COUNTIES · EAST TEXAS · DISTRICT 06 · CODE 347
Nacogdoches County
Nacogdoches County permitting is running 9.7 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (29 total, up 93% on the prior quarter). 2 were issued in the past week.
Exco Operating Company, LP leads with 17 permits in the past 12 months, one of 10 operators active in the county.
7 operators filed a first Nacogdoches County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 14,600 ft (prior year: 15,400 ft); 88% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 13 active disposal and injection permits, with 6.47M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
TexNet located 2 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M3.5.
3,974 drilling permits have been issued in Nacogdoches County since 1977.
3,974 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 27, 2026
Watch Nacogdoches CountyAlso: every Nacogdoches County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 29
- permits issued, 90d
- +93%
- vs prior 90d (15)
- 6
- operators filing
- 90%
- horizontal
- 14,189
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 294
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 84 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 77 · prior 12 21(+267%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Nacogdoches County came in the last year. 7 in total.
- Arenos Energy14 permitsMay 20, 2026 · new to Texas permits
- Revenant Energy Operating LLC12 permitsDec 18, 2025 · new to Texas permits
- Adamas Energy LLC12 permitsDec 12, 2025 · active elsewhere first
- Apex Natural Gas, LLC5 permitsOct 9, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Brookston Energy, Inc.1 permitApr 24, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Common Disposal, LLC1 permitMar 2, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Laramide Resources, LP1 permitFeb 4, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Nacogdoches County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Nacogdoches County the James Lime is reported in 1,591 wells, median top 7,708 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Lime | 1,591 | 24 | 7,708 | 7,068–8,769 |
| Pettit | 1,441 | 25 | 7,948 | 7,301–9,014 |
| Travis Peak | 1,251 | 25 | 8,273 | 7,763–9,684 |
| Rodessa | 1,163 | 21 | 7,214 | 6,608–8,166 |
| Glen Rose | 460 | 21 | 5,879 | 4,970–7,008 |
| Austin Chalk | 294 | 1 | 4,899 | 3,691–5,569 |
| Cotton Valley | 232 | 21 | 11,192 | 9,904–12,022 |
| Paluxy | 227 | 19 | 5,687 | 4,700–6,631 |
| Queen City | 225 | 1 | 350 | 211–480 |
| Haynesville | 210 | 21 | 12,992 | 11,931–13,729 |
| Massive Anhydrite (marker) | 197 | 1 | 6,760 | 6,374–8,113 |
| Weches | 137 | 1 | 276 | 165–374 |
| BMA | 134 | 1 | 6,978 | 6,233–8,323 |
| Bossier | 95 | 1 | 12,616 | 11,749–13,517 |
| Sparta | 84 | 1 | 126 | 30–209 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 13
- active UIC permits of 42
- 159K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 6.47M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Nacogdoches County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 2
- M2+ events in the area
- M3.5
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919677 | Nov 1, 2026 | Oct 30, 2026 | Arenos Energy | Luanne Rose Gas Unit #2HBH | 14,200 | 34733582 |
| 919564 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 27, 2026 | Arenos Energy | Luanne Rose Gas Unit #1HBH | 14,200 | 34733580 |
| 919224 | Oct 28, 2026 | Oct 26, 2026 | Apex Natural Gas, LLC | Dorothy Unit #5HBH | 14,500 | 34733572 |
| 919420 | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 21, 2026 | Arenos Energy | Luanne Rose Gas Unit #2HH | 14,500 | 34733578 |
| 919414 | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 21, 2026 | Arenos Energy | Luanne Rose Gas Unit #1HH | 14,500 | 34733577 |
| 919222 | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 21, 2026 | Apex Natural Gas, LLC | Dorothy Unit #4HH | 14,500 | 34733571 |
| 919510 | Oct 22, 2026 | Oct 20, 2026 | Revenant Energy Operating LLC | Bear Claw #3HH | 16,500 | 34733579 |
| 919267 | Oct 21, 2026 | Oct 19, 2026 | Exco Operating Company, LP | Battle SU B #2HBH | 15,400 | 34733576 |
| 919263 | Oct 21, 2026 | Oct 19, 2026 | Exco Operating Company, LP | Battle SU A #2HBH | 15,400 | 34733574 |
| 919266 | Oct 18, 2026 | Oct 16, 2026 | Exco Operating Company, LP | Battle SU B #1HH | 15,400 | 34733575 |
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/nacogdoches?days=90, documented in the API reference.