COUNTIES · EAST TEXAS · DISTRICT 06 · CODE 401
Rusk County
Rusk County permitting is running 5.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (16 total, down 36% on the prior quarter).
RFE Operating, LLC leads with 13 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 10,855 ft (prior year: 11,135 ft); 66% 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.
6,626 drilling permits have been issued in Rusk County since 1977.
6,626 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 →
- 56
- permits issued, 365d
- +143%
- vs prior 365d (23)
- 10
- operators filing
- 66%
- horizontal
- 11,546
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 562
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 97 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 57 · prior 12 31(+84%)
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, LLC7 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 →
| 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 →
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 918567 | 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 |
| 918413 | Sep 23, 2026 | Sep 11, 2026 | RFE Operating, LLC | Berkshire East (AW) #1HH | 12,000 | 40135516 |
| 918413 | Sep 13, 2026 | Sep 11, 2026 | RFE Operating, LLC | Berkshire East (AW) #1HH | 12,000 | 40135516 |
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=365, documented in the API reference.