COUNTIES · EAST TEXAS · DISTRICT 05 · CODE 257
Kaufman County
Kaufman County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued June 8, 2026.
Atmos Pipeline - Texas leads with 1 permit in the past 12 months, one of 3 operators active in the county.
One operator filed a first Kaufman County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 540 ft (prior year: 500 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 10 active disposal and injection permits, with 2.35M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
288 drilling permits have been issued in Kaufman County since 1977.
288 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Jun 8, 2026
Watch Kaufman CountyAlso: every Kaufman County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
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- permits issued, 90d
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- vs prior 90d (2)
- 0
- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
- 124
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 16 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 13
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Atmos Pipeline - Texas | 1 | 0 |
| Guardian Operating LLC | 1 | 0 |
| Enterprise Products Operatingllc | 1 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Kaufman County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Guardian Operating LLC1 permitMay 6, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Kaufman County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Kaufman County the Austin Chalk is reported in 27 wells, median top 2,520 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woodbine | 35 | 0 | 3,410 | 3,084–3,588 |
| Austin Chalk | 27 | 0 | 2,520 | 2,333–2,997 |
| Pecan Gap | 13 | 0 | 1,742 | 980–1,795 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 10
- active UIC permits of 29
- 38.5K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 2.35M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Kaufman County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
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- M2+ events in the area
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- 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 |
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| 915645 | Jun 8, 2026 | Jun 8, 2026 | Enterprise Products Operatingllc | S1-MP 269.215 #1 | 400 | 25730449 |
| 915358 | May 6, 2026 | May 6, 2026 | Guardian Operating LLC | Brown #1 | 3,900 | 25730448 |
| 911914 | Dec 4, 2025 | Dec 4, 2025 | Atmos Pipeline - Texas | D-42 #01 | 540 | 25730447 |
| 907350 | Apr 14, 2025 | Apr 14, 2025 | Atmos Pipeline - Texas | D-40 #1 | 500 | 25730446 |
| 894736 | Oct 25, 2023 | Oct 25, 2023 | Mud Creek Operating, LLC | Prairie Smoke #1 | 3,850 | 25730445 |
| 890433 | Jun 1, 2023 | Jun 1, 2023 | Enterprise Products Texas OP LLC | S1-262.67 #1 | 402 | 25730443 |
| 890434 | May 24, 2023 | May 24, 2023 | Enterprise Products Texas OP LLC | S1-270 #1 | 402 | 25730444 |
| 886990 | Jan 6, 2023 | Jan 6, 2023 | Walker Operating Company | Jeff #1 | 4,600 | 25730442 |
| 884917 | Oct 19, 2022 | Oct 19, 2022 | Walker Operating Company | Davis #2 | 4,700 | 25730439 |
| 884222 | Sep 27, 2022 | Sep 27, 2022 | Walker Operating Company | Clemmo #2 | 4,500 | 25730438 |
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/kaufman?days=90, documented in the API reference.