reference.