COUNTIES · EAST TEXAS · DISTRICT 06 · CODE 365
Panola County, Texas
Panola County permitting is running 5.0 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (15 total, down 57% on the prior quarter).
TGNR Panola LLC leads with 39 permits in the past 12 months, one of 9 operators active in the county.
One operator filed a first Panola County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 22,000 ft (prior year: 12,000 ft); 91% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 115 active disposal and injection permits, with 74M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through September 2025.
10,746 drilling permits have been issued in Panola County since 1977.
10,746 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 27, 2026
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- 15
- permits issued, 90d
- -57%
- vs prior 90d (35)
- 4
- operators filing
- 100%
- horizontal
- 18,000
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 469
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 10, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 82 · prior 12 81(+1%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| TGNR Panola LLC | 39 | 597 |
| TGNR East Texas II LLC | 12 | 551 |
| R. Lacy Services, Ltd. | 12 | 309 |
| Sabine Energy Inc. | 8 | 113 |
| Sheridan Production Co III, LLC | 7 | 34 |
| Comstock Oil & Gas, LLC | 5 | 42 |
| Agis Energy LLC | 2 | 43 |
| Tanos Exploration IV, LLC | 2 | 1 |
| Buffco Production Inc. | 1 | 41 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Panola County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Tanos Exploration IV, LLC2 permitsDec 16, 2025 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Panola County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
Fewer than ten wells in Panola County report the Buda, so it is below this table's cutoff. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Travis Peak | 5,485 | 109 | 6,235 | 5,972–6,660 |
| Cotton Valley | 4,736 | 98 | 8,308 | 8,050–8,738 |
| Pettit | 4,677 | 102 | 5,845 | 5,620–6,297 |
| Glen Rose | 2,175 | 112 | 3,358 | 3,141–3,779 |
| Rodessa | 2,120 | 107 | 5,084 | 4,790–5,590 |
| Paluxy | 1,738 | 105 | 2,982 | 2,660–3,433 |
| James Lime | 1,583 | 32 | 5,557 | 5,354–6,043 |
| BMA | 1,056 | 16 | 4,985 | 4,800–5,466 |
| Bossier | 1,023 | 35 | 9,678 | 9,444–10,076 |
| Blossom | 791 | 17 | 2,028 | 1,880–2,477 |
| Massive Anhydrite (marker) | 647 | 24 | 4,866 | 4,623–5,370 |
| Nacatoch | 612 | 12 | 1,008 | 900–1,740 |
| Taylor | 561 | 1 | 9,657 | 9,432–9,974 |
| Haynesville | 544 | 43 | 10,504 | 9,725–10,951 |
| Sligo | 517 | 18 | 5,746 | 5,617–6,017 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 115
- active UIC permits of 315
- 1.13M
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 74M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Sep 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Panola County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
USGS catalog, Texas
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919432 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 27, 2026 | R. Lacy Services, Ltd. | Ruby Dodd B HV C #3HHH | 12,000 | 36539069 |
| 919430 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 27, 2026 | R. Lacy Services, Ltd. | Ruby Dodd B HV B #2HHH | 12,000 | 36539068 |
| 919429 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 27, 2026 | R. Lacy Services, Ltd. | Ruby Dodd B HV A #1HHH | 12,000 | 36539070 |
| 919520 | Oct 28, 2026 | Oct 26, 2026 | TGNR Panola LLC | G14B Gretal FS #6HHH | 22,000 | 36539073 |
| 919519 | Oct 28, 2026 | Oct 26, 2026 | TGNR Panola LLC | G14B Gretal ES #5HHH | 22,000 | 36539072 |
| 919518 | Oct 28, 2026 | Oct 26, 2026 | TGNR Panola LLC | G14B Gretal DS #4HHH | 22,000 | 36539071 |
| 919135 | Oct 10, 2026 | Oct 8, 2026 | TGNR East Texas II LLC | H12R Halo CS #3UHH | 22,000 | 36539067 |
| 918983 | Oct 8, 2026 | Oct 6, 2026 | TGNR East Texas II LLC | K14A Hull HS #6HHH | 22,000 | 36539066 |
| 918982 | Oct 7, 2026 | Oct 5, 2026 | TGNR East Texas II LLC | K14A Hull GS #5HHH | 22,000 | 36539065 |
| 918981 | Oct 7, 2026 | Oct 5, 2026 | TGNR East Texas II LLC | K14A Hull FS #4HHH | 22,000 | 36539064 |
Questions about Panola County
How many drilling permits were issued in Panola County in the last 12 months?
88 permits were issued in Panola County in the last 12 months, up 10% from 80 in the 12 months before. 91% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Oct 27, 2026. 10,746 are on file since 1977.
Every Panola County permit →Who is the most active operator in Panola County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, TGNR Panola LLC is the most active operator in Panola County, with 39 of 88, followed by TGNR East Texas II LLC (12) and R. Lacy Services, Ltd. (12). 4 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Panola County →How many oil and gas wells are in Panola County?
10,033 wells are on file in Panola County, including 4,990 active, 2,366 plugged, and 28 permitted and not yet drilled. 1,258 are horizontal. The active wells are under 90 operators.
Every well in Panola County →How much oil and gas does Panola County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Panola County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Panola County →How much water is injected in Panola County?
74.0 million barrels of water were injected in Panola County in the 12 months through September 2025, reported on form H-10. 115 of the county's 315 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Panola County →What formations are drilled in Panola County?
Completion filings for wells in Panola County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Travis Peak (5,485 wells, median top 6,235 ft), the Cotton Valley (4,736 wells, median top 8,308 ft), and the Pettit (4,677 wells, median top 5,845 ft).
Formations in Panola County →What basin is Panola County in?
Petrora lists Panola County in the East Texas. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 06.
The East Texas →Have there been earthquakes in Panola County?
No earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of Panola County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Panola 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/panola?days=90, documented in the API reference.