COUNTIES · EAST TEXAS · DISTRICT 06 · CODE 365
Panola County
Panola County permitting is running 9.0 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (27 total, down 41% on the prior quarter). 6 were issued in the past week.
TGNR Panola LLC leads with 53 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); 93% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 115 active disposal and injection permits, with 73.8M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
12,863 drilling permits have been issued in Panola County since 1977.
12,863 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 27, 2026
Watch Panola CountyAlso: every Panola County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 73
- permits issued, 180d
- +38%
- vs prior 180d (53)
- 8
- operators filing
- 99%
- horizontal
- 18,479
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 479
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 117 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 128 · prior 12 124(+3%)
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 | 53 | 489 |
| R. Lacy Services, Ltd. | 22 | 285 |
| TGNR East Texas II LLC | 18 | 522 |
| Sabine Energy Inc. | 15 | 112 |
| Sheridan Production Co III, LLC | 8 | 86 |
| Comstock Oil & Gas, LLC | 5 | 41 |
| Agis Energy LLC | 4 | 41 |
| Tanos Exploration IV, LLC | 2 | 0 |
| Buffco Production Inc. | 1 | 37 |
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 →
| 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 314
- 1.13M
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 73.8M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Panola 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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=180, documented in the API reference.