COUNTIES · EAST TEXAS · DISTRICT 05 · CODE 257
Kaufman County, Texas
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, 30d
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- vs prior 30d (0)
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
- 124
- 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 3 · prior 12 1(+200%)
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 →
| 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 |
Questions about Kaufman County
How many drilling permits were issued in Kaufman County in the last 12 months?
3 permits were issued in Kaufman County in the last 12 months, up 200% from 1 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Jun 8, 2026. 288 are on file since 1977.
Every Kaufman County permit →Who is the most active operator in Kaufman County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Atmos Pipeline - Texas is the most active operator in Kaufman County, with 1 of 3, followed by Guardian Operating LLC (1) and Enterprise Products Operatingllc (1). 0 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Kaufman County →How many oil and gas wells are in Kaufman County?
357 wells are on file in Kaufman County: 21 active, 227 plugged, and 4 permitted and not yet drilled. 0 are horizontal, and 4 operators hold them.
Every well in Kaufman County →How much oil and gas does Kaufman County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Kaufman County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Kaufman County →How much water is injected in Kaufman County?
2.3 million barrels of water were injected in Kaufman County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 10 of the county's 29 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Kaufman County →What formations are drilled in Kaufman County?
Completion filings for wells in Kaufman County report tops for 3 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Woodbine (35 wells, median top 3,410 ft), the Austin Chalk (27 wells, median top 2,520 ft), and the Pecan Gap (13 wells, median top 1,742 ft).
Formations in Kaufman County →What basin is Kaufman County in?
Petrora lists Kaufman County in the East Texas. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 05.
The East Texas →Have there been earthquakes in Kaufman County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Kaufman County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Kaufman 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/kaufman?days=30, documented in the API reference.