COUNTIES · EAST TEXAS · DISTRICT 05 · CODE 349
Navarro County, Texas
Navarro County permitting is running 1.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (4 total, versus 1 in the prior quarter). 3 were issued in the past week.
Domestic Drilling & Operating LL leads with 2 permits in the past 12 months, one of 4 operators active in the county.
One operator filed a first Navarro County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 3,500 ft (prior year: 4,500 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 84 active disposal and injection permits, with 6M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
4,681 drilling permits have been issued in Navarro County since 1977.
4,681 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 30, 2026
Watch Navarro CountyAlso: every Navarro County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 4
- permits issued, 90d
- +300%
- vs prior 90d (1)
- 3
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 2,961
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 584
- 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 5 · prior 12 14(-64%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Domestic Drilling & Operating LL | 2 | 0 |
| Mud Creek Operating, LLC | 1 | 3 |
| Atmos Pipeline - Texas | 1 | 0 |
| Energy Transfer Company | 1 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Navarro County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Domestic Drilling & Operating LL2 permitsOct 30, 2026 · new to Texas permits
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Navarro 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nacatoch | 483 | 0 | 760 | 1–1,104 |
| Wolfe City | 202 | 0 | 912 | 642–1,503 |
| Pecan Gap | 176 | 1 | 1,600 | 828–2,000 |
| Woodbine | 169 | 2 | 2,943 | 2,854–3,690 |
| Austin Chalk | 131 | 2 | 2,505 | 2,129–3,110 |
| Midway | 94 | 0 | 1 | 1–1 |
| Rodessa | 53 | 1 | 6,427 | 5,914–7,340 |
| Pettit | 52 | 1 | 6,918 | 6,358–7,672 |
| Travis Peak | 46 | 0 | 7,052 | 6,510–7,760 |
| Cotton Valley | 39 | 1 | 9,085 | 8,280–10,507 |
| Taylor | 36 | 0 | 1 | 1–996 |
| Glen Rose | 32 | 1 | 5,684 | 5,057–6,151 |
| Paluxy | 26 | 0 | 5,466 | 4,758–5,926 |
| Sub-Clarksville | 25 | 0 | 3,265 | 2,983–3,683 |
| Bossier | 24 | 1 | 9,930 | 9,031–10,599 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 84
- active UIC permits of 1,130
- 156K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 6M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Navarro 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919788 | Nov 1, 2026 | Oct 30, 2026 | Domestic Drilling & Operating LL | Lewis-Simpson Ranch #7 | 3,500 | 34934578 |
| 919789 | Nov 1, 2026 | Oct 30, 2026 | Domestic Drilling & Operating LL | Lewis-Simpson Ranch #6 | 3,600 | 34934355 |
| 919541 | Oct 31, 2026 | Oct 29, 2026 | Mud Creek Operating, LLC | Caston #2 | 4,193 | 34933777 |
| 917922 | Sep 4, 2026 | Sep 2, 2026 | Atmos Pipeline - Texas | Atmos Navarro V-61 #1 | 550 | 34935069 |
| 916532 | Jun 23, 2026 | Jun 23, 2026 | Energy Transfer Company | RLS08 JC Nolan 12'' #1 | 400 | 34935068 |
| 909034 | Oct 8, 2025 | Oct 8, 2025 | Pipeline Integrity Resources, In | ATE506 #01 | 550 | 34935066 |
| 903839 | Jul 29, 2025 | Jul 29, 2025 | Magellan Crude Oil PL Co, L.P. | East Houston TO Corsicana #5 | 350 | 34935057 |
| 908102 | May 22, 2025 | May 22, 2025 | Enterprise Products Texas OP LLC | MP 233.525 #233 | 400 | 34935065 |
| 908070 | May 20, 2025 | May 20, 2025 | Walker Operating Company | Fleming #3 | 4,500 | 34935064 |
| 908069 | May 20, 2025 | May 20, 2025 | Walker Operating Company | Fleming #2 | 4,500 | 34935063 |
Questions about Navarro County
How many drilling permits were issued in Navarro County in the last 12 months?
5 permits were issued in Navarro County in the last 12 months, down 64% from 14 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Oct 30, 2026. 4,681 are on file since 1977.
Every Navarro County permit →Who is the most active operator in Navarro County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Domestic Drilling & Operating LL is the most active operator in Navarro County, with 2 of 5, followed by Mud Creek Operating, LLC (1) and Atmos Pipeline - Texas (1). 3 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Navarro County →How many oil and gas wells are in Navarro County?
8,427 wells are on file in Navarro County: 502 active, 5,309 plugged, and 12 permitted and not yet drilled. 16 are horizontal, and 36 operators hold them.
Every well in Navarro County →How much oil and gas does Navarro County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Navarro County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Navarro County →How much water is injected in Navarro County?
6.0 million barrels of water were injected in Navarro County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 84 of the county's 1,130 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Navarro County →What formations are drilled in Navarro County?
Completion filings for wells in Navarro County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Nacatoch (483 wells, median top 760 ft), the Wolfe City (202 wells, median top 912 ft), and the Pecan Gap (176 wells, median top 1,600 ft).
Formations in Navarro County →What basin is Navarro County in?
Petrora lists Navarro County in the East Texas. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 05.
The East Texas →Have there been earthquakes in Navarro County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Navarro County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Navarro 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/navarro?days=90, documented in the API reference.