COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 7B · CODE 411
San Saba County, Texas
San Saba County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued April 19, 2024.
74 drilling permits have been issued in San Saba County since 1977.
74 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Apr 19, 2024
Watch San Saba CountyAlso: every San Saba County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
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- permits issued, 30d
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- vs prior 30d (0)
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- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
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- 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 0 · prior 12 0
Operators by well inventory
No permits in the last year; ranked by wells on the RRC wellbore file instead.
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in San Saba County came in the last year. None.
Beyond the permit record
USGS catalog, Texas
Seismicity, last 2 years
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- 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
| Permit | Seen | Issued | Operator | Lease / well | Depth | API |
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| 898968 | Apr 19, 2024 | Apr 19, 2024 | Quidnet Energy Deployment LLC | Desertpeony #4 | 600 | 41130171 |
| 876392 | Jan 31, 2022 | Jan 31, 2022 | Quidnet Energy Deployment LLC | Desertpeony #4 | 600 | 41130171 |
| 876391 | Jan 31, 2022 | Jan 31, 2022 | Quidnet Energy Deployment LLC | Desertpeony #3 | 600 | 41130172 |
| 875707 | Jan 5, 2022 | Jan 5, 2022 | Quidnet Energy Deployment LLC | Desertpeony #5 | 600 | 41130170 |
| 870986 | Jul 9, 2021 | Jul 9, 2021 | Quidnet Energy Deployment LLC | Desertpeony #2 | 600 | 41130169 |
| 866532 | Dec 21, 2020 | Dec 21, 2020 | Quidnet Energy Deployment LLC | Desertpeony #1 | 600 | 41130168 |
| 815002 | Apr 18, 2016 | Apr 18, 2016 | Atmos Pipeline - Texas | N-45 #1CP | 300 | 41130167 |
| 805929 | Apr 30, 2015 | Apr 30, 2015 | Production Operators of TX, LLC | Bald Eagle #1 | 9,000 | 41130166 |
| 729323 | Dec 2, 2011 | Dec 2, 2011 | Cayce Operating Corporation | Rocky Pasture #1 | 4,000 | 41130165 |
| 694104 | Apr 12, 2010 | Apr 12, 2010 | Minuteman Energy, LLC | Holt 'A' #2 | 2,000 | 41130164 |
Questions about San Saba County
How many drilling permits were issued in San Saba County in the last 12 months?
0 permits were issued in San Saba County in the last 12 months. The most recent was issued Apr 19, 2024. 74 are on file since 1977.
Every San Saba County permit →Which operator has the most wells in San Saba County?
No operator has filed a drilling permit in San Saba County in the last 12 months. By wells on file, the largest is Quidnet Energy Deployment LLC, with 5, followed by Integrative Operating Corp. (2) and Wise Production Company (2).
Operators in San Saba County →How many oil and gas wells are in San Saba County?
76 wells are on file in San Saba County, including 0 active and 45 plugged. 0 are horizontal.
Every well in San Saba County →How much oil and gas does San Saba County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in San Saba County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in San Saba County →What basin is San Saba County in?
Petrora lists San Saba County in the Barnett Shale and North Texas. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 7B.
The Barnett Shale and North Texas →Have there been earthquakes in San Saba County?
No earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of San Saba County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in San Saba 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-saba?days=30, documented in the API reference.