COUNTIES · EAST TEXAS · DISTRICT 05 · CODE 139

Ellis County

Ellis County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued December 9, 2021.

The county has 3 active disposal and injection permits.

608 drilling permits have been issued in Ellis County since 1978.

608 permits on file since 1978 · last issued Dec 9, 2021

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

Window30 days 90 days 180 days 365 days

0: permits issued, 90d
—: vs prior 90d (0)
0: operators filing
—: horizontal
—: avg permitted depth, ft
67: operators, all time

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

Permits issued by month

LAST 1 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 2

Operators by well inventory

No permits in the last year; ranked by wells on the RRC wellbore file instead.

Operator	Permits	Wells
National Land Resources Inc.	—	277
Thompson-Carlile Ventures	—	79
Kiowa Oil & Gas Corporation	—	28
TEP Barnett USA LLC	—	24
Mixon Robert N.	—	23
Upp Operating LLC	—	19
Venture Oil & Gas Corporation	—	16
Deep Creek Operating Co.	—	15
Haynie Drilling Co. Inc.	—	13
Mixon Robert N.	—	13

Full operator directory →

New entrants, last 12 months

Operators whose first permit in Ellis County came in the last year. None.

Permit types, 90d

Type	Window	Prior	All time

What the types mean →

Formations in completed wells

RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS

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

Formation	Wells	Median top, ft	P10–P90
Barnett	68	8,328	8,193–8,552
Atoka	46	5,401	2,987–8,228
Wolfe City	40	580	559–630
Taylor	32	1	1–564
Marble Falls	30	7,958	7,654–8,161
Strawn	25	2,020	1,888–2,490
Bend	18	5,550	5,144–7,489
Morrow	12	8,161	8,015–9,122

Beyond the permit record

RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes

Disposal and injection

3: active UIC permits of 42
75: permitted bbl/day, active
0: bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025: reported through

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

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

Latest permits

NEWEST FIRST BY ISSUE DATE

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	Lease / well	Depth	API
875034	Dec 9, 2021	Dec 9, 2021	Sage Natural Resources LLC	Merrill #3HH	9,000	13930604
875033	Dec 9, 2021	Dec 9, 2021	Sage Natural Resources LLC	Merrill #2HH	9,000	13930603
808304	Jul 17, 2015	Jul 17, 2015	Trinity River Energy Oper, LLC	Moore #1V	9,400	13930494
802309	Jan 22, 2015	Jan 22, 2015	Atmos Energy Corp., Mid-Tex Div.	S #60	280	13930601
802305	Jan 22, 2015	Jan 22, 2015	Atmos Energy Corp., Mid-Tex Div.	S12 #01	340	13930600
742571	Jun 29, 2012	Jun 29, 2012	Atmos Energy Corp., Mid-Tex Div.	M-31 #01	280	13930599
713340	Apr 25, 2011	Apr 25, 2011	Atmos Energy Corp., Mid-Tex Div.	S-16 #01	280	13930598
703671	Oct 18, 2010	Oct 18, 2010	Range Production Company	Harmon Unit #2HH	9,000	13930597
703670	Oct 18, 2010	Oct 18, 2010	Range Production Company	Harmon Unit #1HH	9,000	13930596
697221	Jun 9, 2010	Jun 9, 2010	Atmos Energy Corp., Mid-Tex Div.	S-36 #01	300	13930595

All Ellis 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/ellis?days=90, documented in the API reference.