COUNTIES · EAST TEXAS · DISTRICT 06 · CODE 405
San Augustine County
San Augustine County permitting is running 7.0 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (21 total, down 58% on the prior quarter). 1 was issued in the past week.
Apex Natural Gas, LLC leads with 100 permits in the past 12 months, one of 10 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: 14,600 ft); 98% 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.
1,335 drilling permits have been issued in San Augustine County since 1977.
1,335 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 26, 2026
Watch San Augustine CountyAlso: every San Augustine County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 21
- permits issued, 90d
- -58%
- vs prior 90d (50)
- 4
- operators filing
- 100%
- horizontal
- 14,691
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 77
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 78 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 214 · prior 12 76(+182%)
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 San Augustine County came in the last year. 4 in total.
- Apex Natural Gas, LLC100 permitsDec 23, 2025 · active elsewhere first
- Adamas Energy LLC31 permitsDec 22, 2025 · active elsewhere first
- BPX Operating Company6 permitsFeb 26, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Silver Hill Energy Operating LLC4 permitsSep 17, 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 →
In San Augustine County the Pettit is reported in 77 wells, median top 8,141 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Lime | 521 | 69 | 7,677 | 7,225–8,600 |
| Haynesville | 369 | 56 | 12,935 | 11,708–14,025 |
| Austin Chalk | 309 | 58 | 4,896 | 4,004–6,285 |
| Rodessa | 125 | 15 | 6,946 | 6,735–7,577 |
| Bossier | 124 | 11 | 12,304 | 11,643–13,076 |
| Travis Peak | 122 | 12 | 8,817 | 8,309–9,175 |
| Glen Rose | 83 | 14 | 5,649 | 5,222–5,984 |
| Pettit | 77 | 12 | 8,141 | 7,537–8,588 |
| Cotton Valley | 76 | 17 | 11,641 | 11,242–12,732 |
| Paluxy | 34 | 14 | 5,442 | 5,056–5,986 |
| 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 →
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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.