COUNTIES · EAST TEXAS · DISTRICT 06 · CODE 387
Red River County, Texas
Red River County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued April 9, 2026.
Machin & Associates, Inc. leads with 1 permit in the past 12 months, the only operator active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 5,800 ft; 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 12 active disposal and injection permits, with 367K barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
435 drilling permits have been issued in Red River County since 1977.
435 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Apr 9, 2026
Email me new permitsAlso: every Red River County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
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- permits issued, 90d
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- vs prior 90d (0)
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- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
- 118
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 9, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 1 · prior 12 0
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Machin & Associates, Inc. | 1 | 1 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Red River County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Red River County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Red River County the BMA is reported in 18 wells, median top 3,744 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cotton Valley | 80 | 0 | 4,700 | 4,598–4,901 |
| Paluxy | 47 | 0 | 2,590 | 2,084–2,738 |
| Travis Peak | 34 | 0 | 4,051 | 4,005–4,185 |
| Massive Anhydrite (marker) | 28 | 0 | 3,586 | 3,516–3,701 |
| Buckner | 21 | 0 | 5,270 | 5,005–5,540 |
| BMA | 18 | 0 | 3,744 | 3,670–3,849 |
| Goodland | 16 | 0 | 2,622 | 1,128–2,767 |
| Woodbine | 14 | 0 | 1,412 | 471–1,879 |
| Rodessa | 12 | 0 | 3,770 | 3,765–3,800 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 12
- active UIC permits of 44
- 16.4K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 367K
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Red River County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
USGS catalog, Texas
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 914636 | Apr 9, 2026 | Apr 9, 2026 | Machin & Associates, Inc. | Franzina #1 | 5,800 | 38730614 |
| 881015 | Jun 15, 2022 | Jun 15, 2022 | Machin & Associates, Inc. | Reeder #1 | 5,700 | 38730613 |
| 871614 | Jul 30, 2021 | Jul 30, 2021 | Machin & Associates, Inc. | Lennox #1 | 5,700 | 38730612 |
| 835031 | Jan 11, 2018 | Jan 11, 2018 | Brooks Petroleum Company | Rodgers #1 | 6,000 | 38730611 |
| 827994 | Jun 26, 2017 | Jun 26, 2017 | Brooks Petroleum Company | Pace #1 | 6,000 | 38730610 |
| 827940 | Jun 26, 2017 | Jun 26, 2017 | Brooks Petroleum Company | Conway #1 | 6,000 | 38730609 |
| 821590 | Jan 24, 2017 | Jan 24, 2017 | LCT Energy, LP | Stubblefield #2 | 7,000 | 38730608 |
| 821662 | Jan 12, 2017 | Jan 12, 2017 | LCT Energy, LP | Underwood 'B' #2 | 7,000 | 38730607 |
| 821662Amendment | Jan 12, 2017 | Jan 12, 2017 | LCT Energy, LP | Underwood 'B' #3 | 6,000 | 38730607 |
| 821661 | Jan 12, 2017 | Jan 12, 2017 | LCT Energy, LP | Underwood 'A' #2 | 7,000 | 38730606 |
Questions about Red River County
How many drilling permits were issued in Red River County in the last 12 months?
1 permit was issued in Red River County in the last 12 months. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Apr 9, 2026. 435 are on file since 1977.
Every Red River County permit →Who is the most active operator in Red River County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Machin & Associates, Inc. is the most active operator in Red River County, with 1 of 1. 0 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Red River County →How many oil and gas wells are in Red River County?
457 wells are on file in Red River County, including 31 active, 309 plugged, and 1 permitted and not yet drilled. 3 are horizontal. The active wells are under 4 operators.
Every well in Red River County →How much oil and gas does Red River County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Red River County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Red River County →How much water is injected in Red River County?
367,218 barrels of water were injected in Red River County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 12 of the county's 44 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Red River County →What formations are drilled in Red River County?
Completion filings for wells in Red River County report tops for 9 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Cotton Valley (80 wells, median top 4,700 ft), the Paluxy (47 wells, median top 2,590 ft), and the Travis Peak (34 wells, median top 4,051 ft).
Formations in Red River County →What basin is Red River County in?
Petrora lists Red River County in the East Texas. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 06.
The East Texas →Have there been earthquakes in Red River County?
No earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of Red River County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Red River 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/red-river?days=90, documented in the API reference.