COUNTIES · EAST TEXAS · DISTRICT 06 · CODE 405
San Augustine County, Texas
San Augustine County permitting is running 6.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (19 total, down 17% on the prior quarter).
Apex Natural Gas, LLC leads with 49 permits in the past 12 months, one of 8 operators active in the county.
4 operators filed a first San Augustine County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 14,500 ft (prior year: 14,300 ft); 97% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 9 active disposal and injection permits, with 9.7M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
894 drilling permits have been issued in San Augustine County since 1977.
894 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 26, 2026
Email me new permitsAlso: every San Augustine County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 19
- permits issued, 90d
- -17%
- vs prior 90d (23)
- 4
- operators filing
- 100%
- horizontal
- 14,701
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 77
- 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 106 · prior 12 30(+253%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Apex Natural Gas, LLC | 49 | 32 |
| Rockcliff Energy Operating III | 24 | 30 |
| Adamas Energy LLC | 20 | 186 |
| BPX Operating Company | 4 | 32 |
| Silver Hill Energy Operating LLC | 4 | 2 |
| XTO Energy Inc. | 2 | 134 |
| Common Disposal, LLC | 2 | 2 |
| Ventana Midstream LLC | 1 | 1 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in San Augustine County came in the last year. 4 in total.
- Apex Natural Gas, LLC49 permitsDec 23, 2025 · active elsewhere first
- Adamas Energy LLC20 permitsDec 22, 2025 · active elsewhere first
- Silver Hill Energy Operating LLC4 permitsSep 17, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- BPX Operating Company4 permitsFeb 26, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in San Augustine 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 San Augustine County report the Bma, so it is below this table's cutoff. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Lime | 522 | 70 | 7,678 | 7,225–8,600 |
| Haynesville | 369 | 56 | 12,935 | 11,708–14,025 |
| Austin Chalk | 310 | 59 | 4,896 | 4,004–6,285 |
| Rodessa | 126 | 16 | 6,950 | 6,735–7,570 |
| Bossier | 125 | 12 | 12,320 | 11,643–13,075 |
| Travis Peak | 123 | 13 | 8,820 | 8,309–9,225 |
| Glen Rose | 84 | 15 | 5,652 | 5,224–6,047 |
| Pettit | 78 | 13 | 8,145 | 7,538–8,583 |
| Cotton Valley | 77 | 18 | 11,641 | 11,242–12,732 |
| Paluxy | 35 | 15 | 5,445 | 5,056–5,985 |
| Midway | 20 | 0 | 3,463 | 2,980–6,402 |
| Massive Anhydrite (marker) | 18 | 0 | 6,796 | 6,675–7,128 |
| Blossom | 11 | 0 | 7,678 | 3,912–8,000 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 9
- active UIC permits of 29
- 215K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 9.7M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in San Augustine 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 917948 | Oct 28, 2026 | Oct 26, 2026 | XTO Energy Inc. | Crge #1HH | 14,825 | 40530981 |
| 917339 | Oct 8, 2026 | Oct 6, 2026 | XTO Energy Inc. | Higginbotham-Bison #1BH | 14,849 | 40530976 |
| 918884 | Oct 8, 2026 | Oct 6, 2026 | Rockcliff Energy Operating III | Olympia Fields OS D #5HBH | 16,000 | 40530994 |
| 918883 | Oct 8, 2026 | Oct 6, 2026 | Rockcliff Energy Operating III | Olympia Fields OS C #4HH | 16,000 | 40530993 |
| 918882 | Oct 7, 2026 | Oct 5, 2026 | Rockcliff Energy Operating III | Olympia Fields OS B #3HBH | 16,000 | 40530992 |
| 918632 | Sep 20, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | Silver Hill Energy Operating LLC | Black Stone #1HH | 10,440 | 40530991 |
| 918630 | Sep 19, 2026 | Sep 17, 2026 | Silver Hill Energy Operating LLC | Black Stone #H 4HH | 13,200 | 40530990 |
| 918627 | Sep 19, 2026 | Sep 17, 2026 | Silver Hill Energy Operating LLC | Black Stone #H 2HH | 13,200 | 40530988 |
| 918629 | Sep 19, 2026 | Sep 17, 2026 | Silver Hill Energy Operating LLC | Black Stone #B 3HH | 13,200 | 40530989 |
| 918540 | Sep 17, 2026 | Sep 14, 2026 | Adamas Energy LLC | Leon Valley West #2HBH | 16,000 | 40530987 |
Questions about San Augustine County
How many drilling permits were issued in San Augustine County in the last 12 months?
106 permits were issued in San Augustine County in the last 12 months, up 203% from 35 in the 12 months before. 97% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Oct 26, 2026. 894 are on file since 1977.
Every San Augustine County permit →Who is the most active operator in San Augustine County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Apex Natural Gas, LLC is the most active operator in San Augustine County, with 49 of 106, followed by Rockcliff Energy Operating III (24) and Adamas Energy LLC (20). 4 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in San Augustine County →How many oil and gas wells are in San Augustine County?
892 wells are on file in San Augustine County, including 534 active, 103 plugged, and 33 permitted and not yet drilled. 692 are horizontal. The active wells are under 15 operators.
Every well in San Augustine County →How much oil and gas does San Augustine County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in San Augustine County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in San Augustine County →How much water is injected in San Augustine County?
9.7 million barrels of water were injected in San Augustine County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 9 of the county's 29 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in San Augustine County →What formations are drilled in San Augustine County?
Completion filings for wells in San Augustine County report tops for 13 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the James Lime (522 wells, median top 7,678 ft), the Haynesville (369 wells, median top 12,935 ft), and the Austin Chalk (310 wells, median top 4,896 ft).
Formations in San Augustine County →What basin is San Augustine County in?
Petrora lists San Augustine County in the East Texas. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 06.
The East Texas →Have there been earthquakes in San Augustine County?
No earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of San Augustine County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in San Augustine 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/san-augustine?days=90, documented in the API reference.