COUNTIES · EAST TEXAS · DISTRICT 06 · CODE 449
Titus County
Titus County permitting is running 0.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (1 total, after a quiet prior quarter).
Southwest Operating, Inc.-Tyler leads with 2 permits in the past 12 months, the only operator active in the county.
One operator filed a first Titus County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 11,775 ft (prior year: 12,716 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 36 active disposal and injection permits, with 23.6M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
537 drilling permits have been issued in Titus County since 1977.
537 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Sep 24, 2026
Watch Titus CountyAlso: every Titus County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 1
- permits issued, 90d
- —
- vs prior 90d (0)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 11,775
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 81
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 6 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 14
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Southwest Operating, Inc.-Tyler | 2 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Titus County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Southwest Operating, Inc.-Tyler2 permitsSep 24, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Titus County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Titus County the Austin Chalk is reported in 58 wells, median top 2,715 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woodbine | 173 | 0 | 3,321 | 2,900–3,510 |
| Paluxy | 135 | 1 | 4,236 | 4,143–4,557 |
| Pecan Gap | 80 | 0 | 1,576 | 1,309–1,742 |
| Goodland | 72 | 0 | 4,208 | 4,130–4,504 |
| Austin Chalk | 58 | 0 | 2,715 | 2,171–2,812 |
| Eagle Ford | 55 | 0 | 2,907 | 2,505–3,105 |
| Nacatoch | 55 | 1 | 790 | 447–1,974 |
| Blossom | 33 | 0 | 2,370 | 1,911–2,690 |
| Sub-Clarksville | 33 | 1 | 2,575 | 2,110–3,111 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 36
- active UIC permits of 184
- 557K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 23.6M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Titus 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 918904 | Oct 30, 2026 | Sep 24, 2026 | Southwest Operating, Inc.-Tyler | Hughes #1 | 11,775 | 44930678 |
| 918904 | Sep 26, 2026 | Sep 24, 2026 | Southwest Operating, Inc.-Tyler | Hughes #1 | 11,775 | 44930678 |
| 910166 | Aug 29, 2025 | Aug 29, 2025 | Saltwerx LLC | Astro #1 | 12,716 | 44930677 |
| 843504 | Sep 14, 2018 | Sep 14, 2018 | Enable Midstream Partners, LP | Talco Pipeline #1 | 200 | 44930675 |
| 830068 | Aug 29, 2017 | Aug 29, 2017 | XTO Energy Inc. | Talco Central East Unit #5202 | 4,800 | 44930674 |
| 826673 | Jun 15, 2017 | Jun 15, 2017 | XTO Energy Inc. | Talco Central East Unit #5201 | 4,800 | 44930673 |
| 826673 | Jun 15, 2017 | Jun 15, 2017 | XTO Energy Inc. | Talco Central East Unit #5201 | 4,800 | 44930673 |
| 820859 | Dec 22, 2016 | Dec 22, 2016 | XTO Energy Inc. | Talco East Unit #2807 | 5,600 | 44930670 |
| 820857 | Dec 22, 2016 | Dec 22, 2016 | XTO Energy Inc. | Talco East Unit #2806 | 5,600 | 44930671 |
| 820864 | Dec 21, 2016 | Dec 21, 2016 | XTO Energy Inc. | Talco East Unit #2904 | 5,600 | 44930672 |
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/titus?days=90, documented in the API reference.