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COUNTIES · EAST TEXAS · DISTRICT 06 · CODE 403

Sabine County

Sabine County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued February 25, 2026.

Silver Hill Energy Operating LLC leads with 8 permits in the past 12 months, one of 3 operators active in the county.

2 operators filed a first Sabine County permit in the past year.

Median permitted depth over the past year is 12,700 ft; 80% of the past year's permits are horizontal.

The county has 1 active disposal and injection permits, with 759K barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

373 drilling permits have been issued in Sabine County since 1977.

373 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Feb 25, 2026

Watch Sabine County

Also: every Sabine County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →

Window30 days90 days180 days365 days
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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
65
operators, all time

WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER

Permits issued by month

LAST 11 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 25

05102022202320252026

Top operators, last 12 months

By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.

OperatorPermitsWells
Silver Hill Energy Operating LLC85
Aethon Energy Operating LLC10
Adamas Energy LLC10

Full operator directory →

New entrants, last 12 months

Operators whose first permit in Sabine County came in the last year. 2 in total.

Permit types, 90d

TypeWindowPriorAll time

What the types mean →

Formations in completed wells

RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS

Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Sabine 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 Sabine County report the Ozan, so it is below this table's cutoff. Back to the formation →

FormationWellsPermitted last 3 yrsMedian top, ftP10–P90
Austin Chalk5808,0624,875–8,753
Midway4705,0433,796–6,353
Blossom1707,5577,164–8,556
Wilcox1702,4001,430–4,104
Bossier16011,90011,690–12,392
James Lime1506,9606,795–7,411
Cotton Valley11011,00610,812–11,202
Taylor1008,1427,864–9,109

Beyond the permit record

RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes

Disposal and injection

1
active UIC permits of 19
20K
permitted bbl/day, active
759K
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025
reported through

Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Sabine 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
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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

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorLease / wellDepthAPI
913241Feb 25, 2026Feb 25, 2026Silver Hill Energy Operating LLCPolley 6 Alloc B #5HH12,70040330493
913239Feb 25, 2026Feb 25, 2026Silver Hill Energy Operating LLCPolley 6 Alloc A #3HH12,70040330492
913480Feb 24, 2026Feb 24, 2026Silver Hill Energy Operating LLCBodovitz A #1HH12,70040330496
913258Feb 20, 2026Feb 20, 2026Silver Hill Energy Operating LLCCrest B Alloc B #5HH12,70040330491
913257Feb 20, 2026Feb 20, 2026Silver Hill Energy Operating LLCCrest B Alloc A #3HH12,70040330490
913488Feb 18, 2026Feb 18, 2026Silver Hill Energy Operating LLCBodovitz B #2HH12,70040330497
913079Feb 4, 2026Feb 4, 2026Silver Hill Energy Operating LLCCrest-Lowery 3 Alloc A #3HH13,00040330488
913080Feb 2, 2026Feb 2, 2026Silver Hill Energy Operating LLCCrest-Lowery 3 Alloc C #7HH12,80040330489
911638Nov 7, 2025Nov 7, 2025Adamas Energy LLCTea Olive #18,00040330487
911638Nov 7, 2025Nov 7, 2025Aethon Energy Operating LLCTea Olive #18,00040330487

All Sabine County permits →

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/sabine?days=90, documented in the API reference.