COUNTIES · EAST TEXAS · DISTRICT 06 · CODE 401
Rusk County, Texas
Rusk County permitting is running 4.7 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (14 total, down 33% on the prior quarter).
Buffco Production Inc. leads with 10 permits in the past 12 months, one of 10 operators active in the county.
4 operators filed a first Rusk County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 10,850 ft (prior year: 10,912 ft); 60% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 160 active disposal and injection permits, with 103M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
5,858 drilling permits have been issued in Rusk County since 1977.
5,858 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 15, 2026
Watch Rusk CountyAlso: every Rusk County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 14
- permits issued, 90d
- -33%
- vs prior 90d (21)
- 8
- operators filing
- 64%
- horizontal
- 10,551
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 559
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 8, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 43 · prior 12 16(+169%)
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 Rusk County came in the last year. 4 in total.
- Sabine Energy Inc.8 permitsJul 13, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Tanos Exploration IV, LLC6 permitsJun 11, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Comstock Oil & Gas, LLC3 permitsMay 28, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Petro-Hunt, L.L.C.1 permitSep 23, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Rusk 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 Rusk 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 | 2,530 | 36 | 7,374 | 6,990–7,716 |
| Pettit | 2,157 | 37 | 7,068 | 6,681–7,432 |
| Cotton Valley | 1,661 | 26 | 9,250 | 8,766–9,948 |
| Rodessa | 1,330 | 25 | 6,420 | 5,997–6,801 |
| James Lime | 1,123 | 7 | 6,799 | 6,440–7,162 |
| Bossier | 960 | 6 | 10,700 | 10,430–10,973 |
| Taylor | 869 | 7 | 10,480 | 10,106–10,746 |
| BMA | 559 | 6 | 6,351 | 5,987–6,675 |
| Paluxy | 521 | 16 | 4,500 | 3,960–4,810 |
| Massive Anhydrite (marker) | 494 | 3 | 6,200 | 5,720–6,613 |
| Woodbine | 467 | 11 | 3,605 | 3,330–3,711 |
| Austin Chalk | 451 | 2 | 3,405 | 2,942–3,606 |
| Glen Rose | 360 | 4 | 4,747 | 4,265–5,043 |
| Sligo | 239 | 2 | 7,070 | 6,681–7,321 |
| Nacatoch | 222 | 12 | 2,078 | 1,800–2,362 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 160
- active UIC permits of 481
- 1.06M
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 103M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Rusk 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919168 | Oct 17, 2026 | Oct 15, 2026 | Tanos Exploration IV, LLC | Hemby-Tuttle HA (AW) #1HH | 11,438 | 40135522 |
| 919190 | Oct 17, 2026 | Oct 15, 2026 | Tanos Exploration IV, LLC | Carter-Tuttle HA (AW) #1HH | 11,438 | 40135524 |
| 919214 | Oct 16, 2026 | Oct 14, 2026 | Buckhorn Operating LLC | Bullwinkle #2HH | 10,500 | 40135523 |
| 919160 | Oct 11, 2026 | Oct 9, 2026 | Stroud Petroleum, Inc. | Yandle #1 | 7,550 | 40135521 |
| 918903Amendment | Nov 7, 2026 | Sep 30, 2026 | Buckhorn Operating LLC | Bullwinkle (AW) #1HH | 10,500 | 40135520 |
| 918903 | Oct 2, 2026 | Sep 30, 2026 | Buckhorn Operating LLC | Bullwinkle #1HH | 10,500 | 40135520 |
| 918782 | Sep 25, 2026 | Sep 23, 2026 | Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. | Lollar #1 | 10,000 | 40135518 |
| 918567Amendment | Oct 7, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | RFE Operating, LLC | Berkshire West (AW) #1HH | 12,000 | 40135517 |
| 918567 | Sep 20, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | RFE Operating, LLC | Berkshire West (AW) #1HH | 12,000 | 40135517 |
| 918413Amendment | Sep 23, 2026 | Sep 11, 2026 | RFE Operating, LLC | Berkshire East (AW) #1HH | 12,000 | 40135516 |
Questions about Rusk County
How many drilling permits were issued in Rusk County in the last 12 months?
43 permits were issued in Rusk County in the last 12 months, up 169% from 16 in the 12 months before. 60% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Oct 15, 2026. 5,858 are on file since 1977.
Every Rusk County permit →Who is the most active operator in Rusk County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Buffco Production Inc. is the most active operator in Rusk County, with 10 of 43, followed by Sabine Energy Inc. (8) and Buckhorn Operating LLC (6). 8 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Rusk County →How many oil and gas wells are in Rusk County?
11,381 wells are on file in Rusk County, including 3,742 active, 4,695 plugged, and 18 permitted and not yet drilled. 296 are horizontal. The active wells are under 96 operators.
Every well in Rusk County →How much oil and gas does Rusk County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Rusk County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Rusk County →How much water is injected in Rusk County?
103 million barrels of water were injected in Rusk County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 160 of the county's 481 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Rusk County →What formations are drilled in Rusk County?
Completion filings for wells in Rusk County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Travis Peak (2,530 wells, median top 7,374 ft), the Pettit (2,157 wells, median top 7,068 ft), and the Cotton Valley (1,661 wells, median top 9,250 ft).
Formations in Rusk County →What basin is Rusk County in?
Petrora lists Rusk County in the East Texas. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 06.
The East Texas →Have there been earthquakes in Rusk County?
No earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of Rusk County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Rusk 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/rusk?days=90, documented in the API reference.