COUNTIES · EAST TEXAS · DISTRICT 05 · CODE 395
Robertson County
Robertson County permitting is running 2.0 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (6 total, versus 8 in the prior quarter). 1 was issued in the past week.
Wildfire Energy Operating LLC leads with 9 permits in the past 12 months, one of 11 operators active in the county.
4 operators filed a first Robertson County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 9,000 ft (prior year: 11,570 ft); 90% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 6 active disposal and injection permits, with 946K 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 M3.4.
2,615 drilling permits have been issued in Robertson County since 1977.
2,615 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 27, 2026
Watch Robertson CountyAlso: every Robertson County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 6
- permits issued, 90d
- -25%
- vs prior 90d (8)
- 5
- operators filing
- 67%
- horizontal
- 12,130
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 201
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 75 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 39 · prior 12 48(-19%)
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 Robertson County came in the last year. 4 in total.
- Bull Run Resources, LLC2 permitsApr 23, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Magnolia Oil & Gas Operating LLC2 permitsApr 8, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Brahma Services II LLC1 permitOct 27, 2026 · new to Texas permits
- CML Exploration, LLC1 permitAug 28, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Robertson County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Robertson County the Nacatoch is reported in 115 wells, median top 2,635 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Travis Peak | 876 | 11 | 8,414 | 8,022–9,836 |
| Bossier | 805 | 4 | 11,483 | 10,883–13,582 |
| Pettit | 764 | 3 | 8,085 | 7,747–9,085 |
| Cotton Valley | 590 | 12 | 10,649 | 9,841–13,391 |
| Austin Chalk | 520 | 23 | 5,891 | 4,401–6,788 |
| Buda | 504 | 6 | 5,483 | 4,898–7,448 |
| Rodessa | 187 | 0 | 7,482 | 7,079–8,367 |
| Georgetown | 150 | 6 | 6,822 | 5,478–7,692 |
| Glen Rose | 137 | 0 | 6,482 | 6,059–7,899 |
| Eagle Ford | 136 | 5 | 6,418 | 4,710–7,122 |
| Nacatoch | 115 | 8 | 2,635 | 1,421–4,448 |
| Paluxy | 113 | 8 | 5,953 | 5,452–6,975 |
| Woodbine | 105 | 9 | 6,231 | 4,914–7,158 |
| James Lime | 103 | 0 | 8,900 | 7,716–9,935 |
| Pecan Gap | 86 | 12 | 5,012 | 3,569–5,729 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 6
- active UIC permits of 29
- 67K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 946K
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Robertson 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
- M3.4
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919600 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 27, 2026 | Brahma Services II LLC | B Ridge SWD #1 | 8,000 | 39532141 |
| 918074 | Aug 30, 2026 | Aug 28, 2026 | CML Exploration, LLC | Kadav #2HH | 7,500 | 39532140 |
| 917958 | Aug 29, 2026 | Aug 27, 2026 | Wildfire Energy Operating LLC | Great Eagle A #1HAH | 7,000 | 39532138 |
| 917978 | Aug 23, 2026 | Aug 21, 2026 | Comstock Oil & Gas, LLC | Wheeler Ecw #1HH | 30,000 | 39532139 |
| 917795 | Aug 17, 2026 | Aug 14, 2026 | Wildfire Energy Operating LLC | Great Eagle B #2HAH | 7,000 | 39532137 |
| 917698 | Aug 12, 2026 | Aug 10, 2026 | Hilcorp Energy Company | Buchanan SWD #2 | 13,278 | 39530812 |
| 916036 | Jun 30, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | Wildfire Energy Operating LLC | Lightsey D #1HAH | 8,000 | 39532134 |
| 916226 | Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 15, 2026 | Wildfire Energy Operating LLC | Flowers-Reistino Unit B #5HAH | 7,000 | 39532136 |
| 916202 | Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 15, 2026 | Wildfire Energy Operating LLC | Flowers-Reistino Unit A #2HAH | 7,000 | 39532135 |
| 916033 | Jun 3, 2026 | Jun 3, 2026 | Adamas Energy LLC | Camp B #6HBH | 15,400 | 39532133 |
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/robertson?days=90, documented in the API reference.