COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 03 · CODE 457
Tyler County
Tyler County permitting is running 0.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (1 total, versus 2 in the prior quarter).
Davis Southern Operating Co LLC leads with 7 permits in the past 12 months, one of 3 operators active in the county.
One operator filed a first Tyler County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 6,500 ft (prior year: 9,000 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 20 active disposal and injection permits, with 5.4M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
1,100 drilling permits have been issued in Tyler County since 1977.
1,100 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Aug 3, 2026
Watch Tyler CountyAlso: every Tyler County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 1
- permits issued, 90d
- -50%
- vs prior 90d (2)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 7,000
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 194
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 54 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 23 · prior 12 42(-45%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Davis Southern Operating Co LLC | 7 | 25 |
| Geosouthern Operating II, LLC | 1 | 1 |
| Magnum Operating, LLC | 1 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Tyler County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Magnum Operating, LLC1 permitMar 11, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Tyler County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Tyler County the Austin Chalk is reported in 169 wells, median top 13,118 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilcox | 253 | 7 | 7,493 | 5,734–8,739 |
| Yegua | 206 | 11 | 5,048 | 3,595–5,672 |
| Austin Chalk | 169 | 0 | 13,118 | 12,362–13,957 |
| Frio | 97 | 11 | 3,050 | 1,971–4,222 |
| Midway | 84 | 0 | 10,465 | 9,876–11,270 |
| Navarro | 71 | 0 | 12,230 | 11,539–12,770 |
| Vicksburg | 67 | 6 | 3,801 | 2,362–4,705 |
| Miocene (undifferentiated) | 53 | 8 | 2,306 | 919–3,260 |
| Taylor | 47 | 0 | 12,778 | 12,030–13,309 |
| Pecan Gap | 27 | 0 | 12,393 | 11,794–12,889 |
| Woodbine | 26 | 0 | 13,472 | 11,218–14,739 |
| Ozan | 18 | 0 | 12,567 | 12,129–13,075 |
| Jackson | 11 | 0 | 4,220 | 4,020–4,980 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 20
- active UIC permits of 69
- 112K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 5.4M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Tyler 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 916529 | Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 3, 2026 | Davis Southern Operating Co LLC | Williams #1 | 7,000 | 45730841 |
| 917161 | Jul 24, 2026 | Jul 24, 2026 | Davis Southern Operating Co LLC | BP Sittin on GO #2 | 6,400 | 45730833 |
| 917315 | Jul 21, 2026 | Jul 21, 2026 | Davis Southern Operating Co LLC | BP Honky Tonkin #2 | 7,500 | 45730836 |
| 915062 | Apr 30, 2026 | Apr 30, 2026 | Davis Southern Operating Co LLC | BP Sittin on GO #3 | 6,097 | 45730839 |
| 915016 | Apr 23, 2026 | Apr 23, 2026 | Davis Southern Operating Co LLC | BP Country Boy #2 | 6,250 | 45730830 |
| 914705 | Apr 14, 2026 | Apr 14, 2026 | Geosouthern Operating II, LLC | Dogwood SWD #1 | 6,000 | 45730933 |
| 914227 | Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | Davis Southern Operating Co LLC | BP Cats Back #1 | 8,950 | 45730781 |
| 914038 | Mar 11, 2026 | Mar 11, 2026 | Magnum Operating, LLC | Buckner #1 | 9,990 | 45730940 |
| 911984 | Dec 8, 2025 | Dec 8, 2025 | Davis Southern Operating Co LLC | BP Good #1 | 6,500 | 45730812 |
| 907506 | May 9, 2025 | May 9, 2025 | Davis Southern Operating Co LLC | BP Cats Back #2 | 6,000 | 45730804 |
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/tyler?days=90, documented in the API reference.