COUNTIES · EAST TEXAS · DISTRICT 06 · CODE 419
Shelby County
Shelby County permitting is running 6.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (19 total, up 73% on the prior quarter). 4 were issued in the past week.
Silver Hill Energy Operating LLC leads with 34 permits in the past 12 months, one of 7 operators active in the county.
4 operators filed a first Shelby County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 12,500 ft (prior year: 12,200 ft); 96% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 34 active disposal and injection permits, with 24.4M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
TexNet located 3 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M3.2.
2,517 drilling permits have been issued in Shelby County since 1977.
2,517 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 26, 2026
Watch Shelby CountyAlso: every Shelby County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 19
- permits issued, 90d
- +73%
- vs prior 90d (11)
- 3
- operators filing
- 100%
- horizontal
- 13,993
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 302
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 77 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 80 · prior 12 50(+60%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Silver Hill Energy Operating LLC | 34 | 48 |
| Adamas Energy LLC | 9 | 83 |
| Rockcliff Energy Operating III | 7 | 17 |
| XTO Energy Inc. | 2 | 141 |
| Select Water Solutions, LLC | 1 | 15 |
| Ventana Midstream LLC | 1 | 3 |
| Forza Operating, LLC | 1 | 1 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Shelby County came in the last year. 4 in total.
- Adamas Energy LLC9 permitsMar 10, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Rockcliff Energy Operating III7 permitsSep 30, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Forza Operating, LLC1 permitJan 14, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Ventana Midstream LLC1 permitDec 3, 2025 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Shelby County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Shelby County the Travis Peak is reported in 545 wells, median top 7,300 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Lime | 652 | 28 | 6,328 | 5,394–7,121 |
| Travis Peak | 545 | 24 | 7,300 | 6,255–7,850 |
| Pettit | 475 | 28 | 6,650 | 5,700–7,293 |
| Rodessa | 326 | 30 | 5,615 | 4,886–6,569 |
| Glen Rose | 257 | 30 | 3,850 | 3,186–4,975 |
| Cotton Valley | 214 | 0 | 9,740 | 8,627–10,864 |
| Austin Chalk | 202 | 4 | 3,095 | 2,406–3,829 |
| Paluxy | 177 | 27 | 3,523 | 2,856–4,498 |
| Haynesville | 144 | 3 | 11,905 | 11,208–12,449 |
| Massive Anhydrite (marker) | 112 | 1 | 5,140 | 4,643–6,248 |
| Blossom | 109 | 25 | 2,600 | 1,998–3,139 |
| Bossier | 102 | 4 | 10,795 | 10,125–11,764 |
| BMA | 81 | 0 | 5,572 | 4,814–6,310 |
| Nacatoch | 74 | 13 | 1,878 | 1,439–2,877 |
| Sligo | 61 | 0 | 5,866 | 5,633–7,032 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 34
- active UIC permits of 78
- 430K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 24.4M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Shelby County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 3
- M2+ events in the area
- M3.2
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 918893 | Oct 28, 2026 | Oct 26, 2026 | Rockcliff Energy Operating III | Neilson Ranch BB #5HH | 16,000 | 41931962 |
| 918892 | Oct 28, 2026 | Oct 26, 2026 | Rockcliff Energy Operating III | Neilson Ranch BA #4HBH | 16,000 | 41931961 |
| 918881 | Oct 25, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 | Rockcliff Energy Operating III | Neilson Ranch B #3HH | 16,000 | 41931960 |
| 918880 | Oct 24, 2026 | Oct 22, 2026 | Rockcliff Energy Operating III | Neilson Ranch B #2HBH | 16,000 | 41931959 |
| 918830 | Oct 21, 2026 | Oct 19, 2026 | Silver Hill Energy Operating LLC | USA Cothrom Unit L4 #4HH | 12,500 | 41931958 |
| 918829 | Oct 21, 2026 | Oct 19, 2026 | Silver Hill Energy Operating LLC | USA Cothrom Unit L3 #3HH | 12,500 | 41931957 |
| 918828 | Oct 21, 2026 | Oct 19, 2026 | Silver Hill Energy Operating LLC | USA Cothrom Unit L2 #2HH | 12,500 | 41931956 |
| 918827 | Oct 21, 2026 | Oct 19, 2026 | Silver Hill Energy Operating LLC | USA Cothrom Unit L1 #1HH | 12,500 | 41931955 |
| 918917 | Oct 2, 2026 | Sep 30, 2026 | Rockcliff Energy Operating III | Dome Fed GU C #4HBH | 16,000 | 41931965 |
| 918916 | Oct 2, 2026 | Sep 30, 2026 | Rockcliff Energy Operating III | Dome Fed GU B #3HBH | 16,000 | 41931964 |
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/shelby?days=90, documented in the API reference.