COUNTIES · EAST TEXAS · DISTRICT 06 · CODE 067
Cass County, Texas
Cass County permitting is running 0.7 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (2 total, versus 7 in the prior quarter).
Rose City Resources, LLC leads with 13 permits in the past 12 months, one of 3 operators active in the county.
One operator filed a first Cass County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 13,000 ft; 87% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 24 active disposal and injection permits, with 3.58M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
988 drilling permits have been issued in Cass County since 1977.
988 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 8, 2026
Watch Cass CountyAlso: every Cass County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 15
- permits issued, 365d
- -37%
- vs prior 365d (24)
- 3
- operators filing
- 87%
- horizontal
- 12,747
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 189
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 5, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 15 · prior 12 24(-37%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Rose City Resources, LLC | 13 | 94 |
| Fossil Petroleum LLC | 1 | 2 |
| Chevron U. S. A. Inc. | 1 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Cass County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Chevron U. S. A. Inc.1 permitJul 23, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Cass 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rodessa | 225 | 42 | 6,485 | 5,998–7,105 |
| Cotton Valley | 185 | 42 | 9,175 | 8,479–10,088 |
| Pettit | 182 | 42 | 7,300 | 6,643–7,790 |
| Paluxy | 175 | 43 | 4,490 | 3,942–5,065 |
| Nacatoch | 173 | 43 | 1,835 | 1,586–2,109 |
| Massive Anhydrite (marker) | 78 | 0 | 5,586 | 5,257–5,982 |
| Travis Peak | 58 | 0 | 6,950 | 6,453–7,726 |
| Smackover | 46 | 1 | 10,611 | 9,340–10,964 |
| Bossier | 29 | 2 | 10,340 | 10,086–11,126 |
| BMA | 25 | 0 | 5,680 | 5,600–6,000 |
| Glen Rose | 22 | 0 | 4,708 | 4,052–5,095 |
| Buckner | 13 | 0 | 9,410 | 9,014–10,643 |
| Goodland | 13 | 0 | 3,970 | 3,531–4,473 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 24
- active UIC permits of 230
- 97.3K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 3.58M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Cass 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 918430 | Oct 10, 2026 | Oct 8, 2026 | Rose City Resources, LLC | Torrans #1HH | 13,000 | 06730986 |
| 918105 | Aug 30, 2026 | Aug 28, 2026 | Rose City Resources, LLC | Ware #1HH | 13,000 | 06730985 |
| 916401 | Jul 28, 2026 | Jul 28, 2026 | Rose City Resources, LLC | Perry #1HH | 13,000 | 06730982 |
| 917270 | Jul 23, 2026 | Jul 23, 2026 | Chevron U. S. A. Inc. | Juniper #1 | 12,000 | 06730984 |
| 915860 | Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 1, 2026 | Rose City Resources, LLC | Fuller #1HH | 13,000 | 06730981 |
| 915467 | Jun 22, 2026 | Jun 22, 2026 | Rose City Resources, LLC | Lynn #1HH | 13,000 | 06730979 |
| 913191 | May 28, 2026 | May 28, 2026 | Rose City Resources, LLC | Clark #1HH | 13,000 | 06730977 |
| 914545 | May 19, 2026 | May 19, 2026 | Rose City Resources, LLC | Webster #2HH | 11,200 | 06730978 |
| 915543 | May 13, 2026 | May 13, 2026 | Fossil Petroleum LLC | Apostle #1 | 12,000 | 06730980 |
| 913001 | Oct 2, 2026 | Mar 6, 2026 | Rose City Resources, LLC | Alma #1HH | 13,000 | 06730975 |
Questions about Cass County
How many drilling permits were issued in Cass County in the last 12 months?
15 permits were issued in Cass County in the last 12 months, down 37% from 24 in the 12 months before. 87% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Oct 8, 2026. 988 are on file since 1977.
Every Cass County permit →Who is the most active operator in Cass County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Rose City Resources, LLC is the most active operator in Cass County, with 13 of 15, followed by Fossil Petroleum LLC (1) and Chevron U. S. A. Inc. (1). 1 operator filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Cass County →How many oil and gas wells are in Cass County?
1,269 wells are on file in Cass County: 286 active, 640 plugged, and 5 permitted and not yet drilled. 62 are horizontal, and 31 operators hold them.
Every well in Cass County →How much oil and gas does Cass County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Cass County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Cass County →How much water is injected in Cass County?
3.6 million barrels of water were injected in Cass County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 24 of the county's 230 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Cass County →What formations are drilled in Cass County?
Completion filings for wells in Cass County report tops for 13 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Rodessa (225 wells, median top 6,485 ft), the Cotton Valley (185 wells, median top 9,175 ft), and the Pettit (182 wells, median top 7,300 ft).
Formations in Cass County →What basin is Cass County in?
Petrora lists Cass County in the East Texas. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 06.
The East Texas →Have there been earthquakes in Cass County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Cass County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Cass 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/cass?days=365, documented in the API reference.